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Is It Breathable?
Students explore air quality. In this environmental lesson, students observe a simulation of air pollution by blowing into a jar (with a straw) that has chalk dust. Students discuss how air quality can effect the way we breathe.
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Human Rights: What Will Students and Teacher Do?
Students analyze the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." In this human rights lesson, students explore the text of this document and watch Amnesty International videos about human rights. Students then locate and discuss articles on...
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Adding and Subtracting with Tenths
In this adding with tenths activity, students add and subtract numbers whose decimals go to the tenths place. Students complete 10 problems total.
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Ivy Bean
In this Ivy Bean learning exercise, students read about the life of the oldest woman using social networking, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Mesoamerican Codex Books
Fifth graders use visual art as a form of communication as they create a codex book based on their knowledge of Mesoamericans.
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Cotton Paper Bag Puppets
Students read book, "The Cotton in your T-Shirt," brainstorm facts about cotton, make cotton paper bag puppets, and list facts about cotton on the back.
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Roxaboxen
Third graders discuss the story "Roxaboxen." In this reading comprehension lesson, 3rd graders discover new vocabulary words, discuss the story using story mapping, and take a reading test. Students investigate safety in the desert and...
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The Problems With Cellphones
Students read a news article about cell phones and identify continuous tense verbs, gerunds and infinitives in the article. They discuss cell phone use.
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Recipe for Beignets
For this reading and following directions worksheet, students read and make New Orleans beignets. Students follow 10 directions.
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Grammar, Vocabulary and Idioms
In this online interactive English practice activity, learners use their problem solving skills to answer 10 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Fools for Love in King Lear
Students discuss the expression "fools for love." In this literature analysis lesson, students use King Lear as a basis for examining parent-child relationships. In small groups, they discuss the motives behind various actions in the...
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Gingerbread Baby v. Gingerbread Boy #7
Students compare and contrast the gingerbread baby in their story to the original gingerbread boy. They use a Venn diagram to easily see the similarities and differences.
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Gingerbread Baby Board Game #10
Learners are read the book "Gingerbread Baby". They examine the journey the baby traveled in the story and in turn create a game board. They draw pictures along the board to show different parts of the story.
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JAPANESE CULTURE
First graders explore what life in Japan is like including, home and daily life, food and eating customs, school life, games and sports, holiday customs, and religion.
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Deciphering Community
Students explore the concept of a community. They identify and group various kinds of communities. Students create a concept map exemplifying their membership in different communities. They write a narrative describing their...
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Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own - Shakespeare's Sister
Students, after reading and analyzing, "A Room of One's Own," by Virginia Woolf, analyze how creating and defending one's position as well as how narrative functions as a rhetorical device. They evaluate and focus in on Shakespeare's...
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Vocabulary Skills- Common Idioms 6
In this vocabulary skills instructional activity, students match 10 common idioms with their meanings after reading the definition of an idiom which is located at the top of the page.
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Why Do Atoms Combine?
In this subatomic particle worksheet, students will read the important discoveries throughout history of the neutrino. Based on this information, students will complete 4 short answer questions.
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Hh is for Helicopter
Students learn to form the upper and lower case letter Hh in this printing practice activity. Students trace several examples before forming their own letters.
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Hh is for Helicopter
In this literacy worksheet, class members look at the formation of the letter and practice creating it. Then they use the pictures to make cognitive connections to help with spelling.
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Mathematics Word Problems
For this math worksheet, students solve 16 word problems. For example, "Andy has .9 of a dollar. How many dimes is that? How much money is that?"
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Multiplication and Area
In this math worksheet, students practice solving the grid squares for the area of each. The sheet has sample directions used by solving for the area.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Any Answers – Think of an Answer 2
In this speaking and listening learning exercise, students read 20 questions and statements. They think of a response to each, practice saying it to a partner, and then, write down their answers.
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Kindness Compliments
Young scholars write compliments for the staff at their school. In this compliments lesson plan, students demonstrate kindness by anonymously writing and taping compliments to people's doors around the school.