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Weather Jeopardy
Fourth graders review weather terms by playing a game of Weather Jeopardy.
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Poetry
Explore the semantics of poetry with this higher-level presentation. With examples from Dickinson, Frost, and Dr. Seuss, the slides clearly explain the details of poetic structure, license, and schemes. You could use this in a language...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phonological Awareness: Rhyme, Rhyme Memory Match
Young scholars play a memory-matching game to practice recognizing rhyming words and sounds. With picture cards, they flip over two cards and say the pictures' names. If the pair make a rhyming match, the learner keeps the cards. The...
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Comparing Poems
Young literary analysts compare two poems by the same author. Readers look for slant rhyme, observe the beat and rhythm of each, and search for repeated vowel sounds. After re-reading, they observe the lack of punctuation and the stanza...
K12 Reader
Figurative Language: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”
Bells, bells, bells abound in a worksheet designed for Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Bells." Middle schoolers are asked to identify the various poetic devices Poe employs.
Space Awareness
Know Your Planets
Does your class know their planets? Implement an activity that has them describing the solar system, identifying properties of the planets, and placing them in order from their distance from the sun.
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Starry Night
Students examine Van Gogh's work Starry Night. Foreground and background are discussed. Students create their own version of Starry Night using crayons and black paint. Students create their very own crayon relief.
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How Do Clouds Form?
Students describe how they believe clouds form. They observe the different types of clouds they see and identify the types. They examine what affects the size and shape of clouds.
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The Shapes of Other Things
In this shapes worksheet based on The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, by Dr. Seuss, students write names of shapes of pictures shown. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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Cloze Passage: The Sun
Use this Cloze activity in your science lesson or reading unit. Second graders read two paragraphs about the sun and seasons, and fill in eleven missing vocabulary words. This learning exercise contains an answer key.
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Dark Matter In The Universe
Students investigate the concept of dark matter and how it occurs in the universe. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students use the information by reading at least two articles about dark matter. They also generate...
Mr. E. Science
Our Solar System
The presentation starts with the scientists who made discoveries about our solar system: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, and Newton. It also covers the planets, inner, outer, and Pluto, satellites, and an in-depth discussion...
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Location
Students explore the tools used by Columbus to chart his latitude. They study the change of a location over time.
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Modeling Shadows
Students demonstrate understanding of shadows by creating a physical model of concepts taught.
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Telling Stories About Ourselves
Pupils discover how visual images communicate meaning. They create costumes that tell personal stories and perform dances wearing the costumes.
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Compounding the Problem
Pupils sharpen their dictionary skills and their understanding of compound words in this plan. Tailor it to the grade level you teach by honing in on specific skills. For older learners, the plan suggests providing a word and having them...
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On The Day You Were Born
Students engage in a study about the holiday of a birthday with the help of using children's literature. They make cognitive connections of using the characters of the book and relating them to the personal celebration of a birthday.
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The Impact
Young scholars study different inventors and inventions. In this invention introduction lesson students pretend that they are an inventor and come up with their own invention.
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Count by 5s, 10s, and 100s
There's an easier way to count! Scholars get practice counting by 5 and 10 in this skip-counting activity. There are 10 problems, and for each they observe a set of objects that have been grouped. Learners skip count to get a final...
American Museum of Natural History
A Closer Look at Mars
A website looks at how we know so much about Mars—telescopes, robots, and spacecraft—and the search for martian life. Following the informational text are three questions that quiz pupils about possible life on Mars.
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Chandra Explores Angular Size
In this angular size worksheet, students read about how astronomers determine the size of objects in the sky by using their angular size. Students are given equations that allow scientists to convert the angular size into kilometers....
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Mercury
Young scholars study the planet Mercury and develop an understanding of the planet's composition, geology, and other important characteristics. They explore a Web resource on the planet Mercury which is the central focus of this lesson.
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Earth Science
In this Earth science learning exercise, 4th graders answer multiple choice questions about temperature, weather instruments, heat, light, and more. Students complete 25 questions.
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Our Changing View of the Solar System
Students identify and name the eight planets and the five dwarf planets in our solar system. In this space science lesson, students view a slideshow of the planets and label them on an included Solar System chart.