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Safari Sentence Scramble
Students use real life experiences for writing. In this identifying details instructional activity, students use information such as colors, numbers, sizes, shapes and locations to write sentences about the zoo. Students position...
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Magician Squares
Elementary school learners investigate the attributes of a square. They discover that squares are polygons and examine squares found in everyday life. They concentrate on connecting the word, square, with the shape. As an...
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Shapes at Work
Students use their classroom to look for various types of shapes. In their science journals, they record the shapes they find and identify those that can be used to solve problems or build structures. They share and post their sketches...
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Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers
Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall instructional...
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WORD SEARCH
In this word search activity about Christopher Columbus, students are given 18 words to find in a boat-shaped puzzle. Answers are provided on page 2.
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Science Letter Shapes Puzzle
In this science word puzzle, learners fit words to shapes using a set of 15 definition clues. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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EARTH DAY WORD SEARCH
In this Earth Day word search worksheet, students are given 15 environment-related words to find in a flower shape. This activity sheet is suitable for most 2nd - 5th graders.
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Fry's Second Hundred Words 61-70
In this sight word worksheet, students use Fry's words 61-70 to fill in blanks in a set of sentences. Blanks are shaped to fit the correct words.
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The Cat in the Hat Word Search
In this The Cat in the Hat word search learning exercise, 1st graders will find and circle 18 words from the story. The puzzle is in the shape of the Cat's hat.
Mathematics Vision Project
Circles: A Geometric Perspective
Circles are the foundation of many geometric concepts and extensions - a point that is thoroughly driven home in this extensive unit. Fundamental properties of circles are investigated (including sector area, angle measure, and...
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Phineas Gage: Questioning Strategy
Focus on chapter two of Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science with a questioning activity. After teaching and modeling several types of questions, learners work with partners and then independently to answer and...
Kiz Club
Alphabet Floor Game
Hop from one letter to the next with this alphabet practice game! Each foot-shaped piece includes one letter of the alphabet inside of it. Kids can step along the alphabet or use their feet to spell simple words.
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Points, Lines, Planes, and Space
In this points, lines, planes, and space worksheet, students solve word problems dealing with points, lines, planes, and space. Students complete 20 individual problems and 20 group problems.
Las Cumbres Observatory
Play Bingo with Charles Messier
Let's play an out-of-this-world Bingo game! Using pre-made Bingo cards and an online randomizer, host a game of Bingo to practice identifying the objects of the cosmos. Pupils must match a picture shown to a similar picture on their...
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Dopey Dragon Shapes - square, circle, triangle, and rectangle
In this plane figures worksheet, learners identify the squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles by coloring and tracing them and determine understanding by drawing and printing the names for the figures. Students complete eighteen...
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Battle Shapes
Fifth graders play Battleshapes which is a variation of Battleship with geometry. In this geometry lesson, 5th graders get a graph paper with four quadrants. They call out coordinate points and attempt to sink their opponents shapes.
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As You Like It Word Plays
Young scholars explore and analyze the sounds and shapes of the words used in Shakespeare's works They participate in a charades-like memorization exercise in which they create "word plays" for each of the words in the monologue.
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Creating Sentences with Onomatopoeia Words
Third graders create sentences. In this sentences lesson students use onomatopoeia words to write sentences. They make a movement to match their onomatopoeia word. The students discuss why an author might use onomatopoeia in their writing.
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Getting in Shape Again
Students create rocket shapes out of pattern blocks. They draw a picture of a rocket, build a pattern block rocket following simple directions, and complete a graph of the shapes used.
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What’s the Shape of Your Diet?
Students analyze their diets. In this healthy diet activity, students keep food journals and examine their diets next to the recommended daily allowances of MyPyramid for Kids.
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Word Search: Desert Life
In this word search activity, students search for 12 words that relate to the desert. Word search is in the shape of a cactus.
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Pretzel Mania
In this lesson plan, students enhance their number and letter recognition. Students make letters and numbers with pretzel dough. Students prepare the pretzel dough, shape it, bake it, and eat it. In this lesson plan, students test...
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Shape Up!
Students investigate measurement through the use of literature through this series of lessons.
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Squares Have Roots?
Young scholars define a square and connect this information to a square root. For this square root lesson, students make a chart listing square numbers and their roots.