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What Are Your Favorite Apples?
In this tally worksheet, students take a survey to determine the favorite apple. They write tally marks beside the apple chosen. For elementary students, this worksheet may be used for counting purposes and to reinforce what a tally mark...
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Compare and Contrast Two Books
Help your middle school readers recognize the elements of fiction in two books. After reading and taking notes on the details of the books, they write an essay comparing and contrasting the two books. Use this lesson to emphasize...
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Exploring Space: Scramble
Middle-school space science explorers review remote sensing and electromagnetic radiation vocabulary terms by unscrambling them. Consider having space scholars write out the definitions for each after unscrambling. If they take time to...
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The Southwest
Science stars unscramble twelve terms associated with the landforms and natural resources of the southwest United States. Print out this worksheet and assign it to your middle school earth scientists. Have them write definitions for each...
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Cell Processes and Energy - Review and Reinforce - Photosynthesis
Fourteen questions about photosynthesis are presented for life science learners. First, they write out the names of compounds involved in the process. They answer a few questions, and then fill in the blanks. This concise assignment...
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A Holiday Newsletter In MS Word For Elementary School
Students produce a holiday newsletter using a software program. For this holiday newsletter lesson, students use a software template to write a newsletter. They fill in the template with appropriate information and pictures.
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Celebrate Writing!
Help your students celebrate their writing through publishing projects.
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Giving and Taking Directions (Middle School)
Students describe the difference between a declarative sentence and a command. They complete a diagram verbs, prepositions and numbers. They follow directions on a map and create directions of their own to another location.
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School-Home Links: Writing a Story
In this story writing worksheet, students write a story about a birthday party they went to and incorporate a clear beginning, middle, and end. Students must read the story aloud to family. Parents or guardians must sign the worksheet.
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Storytelling in the Oral Tradition
Seventh graders research Greek mythological characters. They write about problems faced by middle school-aged children and how the character would handle them. Students also create story boards to accompany their oral narratives.
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Art, Literature, & Environment
High schoolers communicate their thoughts on the environment by creating picture books for middle school students. High schoolers include their thoughts on population, deforestation, water, energy, endangered species, and waste in their...
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Multiple Use Flower Power Graphic Organizer
In this multiple use flower power graphic organizer worksheet, students use a flower shaped black line picture in a number of ways. They put a picture in the middle circle and place describing words in the petals. They place a prefix or...
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Shakespeare Shows
Students study, interpret, perform, and present various Shakespearean works adapted for middle school Students. They choose a scene from one of the plays covered in this teaching unit to reenact with a group.
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Inventing and Presenting Unit 3: Persuasive Speaking and Invention Promotion
Middle schoolers write a proposal for a speech. Students prepare appropriate visuals for use in the proposed speech. Middle schoolers produce one or more graphs that summarize the results from the experimentation. Students deliver an...
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The Countries of Slave Trade
Pupils create graphs, routes, and write an essay based on their research of the slave trade. In this slave trade lesson plan, students research the Middle Passage and how slave trade happened in the United States.
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Humorous Story Featuring Clowns
Middle schoolers write stories that feature funny clowns. In this creative writing lesson, students follow the outline for a story in order to write their own humorous story set at a circus.
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Moms of the Future
Students explore the roles of mothers. In this writing skills lesson, students discuss what motherhood will look like in the future and what it looked like in the past. Students respond to a writing prompt that requires them to write...
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Writing Numbers - 5
In this number printing instructional activity, students trace a circle around a hat before tracing around a large number five that is placed in the middle of the page. They cut out the number 5 and five pictures of apples in order to...
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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
Can your class tell the difference between passive and active writing? Use this lesson in your writing conventions unit. The lesson prompts middle schoolers to create essays, demonstrating understanding of an active versus passive voice...
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"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson
Middle schoolers who are about to read the chilling tale, The Lottery, do some writing beforehand. They are asked to write how their lives would change if they won a huge lottery jackpot. Then, they read the short story, and will be...
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Image as Metaphor
A Dorothea Lange photograph launches this study of metaphors. Using the questions provided, the class examines the image and the title to consider how Lange uses her photo as a metaphor. Class members then select an object they can use...
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Sample Lesson on Taking Notes
Have your middle schoolers define the terms outline, summary, paraphrase, plagiarism, citation, reference, and bibliography. They identify the main ideas, topic sentence, supporting ideas in technical writing and create note cards using...
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Bully Free Lesson Plans—Seventh Grade
Having a hard time defining bullying with your seventh graders? Discuss the different types of behavior one would see in a bullying situation with a series of lessons, worksheets, and group activities.
Overcoming Obstacles
Weighing Options and Consequences
When making decisions, it might be wise to revise Newton's Third Law of Motion to read, "For every decision, there are options and consequences." Although in decision-making, not all these forces may be equal. The third lesson in the...
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