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The American Whaling Industry
When thinking about the American whaling industry most imagine Moby Dick and Nantucket sleigh rides, harpoons and scrimshaw, whale-oil lamps and baleen in women's corsets. But it may come as a surprise that the industry was also...
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We Flew With a Baboon
More vowels? Elementary schoolers recognize how vowel patterns change a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound. With an emphasis on the /oo/ that makes the long U sound, kids identify the phoneme and letter combination through...
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Nouns-Sentence Completion
Young readers learn about what a noun is. They choose the best noun from three choices to correctly complete a sentence. There are five sentences to finish.
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Verbs
This short, but effective, presentation shows young writers how to identify and properly use verbs in their writing. After viewing some examples, learners are invited to select verbs of their own to complete sentences which are missing a...
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What am I?
Provide this vocabulary recall sheet for your young Spanish language learners. There are six foods pictured here (fish, muffins, strawberries, pears, tomatoes, and eggs), and your youngster must write the Spanish word for each. The...
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Spawn!
Students explain that the ability of certain reef fishes to have a successful spawning is dependent on numerous environmental conditions. They list some of the factors needed by reef fishes in the South Atlantic Bight to have a
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Observing and Drawing Structures of Guppies and Goldfish
Students observe fish and focus on their structures. In this life science lesson, students work in a group and observe guppies and gold fish.
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Meat Vocabulary
In this vocabulary and word recognition worksheet, students observe 5 pictures of different meats and choose the correct word to label each picture.
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Salmon Life Cycle
In this life cycle instructional activity, students fill in the blanks with words about the life cycle of a salmon. Students complete 20 words about the life cycle.
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Letter Ff
In this letter Ff worksheet, 1st graders read through the list of F words and then rewrite the words on the lines. Student alphabetize the words fish, fog, frog, fat, food, fee, funny, fence, flat, and from.
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Winter Wonderland
In this word search worksheet, students read the 50 words related to winter. Students find the words in the word search puzzle to enhance their understanding of winter.
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Places in a Town - Spot the Odd One Out
For this vocabulary worksheet, learners match each place with a word list and decide which word in the list is the odd one out. Students complete 10 exercises.
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Apostila 1B
In this ESL word and picture matching learning exercise, students analyze 7 pictures that depict different kinds of foods. Students match these with the words that describe them. The meaning of the title is not clear.
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Animals Matching
In this ESL word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict common animals. Students match these with the words that describe them.
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Chauncey Chicken and Consonant Digraphs
In this consonant digraphs worksheet, 2nd graders complete the words inside the egg by adding the consonant digraph ch or sh to either the beginning or ending section of each word.
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Beginning Analogies 8
In this analogies worksheet, students study the pairs of words and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 problems.
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Singular and Plural Nouns 6
In this nouns instructional activity, students write whether the underlined word in the sentence is a singular or plural noun. There are 10 words to identify.
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Shhhhhhhh!!!!!
Students recognize and practice putting certain letters together as they make unique sounds in one mouth movement. This lesson focuses on the digraph /sh/. They study and recite the tongue twister "Shelly's aunt, Sharon shears sheep" and...
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Because of Winn-Dixie Chapters 25 and 26
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students complete activities about the bookBecause of Winn-Dixie .Students recall details from the book by unscrambling words. Students answer 8 questions about each chapter.
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Swimmy's Friends
Students solve problems using various strategies. In this problem solving lesson, students read the book Swimmy by Leo Lionni. Students make fish swimming patterns, measure how many goldfish crackers it takes to make a handprint and...
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Maggie's Earth Adventures-Don't Get Caught-Solve the Next Problem, Too!
For this problem solving worksheet, students are given a series of events that occur in the Chesapeake Bay related to the rockfish. Students provide a solution to saving endangered fish and they use information/data to hypothesize why...
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Where Do I Belong?
Fourth graders work in groups. They are given magazines. Students cut pictures of five mamals, five birds, five reptiles, five amphibians, and five fish. They place the pictures in a plastic bag. Students switch bags. They are explained...
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Designing A Study
In this designing a study worksheet, students conduct a study on all types of fish that live in the Hudson River. They complete 8 various types of questions that include mostly short answer in response to their findings. Students also...
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All Mixed Up
In this alphabetizing instructional activity students are given three to four words they must arrange in alphabetical order. In this self-checking instructional activity, students will have written a phrase if they have the correct...