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Alfonso Ball
Joey Alphonso made up this game, which is played using a gator skin ball and a tennis racket on a basketball court. The simple rules and strategy of the game are explained. This is a high-scoring, run around activity. Everyone can...
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World without Trees Composition
Fourth graders write a composition on what they think the world would be like without trees. They brainstorm ideas of what they think the world would be like treeless, and creative a story. A rubric is distributed to the students which...
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Ecology: Trees
Fourth graders, while working in the classroom and the computer lab, utilizing supporting facts from previous lessons, write a creative story that imagines a world without forests. They write, type and print their stories and turn them...
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Leadership: Leading Off
Students explore leadership skills. In this leadership lesson, students examine leadership styles as they reflect on controversies and celebrations in American baseball. Students discuss the attributes of positive and ethical leaders.
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Earth's Poles
In this Earth's Poles activity, students survey, examine and dissect the North and South Magnetic Poles, the Earth's axis and summarize the Aurora legends. Students research six directives involving space weather and predicting answers.
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All Aboard
Explore the U.S.S. Nevada. Researchers use primary sources, secondary sources, children's books and websites to study the naval ship. Their study commences with a class alphabet book on the ship. Intended to be part of a lesson plan on...
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Let the River Run
Learners explore the environment by reading a story in class. In this water formation instructional activity, students define environmental terms such as rivers, streams, gulf, oceans and lakes. Learners read the story A River Ran Wild...
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Counting in Espanol
Students create a mini-book with the Spanish numbers 0-10, then compare and contrast the English numbers to the new Spanish numbers.
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Vocabulary
Students use new vocabulary words in their speech and writing and spell them correctly. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students create portfolios of their vocabulary work.
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All About Groups & Community
Second graders discuss and write in their journals about the roles of leaders in different kinds of groups.
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Keyboarding Lesson - U X P
It's time to type! Pupils engage in a basic lesson in elementary computer keyboarding. They locate and type letters u, x, and p. Additional practice includes key stroking technique and typing with continuity.
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Keyboarding Lesson - R C
Learners engage in a basic lesson plan in elementary computer keyboarding. They review the home row and the location of letters. Also, they practice conditioning and speed.
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Keyboarding Lesson - Period
Pupils engage in a basic lesson in elementary computer keyboarding and using the period key. The drills can be done together as a class, following your oral instructions, or individually. Accuracy, not speed, is the main goal for beginners.
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Baseball--Where the Parks Are
In this social studies worksheet, students utilize a map to label the location of each city with a Major League team and then with colored pencils label the homes of the All-American Girls League teams.
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What a Nose!
In this science worksheet, students discover that different bat species have distinctive noses. Students examine 6 pictures of bats and cut and paste the names of the bats by each. No information is given but the names of the bats will...
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100 Dots
In this counting skills worksheet, students draw 10 dots on each of the 10 pictured ladybugs.
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Fabulous Fantastic Flowers!
Students study flowers and identify their major parts. In this flowers lesson plan, students research flowers, learn about their life cycle, label their major parts, and make tissue paper flowers.
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From Seeds to Plants
Second graders review the process of plant reproduction and the role of seeds in that process. The students dissect a seed, analyze their finds, collect and record data, and make predictions about seed germination and plant growth.
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Dateline: Troy
Learners read an abridged version of The Odyssey andl write a composition comparing Odysseus or the Iliad with Odysseus of The Odyssey. Students write a speech that King Priam would make in the attempt to persuade his son, Paris, to...
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Ecology: Trees
Fourth graders read the defintions of renewale and nonrenewable resources and discuss any incorrect responses. They view a sample of work for the class to see which they describe posting responses on the board in their respective columns...
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No Title
Fourth graders identify and practice a variety of prereading strategies to assess how to ask questions that a new reader might ask about the book, "One Day in the Woods." They skim the book, brainstorm the topic of the book and preview...
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No Title
Fourth graders identify the characteristics of a good paragraph and find those characteristics in a good paragraph from the books, "One Day in the Woods," by Jean Craighead George and "Why Do Leaves Change Color," by Betsy Maestro.
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No Title
Fourth graders, after brainstorming a list of things good friends do for each other, apply prereading strategies to the book, "Be A Friend to Trees," and create similes and metaphors utilizing content ideas. They also sketch an...
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Creative Writing
Fourth graders participate in an observation hike in this lesson. They orally share observations from their hike, and develop a paragraph in a shared writing exercise. Finally, the write their paragraph about process writing in their...
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