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Royal Wedding Likely to Hurt UK Economy
Fifth graders discuss the royal wedding. In this economy instructional activity, 5th graders take opposite sides of who should pay for the royal wedding, and hold a debate. Students discuss the meaning of debt and do a synonym match.
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Shamrock Puppy
Students create small "Shamrock Puppies" using colored construction paper, crayons, and glue in this pre-Kindergarten lesson celebrating St. Patrick's Day. The lesson includes a resource link where printable patterns can be found.
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Bulletin Board: Eggshell flowers
Pupils "paint" Spring flowers by gluing pieces of dyed, hardboiled eggshells onto outlines of flowers. They display their artwork on a Spring-themed bulletin board.
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"Eggs-perimenting" Fun
Young scholars dissolve salt into water, place an egg into a glass of salt water, observe and record observations, make a scientific hypothesis, summarize what they studied from this hands-on experiment. They share their ideas and...
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Easter Egg Eggstravaganza
Students identify functions and proper use of the computer. They identify secondary colors by mixing primary colors. Students reinforce listening, speaking and following directions by playing a game. They identify the color gold.
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Follow Your Dreams: Career Goals
It is so important for impending high school graduates to start thinking about their potential careers. Here, they discuss the persistence of Blondie Hasler and his impressive transatlantic trip. They follow various routes on a map and...
Project Food, Land & People
Loco for Cocoa
Students create a time line and map about how chocolate traveled the world. In this chocolate lesson plan, students also create and taste chocolate.
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Spring Egg
First graders create a spring egg out of pastels, construction paper and glue, create and continue a pattern, and experience a different type of art media.
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ESL/ELD: Learning about Ash Wednesday
An overview of the history and tradition of Ash Wednesday in 2 paragraphs is accompanied by an array of language activities: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group presentation,...
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Movement
Students experiment and explore a variety of instruments and movements. They play rhythms on instruments, spell words using their bodies, act out the movements of a song, role-play machine parts as a group, pantomime an activity, and...
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Expressive Linear Sculpture
Students develop skill in utilizing line in a 3 dimensional context. They explore a variety of techniques for mounting sculptures to a base.
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Spring Egg
Students create their spring egg out of construction paper. They design and complete a pattern on their egg made of pastel colors. They share their egg design with the class.
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Creative Position Word Center Activity
Students use positional words to describe the location of objects and demonstrate the ability to follow multi-step oral directions. Seasonal shapes are decorated in relation to the directions and positions stated by the positional word.
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Message to Mother
First graders write sentences to their mothers and include them Mother's Day gifts made with paper cups, a balloon and newspaper.
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State Heads
Students create a narrative image that depicts a formal shape of a state. They review the state facts of whatever state they chose. They draw a person and then add text in the shape of the state they chose.
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PEBBLE PICTURES
Students paint pebbles to look like people, fish, butterflies, or birds. They glue to a background.
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Muffin Flowers
Students use construction paper to create muffin flowers. They use muffin tray cup liners and draw flower stems and leaves on the paper. They use the muffin liners for a 3-D effect.
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Easter Egg Math
First graders apply logic and reasoning skills to solve math word problems. Using four colored paper eggs and four names, they try to soilve the logic puzzle by matching a name with a favorite color. Students check their answers on the...
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Painting in Pink and Red
Young scholars mix red and white to make different hues. In this color mixing lesson plan, students make a Valentine's Day project with a variety of shades of red and pink. They find the ratio of red and white and the color it creates.
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Probability and Spinning the Dreidel
Seventh graders study the term probability. In this Math lesson, 7th graders practice their probability skills by spinning a dreidel. Students complete a worksheet on probability.
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Word Family Arrows
Young scholars identify correct word families. In this word families educational game, students practice matching words to the correct word family.
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Ready, Set, Read!
Young scholars practice reading fluency and reading with expression. They develop reading fluency using timed reading. Students read "Arthur's Reading Race" and record how far they read in one minute. They repeat the reading in order to...
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Festivals
Young scholars investigate Festivals and invent a new one, and write a short review of it.