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Infinitive [Adjective] Recognition

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this infinitive adjective worksheet, young scholars read about infinitives and adjectives, then find infinitives acting like adjectives in a set of 10 sentences. Worksheet contains links to additional activities.
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What Can Pseudogenes Tell Us About Common Ancestry?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare/constrast DNA sequence data for a portion of the rat GULO gene to the corresponding sequence in the inactive GULO gene in humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and crab-eating macaques by identifying the shared sequences in...
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Can You Tell By Touch?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students feel inside a bag and use only their sense of touch to describe and identify one of the objects that is inside the bag.
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Doors to Knowledge

For Teachers K
Students identify symbols on a pylon and explain why the names of the Great TEachers the symbols represent. They interpret what religion is to them and sing a song about religion lead by the teacher. Finally, students construct a...
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Shelly's Ship is Coming to Shore!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a brief discussion the independent and combined sounds of the phonemes /s/ and /h/ students practice identifying initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/...
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Teaching Poetry Using DARTs

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students interact with texts. They are given the first four lines of Walt Whitman's poem "When I heard the learned astronomer." Students read them and discuss what they think Walt Whitman did when he heard the astronomer.
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How Did the Immigrants Get to the United States?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders search TDC database for images of immigration from other countries, maps, and diaries. They identify the challenges that immigrants had to endure to reach the United States.
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Construct Figures to Find Specific Volume

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use number cubes to explore volume of two-dimensional shapes. They roll a die and construct a shape using the numbers rolled as measurements of the sides. They estimate the volume of a given object, and then use the...
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Spiritual Qualities We Wish to Have

For Teachers K
Students begin with identifying the meaning of each word and how to say a prayer with their whole body. They create something with clay to make a nice gift for someone or something that would help someone else. Finally, the students...
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Tell Me That You Love Me 5-7-5

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students listen to several examples of Haiku poetry and discuss the strict format. Then students create and edit their own Haiku poems and enhance them with ink designs.
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Introduction to the Blues

For Teachers K - 12th
Students learn the basic elements of blues and different lyric structures.
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Welcome to Paradise

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to Lynne Cherry's novel, The River Ran Wild. They work in two groups one of whom represents the native people and the other represents the English settlers from the book. They look at the geography of the settlement...
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How To Read A Movie

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders respond to films they have seen using literary, dramatic, and cinematic terms. They reevaluate their role as a moviegoer. Students analyze their favorite film in order to discover what good films have in common.
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What's Important To You?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss as a class the importance of silent reading and describe some examples when it would be inappropriate if everyone read out loud. They read silently along as an article called, "Fighting a Mystery Illness" is read...
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Be good to yourself and have breakfast

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students comprehend the origins of the word "breakfast" and its relevance to their lives. They recognize the value of eating a nutritious breakfast everyday. Students comprehend that eating breakfast helps maintain a health body weight.
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Forces Applied to an Object

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders predict, observe, and compare what happens when a force is applied to an object. In this forces lesson, 4th graders complete a 'swinging hammer' activity to learn about forces and motion.
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Analyzing and Evaluating Holocaust Literature

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Young scholars examine the history of the Holocaust through literature. Using different pieces of literature, they critique the items in terms of being historical accurate and its value in telling the stories of the Holocaust. They...
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The Magic School Bus Gains Weight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students test whether gravity makes heavier things fall faster than lighter ones.
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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. For this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students travel upstream to discover how, like salmon, a homey smell can lead them, too.
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Odd and Even

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify odd and even numbers. In this odd and even numbers lesson, 1st graders participate in a partner activity to determine odd and even. Students break into groups and lock arms together and are asked if they have...
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Fun with Describing Words - Adjectives

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this grammar worksheet, learners complete sentences by describing words from a picture/word bank.
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Mitten Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students compare The Mitten by Jan Brett to other versions of the same story, then create their own version. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create their own version of The Mitten, then use software to record a podcast. ...
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Myths, Folktales, & Fairy Tales

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Srtudents explore the folktale and folklore genres as well as the world of myths. They read myths and folktales to increase knowledge of world cultures and traditions and follow the writing process to create writing in different genres.
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Conflict Resolution in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Conflicts that happen on the schoolyard or at lunch can provide a learning opportunity for students.