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The Night Before Christmas
Students, after reading and discussing the book, "The Night Before Christmas," explore, examine, and study about the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. They primarily assess the letter 'D' by inquiring which animals guided...
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Invent a Holiday
Students compare their own special holidays and traditions and then use their imaginations to create their own holiday.
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Sleep and Energy
Students discuss the importance of getting a good night's sleep. They make connections between sleep, energy, and having a good day at school. They make a sleepiness chart which shows how they feel each day for a week.
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The Athens Olympics
Students explore the history of the Olympics. They read a story about London's bid to host the Olympic games. In groups, students produce an arena for the Olympics and create a creed for the competition. Students discuss and share...
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Vivid Mental Images
Students listen to a chapter of "The Tale of Despereaux" while creating vivid mental images. They discuss the images before listening to the next chapter and illustrating those images. Each day, they repeat the exercise and add to a...
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Where is Everyone Going?
Students conduct an experiment. In this emergency response activity, students watch videos about hurricanes and discuss the difference between natural disasters and man-made disasters. Students perform a hurricane demonstration and...
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Season of an Apple Tree
Students identify how seasonal changes affect plant growth. In this agricultural lesson, students read The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree and are shown pictures of how apple trees blossom through the seasons. Students match each picture...
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Ancient Sun Models of the World
Students explain that many different cultures across the world developed their own reasoning for the weather around them. They explore the different cultural beliefs of the sun's cycle and to create their own story of the sun's movement.
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Olympic Snowboarding Village
Students adopt a country to research and tour the country online. They plan a trip from Nagano back home to their country.
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Learning the Effects of Weather
Second graders examine how weather affects animals and people. They discuss Navajo and Ute stories told during different seasons of the year, and create a drawing of people or animal behavior and the connection to the weather.
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The Seasonal Cycle
Students complete a unit of lessons on the four seasons. They examine the effect each season has on plants, animals, and people during the actual season, read magazine and newspaper articles, and create a calendar and poster about each...
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Four Seasons - Internet Research
Students review the four seasons and discuss what type of clothing they should wear in each season. They use the Internet to explore the weather during the different seasons.
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Pent-up Pentominoes
First graders are introduced to pentominoes in this lesson. Using the Internet, they match pentominoes with the same shape and use a grid sheet to make their own. They are read books by their teacher and they identify the pentominoes in...
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Ww is for Window
For this printing worksheet, students form the upper and lowercase letter Ww. Students also color in two pictures that begin with the letter W.
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Ancient Mediterranean Lands: A Timeline of Mediterranean Civilizations
Seventh graders create a timeline for the Mediterranean civilizations. In this Mediterranean lesson, 7th graders make a living timeline for the Mediterranean civilizations.
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the story Follow the Drinking Gourd and then answer short answer questions about it. Students complete 6 questions.
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How Busy Are Bees?
Learners research the jobs of bees. In this timeline lesson, students map out each of the six different jobs a worker bee does in its lifetime. They create a timeline and then retell the job descriptions.
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Autumn Vocabulary
In this vocabulary worksheet, students match vocabulary to definitions of words representing autumn. Students complete 20 matches total.
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Spring Vocabulary
In this spring vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 20 words pertaining to the season of spring and match them to the correct meanings in another column.
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Olympic Awareness
Students, using the Internet, research the Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. They keep a journal of highlights and think about what they have learned about the sport of their choice.
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Snowball Soap
Students create their own soap sculptures and take them home to use. They gradually add water to soap flakes until they are a consistency that can be molded. They mix the concoction with their hands and then sculpt the "snow" into...
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Steps To An Inquiry Process
Fourth graders investigate the research process. The finding of information about the indian tribes of Montana provides the context for student practice. They identify the problem and generate questions to find answers. The main...
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Olympic Games Snowboard Design
Young scholars find travel destinations and information on countries around the world, and use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represent the country they pick. They explore maps, weather, geography, languages, in their...
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Ecology: Trees
Fourth graders read the defintions of renewale and nonrenewable resources and discuss any incorrect responses. They view a sample of work for the class to see which they describe posting responses on the board in their respective columns...