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"The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly."
Students explore insects' use of pheromones and beneficial insects versus insect pests.
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Be A Bug Scout
Students perform outside activities to determine the amount of insects, flowers, or common weeds within an area. They predict the number of insects they will find within their square area. Using calculators, students organize the data...
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The Spider Beside Her
Second graders expand their knowledge of spiders. By creating a model of a spider, 2nd graders recognize differences between spiders and insects and determine that a spider is not an insect.
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Complete Metamorphosis
Students use a map and colored pins to plot the migration path of Monarch butterflies. They use data found at the Journey North website. Commas are also used in the activity to show how they are put in a series of words using butterfly...
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Butterflies Crossword Puzzle
In this science activity, students complete a crossword puzzle by writing in words related to the life cycle of a butterfly. Students review ten vocabulary words on this activity.
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Imagine It
Students become skillful readers by assessing phonemic awareness and deciphering the words and syllables that follow challenging sounds. This lesson emphasizes the correspondence dealing with the i=/i/ in written and spoken words.
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The Interesting Iguana
Students practice the representation of i=/i/ in correspondence and spoken words. They study spelling and reading words with i=/i/ in letterboxes, circling words in pictures that show words containing /i/, and view a chart with "The...
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 16
In this beginning sentence completion exercise 16 activity, students complete 10 sentences, interactively, with the correct word(s) with immediate feedback.
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Alliteration Fun with Spiders
Students practice using vocabulary words to write alliterations. For this language arts lesson, students collaborate with classmates to create ideas for fun alliterations as they create their own using a children's word processing...
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Leo and the Butterflies
Second graders read a book entitled, "Leo and the Butterflies." They discuss the rainforest and butterflies. Students observe the pictures and predict what will happen in the story. They examine reading strategies for decoding unfamiliar...
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Beginning Spelling - Summer
In this spelling instructional activity, students spell 13 Summer words correctly using the definitions that are listed to the right of the jumbled word.
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The Pests of Summer
Students research insects that act as pests during the summer months. They investigate how to protect themselves and their homes from these pests. They study the life cycle of the cicada.
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Superstitions
High schoolers discuss the various superstitions they encounter in our culture. Working in groups, they create a vocabulary list of words related to superstitions. Working in teams, they play Pictionary in order to aid in the create of...
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Cloze Activity: Rainforests
In this rainforests cloze procedure worksheet, students review a brief selection that is missing 16 words and then attempt to fill in each blank with a word they think the author might have used. A word bank is provided.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 12
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, learners examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to compete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Students answers are...
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Not So Snappy 11
In this math worksheet, learners solve the word problems by employing solid reading and problems solving skills. The problems are performed with multiple steps.
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Rain Forest Animals Crossword
In this science and language arts worksheet, students complete a 16 word crossword puzzle about rain forest animals. Each clue is a hint to identify an animal of the rain forest. There is no word bank. Answers are provided on page 2.
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Scavenger Hunt: The Secret Life of Trees
In this The Secret Life of Trees scavenger hunt learning exercise, students locate 5 vocabulary words, 5 animals of insects that can live in trees, and 5 things that grow on trees in the story and record their findings on the graphic...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Students examine the concept of extinction by studying dinosaurs. In this living environment lesson, students view dinosaur video clips and define the word "extinction." Students visit the "Zoom Dinosaur" website to investigate various...
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Populations and Ecosystems
Sixth graders examine the factors that influence the stability of ecosystems. They construct a miniature ecosystem in a jar that includes plants, small fish, and snails, record the population changes over a period of four weeks, and...
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Worksheet 12. Nouns
In this grammar worksheet, students write each word or phrase from the word bank in the column where it belongs. There are 15 words and 3 columns.
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Letter Pronunciation - I i I Sound
In this letter pronunciation worksheet, students circle the word that best describes the picture. They then use that word in a sentence. There are 7 pictures on the page to describe.
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Animals, Animals!--Animal Nouns
In this animal nouns learning exercise, learners participate in a hunt for animals. Students look over a list of 12 words and put an N next to each one that is a noun and a X next to each word that is not a noun. Learners write the name...
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Vocabulary Review - Chapter 11
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students choose the word or phrase that means the same as the word or phrase that is given. They are given two choices to pick from in the 10 examples on the page.