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Action Verbs
Second graders perform various tasks by identifying the action word with teacher. They demonstrate each of the correct critical elements of loco motor, non-manipulative, and manipulative skills.
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Daily Academic Language Development
Five minute mini-lessons designed to expose learners to high-frequency academic language.
Bright Hub Education
Advertisement Analysis
Middle schoolers review magazine ads and take a look at some of the most common advertising techniques. From analyzing these ads, youngsters begin to become aware of how advertisers target specific age groups, gender groups, and how they...
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The Popcorn Book
Pop, pop, pop! Can you hear the sound popcorn makes when it's being made? Start the day by reading The Popcorn Book. Youngsters will love stringing together popcorn necklaces and learning about popcorn. There are separate prompts and...
British Council
Alphabet
Here's a packet filled with suggestions and activities for teaching the alphabet.
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Take a Walk in Their Shoes: Great Leaders of Our Time
Research the characteristics of leaders who have used nonviolence to change society. The class then applies this information to their own community to find leaders with these same characteristics, creating a wall collage of pictures and...
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My Antonia: Prereading Guided Imagery
What makes a place safe? What makes a setting effective? Explore the safe spaces and descriptive language with a prereading activity for Willa Cather's My Antonia. The teacher describes his or her own safe space and then prompts pupils...
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Gingerbread Baby Unit
Learners participate in a variety of activities surrounding the book, Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett. They can create a house, a map, ornaments, and their own books. Additionally, they can draw, paint, or write out attributes for each...
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"Your Son, Your Only One" - The Sacrifice of Isaac as a Motif in Holocaust Poetry
Class groups examine a series of poems that use Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac as a motif in Holocaust poetry. Included are questions, notes to the teacher, and bibliographical information on each poem. The activities could be...
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Dodgeball Variations
Dodgeball has been beloved by schoolchildren for many years, but who would have thought there could be so many variations for this exciting and physically active game? Mix it up in your PE class and keep the adventure going with over 30...
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Close Reading of “The Necklace”
Designed for teachers, this 12-page packet uses passages from Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" to model how to design activities that encourage close reading of complex text.
Weebly
Los Verbos Regulares
¿Qué haces ahora? Conjugate common Spanish verbs with a slideshow presentation that focuses on the present tense. As Spanish learners review personal pronouns and the parts of a verb, they work on forming the present tense with...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Show Yourself Off - Write a Résumé!
Chronological or functional? Class members learn about the different types of resumes and then use a template to complete a draft resume. Next, they create, save, and print a professional resume.
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Résumé Writing for Teens
Writing a resume is as easy as 1-2-3. Teens learn the basics of resume writing by viewing a PowerPoint and completing a KWL chart. Next, they type and submit their resumes.
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Professional Communications in Business
Leave a message after the beep! Using the fun resource, pupils brush up on their communication skills by practicing taking and receiving phone messages. Additionally, they recreate an interoffice memo and create a meeting agenda to...
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English for Law
In this law worksheet, students match words with definitions about the law and complete a crossword. Students complete 2 activities.
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Money Math
Students explore a story about a room decoration activity to learn about measurements and area. For this measurement lesson, students listen to a story about a boy who is redecorating his bedroom. Students discuss the story and work in...
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Stand Up for Spelling!
In this interactive spelling activity, students participate in a multi-modality activity that involves wall words. Half of the students are assigned the vowels and the other half is assigned to stand up for the consonants.
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Prokaryote Coloring
In this prokaryote coloring activity learning exercise, 7th graders read an informative passage about prokaryotes. Students answer questions about the passage and color the picture.
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Designing a Civilization for an Art Room
Students discover the ideas of civilizations by researching Gandhi's philosophies. In this art decoration lesson, students investigate Gandhi's opinions on civilizations, community and ethics. Students collaborate by...
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Classroom Christmas Tree
Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity. In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree. Students are given...
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 22
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
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Who Am I?
Students complete an acrostic poem and use digital photo activities for the poem. In this acrostic poem and technology lesson, students use Word Art and digital cameras to create a technology integrated acrostic poem.
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Put Me in My Place: Using Alphanumeric Grids to Locate Places
Learners practice locating points on a large wall grid and create and label a neighborhood map. For this geography lesson, students spell and discuss places as the teacher places them on the map. They discuss the concept of an...