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World-Water Hero
Students make up a superhero. In this water quality lesson, students create a superhero with super powers that can improve water quality and availability.
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Model Multiplication
In this multiplication practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to use models to multiply.
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Health Education: Childhood Diseases and Health Issues
Fourth graders research childhood diseases and health conditions. In this personal health lesson plan, 4th graders identify problems associated with and measures to control common childhood diseases or conditions such as asthma,...
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Superheroes
Learners, in groups, brainstorm what they know about superheroes. They examine their powers and how they became a superhero. They read handouts and answer questions to test for comprehension.
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Ladybird Addition
In this addition instructional activity, students solve 6 problems in which single digit numbers on each side of the ladybug's body are added. The spots help students count.
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Rename to Subtract
In this subtraction of fractions practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require renaming.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Draw a Picture: Practice
For this fraction drawing worksheet, students read the fraction word problems. Students then draw a picture to help them solve the word problem.
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Problem-Solving Application: Use a Graph
In this problem solving learning exercise, 6th graders use the problem solving steps of understand, plan, solve and look back to answer a graphing question.
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World-Water Hero
Students explore why clean water is essential. In this environmental lesson, students identify the "powers" we need to improve the quality of water. Students share their descriptions of world-water superheroes.
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Heritage: Famous People of the West
Fourth graders investigate the impact of Brigham Young and Jim Bridger on westward expansion. They conduct research, develop a class information chart, and create a cartoon strip depicting what happened when Jim Bridger and Brigham Young...
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Technology Integration Lesson Plan
Eighth graders research a novel and provide a summary of the story. They relate this information to their lives and evaluate the positives and negatives of the American Revolution. Groups create a PowerPoint presentation on their findings.
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Dictation: Violence
In this dictation worksheet about violence, students take dictation from a passage about violence.
National Library of France
National Library of France: Comics Before Comics
A must for fans of comic books. Online exhibit examines the ancestors of comic books.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
Contains plans for two lessons that provide an alternative to the traditional book report: using comic strips and cartoon squares to respond to a written text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Hooking Struggling Readers: Using Books They Can and Want to Read
One of the keys to helping struggling readers is to provide them with books that they can and want to read. Fiction for struggling readers must have realistic characters, readable and convincing text, and a sense of the readers'...
University of South Florida
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Lit2 Go: Barnum: Squinty, the Comical Pig
This resource presents the text of Richard Barnum's children's story, "Squinty, the Comical Pig." The text can be read online or downloaded by individual chapters in MP3 or PDF format. In addition, each chapter has downloadable support...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel retells...
Children's Books Online
Children's Books Online: The Comical Cruises of Captain Cooky
"The Comical Cruises of Captain Cooky", published in 1926 by Royal Baking Powder Co., has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 34 page book is appropriate for early readers.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Comic Alphabet of Animals by Call & Inglis
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Comic Alphabet of Animals by Call & Inglis (c1875), a collection of illustrated alphabet rhymes.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Books and Writing: Joseph Heller
This site from the Australian Broadcasting Company provides the transcript of an interview with author Joseph Heller, who wrote Catch 22. He answers questions about his books Catch 22 and Now and Then and about his view on life. Excerpts...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
This is the complete text of the novel Love Among the Chickens by P.G. Wodehouse.
Ohio State University
Huron's Review of C. Krumhansl's Cognitive Foundations
This book review clearly states in the first paragraph what is not included as part of the text. The book centers its content around the "perception of key." The author is known for her "probe-tone" method, which is defined. For a book...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Sarah Martin
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog by Sarah Martin (1888). This is an illustrated version of the "Old Mother Hubbard" nursery rhyme.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Legends for Lionel by Walter Crane
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Legends for Lionel by Walter Crane (1887), a book of sketches with a story.