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Searching the Digital Atlas
Students become familiar with the tools of a digital atlas. They use a digital atlas of Idaho to located specified information. Students identify national forests, locate butterfly families, find examples of resident fish, and explore...
Curated OER
Living in the Oak Woodlands: Early People of the Jewett Mine Area
Students are introduced to the early peoples living in the Jewett Mine area. After viewing transparencies, they view pictures of the mine today and its main area of production. For each picture, they develop symbols and captions about...
Curated OER
Bon Voyage - Literature Travel Unit
Eighth graders locate and interpret information about the culture of another country using multi-media tools. Students read and interpret literature about characters and cultures from a foreign country. Students create a travel guide...
Curated OER
Pink and Say
Read Pink and Say and discuss the Civil War with your upper elementary learners. They create a KWL about the Civil War and record words relating to the Civil War as they read the book. Then they work in groups to create an ABC book based...
British Columbia Education
Physical Disabilities/Chronic Health Impairments Instructional Support Planning Process
Perfect for review at an IEP meeting, this template walks the user through assessing and assigning modifications for a learner's physical disability. Strengths and needs are determined across five domains: physical functioning,...
Curated OER
Training Students for Literature Circles
Role sheets clearly define expectations of all group members in this introduction to literature circles. By using a variety of picture books or short texts, readers can practice roles while the teacher circulates to each group observing...
Scholastic
Food To Go
Molly Mouse and Woovis the Dog are hungry! Can you help them order from a menu with a $5 bill? Kids read five word problems and use the menu to determine what the friends can order.
Scholastic
Missing Bone
It's fun being odd! Have kids find their way through a paw print maze by connecting odd numbers in any direction, eventually connecting to a cute dog's bone in the middle of the puzzle.
Scholastic
Escape from Antcatraz
An incarcerated ant needs help escaping from Antcatraz. Primary graders abet his escape by creating a path through the anthill to freedom.
Scholastic
Volleyball Road Trip
Review coordinate mapping with your young geographers by matching cities on a volleyball team's road trip itinerary to their appropriate coordinate locations.
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Cracking the Code
Can you figure out the code? Learners interpret ten number patterns and write the five numbers that come next. Next, they create their own number patterns based on their own codes.
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Subjects Meet Predicates
Inspire your pupils to really think about sentence subjects by asking them to puzzle out eight word puzzles to determine the subjects and then match them to the correct predicates. They then write three of their own complete sentences.
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Story Starters for "Many Beginnings"
An alien at dinner? An eerie train whistle? A parent trying to be hip? Get your creative writers going with a list of story starters.
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Number Soup
Learners identify the right number "ingredients" to add to their pot of "soup" given a rule that you provide. Whether you are covering even and odd numbers or equivalent expressions, the number soup can be an easy way for learners to...
Scholastic
Meet You at the Movies
Brightly equipped knights and highborn maidens come to life as young screenwriters use the provided worksheet to script a film version of Edgar Allan Poe's "Eldorado" or "Annabel Lee."
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Pattern Block Maze
Spice up your traditional lesson on divisibility with a puzzle! Learners work to find their way through a maze by crossing over numbers that are not divisible by 2, 3, or 4.
Scholastic
Problem-Soving Strategies, Practice 1: Sample
A variety of word problems help your learners examine the ways that they find solutions. Each question provides opportunities to add, subtract, and multiply time, measurements, and money.
Scholastic
Making the Times Table Mini-Books
What do you get when you combine your traditional times table worksheet with cute worm characters? A fun mini-book that youngsters can enjoy and that will help them practice multiplying by one!
Scholastic
Wonderful Word Webs
Webs can be spooky, but they can also help learners build vocabulary! Use these Halloween-themed word webs to inspire your pupils when brainstorming related words and concepts. Two different styles are provided.
Scholastic
Word Family -at
Youngsters will love the adorable cat image on this worksheet as they practice writing words from the -at family. The resource includes several penmanship lines and a word bank of -at words, leaving a variety of options for use.
Practice Using Lively Language
Practice Using Lively Language
Combine a study of biography writing with some tips for spicing up writing. After reading two passages, one much more descriptive than the other, pupils examine what makes one more interesting. They then brainstorm some ideas for writing...
Practice Using Lively Language
Comparing Characters
Readers use the provided illustrated Venn diagram to compare and contrast the traits of two characters. A great way to encourage critical thinking skills.
Scholastic
Developing a Main Character
Asking kids to craft their own stories? Get them starting with a character planning sheet that asks them to identify the character's likes and dislikes, his or her strengths and fears, a goal the character wants to achieve, and the...
Scholastic
Story Board
Invite your pupils to tell and show what happened in a story that they read by filling out this organizer. Using images and words, kids can fill out the six panels provided here to demonstrate understanding of the sequence of events and...