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Number Line Math

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use a number line to practice subtraction.  In this subtraction lesson, 2nd graders use a number line to count backwards.  Students participate in mad math activities and solve problems.
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Free Verse

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students write free verse poems. In this poetry lesson, students use a three-step method to create a free verse poem. Students brainstorm ideas, let their ideas "incubate," and write a free verse poem.
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Nervous System: Our Sense of Self

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners analyze the effects of damage to the nervous system by examining four fictitious patient cases. They discuss one case together and then individually write essays about the remaining cases
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The Miracle Fish: Learning to Design an Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop procedures to explore the behavior of fish.  In this scientific experiment instructional activity students from a hypothesis, write a question, identify different variables and controls in their experiment. 
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Meba Math (K-1)

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners work with counters and math mats to demonstrate number concepts. In this number concept lesson, students use cubes and configuration cards to show more or less than given numbers.
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Geometry Flip Book

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concepts of geometry that can be grouped into a flip book that can be used for teaching and review purposes. They define the differences between two and three dimensional figures. Also polygons are reviewed and...
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The Senses: Hearing and Sight

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders consider how they use their senses. In this biology lesson plan, 8th graders understand the definition of a disability and how it affects Americans who are hearing impaired or deaf, and those Americans who are visually...
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Hailstones & Halibut Bones: Using Color to Teach Adjectives

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students write a color poem with a color, a noun, and their two adjectives in each line. They can start each line with the color or the noun, as long as the adjectives are put where they make sense.
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Change a Digit

For Students 2nd
In this tens and ones worksheet, 2nd graders add 4 math problems together and write the sums using 10s and 1s models as shown. Students change a digit in 2 math problems from 1 number to another number in the blanks provided.
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Writing Fiction lesson plan

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students compose a opening paragraph that sets the scene and foreshadows events. In this writing fiction lesson, students write an opening paragraph about a mugging and describe the scene in a way that foreshadows something bad is...
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Math Review

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math review worksheet, students respond to 16 questions that serve as a review of fractions, decimals, patterns, number sense, properties, story problems, and computation.
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Guess Again!

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this number sense activity, students solve 8 story problems in which clues are given for the ages of a group of people. Students figure out the age of each person in the story.
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One Word Substitution 22

For Students 7th - 9th
In this online interactive vocabulary skills learning exercise, students match the 10 vocabulary terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Student Autobiography: An Approach Through Journal Writing

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students write about an ordinary, everyday happening such as riding in the family car, preparing for school in the morning, doing the wash, shooting a foul shot or sitting in English class. They look at how he/she spends time during the...
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Configuration Station #21

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students analyze 5 commonly used words and complete 30 questions which reinforce understanding of these words. Included are word search, crossword, sentence writing, and rhymes.
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Configuration Station #12

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students study 5 commonly used words and complete 30 questions. Included are sentence writing, alphabetizing, word puzzles, opposites and illustrating.
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configuration station #17

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students study 5 commonly used words in a word bank. Students complete 30 varied questions and activities with these words.
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Number Sense

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice rounding 4 digit numbers using place value concepts. In this estimating sums and differences lesson, 1st graders explore clustering, rounding, and front end estimation as methods for rounding decimals.
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The Sound Monster - Words That Make Sounds

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students watch as the teacher makes sounds with her hands. They think of a word to describe the sound. Students discuss the way the word sounds like the sound. They complete the "The Sound Monster Activity." Students are told that...
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Exploring The Everglades

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders apply basic Internet navigation and computer skills to complete a scavenger hunt about the Everglades, after reading the book, Everglades, by Jean Craighead George.
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POP! Goes the Popcorn!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils complete a variety of activities based on examining corn and popcorn as one of the major crops of Kansas. They journal the results of the multidisciplinary activities in this unit.
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Recipe Card

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students devise a recipe for snack mix using four of the given ingredients. They use one cup measuring cups to mix the four ingredients in plastic zipper bags. Next, they write their ingredients on a recipe card, and as a class they...
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Self-Image: The Fantasy, The Reality

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the issue of body image and the media. They watch and discuss a video, identify ads with unrealistic images, write a letter to the magazine, develop a timeline of changing body types, and conduct research.
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Beatrix Potter and Alliteration

For Students 5th - 7th
In this creative writing worksheet, students utilize a variety of strategies to creatively write alliterations, tongue twisters, similes and finally an acrostic poem.