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Converting Units Of Length
Use this converting units of length activity to have your charges fill out a table, find the perimeters to three shapes and calculate the answers to three word problems.
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Exploring the Water Cycle
The water cycle is one of earth's most easily observable processes, but demonstrating each step within classroom walls can be a challenge. Through a series of videos and quick demonstrations, cover each aspect of the hydrologic cycle in...
Student Handouts
Classroom Sign on Overreacting
You can't always get what you want, but that doesn't mean the whole class should experience your disappointment. There's no need to tell your pupils to stop being big babies if you post this sign up on the wall. All you'll need to do is...
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Listening Picture Check Sheet & Listening Picture Prompts
Help learners build greater self-awareness and improve listening skills with these visual prompt sheets. Beginning with an "Are you really listening?" overview sheet, the following pages use large visuals to remind pupils...
Teaching Tolerance
Consuming and Creating Political Art
A picture is worth a thousand words, but political art may be worth even more! After examining examples of political cartoons, murals, and other forms of public art, class members create their own pieces to reflect their ideals and...
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Curriculum Guide to: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations can prove to be a challenge for instructors who choose to use Dickens's novel as required reading. Here's a curriculum guide that includes lessons that address some of these challenges. The first lesson in critical...
Facing History and Ourselves
Hardship and Hope: Teaching Amanda Gorman's "New Day's Lyric"
Class members come together to study Amanda Gorman's poem "New Day's Lyric." After a close reading of the poem, learners watch a video of Gorman reading her poem, and then craft additional lines for the poem where they offer suggestions...
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Where I'm From: Symbolism in Paint and Poetry
After a review of symbolism, class members use the provided worksheet to first list the objects they observe in Arnold Mesches' painting "Coney Island" and then suggest possible symbolic meanings for each of the objects. A second...
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Picture Sentences
Second graders create sentences using word wall or spelling words. In this literacy instructional activity, 2nd graders type their sentences and attach a clip art picture that coordinates with the word or sentence.
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Rapid Reading
Young scholars review sight recognition and blending by using an index card with one of the words from the word wall on it. They read a story aloud as a class and hold up their card when they hear their word and sing a song that allows...
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Bingo!
Students participate in a game to identify word wall words. For this decoding lesson, students play a variation of the game "BINGO" and identify sight words on the word wall.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 2: Dancing Duo
Second graders and teachers identify geometric vocabulary word by searching a geometry website. They create a Quilt Word Wall using the geometry words.
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Monthly Birthdays
In this birthdays worksheet, students read the months of the year and the word birthdays on word wall labels. This would be excellent for use by a teacher to create a birthday word wall with the months of the year and student names.
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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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Stand Up for Spelling!
In this interactive spelling lesson, 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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Listening Skills
In this writing instructional activity, students fill in six blanks with the prepositions on or in and then listen to fifteen sentences read and circle the words that they hear.
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Fun with Droofus the Dragon: Book Activity
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students decide on the best word to replace a bold word in a sentence showing their understanding of the meaning of the word. Students complete this vocabulary instructional activity after...
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Recognition of the Letters
Students practice writing words and brief sentences. In this phonics lesson, students write letters phonetically spelling the words legibly.
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Worksheet 7: Housekeeping Activities
While only having a few questions, this activity could be a good review of vocabulary in the lower grades. Learners fill in 6 fill-in-the-blank spaces with the correct vocabulary word. There are pictures to aid in understanding.
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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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Find the Hibernating Animal
In this word search worksheet, students find 6 hibernating animals in the word search. The names of the animals are located in the word bank at the bottom of the page.
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The Adverb
In this adverb worksheet, students circle the adverb in each sentence and draw a line to the word it modifies. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Winter Words
Students read words that pertain to winter on strips of paper. In this winter words lesson plan, students have 28 total winter words to read.
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Adjectives: Witch
In this adjectives practice worksheet, learners use the 8 adjectives in the word bank to fill in the blanks in 2 paragraphs in order to make the descriptions more interesting.