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Picture Dictionary

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners create picture dictionaries to encourage the development of letter-sound recognition. In this alphabet project, students cut out pictures from magazines and glue them onto tagboard, and then write the name of the picture below...
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Grade 4 Science Test-University of the State of New York

For Teachers 4th
For this science test worksheet, 4th graders complete a set of 41 multiple choice questions covering a variety of 4th grade science concepts.
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Grade 4 Science Test

For Teachers 4th
In this grade 4 science test worksheet, 4th graders complete 44 multiple choice questions covering a variety of 4th grade science concepts. 
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Rain Forest Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a book about animal species found only in the Amazon rain forest. They find one species to represent each letter of the alphabet, and write each name on a different piece of paper. They illustrate each page with an...
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Food Dictionary - Harvest Festival

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore healthy foods and dictionary organization. Students create a list of healthy foods. They construct their own food dictionary, with illustrations. Students model how a dictionary page should be filled with a picture,...
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The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly in the Plains

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review the concept of vowel digraphs. They identify the digraph /ai/ in spoken language. After a brief discussion, students apply the rule for reading and spelling words containing the /ai/ digraph by creating a word chart.
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Personal Adventure Stories

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the characteristics of an adventure story. Students write an adventure story of their own based on a true personal experience. After drafting their story, students use a word processor to write, edit, and revise their work.
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"The Selfish Crocodile"

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils participate in various shared reading and writing activities related to the book "The Selfish Crocodile" by Faustin Charles. They identify descriptive words from the story, and write sentences describing how the crocodile behaves...
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An Introduction to Collocation

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils listen to text in the form of a letter and then read the same text to determine how collocations can have different meanings. Students listen to a sample of dialogue to understand how the the usages of "make," "do," and "have" can...
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Predicting Plant Coverage

For Students 9th - 12th
Students participate in simulation as they examine vegetation in a square meter land plot. Students construct charts and a key to make predicitons about other land plots.
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Fiction or Non-fiction

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders view three texts, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FOOTBALLER, THE HUMAN BODY, AND WHICH IS WHICH? with the titles covered. They discuss whether the books are non-fiction or fiction and try to come up with suitable titles for the books.
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Science - What Can Living Things Do

For Students 4th - 5th
In these living things worksheets, students write true or false for the sentences about living things. Students answer the questions about living things and choose the words that best describe the statements about living things.
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Clues to spelling words

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this clues to spelling words activity, students use the clues given to write their spelling words and then find a secret message hidden in the end. Students write 13 words, and unscramble 7 words.
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Combining Words with Art

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make an accordion-fold book, review the vocabulary of visual art and are introduced to calligraphy. They plan a story using a sequence of words and sentences.
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Break the Pentomino Code!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read and analyze the book, Chasing Vermeer. They discuss the main story elements, analyze how pentominoes are important to the story, use a pentomino code to decipher a message, and create a secret code of their own.
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Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem. After conducting independent practice to find the hypotenuse of a triangle, they work with the teacher using examples in the lesson plan. The direct instruction is delivered...
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Spending Money

For Teachers K
Students complete activities to study the value of money. In this money study activity, students read a story about money and discuss how they earn money at home. Students watch a related video clip and create a class book about the ways...
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Why Are Thinning Trees Important?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate thinning trees and why they are important to the forest.  In this sustainable environment activity, students role-play as if they are trees in the forest and simulate the overcrowding and inability to move...
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Introduce -s = /s/, -s = /z/ Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders study language. In this plural words lesson, 1st graders discover how words that end in -s are either pronounced with a /s/ sound or a /z/ sound. They work as a group to determine how various words are pronounced. This...
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Lesson Plan Ideas for Preschoolers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students complete different activities throughout the day in a structured preschool setting. In this preschool day lesson plan, students complete circle time, academic learning, free play, and gross motor time.
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Electron Arrangements

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students write electron configurations and identify groups.  For this investigative lesson students use valence electrons to draw electron dot structures. 
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Multimedia Morning Mania

For Teachers K
Students interact with a morning meeting slideshow. They read, write and watch information that is projected onto a whiteboard.
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Vocabulary Review: Opposites

For Students 4th
In this vocabulary review worksheet, 4th graders complete the sentences in column A of a table with the correct word from column B. They write the correct words on the blank lines in column A by completing the sentence, "The opposite of...
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The Clever Stick

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read the book The Clever Stick and answer discussion questions about it. In this reading lesson, students read the given book, and participate in answering questions based on the book. There are also writing, drawing, and games...