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Front Page News
Learners write original earthquake articles typically found on the front page of a newspaper. Each student has the freedom to write in a variety of writing styles (lead story, human interest story, editorials, etc.). They research...
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Journalism 101
Students understand the writing style in a newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students recognize that a newspaper has a catchy headline and objective writing. Students interview someone in an area of interest and write a news article.
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"Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets"
Students examine the expressive and descriptive language used in the books "Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets" and "Planet of the Robots." In pairs they take notes about each other's physical appearance and conduct interviews, identify the...
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Digital Dreams
Students write a speech. In this dreams activity, students define the word dreams and list their own dreams. Students read and discuss Langston Hughes work, read and discuss excerpts from speeches by JFK and Martin Luther...
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Punctuation Takes a Vacation
Students read Punctuation Takes a Vacation. In this punctuation lesson, students discuss punctuation marks and how they are used. Students write postcards using a punctuation mark and students guess which punctuation mark it...
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Transportation Unit
Students maintain a journal and write about various types of transportation. In this transportation lesson, students write using flash cards to describe vehicles. Students listen to stories and sing a song...
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Grammar Skills
In this ESL worksheet, students complete a chart in order to create 10 complete sentences. The chart includes who/what, did what, to whom/what, how, where, when, and why.
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What Time Is It?
In this clocks worksheet, students first read a one page text about different kinds of clocks. Using a word bank, students label the parts of four different kinds of clocks: grandfather, wristwatch, digital and analog. Students write the...
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Story Mapping A Favorite Book
First graders create a diagram of a story by using the computer program Kidspiration. In this diagramming lesson plan, 1st graders will pick a book to write about. They then will plug in story elements of the book into the computer...
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Vocabulary for Weather
In this weather vocabulary worksheet, students define 34 terms related to weather and climate. Terms include instruments used to measure temperature, pressure, wind and humidity as well as types of fronts, conduction, convection and...
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Spelling Connections Grade 2
In this spelling worksheet, students read ten sentences with a scrambled word in bold type within them. Students unscramble the word so it would make sense within the sentence. All words have the "or" spelling pattern.
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Making Questions 3
In this creating questions worksheet, students read statements and create interrogative sentences which ask either yes/no or who/whom questions about the words in bold print. Students write 14 online/interactive answers.
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Freedom and You
Students research the American Revolution. In this Revolutionary War lesson, students research facts about the American Revolution, write an expository essay, and peer edit for good content. The paper is suggested to be written after...
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Personal Development - Setting Goals to Achieve Objectives
Learners explore reasons for setting goals and techniques to achieve them. They discover the importance of setting goals, both short-range and long-range. Students assess their own situation and write specific goals to meet their...
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Logarithms
In this logarithms worksheet, 12th graders solve and complete 54 various types of problems. First, they write the numbers in the format of an exponential equation. Then, students write each problem listed and translate into log notation....
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Magic Tube Lab
In this scientific investigation instructional activity, students use "magic tubes" to make observations, hypothesize, study variables in experiments, write procedures, and draw conclusions.
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Bear Hunt Obstacle Course
Students complete an obstacle course. In this following directions lesson, students read the book Going on a Bear Hunt. Students learn how to maneuver through the obstacle course, walk through the obstacle course and then...
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Sandwich Feast
Creative! Youngsters listen to the reading of "Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich" by Shel Silverstein as a warm up activity for a lesson in punctuation. They use bread-shaped pages, one for each type of punctuation, to identify which...
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Pronouns
Students play a game. In this pronouns lesson plan, students watch a video and read a book about pronouns. Students review types of pronouns, fill in missing pronouns in sentences, read a newspaper article and find as many pronouns as...
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Food
In this online interactive nouns worksheet, students complete 5 sentences by writing in the names of the picture shown. Students match 7 pictures with the words underneath each one. Students fill in 9 blanks with the nouns that name each...
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Respect, Cooperation
First graders listen to the Rainbow Fish and sing the song We Are Crayons and list. In this respect and cooperation instructional activity, 1st graders answer questions about things that make them special. Students write something...
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Algebra 1 Unit 8 Review
In this math worksheet, high schoolers practice the techniques associated with algebra 1. This 5-page worksheet has many different types of problems for the students to solve.
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Pendemonium: Panic in Paru
Students discover and practice the use of the three types of pronouns. They view and discuss a lighthearted video that describes the proper uses of pronouns. They also participate in a read aloud of the book,"I and You and Don't Forget...
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Brass Instruments
In this music worksheet, students read about the 4 main brass instruments in the orchestra: trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba. Students also write the missing words into 8 sentences.