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Reading Without Seeing: Louis Braille and the Braille Alphabet

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students study Louis Braille and the history of the Braille alphabet. They participate in an activity using the sense of touch to determine how the Braille alphabet works.
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Interesting Idioms

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils are introduced to the topic of idioms in figurative speech. Using the definition of idioms, they use literature to view examples. They identify idioms in different forms of writing and practice using them in speech. ESL classrooms...
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Read Aloud/ Narrative Analysis

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read passages of Koya's Cousin Del before answering questions in a discussion setting. They listen to a variety of musical pieces before detailing how the music makes them feel in a short piece of writing. They share their...
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Think Positive!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are read a story in which they identify the positive and negative thinking. In groups, they are given a scenerio in which they change the negatives into a positive. They perform the scenerio to tthe class and discuss how...
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Of Maps and Worldviews

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Ptolemy's world map as an expression of the Renaissance view of the world.
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What's the Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a narrative story from an image taken by a classmate. Each student takes and downloads a digital picture containing some sort of interesting action. They print and exchange photographs without discussing the...
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ESL Holiday Activity-New Year's Day

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL holiday worksheet, learners read 2 paragraphs about New Year's Day, then complete matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, event ordering, scrambled sentence, and questioning and writing activities related to the article.
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The Feast of Ramadan

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore origins of Islamic religion, the faith of Muslims, and examine traditions of the feast of Ramadan.
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Cool Word Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students practice using new vocabulary by putting a picture with the new word. They also write the definitions of the new words. They use the pictures to create a clue in which others can practice the new words.
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read "Green Eggs and Ham" in celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and visit a storymaker website. Students create and type a three scene story using characters from Dr. Seuss's books and share their story with the class.
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Pronouns

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this pronouns worksheet, student take 3 tests where they click on the pronouns in each sentence. Students do this for 3 sentences.
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Commemorative Coin Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils discuss and research an individual or event that has been memorialized on a commemorative coin. They use the information they found to write acrostics, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.
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Famous Person: Benjamin Banneker

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explain the main events in Benjamin Banneker's life and his contributions to society. They gain an appreciation for Benjamin Banneker's inventive ability to reproduce a clock as well as his determination in teaching himself...
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Tattercoats

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read the English folktale, "Tattercoats," identify basic literary terms, and respond to writing prompts. They compare and contrast with another Cinderella story version and create a graphic response to the story.
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Inventions Research Reports

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders reserach inventions and create a report on a specific invention.
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Folktale Unit: Johnny Appleseed

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a shared reading of Steven Kellogg's, Johnny Appleseed and discuss the meaning of folktales and legends. They watch a video of the same story for comparison purposes. They journal about their favorite folktale and...
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Family History

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students research information about their family history, record the information and create some sort of family tree. Then they present it orally to the class.
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Water Table

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners predict from a rock sample whether a water well could be drilled in that type of rock. They predict what conditons would be necessary for the well to produce water.
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Fractured Fairy Tales

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use familiar characters, plots, and settings from traditional fairy tales to create "fractured" versions, while experimenting with satire, irony and parody. A fractured fairy tale is designed to be humorous by changing the story...
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Give a Hoot - Don't Pollute at Black Bayou Lake

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders visit Black Bayou Lake refuge to observe the effects of land and water pollution. They photograph examples of pollution. They list the effects of land and water pollution. They write a persuasive letter to convince others...
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Weather Predictions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students record weather data and create a five day forecast. Students investigate the roles of meteorologists and identify symbols used on a weather map. After gathering weather data for a week, students will create a five day forecast...
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Reference Materials

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss reasons to use reference materials, identify correct reference material to use for specific information, find answers to specific questions by locating information in encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, almanac, glossary,...
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Vowels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils discover that every word needs a vowel. They solve word puzzles using vowels. They complete worksheet by replacing the vowels in well-known proverbs. They create their own puzzles by removing vowels from selcted proverbs and phrases.
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Titanic

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Pupils conduct research with the purpose of writing a report about the Titanic. They use a variety of resources. The students produce a written document that has plenty of documented information. They also compare the information that is...

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