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A Penny for Abe
Students explore Abraham Lincoln through stories and poems. They also explore him being on the penny.
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Reviewing Main Events in Fiction
Learners analyze elements of fiction while reading. In this reading analysis lesson, students read specific texts and retell the information they remember. Learners discover how sequential storytelling works.
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Homophones
In this homonyms worksheet, students read 5 sentences and choose the correct homonym to complete the sentence. Students then use the word they did not choose in a sentence.
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Space, the Final Frontier...
Students study a common theory on how the solar system was formed and examine the relative scale of the size and distances among the bodies of the Solar System.
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Can You "Gas" What's Happening?
Students examine gas production in "soil" samples through hands on activities and class discussions, to determine if the soil samples have contain living or non-living systems.
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Moonwalking to Mars?
Students examine a quote from George W. Bush's recent speech on space exploration. They evaluate one writer's stance on Bush's space exploration goals by reading and discussing "Plea to Policy Makers: Let's Take Another Giant Step." In...
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Role Playing for Fluency
Students explore the benefits of rereading a story to increase their oral reading speed, fluency, and comprehension. They work with a partner reading the story "What Will the Seal Eat?" They time and encourage each other in each...
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The History of Computers
Young scholars study the people and inventions related to computers. They research famous people for each invention they created and create a timeline of the inventor and his inventions. They present an oral presentation about the...
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data. In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets.
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Main Events in Fiction
Young scholars complete a literature analysis of fiction texts to study elements of fiction. In this fiction analysis activity, students read various fiction texts and examine them to learn about fiction elements. Young scholars learn to...
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The Appliance of Science
Students delve into science fiction. In this Doctor Who instructional activity, students discuss the success of the British television show and then create pieces of writing and art that characterize Doctor Who. Students also visit...
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Passive Voice - Present Continuous
In this passive voice - present continuous worksheet, 7th graders interactively rewrite 10 active sentences into passive voice, with immediate online feedback.
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Color Picture/Word Match
Students match colors to the color words that they represent and complete a matching puzzle to go with it. In this colors lesson plan, students put the puzzle together to match up the colors.
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The Author's Chair
Students read Pumpkin Pumpkin. In this language arts instructional activity, students read the story and tell one fact about pumpkins. Students illustrate their pumpkin facts and share with the class.
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Variations of The Gingerbread Boy
Students participate in activities base on the story of the The Gingerbread Boy. In this literacy lesson, students listen to the story before retelling a number of times. They use a variety of props during the retellings such as picture,...
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Nursery Rhymes
Students retell a memorized nursery rhyme. In this early public speaking activity, students retell a familiar nursery rhyme with the help of visual prompts.
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To Be or Not To Be - Main/Helping Verbs
Fourth graders focus on the use of main and helping verbs in written communication.
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Collecting S.O.C.K.S
Students participate in the Collection S.O.C.K.S program to protect their local watersheds. Using the socks, they plant new plants and trees around the watershed in order to protect it for future use. They also perform in a skit that...
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Icky Sticky!!!!
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Toma Rivera Mad Lib
In this mad lib worksheet, students fill in blanks with designated parts of speech to complete a "story." Words to use are categorized and appear on page 2.
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Problem-Solving
Students help solve real-life classroom problems. In this problem solving activity, the class sits down as a whole and discusses possible solutions to real problems that they face as a class.
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Writing Japanese Stories (Grades 6-8)
Students listen to several Japanese stories and write their own Japanese-style stories, which they share with the class.
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Links Away: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students explore fact families. In this math lesson, students use links to model a fact family. Students solve addition and subtraction problems.
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The Letter B (b)
Students discover words through text, audio and images that begin with the letter B. In this letter B lesson, students download an ebook and navigate through an interactive reading activity.