Reading Is Fundamental
Summer Fun...
Extend learning through summer with these activity ideas! Individuals can choose one or all nine of the activities, which range from a summer reading goal to an examination of local insects (with accompanying story prompt). See the...
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Language Acquisition
Detailing the stages of language, sound, word, and grammar acquisition for babies, this presentation is a great addition to a lecture that focuses on how the English language is developed in small children. Additionally, the slideshow...
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Reintroduce /i/
As your scholars begin learning letters of the alphabet, help them connect sound, pronunciation, word examples, and letter recognition using these strategies. Focusing on the letter i, begin by drawing it on the board. Can scholars...
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Photosynthesis
Venus fly traps photosynthesize and consume insects because the soil they live in does not provide enough nutrients. Scholars analyze historical scientific experiments to learn how scientists discovered photosynthesis. From their...
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My State Report Booklet
In this My State Report Booklet worksheet, students complete 25 pages about a state. Example pages include state animal, bird, flag, flower, and insect.
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Problem Solving: Guess and Check
Sometimes guess and check is the best way to solve a word problem. Learners use the guess and check strategy to solve each of the 6 included story problems. Note: At times younger children have difficulty using estimation or the guess...
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The Metamorphosis During Reading Activity: Problematic Situation
Imagine waking up to find a giant bug staring back at you in the mirror! Think about the plight of Franz Kafka's Gregor in The Metamorphosis with a group discussion activity. Class members reflect on what it would be...
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Ugly Bug/Snuggly Bug
Students demonstrate an understanding of rhyming words by creating buggy pictures and a sentence containing rhyming words. They listen to the story, 'Creepy Beetles,' then engage in an activity where they identify the rhyming words.
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Termite Biology
Students explore the physical characteristics, distribution and habitat of termites. The activity focuses on the termite as a social creature contrary to most other insects.
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Reintroduce /I/
Students explore the alphabet by participating in a beginning writing activity. In this letter "I" lesson, students discuss the sounds that are made from the letter I and how the letter fits into many different words. Students practice...
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Crossword
For this crossword worksheet that focuses on natural disasters, students find the vertical word in the colored squares by filling in the right words in ten lines in the horizontal boxes. Answers appear at the bottom of the worksheet.
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Word Scramble-Bugs
In this bugs worksheet, learners unscramble a total of 8 names of bugs which are accompanied by their picture. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Creepy Crawlers
Learners identify the characteristics of an insect and their habitat. They read books about insects, research different types of insects, and create their own insect art. The project also includes the creation of an insect song and...
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Macroinvertebrate Mix and Match
Learners are introduced to macroinvertebrates (primarily insects), the major segments of aquatic insects (the head, thorax and abdomen) and also differentiate between larval, nymph and adult stages. They investigate the head, thorax and...
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Vocabulary definitions
In this vocabulary words worksheet, students read a fable and then they match the vocabulary words from the fable to their definitions. Students complete this for 8 words.
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Mouthpart Madness
Students explore the basic biology of a pest. They identify the four major kinds of insect mouthparts and explain how they work. Students examine the specific mouthparts and how they can limit food resources and in what environment an...
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Getting to Know "Aquatic Fish Foods"
In this fish worksheet, students access a website to learn more about the common insects eaten by fish. Then students draw and label three types of insect life cycles. This worksheet has 10 true or false questions and 3 drawings.
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Let the Bugs do the Rhyming
Students listen to limericks and write their own about a favorite insect.
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Stream Watch
Young scholars discuss why it is important to take care of streams, what is non-point source and point source pollution, what are some causes of pollution in streams, and what can we do to prevent some of these causes of pollution? They...
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Investigating Crickets and Their Body Parts
Second graders investigate the body of a cricket. In this biology lesson students use tools to gain information about the insect the cricket. Students observe and identify features and describe how these features help the cricket live in...
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All About Lakes, Rivers, and Flyfishing Too
For this insect and fish story writing worksheet, students draft a story that includes a setting, characters, problems, and events from the perspective of an insect or fish. In addition, students locate 51 science terms in a word search...
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My Tarantula Book
In this tarantula worksheet, learners complete a tarantula book that has activities including a word search, coloring, reading, and more. Students complete 11 pages.
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Vain/Vein/Vane
For this vain, vein, and vane worksheet, students choose the correct word to complete each sentence. Students choose either vain, vein, or vein to complete 18 sentences.
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The Mosquito
In this reading comprehension worksheet, learners watch the video The Mosquito and write missing words into sentences about the video. Students complete 28 missing words.