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Using Similes, Synonyms, and Antonyms
Children study similes, synonyms, and antonyms and identify examples in the book Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood. They write short stories about themselves using antonyms, synonyms, and comparisons of themselves to animals. They draw...
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It's Just a Phase
Sixth graders are introduced to the correct terminology for the phases of the moon and arrange picture cards in the correct order. They use flashlights and Styrofoam balls to illustrate the phases of the moon. They write science journal...
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The Largest Objects
In this alphabet worksheet, students focus on the letter a. Coloring pictures that begin with the letter a sound, students choose the largest object in each box to color.
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Women’s Suffrage
Students examine several aspects of the Women's Suffrage Movement. In this women's rights lesson, students explore several primary and secondary sources regarding the events of the movement, opposition to the movement, and the effects of...
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Adjectives
In this adjectives worksheet, students analyze 5 pictures and complete the sentences with an adjective. Students change 3 adjectives into nouns and then identify the adjectives in sentences.
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Keith Haring Painting Project
Young scholars paint a picture based on the work of Keith Haring including Haring people. In this painting lesson plan, students also look and discuss the art of Keith Haring.
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Place Prepositions
In this ESL preposition worksheet, students will master words of location. Students will study ten pictures and match each picture with the appropriate preposition from the opposite column.
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Feelings
In this ESL feelings worksheet, students will gain an understanding of human emotions. Students will study 7 pictures and match each picture to the correct vocabulary word in the opposite column.
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Adjectives 2
In this grammar worksheet, students match pictures with the adjective pairs. Each adjective pair consists of two words that are opposites, such as handsome and ugly.
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Emotions
In this ESL emotions worksheet, students will focus on words of emotion. Using the given pictures, students will connect each photo with one of the 13 feelings listed on the opposite side of the page.
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Transport 1
In this transportation ESL worksheet, students will focus on the various modes of transportation. Students will match ten pictures with the appropriate vocabulary from the opposite column.
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I'm Sick Match
In this ESL ailments worksheet, students will use common vocabulary to describe illnesses. Students will study 8 pictures and match each sickness with the correct terminology from the opposite column.
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Identify and Generating Rhyming Words, Bingo
Students play a bingo card game to to build accuracy with rhyming words. In this rhyming words lesson, students identify rhyming words with a picture card. Students continue to practice game until there is a winner.
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Turkey and Indians
Students color pictures and tape one to each side of a piece of cardboard. They line up opposite one another in the middle of the gymnasium about 4 feet apart. Designate each line as one of the groups that corresponds to the pictures on...
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Dr. Seuss: "Old Fish, New Fish"
In this Dr. Seuss instructional activity, students find opposites of fish from the story One Fish Two Fish...drawing lines to the opposites of pictures given. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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A World without Color and a World with Color
Visual arts instructional activity involving the creation of a black and white picture followed by a re-creation of the same picture using color with an emphasis on contrast, depth, and mood.
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Upside-Down Books
Students read various examples of literature. In groups, they brainstorm a list of views that go against what was in one of the stories. They illustrate the opposite ideas and compile them into a class book. They use each other to...
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Antonyms
For this antonyms worksheet, students cut out the pictures and match the pictures together by finding their antonyms. Students fold the pictures together to create a flip book.
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Upside Down and All Around
Second graders discuss what a line of symmetry is, then demonstrate how to fold shape cutouts to generate lines of symmetry. They demonstrate slides, flips, and turns with objects, and write explanations of changes they observe in pictures.
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Newton's Third Law
Students use inquiry and observation to explore Newton's third law of motion: for every action there is a reaction. For this physics lesson, students rotate through six stations set up with materials and picture directions illustrating...
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Identify and Construct a Constellation
Third graders identify and construct constellations. In this constellation instructional activity, 3rd graders choose a method to create a picture of a constellation, either using a shoe box, paper cup, or transparent paper.
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Hand Built Tea Bowls
Students follow directions to create clay bowls. In this pottery lesson, students use clay and the pictured tools to follow the directions and create a fire baked tea bowl.
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Block Books
In these visual skills worksheets, students study the cookies cutters and cookies and determine if the shapes match. Students then use a red crayon to color the items that could be hot and a blue crayon to color the items that are cold.
Illustrative Mathematics
What is a Trapezoid? (Part 2)
This collaborative activity investigates the meaning of a trapezoid and a parallelogram. It begins by presenting two different definitions of a trapezoid. Learners are to reason abstractly the difference between the two definitions and...