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Make your Garden Grow

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders role play as certified horticulturists as they study the biology of plants and gardening. They design a garden for their school based on what they researched and a given budget.
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Online Planetary Tour

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students develop an interactive presentation about the planets for their fictional interplanetary travel agency. They demonstrate their knowledge of internet research techniques and the Solar System through their interactive planetary...
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Time for Technology Glyphs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create a time for technology glyph using Kidpix4. They complete a circle map on things they like to do on while on the computer and write about their favorite thing to do while on a computer.
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Giving Advice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students are asked to offer advice to new, incoming students. Completed at the end of the school year, students will analyze their year in writing this short essay.
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Writing Bug: A Summer Away

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter which asks them what 3 small items they would take to make themselves feel at home if they were going to a friend's house all summer. Students finish the story.
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Reporting Live From an Important Event in History

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students pretend they are reporting live from any important event in history. Students write what they would say about the day and its newsworthy events.
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A Backward Day

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students think about what they did yesterday, but tell the events in backwards order from the events at the day's end to the beginning. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Inquiring Minds Want to Know- 7

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students read 4 intriguing headlines which have appeared in a newspaper. Students choose one and read the story starter before writing a story about this headline.
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A Turkey's Last Plea-- Story Starter

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, young scholars imagine that they are a turkey who must convince the people not to serve him for Thanksgiving dinner. Students read the story starter and finish the story.
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Writing Bug: Solving the World's Problems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students choose one problem in the world they would like to solve and explain why they chose the problem they chose.
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Using Multicultural Literature with Science

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders listen to The Great Ball Game and discuss the roots of the tale.  In this multicultural tale students identify the realistic facts about the Abnenaki Indians.  Students use the Internet to find out about the author  and...
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Butterfly Life Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the life cycle and development of butterflies. They complete an online WebQuest, and write journal entries about their research information. Students create a poster, and observe real Painted Lady larvae...
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A Stately Comparison

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research two United States. They draw each state and contact state tourism departments for travel brochures and guides. They create a graph of where people live and why and a letter explaining why they would move to one...
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Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study the plants and animals Lewis and Clark discovered on their expedition. There is a plant illustrator, a plant recorder, an animal illustrator, and an animal recorder. They research the plants and animals and the ...
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Hickory Dickory Dock Webquest

For Teachers K
Pupils listen to and read nursery rhymes. They discuss rhyming words. Students play a variety of computer games with rhymes, numbers and telling time. They retell the story through dramatic play, speech, and comprehension questions.
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"Write-a-Letter-to-the-Teacher" Book Report

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners practice writing a friendly letter to the teacher as a method of reviewing a book. They write a three paragraph report on a book that they read in friendly letter format.
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Biography

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students choose a historical figure in which they research their life. They are to write their biography. They should take the written version and transform it into a video which tells the person's life. They share their presentations...
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Design a New Dollar Coin

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners create a design for a new coin after researching people who have impacted history. Students must write a persuasive essay about why this person should be memorialized on the dollar coin and present their person to the class.
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Cells

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners research both plant and animal cell characteristics. They draw the parts of each cell and as groups present their research.
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Cool Word Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students practice using new vocabulary by putting a picture with the new word. They also write the definitions of the new words. They use the pictures to create a clue in which others can practice the new words.
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Send Me A Postcard From The Rainforest

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research the different regions of the rainforest by using the Internet. They create their own postcards from each region they examine showing the plants and animals of that region. They share their postcards with the class.
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Read This Book

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners practice summarizing a story that they have read. They write a persuasive essay encouraging others to read the story they have finished. They are to create a movie trailer or advertisement to promote the book.
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Personification Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a clay object in which they are to personify. They use their own personal experiences to help the viewer imagine what it would be like to be that particular object. They also watch videos of fables to help them with...
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Somewhere in Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this language arts worksheet, students will write about traveling back in time. Students will use the prompt of a "time machine" when writing this short essay.