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Configuration Station
Here is a unique configuration station worksheet which invites learners to complete thirty questions involving a variety of activities with the eight parts of speech and grammar rules.
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Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 10: Overview
Third graders use strips of paper to find equivalent fractions. They will fold paper into thirds and shade 2/3 of the paper. Then fold the same paper in six parts and predict how many parts will be shaded. They will repeat again folding...
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A Step Back in Time
Fifth graders study the Civil War, discuss the life and policy decisions of Abraham Lincoln and the concepts/issues that developed to create North vs. South. This lesson is meant to be used before visiting Ford's Theatre.
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The Little Prince: Venn Diagram Exercise
Compare and contrast your learners' traits to the characters in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Éxupery. After they complete a Venn diagram comparing themselves to a peer, kids create a three-part Venn diagram to compare themselves...
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Fun With Sorting and Classifying
Using a variety of activities, kindergartners explore sorting and classification. Learners engage in an online sorting activity, read books involving classification, and create their own class book. This is a marvelousway to explore this...
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Forest Poetry
Students explore nature by participating in a poetry writing activity. In this forest investigation lesson, students identify images and feelings they experienced while they were in a forest on a class trip. Students identify poetry...
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Spelling Success: correct spelling
Fourth graders circle the word in each row that is spelled correctly. In this spelling lesson plan, 4th graders read four words in each row and circle the correct one.
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Fun with Shapes
Young mathematicians identify shapes and their correct names. They work with partners using various manipulatives and computer software to reinforce the concept. I really like these lesson plans. They are well-designed, the procedures...
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Some Like it Cold: Canada's Northern Communities
Fifth graders examine cultures close to the arctic circle. In this geography lesson, 5th graders consider the impact of climate on cultural development of arctic communities. Students research a given community and present their findings...
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment
Relationships and Sexuality
Adolescence is a tumultuous time for the learners in your class. Guide them through the rocky world of friendships, risks, personal health, and emotional turmoil with a set of lessons about teenager relationships and sexuality.
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
A Classroom Solar System
Create a scaled model of our solar system in your classroom! Scholars work collaboratively to build paper mache planets and hang them in their proper position to showcase each planet's location in the solar system.
NOAA
A Laboratory Simulation of Ocean Surface Currents
Stimulate interest in ocean currents with a simulation. The first installment of a five-part middle school series teaches future oceanographers about the forces that interact to cause ocean currents. A simulation shows how wind and the...
Macmillan Education
Self/Social
Body language, our perception of others, and how to make a better impression socially are the focus topics for this lesson, which is part of a 23-lesson series on building important life skills. Learners complete a questionnaire on...
Perkins School for the Blind
What Would You Do If...?
What would you do if...? That's a great question, and, when posed to learners with visual impairments, a question that can foster concept development and speaking and problem-solving skills that relate to real-life situations. The...
ESL Kid Stuff
Toys
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
Name Parts of a Computer and Terms for Interface Elements
Familiarize your young learners with the parts of a computer and some basic key terms relating to technology. As the teacher demonstrates using an LCD projector, class members practice moving a mouse, opening the Internet, typing in a...
University of Minnesota
Fraction Operations and Initial Decimal Ideas
Add another strategy to the toolboxes of young mathematicians with this elementary math lesson on using number lines to add and subtract fractions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
American Stories: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 2)
Here's a packet designed especially for those kids who need extra support with the basic concepts in the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt thematic units on American stories.
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Pattern Puzzlers
Students identify triangles, circles, and squares, then show their understanding of patterns by continuing a pattern that contains three different elements. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to practice using these shapes.
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We're Building Bridges to School Readiness!
Students participate in the activities their teaching initiates from the packet for classroom behavior, social skills, and learning environments.
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Polygon People
Students identify polygons. In this polygon people lesson plan, students draw required shapes and construct a polygon person. They identify each shape and its characteristics. The lesson plan may be extended by allowing students to...
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Everyday Objects with Shapes
Students explore geometric shapes. In this geometry and language development lesson, students take a walk and look for shapes in the objects outdoors. Students match each of four individual paper shapes they are carrying with the...
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Introductory Lesson- Patterns
First graders explore patterns in mathematical context. In this patterns lesson, 1st graders inspect patterns shown to them, copy patterns, complete patterns and create patterns of their own. These patterns are shown by actions, drawing,...
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Seasons--Autumn (fall)
As part of a discussion of seasonal words, class members identify words relating to autumn and then identify the language used to describe what happens during this time of year.