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My Summer Vacation: Traveling

For Teachers K
A classic lesson idea, kindergarteners share stories about their summer vacations on their first day of school! First, your young learners will listen to you talk about your summer vacation, making sure to use plenty of visual aids. Then...
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Keeping safe from carbon monoxide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research tips on what to do to avoid problems or to recognize dangers if they exist. Find local gas companies and fire department officials who have background in this. Then plan an article telling your readers what they could...
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Learning Log

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
A simple idea, this exercise will help young learners practice metacognitive and language arts skills. At the end of each day of school, have each member of your class record, in their own words, what they learned that day. Merely...
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Special Education Fitness Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Make fitness a part of each and every day. Special Ed young scholars are given charts with maps and record keeping information. They are given a 20-week period (late October to late March, when the weather is cool enough) to walk that...
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Using Aphorisms to Help Dealing with People

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Here's a formal plan for what many effective teachers already do: Provide a week's worth of aphorisms and have learners choose one to write about in their journals each day. They reflect on the meaning of each aphorism and project how it...
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Assumption Reading Comprehension Activity

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Assumption reading comprehension worksheet, learners read a 1 paragraph selection pertaining to St. Mary's feast day and then answer 3 multiple choice questions regarding the information.
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Experience This!

For Teachers 1st
What would you do if you had to go to school all day every day? Tillie tackles this problem in Sharon Creech’s A Fine, Fine School. After a discussion of how Tillie got the principal to change his ways, brainstorm with your class...
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Tracks along the Trail

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify animal tracks outdoors. In this animal life lesson plan, students go outdoors and find several different animal tracks to identify. Students also discuss how animals must adapt in the winter months.
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Rainy Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 3rd
Phonics doesn't always work for everybody. Use this series of rainy day vocabulary words and images to increase your special needs students' sight word vocabulary. Intended for Autistic learners, but useful for any sight reader.
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Friends Meeting on Bicycles

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
It's a great day for a bike ride, but how long will it take? Your learners will have to calculate multiple variables in the problem using scaffolded questioning. Different answer choices are given, but you will need to create the table...
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Using A Calendar

For Students 3rd
In this using a calendar activity, 3rd graders answer 10 multiple choice questions, not interactively about dates on the calendar. Answers are available online.
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Writing the Date

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students identify why a comma is used between the date and the year when writing the date. Then they copy the dates listed and use a comma when necessary.
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Past Presence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine British Black History. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to research the history of Blacks in Great Britain. Several lesson enhancement ideas are included.
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Word Family Arrows

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify correct word families. In this word families educational game, students practice matching words to the correct word family.
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Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners read the several passages about Christopher Columbus. Students answer 4 questions about the text.
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Calendar Activity Set

For Students 2nd - 4th
In these calendar activities worksheets, students view and use a calendar with the days of the week, holiday stickers, months of the year, number squares one to thirty-one, the "Days of the Months" poem, and a calendar research activity....
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Follow the Sun

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students use a simple model of the Earth and Sun as seen from space to explore the sun's apparent movement across the sky over the course of a day and year. They consider the apparent direction of movement and changes in the sun's angle.
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Introduction to Hours & Minutes

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify, interpret, and gain proficiency in using a clock to tell time to the hour and determine how many minutes are in an hour. They identify and list what they do as they travel through their dayand how much time you...
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Pedometer Challenge Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a pedometer challenge as part of their ongoing physical education program. They use the pedometers to measure the number of steps they take over a given amount of time. They are encouraged to set improvement goals.
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Johnny Appleseed Theme Unit: Day 1

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.
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Moon Light Through the Month

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students work in small groups to arrange moon phase cards into the correct sequence. The goal is to circle as many consecutive numbers as possible in two minutes.
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Women's History Month- Eleanor Roosevelt: Verb Corrections

For Students 4th - 5th
For this verb tenses worksheet, students first read a text about Eleanor Roosevelt and circle all of the verb errors. Students write the correct form above each mistake.
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Monthly Cost of Living - Menus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this economics worksheet, middle schoolers plan the meals for the period of one week. The cost for the food is then computed through looking them up on the Internet.
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The History of Thanksgiving Day

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover details about the original Thanksgiving celebration. In this Thanksgiving lesson, students read an article about the topic and respond to questions about it. Students then plan a Thanksgiving celebration.

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