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Nate the Great: Write Your Own Mystery

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Nate the Great writing activity worksheet, students fill in the 26 blanks in "The Case of the Missing Book" with noun, adjective, and adverbs to create their own mystery.
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The Market Place, Derby, UK

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this city quiz series worksheet, students visit the Market Place in Derby, UK and answer questions about stores and activities available there. Students answer 20 questions.
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Documenting Sources: An Introduction to Incorporating and Documenting Outside Sources in Your Writing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Text heavy, the 16 slides in this presentation provide specific examples to introduce researchers to documenting outside sources in expository writing. A follow-up activity or worksheet would provide an opportunity for guided practice.
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Get Out, Get Active: Three Social Studies Activities Your Students Will Love

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Three recommendations to help keep your students engaged via outdoors social studies activities.
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Cell 5 Diffusion and Osmosis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students distinguish between active and passive transport. Students identify key words associated with active and passive transport. They draw and explain the structure f the cellular membrane. They are able to define phospholipid...
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The Rules of the Game

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students debate whether college athletes should be held to a higher behavioral standard than non-athletes. Students determine whether behavior outside of school should be punishable by university administration, then write letters to the...
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How Many Stars in the Milky Way?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students perform an experiment in which they will use a statistical method called `sampling' to count to a billion (and beyond). Students practice sampling by estimating the number of characters on a page from the classified section of a...
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Literacy Activity: Mouse Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students listen to the book Mouse Shapes and identify the shapes in the book as it is being read. In this shapes lesson, students identify the shapes in the book, and then play with cut out shapes that they can hold in their hands.
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Diversity

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create a collage. In this diversity lesson students express their own definition of diversity by making a collage. M&M candies are used as an example of how some things are different on the outside but the same on the inside.
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The Ancient World Explorer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the ancient structures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China. In small groups, they conduct research, evaluate their findings within the group, create visual aides, and complete an Internet treasure hunt.
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The Struggles Between "Something Old" and "Something New"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore traditional life in Africa and assess how modern society may be impacting the values of the continent's traditional peoples. Students work in small groups to research various aspects of the infrastructures of African...
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The Fibonacci Sequence Through Art Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
It is easy to combine math and arts lessons to create motivating and interesting activities.
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Walking with the Emperors: Exploring Imperial Rome

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students travel Rome. In this geography skills lesson, students explore famous places in Rome with Google Earth tools. Students research the city of Rome and create touring videos that feature their findings.
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The Blossoming of Flower Power

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the reproductive functions of flowers by participating in a flower dissection lab.
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Digesting the News

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the editorial concepts, site designs and business models of online news digests. They propose detailed plans for Web sites that demonstrate their own areas of expertise.
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"Where the Wild Things Are" Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
"Where the Wild Things Are" lesson plans can help students appreciate the beauty of words and illustrations.
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Finding Fungi in the World Around Us

For Teachers 4th - 8th
These lesson ideas will help your students explore the diversity of Kingdom Fungi.
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All the News That's Fit to Blog

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students critique three Web logs, each of which offers first-hand accounts, but reflect different points-of-view, on the war in Iraq; students write a response to one of the entries and analyze what they learned about the war from the...
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Pre-writing activities for improving students' connections to literature

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students, while reading a novel together in class, jot in their journals any connections to their own lives they can make between the text and self, text to text or text to the world. Various themes are connected to open more doors to...
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Total English: ELL Pre-Intermediate Language Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ELL worksheet, students complete a story using the correct tense verb from a word box, and using adverbs from a word box, ask a partner how often they do given activities.
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Summer Safety Activity: Sun Safety

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn about preventing sunburns. In this sun safety lesson plan, students explore the effects of the sun and find different types of protection from the sun. When finished students create a beach scene using real sand.
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The Animals vs. Napoleon

For Students 10th - 11th
In this literature analysis worksheet, students read Animal Farm and complete a trial activity project based on the characters of the animals vs. Napoleon.
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Using Onomatopoeia to Tell the Story of an Imaginary Field Trip

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore language arts by utilizing word choice to compose a paragraph. In this phonetics lesson, students discuss the importance of a "voice" in their writing as they read the book Rattletrap Car. Students write paragraphs about...
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The Earth's Rotation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students see a model of a globe to watch the Earth rotate. In this Earth lesson, students rotate the globe and shine a flashlight to see where the sun shines and how it rises and sets. They create a diagram and explain day and night in...