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20th Century Music: Jazz
A 67-page packet provides instructors with a complete course in the history of Jazz. Lessons look at the roots of jazz in early 20th century African American communities in the southern United States and continues to the New Orleans...
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Printing Practice - Tracing Words
In this printing practice activity, 1st graders trace dotted lines to write 6 words that name black line pictures of items such as a shirt, a crayon, a bird and a balloon. They complete the sentence, "A ____ is blue."
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Building a Bird's Nest
Students identify local birds and their habitats. In this wildlife lesson, students list various birds that live in their area and match the descriptions of the birds to the photos. Students build a diorama of a birds nest.
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Applying Proportionality in Scale Drawings
Sixth graders examine a blue print and discuss the reasoning behind using blue prints. In this proportionality activity, students collaborate with their teammates to create a scale drawing. Once that is complete, 6th graders write a...
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Getting the Point!
Students explore the American cattle industry history. In this United States history and reading comprehension cross curriculum lesson, students read an article about the history of longhorn cattle, then answer comprehension questions on...
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Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
Students hold panel discussions on selected topics about the 1960s and their impact on modern-day events. As visual reinforcement, they watch the film about Bob Dylan and research the music of the period as well as his musical...
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Sea Turtles Underwater
Students discuss different types of sea turtles. They talk a about the characteristics of sea turtle anatomy. Students pretend to look over the edge of a boat in the ocean. They pretend to see a sea turtle. Students create their artwork...
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Jazz Talk
Middle schoolers analyze the origins of jazz music by examining work songs, spirituals, blues, and gospel songs as well as works of poetry from African American artists. They create their own poems from either the narrative, dramatic,...
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State Facts
In this state fact chart worksheet, students are provided with a chart showing all 50 states, their abbreviations, state bird, flower, animal, and the year of statehood. There are also basic facts about each state. The worksheet...
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Color the Bubbles
In this long and short vowel worksheet, students decide if each word in one of 12 bubbles has a long or short vowel U. Students color the long vowel words blue, and the short vowel words green.
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Present Glyph
In this Present Glyph worksheet, learners color in a picture of a present according to the directions. An example direction includes, "If you have already celebrated your birthday this year, draw ten blue circles in the box."
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Internet Quests: Mammals
In this science and technology worksheet, students use reference books or Internet searches to find facts about the blue whale, beaver, bat and echidna. Students answer 20 questions about each mammal, fill out charts and illustrate facts.
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Odd or Even (Sums and Differences)
In this math worksheet, learners examine 14 problems inside geometric shapes. Students solve the simple addition or subtraction problems and color the shape blue if the answer is even and red if it is odd.
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Color The Shapes In The Shape House
In this color the shapes in the shape house worksheet, students utilize the primary colors red, blue, green and yellow to color the shape house as directed.
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Delightful Design
In this consonant D learning exercise, students color brown all the words in the word puzzle that begin with the same sound as dog. Students color all the other words blue and then write down what they see in the picture.
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Taronga Zoo
In this online Taronga Zoo worksheet, learners click on the underlined blue word or words to find the answers to twelve questions associated with the Taronga Zoo in Asia.
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Volcanoes
In this volcanoes worksheet, students click on the links in blue to find the answers to fourteen facts about volcanoes. Students answer each question with a short answer response.
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Synonyms 2- Good or Bad?
For this good/bad synonyms worksheet, students read the words inside 18 bubbles. Students color the bubble blue if the word means "good" and red if it means "bad."
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Pythagorean Theorem
In this Pythagorean theorem learning exercise, 9th graders solve and complete 8 different types of problems. First, they go to the given website and copy the picture shown. Then, students draw a right triangle using the straight line...
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Learning Colors and Shapes
In this colors and shapes learning exercise, students look over a box full of different shapes, color the triangles red, squares blue, rectangles yellow, ovals green, circles purple and the diamonds orange.
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Do Some Research
For this research worksheet, students read the question, "A very small particle that revolves around the nucleus of an atom is called?" They use the library or Internet to find the answer, write the answer on the blue line, write a short...
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Do Some Research
In this science research worksheet, students read the question about space with no matter and research the answer to the question. Students write the answer on the blue line provided and then write a short report about space matter on...
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Color the Fruit
In this coloring the fruit learning exercise, students color the grapes with the letter p purple, the letter r red, the letter y yellow, and the letter b blue. Students color twenty-nine grapes.
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Eleven
For this number eleven worksheet, students color eleven raindrops blue in the picture. Students have to color eleven raindrops, but there are 17 raindrops to choose from.