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Eclipse Classroom Activities: Cultural Significance Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
What better way to celebrate eclipses than across cultures? Explore myths of solar and lunar eclipses from ancient cultures like the Chinese, Ancient Greek, Mesoamerican, Incan, Egyptian, Ancient Babylonian, and Middle Eastern. Learners...
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Institute for Humane Education

Where Are the People like Me?

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Are some characteristics more desired than others?Scholars examine attributes of characters in books, models in catalogs, and articles in magazines. Discussion leads to identifying characteristics they see more often as well as...
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Curated OER

Purim, Esther, and Bella Abzug: Wearing Costumes and Choosing Roles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore the story of Bella Abzug and her role as a 1940s office worker. Collaborative learners work in groups to tell the biblical story of Esther and add details as each member participates. Comparing and contrasting the roles of Esther...
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Clothes World: Beginning ESL lesson

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Take a tour around the world with this ESL presentation about international clothes. From South African tribal wear to Scottish kilts, your English learners will appreciate the vivid pictures and clear country labels for each slide. The...
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Curated OER

Much Ado About Nothing: Guided Imagery Exercise

For Teachers 12th
“Be glad that all things sort so well.” To make text-to-self connections to Shakespeare’s play, class members engage in a guided imagery exercise prior to reading Act IV, scene i of Much Ado About Nothing (the wedding of Claudio and...
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Written and Oral English language conventions: Independent Practice

For Students 5th - 7th
Sit or sat? Passed or past? Assess your pupils’ mastery of verb usage with 10 multiple choice questions. Learners must select the correct sentence from the listed four options.
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Written and Oral English Language Conventions: Independent Practice

For Students 6th - 8th
Sit/set, past/passed, except/accept, rise/raise, lie/lay. Are some of your pupils still misusing these verbs? Here are 10 multiple choice prompts that will provide them with extra practice. The activity could be used in class or as...
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Guess Who's Coming to Our Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use their research skills to determine the famous person given in clues. Using a character recently dicussed in their classroom, they discuss how they would create a costume for them. They write sentences to be used as dialogue...
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Novelinks

Count of Monte Cristo: Professor Know‐It‐All

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Kids love to be the experts! With four themes from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, small groups work together to answer specific questions addressing each theme. They then stand in front of the class and field questions...
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Curated OER

Lady Bug Connect the Dots

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Ladybug Girl instructional activity, students connect the dots, sequence plant growth, circle things to eat, and more. Students complete 6 activities.
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Telling Stories About Ourselves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover how visual images communicate meaning. They create costumes that tell personal stories and perform dances wearing the costumes.
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Curated OER

Help! I'm Trapped in a Vampire Body Multiple Choice Quiz

For Teachers 5th
In this literature based multiple choice worksheet, 5th graders answer 10 questions based on the book, Help! I'm Trapped in a Vampire's Body by Todd Strasser.
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Teach-nology

Mike, Mike Motorbike

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
If your kids like motorcycles and dirt bikes, they'll enjoy reading about Mike and his daredevil tricks. After reviewing eight words in a word bank, they fill in the blanks throughout the short passage using context clues.
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I'm Thumbody!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write positive statements about themselves. They brainstorm ideas of what a positive thinker looks like and sounds like. Students compare and contrast positive and negative thinking. They complete a worksheet. Students...
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Safety And Water Safety

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the concept of safety in and out of the water. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students focus upon the role of police officers in the keeping of safety and then discuss the different types of...
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The Melbourne Cup- the Horse Race That Stops the Nation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this Melbourne Cup reading comprehension worksheet, learners read an article about this famous horse race. Students answer 5 comprehension questions.
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James and the Giant Peach

For Students 4th - 7th
This James and the Giant Peach worksheet provides 15 short answer questions and extension activities. They address characterization, basic reading comprehension, making personal connections to the reading, and more. The formatting is...
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Amelia Earhart - Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Examine the life of Amelia Earhart with kids. They will read facts and view a timeline about Earhart's life. They will work in groups to read the last radio transmissions and draw conclusions about what happened in her disappearance and...
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PPT
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Welcome to Renaissance England

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Prepare your seventh through ninth graders for their first Shakespearean experience. This slide show provides a series of vocabulary words in context and a brief history of one of the world's most prolific playwrites, William...
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Time to Trick-or-Treat!

For Students 2nd - 4th
Use number lines to help scholars add and subtract time as they solve five word problems. Each scenario gives a starting or ending time and several tasks that take specified amounts of time. Scholars mark the number line to determine...
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African Clothing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore African clothing. In this African culture social studies lesson, students brainstorm types of clothing they wear for different occasions. Students view photographs of Africans wearing Western clothing and "special...
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Future Predictions for Xmas

For Students 8th - 11th
In this seasonal worksheet, students choose a year in the future and make a prediction associated with Christmas in that year and the other students try to guess what year is being predicted from clues given to them.
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Halloween Capitalization

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this capitalization worksheet, students read and analyze 10 sentences that pertain to Halloween. Students underline each word that should be capitalized. No rules are provided.
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Miss Tizzy

For Teachers K
Students experience ways language and visuals bring characters to life in a story, experience age-appropriate songs, cooking experiences, and art, learn the days of the week in a new learning experience, and engage in hands-on learning...

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