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The Secret Garden - Punctuation 3
Are run-on sentences an issue in your class? Ask your pupils to practice punctuating sentences that have been combined to help them understand where a sentence should begin and end. The sentences are about The Secret Garden by Frances...
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What is Your Story?
Students listen to Picnic In October and Memory Coat to explore the concept of memoirs. They interview a family member and write a personal memoir that reflects their own family history.
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My First PowerPoint Presentation
Have your class explore the way to create a presentation using PowerPoint. This lesson provides a step-by-step explanation to describe how to explain this process to your class. The end product is a presentation on colors, but any topic...
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Leaves for Our Tree
Young mathematicians review fact families and create a Math Fact Family Tree. This clever lesson plan includes some excellent printouts that support the lesson.
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Let's Celebrate Diwali!
Students utilize several short readings to investigate a variety of multicultural celebrations. The two key celebrations of Diwali and the Festival of Lights provide the background for the exploration.
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Celebrate Hanukkah!
Students listen to a book about Hanukkah and compare it to other holidays such as Diwali and Ramadan. They create candles using construction paper and cellophane and decorate the room for Hanukkah.
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Let's Celebrate Christmas!
Students explore the celebration of Christmas as part of an investigation into the multicultural experiences of celebrating holidays. The story written by Richard Paul Evans, "The Light of Christmas" provides the basis for the exploration.
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Collecting Rocks
Students examine how rocks are formed, used, and how to collect them. They listen to and discuss the book, Let's Go Rock Collecting, sort rock samples, and collect rocks from home.
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Hardware Sort
Students work in groups to sort and classify a variety of hardware materials commonly found in the store. Students discuss attributes and explain their reasoning for different classifications.
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Introduction to the Bill of Rights
Students evaluate what freedom means, how rules are important and the significance of individual rights. They find images that depict their interpretation of freedom and complete handouts.
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This is Your Life
Middle or high-school pupils choose a scientist to research. They collect biographical information and explore their contributions to scientific understanding. With all that they compile, they create a scrapbook of the scientists' life....
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Periodic Table of the Elements
First graders discuss, at their level, the concept of elements making up all matter. They discover the story of Dimitri Mendeleev and his discovery of the Periodic Table of the Elements. They locate and color some of the most common...
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Word Meanings From Context
Here's a context clues instructional activity that provides practice or assesses the use of "a" words including alacrity, abrasive, acrimonious, abridged, alleviate, and more. Readers study the context and then select the best meaning...
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Round Numbers to the Nearest 10
Young scholars round one and two digit numbers to the nearest 10. They complete 11 problems total on this instructional activity.
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Round Numbers to the Nearest 100
Young mathematicians round numbers to the nearest 100. They round 10, 3 digit numbers to the nearest 100. Good, basic practice
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Greatest Common Factor - OnlineMathLearning.com
Use this greatest common factor worksheet to have your charges find the GCF of 3 numbers in each problem that are two and three-digit numbers. They complete 12 problems.
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Divide Whole Numbers By Fractions
Use this interactive division worksheet to have your learners solve 12 division problems. The division problems involve dividing with fractions and whole numbers. Answers can be checked with a quick click!
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Divide Fractions by Whole Numbers
After a brief introduction for the objective of dividing fractions bywhole numbers, 10 problems are provided to solve. Hints can be asked for and answers checked on this online worksheet.
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Ratio Problems Worksheet 3
In this ratios worksheet, students solve word problems containing ratios of pencils, hot dogs, and more. Students complete 5 problems.
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Changing Fractions to Decimals
Upper graders change a set of 10 fractions with denominators of either 10, 100 or 1,000 to decimals. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Change Mixed Numbers to Decimals: Denominator is 10, 100, 1000
In this change mixed numbers to decimals: denominator is 10, 100, 1000 learning exercise, students interactively convert 10 mixed numbers to decimals with immediate online feedback.
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Mode in Statistics
Use this online math worksheet to have lerarners practice finding the mode in five different sets of data This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A...
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Classroom Community Bulletin Board Lesson Plan
Building a strong classroom community is a huge part of our job. This idea lets the kids help define the rules, ideas, and behaviors that they want in their classroom. They'll work together to design a bulletin board that...
