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Take A Verb Back In Time

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students write a story that takes place in the past and include regular and irregular verbs. For this verbs lesson plan, students identify the verbs after they write their story.
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Buildings Tell A Story

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify basic architectural features of buildings in their community and identify the changes in local buildings. They draw a sketch of a local building from memory. They compare and display student sketches.
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Dream Book Collage

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students construct and illustrate a three-page book of their dream(s). Students write a sentence to describe each page.
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Agreement In Spanish

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders engage in a lesson plan that is about the use of adjectives in advertising to communicate to the public. They look at advertisements and identify the different adjectives used in the text while determining the...
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ESL English Homework

For Students 4th - 6th
In this ESL homework practice worksheet, students practice telling time by writing times shown, look up words that match pictures and copy definitions and practice making itineraries.
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The Great King of Ayutthaya: King Naresuan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students appreciate the greatness of the Thai King who devoted himself to regaining the independence of Thailand.
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The Very Hungry Kindergartner

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create The Very Hungry Kindergartner books. In the books, students will write in and illustrate a page for each month they are in school.
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Landforms All Around

For Teachers 2nd
Students create a "Landform Dictionary". They develop an overlay map and participate in hands-on activities to identify the key characteristics of landforms. They discuss the plant and animal life of these areas. Handouts for the lessons...
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Animal Vocabulary Cards

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice a system that may help them understand more and remember more terms when they read. The reading of text is developed as a skill that second language learners need.
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The Couplet

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create the sounds of a thunderstorm with a symphony of body percussion to compose a couplet about rain using Microsoft word to publish. They are introduced to rhyming dictionaries and thesauruses and use Internet sources for...
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How Does My Government Grow?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify the core democratic values. They explain how the values affect their life in America. They also relate the topic of philantrophy to the core values.
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The Lost Property Office

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a role-play activity to practice literacy skills. They work in pairs to describe an item they have lost, and the partner asks description questions to help locate the lost item.
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The Different Fresh Water Ecosystems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars summarize the characteristics of an ecosystem. In this biology lesson, students identify five major fresh water ecosystem. They define terms and write a journal about what they learned.
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Writing About Feelings

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use four photos of themselves or draw four pictures of themselves, each showing a different feeling.
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Animalopedia Poetry

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students reseach animals while working in groups. They write poems to be included in a class Animalopedia book.
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ESL: Rooms and Places

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ESL rooms and places worksheet, students match a set of numbered pictures to their correct names and complete a word search puzzle.
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Water, Water, Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore water by examining a terrarium.
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Immigration Scrapbook

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use the internet to gather information on immigrants from the beginning of time. Using this information, they create a scrapbook showing the various immigrant groups and their effects on different cultures throughout the...
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Everyday Heroes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research how Ernie Pyle's descriptive narratives and "every man's" perspective of the war allow them to examine personal traits such as courage and heroism. The lesson plan can be extended to include more examples to teach...
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Postcards to the Troops

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write postcards to the troops in Iraq. After listening to letters written by troops in Iraq, students discuss ways the troops are helping America and how they should show their support. Students use a postcard template and...
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Shape Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this shape words activity, students read the words that describe shapes and their definitions. Students then write the word from the box that best matches the shape in each picture.
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Shadow Trackers: From Photography to Writing

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore the rotation of the earth. In this science lesson, students view photos of various places around the world. Students conduct an experiment in which they can see how the earth's rotation creates shadows on the earth.
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Perimeter

For Teachers All
Students calculate the perimeter of a random shape on a grid.
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Aquatic Organisms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a poster describing the five characteristics of a salt water organism compared to a fresh water organism.