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Galaxies Galore, Games and More
Students practice skills used in scientific investigation while studying the three main types of galaxies. Students identify Earth as part of Milky Way galaxy, the parts of galaxies, and the types of galaxies, as well as classify...
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Learning in Cockroaches
Students make scientific observations. In this stimulus response lesson, students make observations and collect data to determine if cockroaches can learn. A secondary purpose of this lesson is to provide students with the opportunity to...
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Mineral Mixtures
In this science worksheet, students use basic scientific concepts to complete the series of puzzles that are intended to increase science literacy for classifying types of rocks and minerals.
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Acting Up, A Melodrama: Performing Like Jo March and Her Sisters in Little Women
Lights, Camera, Action! Pupils read Little Women and create, act, and direct a melodrama that Jo March and her sisters would enjoy. The lesson plan comes complete with resources for the educator on melodrama as well as examples...
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Sandra Day O'Connor
No unit on important women in history would be complete without a lesson on Sandra Day O'Connor. After reading background information about the first female Supreme Court justice, middle schoolers engage in several activities addressing...
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Bullying and its Effects
Eighth graders discuss bullying in an interpersonal skill building lesson. After researching the effects of bullying and discussing ways to handle bullies, they create a skit showing situations related to bullying, the...
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Cars, Trucks, and Things that Go Sorting Fun!
First graders sort toys by various attributes. They, in groups, sort toy vehicles by color, size etc. and then explain how they chose to group the toys. They write, draw or dictate an explanation of their sorting methods.
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Shoeless Math
First graders sort and classify, and complete a T-chart using Students' shoes.
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Feathered Feeders
Students investigate variation in bird beaks and the interrelationships of form and function by classifying birds with similar beak shapes, inferring about the possible bird foods based on beak shapes, and locating and identifying...
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Classifying and Constructing Corners
Fifth graders, after seeing Honeycomb examples, complete a Classifying Angles worksheet, Clock worksheet, and Defining Angles worksheet.
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Springtime Flower Fun
Students study directional skills and participate in a scavenger hunt to find flowers. They compare, group and classify the flowers by their similarities and differences.
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Bodacious Buttons
First graders graph a data set. Given a set of buttons, 1st graders sort them into categories using specific attributes. They graph the number of buttons in their set based on their attributes using a variety of graphs. Students share...
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Classifying
In this classifying worksheet, students read a list of four items. They identify the word that does not belong in the list. This one-page worksheet contains 12 classifying problems.
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Summer Machines Activity: Cool Tools
Young scholars examine and think about various tools in their surrounding environment to facilitate development of their primary observation and sorting skills. In this tool observation lesson, students first sort a variety of tools any...
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Sorting Through Life!
Students sort and count objects. In this sorting skills lesson, students work in small group with various objects that can be sorted and counted in groups.
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Give it Back from a Snack
Young scholars conduct and analyze a survey about snacks. For this graphing lesson, students ascertain which snacks would be the best choice for the community. Young scholars hold a sale and decide how the money could best be spent for...
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Sharing with Others (Private/Religious)
Students appreciate uniqueness and differences by comparing and contrasting fruit. In this differences lesson, students study fruits and analyze for similarities and differences. Students sort the fruit into five categories. Students...
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Grouping Fruits and Vegetable
Students identify the differences between fruits and vegetables. For this nutrition lesson, students identify the properties of fruits and vegetables and group various fruits and vegetables into categories.
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Classifying Dog Breeds
Young scholars research different dog breeds. For this classifying lesson, students gather information about dogs and classify them into different groups. Young scholars will classify the dogs into small, medium and large breed groups....
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Classifying and Sorting
In this English worksheet, students add the suffix "ic". Kids form adjectives by adding the suffix to nouns. Students choose the noun or adjective to complete the sentence.
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Evaluative Reading Comprehension
In this reading worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about reading lists, classifying, grouping sentences, and more. Students complete 20 problems.
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The Great Winged Adventure
Students identify characteristics of birds, name several species, and explain how birds fly. They make nests and give bird presentations.
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Chips Ahoy: Chip Off the Old Block
First graders compare and contrast adult and baby animals to identify similar characteristics shared by both.