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Writing
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Odyssey Worksheet: Step Into the Shoes

For Students 9th - 12th
Step into the shoes (or sandals, perhaps?) of Odysseus, a member of his crew, or another character featured in Homer's enduring classic, The Odyssey. and send a letter back telling the world your side of this great adventure story.
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Lesson Plan
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The Ocean: A Watery World

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the proper clothing for the season. They make wind chimes to use as an indicator of movement of the air and observe and identify the various cloud formations. They determine the basic rules of storm safety and discuss...
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Group Initiatives

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Lesson Plan
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King's Headdress: Yoruba, Nigeria

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students make headdresses fit for kings. In this Yoruba tribe lesson, students study the tradition of the Nigerian tribe and then create headdress in the style of those used by the Yoruba.
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Printables
Walters Art Museum

Greek Mythology Family Tree

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Just what every classroom needs—a poster showing the family tree of Greek gods, goddesses, and heroes. From Chaos to Odysseus both gods and mortals are featured.
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Worksheet
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Reptiles Vocabulary Multiple Choice Activity

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reptiles vocabulary activity, students complete a ten question multiple choice activity pertaining to reptiles. Students read the questions and choose the correct answer from four choices.
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Worksheet
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Reptiles Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this reptiles instructional activity, students read 11 definitions and match them to the correct vocabulary words in a word box. Students write the reptile vocabulary words in front of each definition.
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Worksheet
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Alphabetize Reptile Words

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this alphabetize reptile words worksheet, students use the word bank on the page to put eleven words about reptiles into alphabetical order.
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Lesson Plan
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Teaching the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine":A Handout for ESL/EFL Students

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners inspire communication skills thru the lyrics of a song. Students watch and correlate the production of a fantasy film with speaking and listening skills. Learners quote the themes from the video.
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Tell Me All About It!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss the importance of comprehension and the use of summarization. Through guided practice, they follow three rules in finding and highlighting important information, while crossing out information that is not needed. Using...
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Worksheet
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Seahorses-Amazing and Beautiful

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of multiple choice trivia questions about seahorses. Page has a link to answers.
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Lesson Plan
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Ready, Set, Sum

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders summarize a piece of nonfiction text. After reviewing the correct way to read in order to summarize, 3rd graders independently read a nonfiction article. They write a summary paragraph using the three step process outlined...
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Simon Says Summarize

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils comprehend text for the purpose of understanding what is being read. In this activity they practice the skill of summarization with the goal of improving reading comprehension while reading the article "Godzilla".
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Worksheet
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Logical Thinking Skills and Comparison

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this logical thinking skills worksheet, students solve word problems involving one and two digit numbers. Students complete 20 word problems.
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Lesson Plan
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Legends in a local region

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students locate information about a legendary person or place, locate legends in their locale, create a description and drawing of their legendary person or place, exchange their description with another student, and recreate the other...
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Pizzazz!...Basket Stories

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss the use of connectors and sequence words. They discuss common story endings and beginnings. Students brainstorm ideas for a creative story and compose a story for the rest of the class.
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Lesson Plan
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Quiz: Animal Dangers

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on animal dangers. Students will respond to nine true/false questions all pertaining to various animals.
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Worksheet
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Marco Polo and Edmund Hillary

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Marco Polo and Edmund Hillary worksheet, students read about the lives of the 2 explorers. They then answer 3 questions pertaining to the information they read.
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Organizer
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Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives practice worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they copy 6 sentences, fill in the blanks in paragraph, and complete a graphic organizer.
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Worksheet
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Food Web Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this food web crossword puzzle worksheet, students use the 23 clues to identify the correct terms that will solve the crossword puzzle.
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Lesson Plan
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Shark Attack

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students examine the white shark. They think critically about a set of shark facts and predict whether the statements are true or false. Students describe a year in the life of a white shark living in the Red Triangle. They create a...
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Lesson Plan
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Journey to the Center of the Earth I

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify the elements of science fiction and write their own example.  In this Journey to the Center of the Earth lesson students complete several activities about science fiction, authors and novels.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Sea Monsters

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about three groups of reptiles that lived in prehistoric oceans: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Nature: Encountering Sea Monsters

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive amount of information is featured in this PBS site on Cephalopods. Images, videos, books, and web links are just a few of the items that can be found here.