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Science: Let's Be Molecules!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover how molecules are in constant motion. Through a simple experiment of water containing food coloring, they observe the drops of coloring move even though the water is still. Role-playing as molecules, students stand up...
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Breaking News English: Germany Says Two Family Names is Enough

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Germany Says Two Family Names is Enough," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.
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Switch and Rotate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Alphabet Soup

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play a game in which they use the letters of the alphabet and different motor skills for review.
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Flower Power: Kansas Quarter Reverse

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine the Kansas quarter reverse and explore the basic needs and life processes of plants. They take a nature walk around the school and draw living and non-living things. In the classroom the sort the specimens collected into...
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Trash on Texas Beaches

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers take a field trip to a local Texas beach. Using the trash and debris they find, they classify them based on specific criteria. In groups, they calculate the total for each category and determine the percentage of each...
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The Little Rabbit

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners recite a poem and perform motions to the words. In this stretching and moving lesson plan, groups of students perform the motions by crouching into a ball, getting up, breathing deeply, stretching arms, and leaning forward. An...
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Vocabulary: Basic Vocabulary Builder-2

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, students select words from a box to complete each sentence. Words are commonly used English words.
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"Must" and "Have To" Differences

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ESL must/have to vocabulary worksheet, students read 10 sentences and fill in the correct word. There is no instruction on the page about the correct use of "must" or "have to."
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Prepositions Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this preposition activity, students match prepositional phrases with sentence endings, then write them together to form complete sentences.
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Our Solar System to Scale

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students calculate the diameter of planets and their relative distances.  In this space science instructional activity, students discover how small or big the planets are in comparison to each other. Students use cross multiplying...
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Valentine's Day Booklet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners create a Valentine's Day booklet. In this creating a book instructional activity, students write and illustrate their own book describing love.
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Pilgrim Needs a Home

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice skipping and hopping and understanding self space. Music begins playing and students are directed on what movement skill to do. When music stops students need to find a "home" by hopping or skipping into their...
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African Cities Are Modern

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners create a mobile that compares the way of life in modern cities in Africa to rural villages in Africa.
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Physical Habitat of a Stream

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students measure in metric units and use a stopwatch, calculator. They collect data with minimal instructions after the initial pre-activity briefing, then record data in the data sheets provided.
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Verbage!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play a game wherein they act out verbs and adverbs in a sentence. They read a sentence, define the verb to a partner and move from one end of the play area to the other doing the action in the sentence. They grab another...
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Students For Political Action

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars that are interested in political action are called together for a meeting and explore how the understanding among each other on issues is important and explore how they can change the world.
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Meadows Observations

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate and examine the different living things they find in a meadow. Students record the different colors that are present and create a graph, identify and label parts of a plant, use a magnifying lens to examine all ...
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Mallard's Wet Olympics

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners investigate some of the different characteristics of living things. They make observations from reading and interactive media. Students observe that animals move in different ways and have adaptations to aid in that action.
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An Introduction To Status

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of status and its use in theater. Using a scene from Shakespeare's play King Richard II, students work in pairs to perform the scene. After the performance, the pairs discuss their use of physical status in...
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Fitness for Life

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss their favorite activities and determine which activities are suitable for older people. In groups, students research the benefits of aerobic exercises and the equipment needed. Students share their information with the...
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John the Stuntman

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL verb forms worksheet, students read a story about John and his girlfriend. For each blank space, students fill in the correct verb form of the word provided.
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Verbs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this ESL verbs worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that show people in action. From 4 choices, students select the correct verb that fills in a space in the sentence that describes the picture.
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Create Opposites: Antonyms

For Students 4th - 5th
In this antonym worksheet, students write the opposite of a word in bold type in a sentences, choosing a prefix of "dis", "in" or "un" to begin each antonym.