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Sunny Sunflowers
First graders, after assessing how plants grow in relation to light, create models of sunflowers within a game to help them remember their science lesson. In addition, their visual models serve as a demonstration of photo tropism in...
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Birds of Wisconsin
First graders explore the job done by ornithologists. They role play identifying the characteristics that make a bird a bird. They discuss what makes each bird species unique. Students are introduced to Wisconsin's most common and rare...
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Teaching With Documents: Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art of World War II
Students analyze 11 posters from wartime and complete a worksheet. They discuss the similarities and differences between the posters and where the posters might have been posted. Student volunteers from each group present the posters to...
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Living Thermometer
Students count the number of times a cricket chirps in a sixty-second span and subtract 40, divide by 4 and add 50. They compare the answer to the degrees in Fahrenheit.
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The Nio
Students discuss the importance of guardian figures in Japanese Buddhist practices using prior knowledge and visual cues gathered from examples of Japanese art. This instructional activity can be extended to include a creative project.
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Japanese Festivals and Celebrations
Students investigate the importnce of celebrations anf festivals in Japanese culture and then create a story based upon an image from the instructional activity. Resource links are provided for images of events.
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Irises
Students create realistic and impressionistic drawings of irises in an attempt to better understand the importance of the iris in Japanese culture and art. Lesson extensions are provided for this one day lesson.
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"He Says, She Says"
Stuents compare and contrast male and female views of love and beauty in classic Chinese and Japanese society through the reading and evaluation of prose and poetry. Chinese and Japanese art is also studied.
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Best Practices of Technology Integration
Learners are introduced to the functions of state and local government. In groups, they research Michigan as their home state and one other state given to them and answer questions given to them in a packet. They discuss their answers...
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The Egg and Symbolism with the Christian Easter
In this language arts and religion worksheet, students read an informative page about the symbolism of the egg in the Christian Easter. Students answer 6 questions. This page is from the UK.
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Plague Doctor Crossword
In this Great Plague crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 12 clues to identify the correct words and names that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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The Good, the Bad and the Nasty Tasting
Students examine the effect of chemicals from marine plants or animals on predator's preferences. In this ecology lesson, students conduct taste tests and collect necessary data. They write their conclusion after analyzing experimental...
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Weather Olympics
Students consider the effects of topography on climate patterns. In this earth science lesson, students research weather patterns and make inferences of how the land forms may create different climates. Students compare Celsius...
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Mixed Prepositions 11
In this English vocabulary skills learning exercise, students respond to 9 multiple choice questions that require them to fill in the blanks in sentences with the appropriate prepositions.
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Tet, the Vietnamese New Year
Students identify the similarities and differences between traditions in the Vietnamese New Year, TET, with the traditions of several holidays celebrated in America.
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Literacy:Non-Fiction Stories
Third graders explore non-fiction stories. They follow along as the teacher reads a story. Students fill in words as the teacher reads to ensure they are following along. They discuss the text features found in the book and the features...
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Christmas Songs Puzzle
In this Christmas crossword worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by answering questions or filling in the blanks of items related to Christmas songs. There are 41 word blanks on the puzzle to solve.
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Christmas Songs
In this word puzzle worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by solving clues about Christmas. For example, "One thing to do on Christmas day."
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How You Use Credit Cards Should Determine How You Choose Them
Young scholars explore the concept of credit cards. In this credit cards lesson, students read an article about credit card spending. Young scholars discuss different ways in which people use credit cards. Students determine what kind of...
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The Bus Ride Teacher's Guide
Students examine and respond to the text, The Bus Ride. In this African-American literature lesson, students explore pre-reading questions that focus on fairness of laws. Students read the text based on Rosa Parks and answer 11...
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Slavery in Arkansas Workshop
Eighth graders explain the viewpoints of runaway slaves and the slave owners. They use stick figures to organize the escaped slaves according to their chances of actually remaining at large.
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Blood Analysis
Students reconstruct a crime scene to produce the blood spatter pattern. In this forensic science instructional activity, students describe the events that lead to produce such patterns. They explain the importance of blood analysis in...
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Stuffed Newspaper Butterfly
Students examine the parts of a butterfly. They use newspaper to build a replica of a butterfly. Students stuff the butterfly and paint it. They display the finished product.
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Information Fluency Unit
Third graders pretend they have been asked to make t-shirts to show endangered plants and animals in the rainforest. Using the internet, they research what is happening in the rainforest and discover why the destruction of it is harmful...