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Let's Discuss Current Events
Investigate articles from the daily news and share opinions with classmates. Using current events, learners view a news program without sound and predict what news is being discussed by analyzing the visuals. Then they read news articles...
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Little Owl Press Report/Newspaper and Newscast Project
Discover journalistic techniques by having learners prepare and write their own class newspaper. They discuss the five W's of investigative journalism and conduct interviews with school figures. They utilize video technology, podcast...
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Who, What, When, Where, Why, and the Media
Students in a preschool classroom discuss potentially fearful current events in a way they can understand. They write or draw about a current event, discussing the 5 W's of news reporting.
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Summing It All Up in a Nutshell
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of summarization strategies. They discuss the process of asking the five W questions, and apply then to a passage from the book "Sarah Plain and Tall." Students then finish the chapter from...
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Linear Functions of Two Variables
In this linear function activity, students write linear functions, in intercept form, that satisfy given conditions. They find the local linearity for a function. This five-page activity contains examples, explanations, and six...
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What Are the Biggest April Fools Jokes of All Time?
After working in groups to analyze primary sources related to a historical hoax, learners will discuss how people managed to be fooled and work to identify one of the biggest April Fools jokes in history.
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How can the Internet help us research the information for our news articles?
Fourth graders write a news article. In this news article activity, 4th graders complete research and answers the five W's about their news topic. Students understand the value of interviewing for a news article. Students...
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Questioning
Practice making predictions by looking at the cover of a book. You can use The Hungry Thing, as suggested here, or any other book you may be reading in class. Use the predictions to talk about good reading strategies. A chart is...
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Family Titles, Pronouns, Writing about a Person
How is your grandmother related to you? How is your cousin related to your grandmother? Learn about family relationships and pronouns with an activity that guides pupils to write two short narratives about members of their families.
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The 3 Bears Mystery (On-line Interactive)
For this question words worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz on question words. Students finish each question with the correct word. All sentences are pertaining to The Three Bears.
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Burrowing Animals – Ground Squirrels
Why do ground squirrels build their homes in the ground? What's so unique about these burrows? Have individuals read about this burrowing animal, and then respond to five short answer questions that assess their comprehension of the...
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How to Help Your Child Understand and Produce “Wh” Questions
Practice who, what, where, when, and why with a series of activities designed for forming and answering questions. Kids work on choosing the correct wh- word to ask the question they want with a word chart,...
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Creating a Newspaper
Get the scoop with a fun, engaging newspaper project. After analyzing the parts of a newspaper, including the headline, subtitles, and pictures or images, young journalists get to work by writing their own stories in a newspaper article...
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A Victory for Tiger Woods
What's up with Tiger Woods? Find out by reading a sports article describing an upswing in Tiger's career. Interested readers will scan the article to answer nine comprehension questions. Note: A secondary related article and blog post...
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WS 1.6 Significant Figures II
In this significant figures activity, students indicate the number of significant figures in given measurements. They also perform calculations of multiplication, division, addition and subtraction and identify the number of significant...
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WS 6.1 Nuclear Particles and Reactions
In this nuclear chemistry instructional activity, students define radioactivity and the types of nuclear reactions. They label nuclear reactions with one of five types of reactions including fusion, fission, induced, natural decay or...
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WS 3.5 More Lewis Structures
In this Lewis structures worksheet, learners draw molecular structures for twelve molecules. They determine the number of bonds in the molecular formula by following step by step directions given on the worksheet.
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Build Mastery: Main Idea
Use a graphic organizer to get readers thinking about main ideas as they record the who, what, where, when, and why of a story. Consider modeling this process completely before kids do this independently. They fill in five boxes charting...
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Geometry Practice: Classifying Solids #2
In this solids worksheet, students identify the characteristics of solids. They name solids and determine the number of faces. This three-page worksheet contains seventeen problems. Answers are listed on the last page.
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Vocabulary Building: One Consonant Rule III
In this recognizing words spelled with the one consonant rule worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words tiger, motor, student, locate, lately, and writer. Students...
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How the Test Was Won
Learners create 'Wanted' posters based around their state testing activities. In this state technology integration lesson, students take pictures of themselves in sepia tone in an Old West pose. Learners write captions for the photos...
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WS 5.5 Percent Composition
In this percent composition worksheet, students find the percentages of atoms in compounds and they determine empirical formulas given the percent of each atom in a compound.
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WS 1.6 Dimensional Analysis
In this conversions worksheet, students use dimensional analysis to convert from one metric unit to another and from the English system of measurement to the metric system.
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The Little Red Hen
No one will be saying "Not I" with a lesson that combines The Little Red Hen with the life cycle of a wheat stem! After reading the story in your class, pass out wheat stems to your learners and have them examine the plants closely,...