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Goods and Services?
Students distinguish between goods and services, and identify that goods and services are used to satisfy needs and wants. They view illustrations from books to find and chart examples of good and services and make connections that goods...
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Winter Lights: A Season In Poems & Quilts
Pupils read the book Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts and do language arts and math activities that go with the book. In this language arts and math lesson plan, students read the book given and do activities that include...
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Hole Mole
Second graders read the book Hole Mole and complete activities that teach them about Mexican culture. For this Holy Mole lesson plan, 2nd graders complete cooking, drawing, writing, and other activities.
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A Visit to Mexico City: An Introduction to World Communities
Third graders complete a variety of activities as they take an imaginary trip to Mexico City, complete with passports, maps, and Spanish dictionaries. They write postcards to send home and create items to sell at the market. The unit...
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The Patchwork Path
Fourth graders investigate slavery by reading a book with their classmates. In this abolitionist movement instructional activity, 4th graders read the story The Patchwork Path, and discuss the creation of the Underground Railroad....
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Hole Mole
First graders read the story Hole Mole and answer comprehension questions while learning about action words. In this language arts lesson plan, 1st graders read, discuss, and cook, while relating it all back to the story.
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Tar Beach Quilt
Pupils cut and design a pretend beach after reading Faith Ringold's "Tar Beach" book.
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Geography, Ecology, and Folklife
Students identify how do geography and ecology influence a region's folklife. Then they investigate this question and consider how an outsider might view their own region in this lesson. Students also identify how the natural world, even...
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Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Interviewing a Quilter
Students investigate the process of quilting. They conduct Internet research, brainstorm and develop a list of questions to ask quilters, and interview a quilter about the process of making a quilt.
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American Quilts
Third graders are introduced to new vocabulary associated with slavery and the Underground Railroad. In groups, they use the vocabulary to identify the various ranges of freedom and create their own vocabulary webs. To end the...
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Eureka! I've Got an Idea
Students research the accomplishments of an inventor. They create a web site based on the research including historical, economic and scientific impact of the invention.
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Aluminum Can Drive
Second graders complete a recycling project to clean-up their school. In this service project lesson, 2nd graders assess their campus for litter, set up a recycling project, clean up their campus, and recycle the trash. Students also...
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Texas, Our Texas
Students watch a PowerPoint slide show of the symbols of Texas and discuss what they see. They color in coloring book pages that corrolate to the slide show. They listen to and sing along to a state song as they color.
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Depression
Students work together to develop a survey to ask people who lived during the Great Depression. Using the information from the survey, they write an essay or a poem describing why it was bad for one of their family members to lose their...
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Anna's Dilemma
Students read a scenerio about people who lived in Germany during Nazi rule. As a class, they discuss the situations the character finds herself in and identify her responsiblities to her family. They answer discussion questions and...
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Biography/Autobiography Book Report
In this book report worksheet, students select a biography or autobiography to read and then use the activities on the worksheet to complete a book report.
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice about Hinton's The Outsiders. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Nebraska Entrepreneur Success Stories
Students explore entrepreneurs of Nebraska. In this business and social studies instructional activity, students research Nebraska entrepreneurs to discover the history of their successful company.
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Trash Flash Through Time
Students describe ways in which solid waste was disposed in the past and the present. They survey an older citizen about his/her solid waste disposal methods. They discover solid waste practices from long ago.
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UK Current Account Record
In this vocabulary learning exercise on the UK deficit, students complete a passage by choosing the correct form of given vocabulary words to insert in blanks.
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Gerund, Present Participle, and Infinitive
In this gerund, present participle, and infinitive worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the correct forms of the words given. Students complete 30 sentences.
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Amazing Animal Alliteration Book
Students understand the meaning of alliteration. In this alliteration instructional activity, students write sentences using alliteration and recognize how it changes the writing in a story.
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Reflect on this Mote of Dust
Learners explore space science by analyzing a speech by Carl Sagan. For this cosmos lesson, students view an online video of a speck of a "pale blue dot" in the distance of space which turns out to be Earth. Learners write an essay...
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The Letter Dd
Young scholars explore the concept of the letter Dd. In this letter recognition lesson, students are engulfed with items, movement, and music that begin with the letter Dd. Young scholars create crafts that help them learn and...