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Are You One of Us?
Students compare and contrast insects and arthropods, identifying characteristics of each. In groups, they sort pictures of arthropods into the five different classes of arthropods. They also sort pictures into insect and non-insect piles.
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Perception and Observation
Students use common and unusual objects to make observations of details, design, and functionality. They describe and draw each object while working in small groups. The differences between observation and perception is covered as part...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.5
What would happen if I structured this review by beginning in the middle of it? Or by flashing back to the dinner I had last night that gave me bad heartburn, and then transitioned into how the lingering burn of acid seeped into my...
EngageNY
The Relationship Between Visual Fraction Models and Equations
Ours is to wonder why, not just to invert and multiply. The seventh installment of a 21-part module uses fraction models to help pupils understand why the invert-and-multiply strategy for dividing fractions works. They then work on some...
Kids Learning Station
Adverbs
Modify different verbs with a worksheet about adverbs. Kids read 12 sentences and circle the adverbs in each, in addition to underlining the verb that they describe. Next, they write their own sentences and indicate the appropriate...
Curated OER
Spelling List 14: Sight Words, Plural Changes, and Academic Vocabulary
In this spelling learning exercise, students copy a set of words 2 times each. Words focus on plural changes, academic vocabulary and sight words.
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Archaeology Vocabulary Sampling
Students predict how many words out of ten they accurately define. They match the definitions to the correct vocabulary words and make a bar graph showing how many definitions were matched to the correct words. The write their group...
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Cool Word Vocabulary
Students practice using new vocabulary by putting a picture with the new word. They also write the definitions of the new words. They use the pictures to create a clue in which others can practice the new words.
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Rhyming Words
In this rhyming words activity, students examine the 5 listed words and identify 3 words that rhyme with each of the words listed.
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Opposite Worksheet
Here is a fun worksheet that will challenge your youngsters. They alphabetize all of the words in the left column, and then they do the same for the words in the right column. When they are finished they'll see that they've properly...
Curated OER
La Mochila (The Backpack)
Middle schoolers examine objects, labeled in Spanish, that are common items found in a backpack. They write simple sentences in Spanish listing the items from the backpack.
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Baseball Vocabulary
Students review new vocabulary and verb conjugations. They are divided into two teams and simulate a game of baseball while practicing their new vocabulary. They are given the word in Spanish or English.
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Crafting Poetry: A Sensory Journey
Tenth graders experiment with poetry devices to write poems. In this poetry lesson, 10th graders participate in learning stations. Students create a word pool and select a word from the list to create a line of poetry. Students complete...
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Students follow along as they read chapters in the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. They work with a partner and choose 5 objects to measure when the class does the measuring activity. Students make a picture dictionary using at...
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Cryptogram: Grade 3 Vocabulary
In this cryptogram vocabulary worksheet, students unscramble words, placing the correct letter in boxes, then use the numbered boxed to find the answer to a riddle.
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Cryptogram Vocabulary: Grade 1
In this vocabulary worksheet, students unscramble words, placing letters in shaded boxes; numbered boxes complete the answer to a riddle.
Santa Ana Unified School District
The Giver
Wouldn't it be great to live an a community without pain, without danger? Such a society is the goal of the community in The Giver. Using Lois Lowry's dystopian novel as the core text, class members read primary source materials...
Northeast Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency
Who Were the Tired, the Poor, the Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free?
Elvira Woodruff's The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time Travel Adventure is the core text in a interdisciplinary unit study of immigration at the turn of the century.
Odell Education
Building Evidence-Based Arguments: "Cuplae poena par esto: Let the punishment fit the crime."
Should a criminal's punishment match the crime? An argumentative writing plan explores this question as class members investigate a variety of mixed-medium sources by experts in the field, form evidence-based claims, and support them...
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Word Roots 7: Spect, Sta, Vert Intermediate Fill-in-the-Blanks
Using a word bank and context clues, scholars fill in the blanks in 12 sentences. This resource is slightly unique because of the focus on word roots. There is information about each root involved in the activity on the webpage. Also,...
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Word Roots 2: FIN, SED, FER Advanced Synonym and Antonym Word Puzzle
A quick exercise clarifies antonyms and synonyms and their connection to word roots. Using a word bank, pupils fill in an antonym and a synonym for each of six words. This resource is online and delivers immediate feedback.
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Word Roots 6: PLIC, FAC-FIC, COGN/NOT Advanced Puzzle 1, 2, & 3
Guide your class in learning and applying Latin roots with this online activity. Learners use definitions and word roots to fill in the given blanks. This web page has features three different word roots to practice: PLIC, FAC-FIC, and...
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Multiple Meanings and PowerPoint
Middle schoolers learn about words that have more than one meaning. They each create a PowerPoint presentation that has a word with multiple meanings at the top, then each of its definitions in the main body of the slide. They insert...
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Double Dip: Using Multi-Meaning Words
Double dip ice cream cones are a fourth grade favorite, and now they come in vocabulary and context flavor. Learners practice using double meaning words as they construct ice cream cones that contain two sentences showing how context can...