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Sounds Like Science-Guitars
Students demonstrate the relationship between a sound and its frequency. In this sound and frequency activity, students use an old tennis racket and nylon fishing line to create a guitar. Students observe the pitch and frequency.
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Writing a poem
Students imagine themselves someplace -- the beach, a mountain top, a city street -- anywhere.
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Imagery Lesson Plan
Learners are introduced to the term imagery. Individually, they read "The Dream Deferred" and note examples of imagery in the poem. To end the lesson, they write their own poem making sure to use the five components of imagery.
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M is Magical
Students recognize the phoneme /m/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /m/ from other letters and phonemes. They associate /m/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme in various...
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Writing Sentences
In these sentence writing worksheets, students complete the packet of sentence writing activities to help them learn how to write complete sentences.
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The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
Students examine how Stephen Crane treats the process by which a youth matures in his novel the Red Badge of Courage. They study how he exemplifies manly virtues associated with soldiers in war and examine the three endings that were...
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Imagination Express
Students create an artistic response to the book, The Polar Express. In this creative writing lesson, students read the book and visualize an imaginary journey they would like to go on. Students create a train car from construction paper...
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The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
Students provide examples of Crane's treatment of the "manly virtues" associated with war using support from the text of The Red Badge of Courage. They describe the three published endings of The Red Badge of Courage and the difference...
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ESL Error Correction and Editing Worksheet- Extra Words in The Text
In this ESL error correction/editing activity, students examine a piece of text about human cloning to locate the extra words. They remove the extra words to show an understanding of the structural and lexical forms of text. There is an...
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Visual Learning: Gone Fishing
Students complete visual learning activities using a photograph of a fisherman. In this photograph analysis lesson, students analyze the photograph and the facts within the picture. Students read a quote and caption for the photograph...
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Music and Technology
Young scholars analyze the lyrics, instruments, sounds and technology from the song "Vertigo" by U2. They view a video presenting interviews with the band and complete a stage design for the live playing of the song.
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Introduction to Immigration
Students read and discuss selected library resources about students and immigration.
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Why Thank You!
Fifth graders listen to a read aloud of Patricia Polacco's, Thank You, Mr. Falker! students examine the use of voice in the book, discuss the writing and theme ideas. They write a thank you not to their hero.
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It's Time for a Rhyme
Learners listen to the story, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, by Dr. Seuss. They discuss the rhyming in the book and then play a rhyming game.
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Is that a Fact? Reading the Newspaper
Fourth graders are given a newspaper article. They predict the content based on the title, read and chart fact and opinion statements, and conclude by summarizing the article. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their...
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Fairness
Students distinguish between that which is fair and that which is unfair. They offer solutions as to how to remedy a seemingly unfair situation. They also engage in a role play situation and offer solutions.
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The Sound Monster - Words That Make Sounds
Pupils watch as the teacher makes sounds with her hands. They think of a word to describe the sound. Students discuss the way the word sounds like the sound. They complete the "The Sound Monster Activity." Pupils are told that the...
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Writing Bug- Let it Snow- Writing Prompt Worksheet
In this writing worksheet, students write an essay that describes what it is like to be in an area of the world where it snows in the winter. They write the essay from the point of view of educating someone who has never seen snow before.
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Types of Sentences
For this grammar worksheet, students identify twenty sentences as correct as is, fragments, contains a comma splice or is a fused sentence.
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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King
In this reading worksheet, students respond to the book Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by completing an activity at home with a parent. Students cut out 3 pictures of scenes depicted in the book. A parent reads a description of an...
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Working With Words: Configuration Station (3 or 4 Letter Words)
In this word configuration puzzle worksheet, students analyze 12 commonly used Dolch words and fit them into a word configuration puzzle.
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Reading Comprehension Volume 5, Number 11 : Campaign Finance Reform
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a text about campaign finance reform. Students fill in the missing words with choices from a word bank.
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Standards Focus: Recognizing Vivid Details, Of Mice and Men
In this recognizing details worksheet, students read 3 excerpts from chapter 3 of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, underlining each word that evokes some sensory stimulation (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). Students also respond to...
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Teaching in a Time of Crisis
Students react to the current financial crisis. In this community building lesson, students are given the opportunity to voice their thoughts and feelings on the current financial crisis in the safety of a classroom meeting.