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Art Studio
Students collaborate with their classmates to create a sculpture with the provided materials in order to cultivate fine motor and social skills. In this collaborative art lesson, students work in small groups to design the pedestal and...
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Graphing Linear Inequalities
In this graphing linear inequalities worksheet, students graph 1 linear inequality. Students walk through each step to graphing the inequality and shading the appropriate region on the graph.
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Line Boogie
Young scholars complete an activity to improve their spatial awareness and loco-motor skills. In this spatial and loco-motor skills lesson plan, students pass a beanbag down the line of young scholars.
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Reintroduce /W/
Students are reintroduced to the letter "W" and its sound. In this letter "W" lesson plan, students touch their throat to check their voice box when saying the sound of the letter "W." Students review words that begin with the letter "W"...
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Nicholas Sparks' The Wedding
The romance of The Notebook continues in The Wedding, but with the second generation. Focused on the protagonist Wilson, the novel is a classic story of love and loss. Show how well you recall the characters and sequence of events in...
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A Now Thing: Present Tense Verbs
Present tense verbs are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students review verb tenses, and identify present tense verbs in 22 sentences. Some good, solid practice can be found in this fine worksheet.
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Gwendolyn the Library Fairy
Students read a story. In this rhyming words lesson, students learn what rhyme is, read Gwendolyn the Library Fairy and identify rhyming words.
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Who or Whom? Which Interrogative Pronoun?
Who uses who and whom correctly? Practice this enigmatic interrogative pronoun question with this worksheet set. Middle schoolers read two pages that explain the proper use of "who," "whom," and the five interrogative pronouns. They...
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Wonderfully Wild Unit the four L's of Wildlife
Students appreciate the natural environment. In this "four L's" lesson, students observe, reflect and appreciate unique ecosystems and how they help sustain life. Students create posters with the four L's.
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Breaking News English: Dolphins and Stress
In this dolphins and stress worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Work, Lyddie! Work!
Students research links concerning early factory labor, child labor in today's world, and diseases on young laborers. They work on a loom, analyze a mill bell schedule, read a mill girl's diary, and write a poem or song exhibiting empathy.
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Words with sh, ch, tch, wh
For this blending of consonants worksheet, 4th graders complete a story by filling in sixteen blanks from a spelling list of words with ch/sh/tch/wh. Students find and circle each of their answers in a word search puzzle.
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Creating Historians: Send Them Out
Get teenagers out of the classroom in the pursuit of history; part three of a series on approaching social studies as a group of historians.
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Describe a Journey
Students describe the sensory experience of a character's journey in an essay. In this precise details writing lesson, students explain the effects on the senses of weather, time of day, landscape, and other...
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Participles
In this recognizing participles in sentences worksheet, young scholars read definitions and examples of participle usage, read statements, identify one or two participles, and write the noun or pronoun they modify. Students write 34...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Grandfather's Journey (Say)
Read Allen Say's classic tale Grandfather's Journey as scholars expand their vocabulary in context (note: this strategy could be done with any text). Wondering what words they will learn here? Although you could easily include...
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Using Verbs and Past Participles
In this verb worksheet, students read and discuss a selection about verbs and past participles. Then students complete 18 fill in the blank questions.
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Order of Operations
Seventh graders create a mnemonic device which correctly represents the order of operations. They simplify expressions by correctly following the order of operations. Students present their mnemonic device for the order of operations.
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Hot Stuff
Students investigate mechanical and electrical machines in the classroom and school, and identify which produce heat while operating.
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Reading Comprehension: Two Sisters and a Cat
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read a three paragraph story, "Two Sisters and a Cat", and answer 8 multiple choice questions about the selection.
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Acting Out Verbs
Students act out verbs. In this verbs lesson, students identify and highlight the action words in a poem. As a class, the students act out the verbs, reinforcing the idea that verbs are action words.
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Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers!
Fourth graders investigate invasive plants found in a park or school environment and acknowledge the problems caused by the plants. They describe 4 methods of control of invasive plants.
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THE KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Second graders compare the parliamentary and democratic government in an attentive discussion, make realistic predictions for the story read aloud, use realistic examples in their stories about their life as a king or queen, and...
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Pond 2: Life in a Drop of Pond Water
Students observe organisms found in pond water with a microscope. In groups, they discuss how single-celled organisms satisfy their needs for food, water and air. They compare and contrast the needs of macroscopic and microscopic...