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Simple Machines

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize simple machines in their environment, create a picture of a simple machine using KidPix Software, and appropriately name and identify the type of simple machine that they have created using their keyboard.
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Awesome Adjectives Postcards!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners create a postcard by illustrating a place they would like to visit and using ten adjectives in a short message describing the pictures.
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Using a Writing Prompt

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the writing process. They practice responding to a writing prompt. Students practice their proofreading skills and proofread their writing. They include a beginning, middle, and ending in their writing.
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Responding to a Writing Prompt

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the writing and proofreading process. They practice responding to a writing prompt. Students write three paragraphs about the given prompt and proofread their work.
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Animal Facts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders list five facts about an assigned animal, and complete a bird beak activity, using pliers, blunt pencils, forceps, clothespins, and a spoon that represent different types of beaks; students complete chart showing best type...
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Oy!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice saying and identifing the sounds "oi" and "oy'. They review the rules for saying two vowels that appear next to one another. They create illustrations for objects having those sounds.
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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
Students 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...
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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
Young scholars 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
Students 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 photos....
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ESL Holiday Activity-New Year's Day

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL holiday worksheet, students 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
Students 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
Pupils 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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