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Describe My City

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the functions of cities by creating a visual image of their own neighborhood. Students diagram, list, and label the major businesses and cultural areas of the neighborhood where they grew up, then write a letter to a...
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FDR's Fireside Chats: The Power of Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats. In this presidential history lesson, students listen to the radio broadcasts of select FDR Fireside Chats. Students analyze the effectiveness of his messages to the public as well...
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Photo Link

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write correct letters to their pen pals and improve their grammar, handwriting, capitalization, punctuation, and ability to construct complete sentences.
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Fuzz Gets an Unpleasant Buzz

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Bears on Bicycles

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this letter B worksheet, students read a poem about bears on bicycles. Students count the number of words that begin with letter B.
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Phonograms

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this phonics instructional activity, students answer 6 questions in which the given sound is circled in all of the words in a sentence. Students draw a picture about each sentence.
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The "M" Sound: Man, Milk, Monkey

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn the beginning consonant sound of letter M by writing 3 words: man, milk and monkey. Students write these words 2 times and then draw a picture of a man and a monkey.
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Vocab-u-lous! Build a Fabulous Vocab: Words Beginning with Q

For Students 10th - 11th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students select the word that best completes the sentence. They are challenged by the difficult words that begin with "q."
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Stay Focused on Long Division

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students utilize a checklist in order to help them stay focused on long division problems.
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PBL Pathways

Cell Phones

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Calling all subscribers! Model revenue based on individual cell phone subscribers. The project-based learning activity presents a challenge to scholars from a cell phone company. Individuals model data provided to them from the company...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Isolating, Move and Tell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with this fun game focused on isolating and identifying medial phonemes. This game board contains an image on each square; when the child lands on a square, they must say the medial sound of the word they...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Alabama's New South Era

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The industrialization and urbanization of Alabama during the New South era (1865-1914) is the focus of a lesson that asks class members to use primary source documents to examine the impact of industrialization on Alabama workers and...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

How Would You Feel? The Bravery of Civil Disobedience

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As part of their study of the US Civil Rights Movement and the Montgomery bus boycott, class members read Dr. Martin Luther King's "Integrated Bus Suggestions." They then craft a short story about the first week of Montgomery bus...
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The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie: A Close Reading

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Andrew Carnegie's "The Gospel of Wealth" provides high schoolers an opportunity to engage more complex text. After a close reading of the essay and an analysis of Carnegie's argument that the rich are superior because they earn money,...
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Fort Sumter Reading Comprehension

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
The Battle of Fort Sumter was both the first and the least deadly battle of the American Civil War, with no soldiers lost during the lengthy bombardment. Learn more about the first shots of the Civil War with a short reading passage and...
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Notes on Romeo and Juliet – Act 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If your purpose in using Romeo and Juliet with your classes is to share enjoyment rather than to just read the play by rote, come and inspect these materials designed for the scenes in Act II of Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers.
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Funky Illuminated Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a nameplate and an original fairy tale book using an illuminated manuscript format. They create a personal nameplate using a decorated or historiated initial, a border, and illuminations.
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Funky Illuminated Fairy Tales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a nameplate and an original fairy tale book using an illuminated manuscript format. In this fairy tale lesson plan, students will explain styles and techniques of illuminated manuscripts. They will also create a personal...
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Making Words

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders spell words and define homophone.  In this making words lesson plan, 3rd graders decipher words from letter strips in an effort to identify the "secret word". Students use a set of letters to spell different words. 
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Animal Alphabet

For Teachers K
Students make a class animal book using the letters of the alphabet. They use a website imbedded in this plan to get pages with animals that begin with any of the 26 letters.
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Dear Abby or Dear Ann

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students practice their writing skills by composing an opinion letter in response to a topic identified by a writer to Dear Abby or Dear Ann Landers. Effective communication skills form the basis of this lesson.
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Up, Up and Away With Fluency

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they complete a timed assessment of their...
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Where's My Name?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify their name in print by picking it out of the group and attaching it to a picture of themselves. In this name lesson plan, students use print letters to focus on and identify their own name.
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ABC DETECTIVES

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students alphabetize words according to the first letter while pretending to be detectives with magnifying glasses. They also work on their social skills and character development when working with their teams and partners.

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