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Writing Lowercase k and f
Here's some visual printing practice with lowercase letters k and f. Emerging writers trace each letter before trying a few freehand in the space provided. Note that there is no dotted middle line here to keep your...
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Ecosystems
With a variety of multiple choice and short answer questions, the handout found here could be used in many ways in the classroom: pretest/posttest, study guide, reading guide, or entry/exit questions. There is not a lot of space for...
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World Trade Center Design Proposals
Learners explore architectural design. In this critical thinking and architecture lesson, students view a number of websites providing proposals for design plans of a new World Trade Center. Learners choose and evaluate three...
Childnet International
Responding to Cyberbullying
After watching a short video about cyberbullying, individuals play an online cyberbullying game and then create their own Digizen that expresses their values and presents their vision for themselves, their friends, and the world at large.
Baylor College
Energy for Life (Energy from Food)
Energy comes in many forms, but how do living things get the energy they need to survive and thrive? In a simple, controlled experiment with yeast, water, and sugar, groups make observations about how yeast reacts with water alone, then...
Youth & Children’s Ministry
Lent
For each week of Lent, focus on a specific gospel passage, theme, and guiding question with your class members. Your pupils will engage in a variety of hands-on activities, discussion points, and worksheets following Jesus'...
Teach Children ESL
You're a Superhero
Engage your English language learners' vocabulary acquisition superpowers with a set of materials about superheroes. Pupils create their own superhero alter-egos by choosing from a list of superpowers, deciding on sidekicks and...
Montgomery K12
Clues in Sentences Investigation
Explore the variety of context clues that help us learn new meanings of unknown words! With this presentation, pupils go in depth into each type of context clue and have their knowledge tested with several small reading passages in which...
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Born Gay
Is a person's sexual orientation determined at birth? With the informative website, scholars prepare for a debate about the topic. They learn the top pro and con arguments and read through a historical timeline of homosexuality. They...
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Exploring Habitats
Students analyze the difference between the human habitat and the different habitats of animals in the six lessons of this unit. The students' imaginations and literature are used to explore important aspects of the living environments...
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Behind the Mission To Mercury
Students assess the goals, benefits, success, and limitations of technology (instruments) on a space mission.
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Many Happy Returns
Students compare the journey of Lewis and Clark with the space flight of Apollo 11. Students sequence events using a timeline. Students write a persuasive essay trying to persuade the people of the US to support space exploration.
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Moving With Adverbs
Middle schoolers explore the concept that adverbs describe the verb. They move around the general space doing various locomotor skills. Students alter the way they are doing the skills by listening to the adverbs being called out by...
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Air and Its Characteristics
Learners explore air through guided discovery. In this air lesson, students will observe three demonstrations about air. They will answer leading questions as they observe how air displaces and takes up space, how air has weight, and how...
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Math is Beautiful
Students explore how geometry is used on the composition of artworks by artists from different cultures. This instructional activity is equally suited for a Math or Art classroom at the late-elementary or early-middle school level.
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It All Adds Up- Puzzle #28
In this addition puzzle worksheet, learners solve a 12 space addition square in which rows and columns add up to equal the numbers given. Students supply the missing addends.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #36
In this addition puzzle instructional activity, students complete a 24 space grid in which all rows, columns and diagonals must add up to be the sums that are provided at the end of each.
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It All Adds Up-- Puzzle #31
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 24 space grid in which all rows, columns and diagonals must add up to be the sums that are provided at the end of each.
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Where Do You Fit In?
Students study habitats and then draw a picture of their own habitat which includes the location of food, water, and shelter, and the concept of space. then they cut their habitat in half and discuss how this would affect their lives.
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Animals: Here and Now
Discuss and identify natural habitats of animals commonly found in zoos. The class constructs and displays small "zoo like" models to show a chosen animal habitat. They write a short story or diary about an animal or pet of their choice....
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The Art of Making Do
Learners learn how to understand and use fabrics in a scrap quilt. They will gain the most if they can actually compose a quilt (or the beginnings of one) within class time.Quilting is a skill that is difficult for younger children to...
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Heritage Deer
Students trace body parts to create a deer in this excellent Kindergarten lesson that teaches basic Art skills and cultural awareness. The lesson includes a materials list, vocabulary used, a bibliography, and is best suited for use...
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It All Adds Up : Puzzle 10
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students fill in the 10 spaces in a math puzzle. Students may use each digit once in each row and column. Each row and column must add up to the given number.
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Dr. Seuss Listening Centers
Take a trip to Whoville with a lesson focused on the works of Dr. Seuss. Using listening and responding worksheets, first graders listen to six Dr. Seuss books at a listening center, rate the books, and summarize and...