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How Poets Evoke Social and Historical Representations
Students explore how poems represent the social, historical, and cultural times that they were written in. In this poetry lesson plan, students compare and contrast poems with music of the time and explore implications of writing poems...
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Gee O Me Tree
Students follow multiple-step oral directions and review geometric shapes.
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Christmas Lesson 2
Wrapping presents, singing Christmas carols, writing Christmas cards and learning holiday vocabulary are all wrapped into this one exciting ESL lesson.
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Myself and Others
Self reflection is an important skill to reinforce in our children, and it's especially helpful to help them realize who they are in the context of their environment. A collection of lessons about self image and community encourage...
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Go, Johnny, Go!
Students become familiar with the story of Johnny Appleseed by reading, singing and creating a Johnny Appleseed hat. In this Johnny Appleseed instructional activity, students understand that Johnny Appleseed was a philanthropist and gave...
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, learners determine the number of each gift given in the song, “the Twelve Days of Christmas.” The worksheet includes the history of the song and a look at the cost of the gifts over time. The one...
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Present Continuous Tense With Fool's Garden
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students listen to the song "Lemon Tree" and type in the missing words from the lyrics. There are twelve fill-in exercises to complete and ten fill-in sentences to complete as a follow-up review of...
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Students examine Harriet Tubman's contribution to the Underground Railroad. They read and discuss an excerpt from the book "The Tamarack Tree," listen to the CD for the book "Follow the Drinking Gourd," and write a journal response from...
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Winter is All Around Us
Students present what they have learned on Antartica. Students identify deciduous and evergreen trees and plants; identify and study about the habitats of animals that migrate, hibernate, and adapt; study the Aurora and Aurora Borealis...
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My State Symbols
In this social studies worksheet, learners investigate information particular to their home state and illustrate it. Students research their state flower, tree, gem, mammal, bird, motto, song and nickname.
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Respect for Animals
Students discuss importance of acting responsibly when caring for pets, reflect upon quote, "All Living Beings Have the Right to Respect and Kindness," read story Anastasia Wants a Rabbit and answer comprehension questions, role play...
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The Trip Around the Sun
Sixth graders investigate the relationship between the tilt of the Earth's axis and the seasons. In this earth science lesson plan, 6th graders sing the song "Why Do We Have Seasons" and use simulate the Earth's tilt by using their bodies.
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Johnny Appleseed
Students investigate Johnny Appleseed. In this cross curriculum literacy and U.S. history lesson, students listen to Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg, and dictate important events in his life as the teacher writes them on index...
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Rhyming With Ramon
Students examine healthy behaviors to avoid the flu. They repeat words that rhyme, sing a song, and repeat a chant and act out the verses to reinforce healthy behaviors to avoid the flu.
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12 Days of Christmas 12 days of Christmas, Christmas, number sequence, numbers
It's time to celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with this fun set of full-color printables that would be ideal for early readers and counters during the holidays.
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Merry Christmas!
In this Christmas activity worksheet, students use the 40 clues to identify the words needed to complete the Christmas crossword puzzle.
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Family - Mish-pa-cha
Learners review and practice Hebrew vocabulary for family members, listen to and sing the "Mishpacha Song" as a class, create vocabulary flash cards for each family member, and introduce family members in Hebrew while incorporating...
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"Once a Jolly Swagman" (Australian vocabulary)
Students listen to the song "Waltzing Matilda" in order to become familiar with some Australian words.
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Subtracting Monkeys
Students sing a song that counts backwards from five to one and illustrate the countdown with puppets. They write the correct subtraction problem for each verse of the song.
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Holiday Algebra
Students use expansion and properties of power to identify the given initials of songs. For this word problem worksheet, students write the initials out using the exponents to find out how many words there are. There are 17 questions...
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Why is It That Johnny Can't Read?
High schoolers listen to and discuss Don Henley's song, "Johnny Can't Read" and the 10,000 Maniacs song, "Cherry Tree." They research reading literacy and find statistics, evidence, stories, facts, and sources which will support their...
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Karaoke in the Classroom
In this word recognition lesson, students use a karaoke program to read and sing songs, enhancing their sight word recognition. Students preform these songs to each other. This could also be a fun way to introduce new vocabulary or...
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Give Me Five at Christmas Time
Students study about senses by taking a walking field trip, creating a word bank, reading a story and singing a song.
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The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Young scholars understand conservation terms. In this three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) lesson, students understand the importance of preserving a clean world and reducing waste. Young scholars sing a song which show importance of 3R's.