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What's On Your Plate?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
If you are teaching in a Christian school, Sunday School, or home school environment, then this lesson would be appropriate. The class discusses Biblical traditions and culture and how that related to current Christian beliefs. They fill...
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Glaciers Worksheet #2

For Students 6th - 9th
A map of the Hudson River Valley is exhibited here. Arrows representing glacial striations are spread across the map for learners to analyze. They answer five multiple choice questions in response. The worksheet is a compact review of...
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

For Students 7th - 12th
When reviewing the use of modifiers, this activity could be a useful tool to use. With 20 questions, highlighting a variety of misplaced or dangling modifiers, this instructional activity could be a quick and easy way to go over this topic.
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Degree

For Students 3rd - 4th
A Standardized Test-type of worksheet on grammatical rules of degree awaits your students. They carefully look at ten sentences and focus on the parts of each sentence that is underlined. If the underlined portion has a mistake, they...
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Cats and Superstition: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 2nd - 6th
Answers to this quiz are very well cited, so if your class is studying Halloween, symbols, superstition, world cultures, or cats, it could spark spirited discussion about comparative traditions.
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The Romantic Age in British Literature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Put the Romantic Age into context for British Literature classes with a PowerPoint that defines and characterizes this movement in literature, music and art. Notable painters, writers, and musicians are listed, as are key romantic themes...
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Our Family and Other Families: Using Totoro to Teach Family Structure

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
What do families around the world have in common? Explore this theme through the popular animated film My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki. Over the course of two days, pupils view the film, pausing to discuss their own families and the...
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Frosty the Snowman

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students travel in the playing area (skip, gallop, walk, slide, etc.). If a student is tagged by a red (sun) ball, the tagged student must stop and fall slowly like a melting snowman. They stays melted until he/she is tagged by a green...
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Recombinant DNA to Protect Crops

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are asked to recount their greatest hopes and fears concerning DNA. One article states how worthwhile gene manipulation in plants can be. Classroom discussions arise after reading one article on this issue.
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Delicious Diagrams

For Students K - 1st
In this math worksheet, students cut out pictures of twelve different cakes. Students use the pictures to complete four venn diagrams- half of them that compare two characteristics and the other that compare three.
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We Are All In This Together

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders observe four different arthropods.Students find, observe, discuss and record similarities and differences among and between insects and people. They appreciate diversity in and recognize unity of all people.
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Weather Folklore

For Students 4th - 8th
For this weather folklore worksheet, students decode symbols into phrases about weather lore from farmers, sailors and shepherds. There are 7 phrases to decode.
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Visions of Liberty

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the concept of Lady Liberty.  In this Statue of Liberty lesson plan, students discover what she stands for and why she looks the way she does.  Students also discover how copper oxidizes and changes color. 
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Geometry and Spatial Sense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate geometric shapes in 2 and 3 dimensions.  In this geometry lesson, students create a model chocolate factory working in groups and using an actual cake.  Middle schoolers take a quiz about...
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A Rose Is a Rose

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Flowering learners explore the concept of figurative language as it relates to poems, songs, or creative written expression. In this creative writing lesson, they complete several phrases using similes, metaphors, and...
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Thanksgiving Writing Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The holiday season is an opportunity for students to create meaningful Thanksgiving writing activities.
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Picture It: Teaching Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
There are many fun and effective ways to teach students to write descriptively.
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Oreo Cookies: Delicious and Educational

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
There are innovative ways to teach standard classroom curriculum. Here are some ideas using Oreo cookies.
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Everyone Has Feelings

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
These activities promise to provide a day full of fun for young learners as they explore feelings and emotions. Learners participate in two sing-alongs with the songs "Smile" and "If You're Happy", they color emotion masks, and finally...
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Has the Wall Truly Tumbled Down?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars examine the events behind the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the continued struggles to truly unify the former East Germany and West Germany.
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Crossroads Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
The crossroads, and the decisions made and entities met there, are a common theme in literature, pushing readers to examine the choices and encounters that shape life experience. The theme has also been explored in blues music, most...
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Dramatic Dilemmas

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, students will develop skits that deal with the following aspects of decision making: projecting possible long term impacts of a decision and taking risks.
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Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read literature and view other media to discover how print and non-print texts answer the thematic question: Who am I? students compare the ways ideas are presented, and create their own portfolios or personal Web pages...
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CUPCAKE CORE SAMPLING

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore what is beneath the surface of the earth is one of the jobs of a geologist. Rather than digging up vast tracts of land to expose an oil field, or to find coalbearing strata, core samples can be taken.

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