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Activity
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Nuts About Squirrels

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Early childhood students will develop listening skills as they read "Nuts To You" by Lois Ehlert. In this lesson students will learn about Students will learn facts about different types of squirrels and their behaviors. There will be a...
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Lesson Plan
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Alphabet Letter a Or N Theme

For Teachers All
Students draw a tree with acorns. They depict roots and an acorn in the soil to review plant growth and practice handwriting letter A or letter N in the writing lines. They cut an additional page for the mini-book to include the word...
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Worksheet
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Acorn in the Tree

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this maze worksheet, students complete a maze where they help a squirrel get through the tree to find the acorn. Students complete 1 maze total.
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Lesson Plan
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Decorating the camp cabin

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make a decoration for their camp cabin out of materials found outside. In this decoration lesson plan, students use twigs, twine, glue, an acorn, and a penny to make a cabin creation.
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Worksheet
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Color the Happy Acorns

For Students Pre-K - K
In this art activity, students color the biggest acorn brown and the smallest acorn orange. Then they color the middle size acorn yellow.
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Lesson Plan
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Autumn Season

For Teachers All
Students explore a nut theme for the autumn season. They assemble one acorn craft and use as a puppet for the introduction and presentation of the theme. They plan for a classroom bulletin board idea that incorporates the acorn craft.
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Lesson Plan
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Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow

For Teachers All
Pupils assemble an acorn craft to use as a puppet. They discover that acorns are the fruit and the seed from which oak trees grow. They give an example, of a historical figure or talk about a member of the community or family that...
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Lesson Plan
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Acorn Craft

For Teachers All
Students create an Acorn craft. They practice counting the template pieces and color the templates (mainly browns and autumn color for the oak leaf). They save the small image in the template to insert in the alphabet mini-books.
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Worksheet
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Trees

For Students 6th - 8th
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to types of trees. There are 52 earth science terms located in the word search.
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Worksheet
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Vowels

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this grammar worksheet, students read ten sentences where the vowel is missing in some of the words. They put the correct vowel in the space to make each sentence make sense. Students also identify whether each word is a short or long...
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Interactive
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University of Illinois Extension: Trees Are Terrific

For Students 3rd - 6th
What is a tree? Site asks users to travel along with Pierre to find out.
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Graphic
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Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Acorn

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Drawing of an acorn.