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Dolls for Computers

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Studenst explore their own culture by making handcrafts, participating in ballet and thethre. They make dolls and describe the process of making them through technology.
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All Hats for Ecology: Solid Waste Presentation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate community issues with solid waste. For this mock trial lesson, students examine the issues of solid waste from an ecological and economical perspective. They will develop a mock trial which encourages preservation of...
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Pendemonium: The Italian Job

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify prefixes, roots, and suffixes. In this grammar rules lesson, students analyze word parts to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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Beginning Critical Reading - Paper

For Students 5th - 6th
In these critical reading worksheets, students read the paragraphs about paper. Students answer 3 critical reading questions about the passage.
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Writing Crazy Crayons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe the workings of an assembly line. They classify old crayon pieces by color, melt them in candy molds, package them, and produce advertising literature to sell the product. Students share their work with the class.
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Environment: Waste Walk

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Young scholars assess the positive and negative affects of humans on the environment. The lesson explores ways in which individuals and societies can reduce the negative impact on the environment. By taking a "waste walk" around their...
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Bonkers About Beads

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners explore written communication of different cultures, practice identifying letters of the alphabet, and recognize and create patterns with beaded letters.
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Joseph Raffael

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine and discuss a painting of a lizard by the artist Joseph Raffael. They list descriptive words about the lizard, and write a Cinquain and create a painting about a lizard.
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Images As Persuasion

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine how images can persuade or influence an audience. They discover how the message an image sends depends on the perspective of the audience.
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Five Spelling Games

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners follow directions to complete activities that help them learn their weekly spelling words.
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Green Worksheet

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this color recognition worksheet, students study the various images and color the pictures of things that can be green. Students color the pictures of the frog, bell pepper, crayon, turtle, alligator, and pear.
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Reading Activity: How Children See the Future

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading worksheet, students read a selection titled, "How Children See the Future," then answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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1Word and Letter Match Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word and letter match instructional activity, learners match groups of 3 letters to words that contain each set. A reference web site is given for additional activities. 
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Pronoun Reference

For Students 4th - 5th
In these pronouns and antecedents worksheets, students read the sentences and the underlined portions for each example. Students fix the underlined errors in pronoun reference.
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Design a Postage Stamp for Black History Month

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners create a postage stamp for Black History Month. In this U.S. History lesson, students discuss the contributions of African-Americans and design a postage stamp to celebrate their impact.
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Placing Artificial Domiciles to Attract Bumble Bees

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate how to entice bumble bees to accept artificial domiciles. They conduct research about bee biology and nest architecture, plan and construct an artificial domicile to attract bumble bee queens, and monitor and...
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Hip Hip Hooray! Happy Birthday to Who?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Recognize Dr. Seuss Day with fun and creative activities in your classroom.
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Rooftop Gardens

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how to help a city building remain cooler on the inside. They create a rooftop garden in order to shield the building and lower the internal temperature. The garden is meant to replace the black tar paper that...
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School Yard Waste

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the types of garbage that they collect on the playground. They collect the information in a spreadsheet and create a graph that displays the number of types of trash found. They design and monitor a playground...
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Earth Day - Grow A Seed Garden

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover how things grow and how they can take better care of the environment in this Earth Day instructional activity for the elementary classroom. The activity can be accomplished in one day and left in the sun until the...
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Shadow Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore light, shade and shadow.
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Bug Jars

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars explore symmetry.  Students observe a variety of bug and plant drawings, then draw a bug jar. Young scholars observe bugs from the top of the jar for a symmetrical view, and the side of the jar for an asymmetrical...
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Go Fly a Kite!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students study kites. In this social studies instructional activity, students discover the history of kites and what kites are made of. Students create their own kites to fly.
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Next Year's Seeds

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students play a game that demonstrates variables that affect farming. They write letters requesting free seed catalogs. They discuss the saying "A penny saved is a penny earned" in relation to what they learned from playing the attached...