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Zen and the Design of Homework Desks

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate zen. For this design lesson, students use ideas from zen to create a study area. Students understand how different environments affect work habits. Students research how students in other countries study and write...
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Learning about air

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners read a book and have a class discussion about the air around them. In this air lesson plan, students learn about properties of air, and discuss other gases they have observed.
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Picture Matching

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students match the word that goes with the picture and then circle or write the word completely. The sheet helps to build vocabulary.
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Vocabulary Building: "ai" Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this identifying words spelled with "ai" worksheet, students use definition clues, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words main, hail, straight, trailer, remain, railroad, and maintenance. Students write twenty-one...
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Vocabulary Building: Final-e Rule

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words with the final-e spelling worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words name, home, here, like, and some. Students write fifteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Fine-e Rule 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, learners write words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words five, gave, take, came, and come. Students write fifteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Words with "OR"

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this spelling words with the "or" pattern worksheet, students write words using definition clues, unscramble letters, and write sentences using the words or, for, more, before, and color. Students write fifteen short answers.
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"Building a Word Wall" Roots - The Foundation of Language

For Teachers 6th
Students probe the impact of Greek and Latin on the English language in this ten lesson unit. Root words are analyzed for their origins and displayed on a word wall. Inventions are created using the words and placed in a class museum.
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Vocabulary Words: ar words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words spelled with "ar" activity, students write the words from dictation, unscramble letters, and create sentences using the words are, car, far, dark, and orange. Students write fifteen answer.
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Vocabulary Building: AR and UR Words 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words spelled with "ar" and "ur" worksheet, students spell from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words March, market, marble, farther, further, and burnt. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: Final -E Rule 3

For Students 2nd
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, 2nd graders spell from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words scale, airplane, froze, hole, whole, and awhile. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: One Consonant Rule 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words with one consonant worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words lazy, safety, recess, below, using, and receive. Students write eighteen answers.
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Vocabulary Building: -aw, -au Words 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing -aw and -au words worksheet, students write from dictation, unscramble, and create sentences using the words paw, straw, August, taught, law, and crawl. Students write eighteen answers.
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Build a Hawaiian Bird

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders make a model of a bird.  For this animal adaptations lesson, 5th graders examine how birds adapt to their environment, using Hawaiian birds as an example. Students create their own bird using adaptation paper cut outs then...
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Vocabulary Building: Long Vowels III

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words with long vowel pronunciations, students write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words April, December, November, height, idea, and able. Students complete...
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Vocabulary Building: One Consonant Rule III

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words spelled with the one consonant rule worksheet, learners write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words tiger, motor, student, locate, lately, and writer. Students...
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Vocabulary Building: Long Vowels III

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In the recognizing words pronounced with long vowels worksheet, students write the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words June, July, May, break, library, and knee. Students complete eighteen...
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Vocabulary Building: Final-e Rule III

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words spelled with the final-e rule worksheet, students spell the words from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words pipe, mule, skate, care, size, and wise. Students complete...
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Vocabulary Building: Short e Words III

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recognizing words with short e instructional activity, students write them from dictation, unscramble their letters, and create sentences using the words dent, kettle, excellent, cent, ready, and heavy. Students complete eighteen...
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Building A Resume

For Teachers 10th - 12th
After a brief lecture on the purpose and components of a resume, young scholars fill in a blank reusme according to the type of job they would like to apply for. They compare their resume to the job they currently hold. Students look...
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Building Bridges for Young Learners- School

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars examine the purpose of education.  In this schooling lesson, students read a letter from a child in Uzbekistan. Young scholars compare and contrast their schooling to children around the world.
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Writing and Scholarship Planning For College-Bound Students: Overcome Writer's Block

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine methods for overcoming writer's block. They complete a worksheet, write personal statements, and participate in a class discussion.
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Vocabulary Building - Brainstorming

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students learn new vocabulary words in ways that are fun and enriching. They brainstorm lists of words to be used in sentences, stories, or conversations.
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Buildings, Buildings Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain awareness of shapes in architecture by creating a painting of their school and writing a reflective summary of their study of architecture.