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The Whale Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students watch a whale video clip for information. Students brainstorm on the facts that they learned about whales. Students use the Internet to find information and images about whales. Students write and publish a whale poem.
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Simple Present or Present Continuous Exercise #1

For Students 7th - 8th
In this simple present or present continuous worksheet, students fill in fifteen blanks with the appropriate verb tense that makes each sentence grammatically correct.
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What's Your Favorite Season?

For Students 1st
In this what's your favorite season worksheet, 1st graders unscramble 4 words to spell the seasons and then match the word to the pictures.
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Cyclical Psychology in Japanese Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create artistic representations of various cyclical patterns after analyzing the importance of cyclical psychology in Japanese culture. This lesson can be done in an Art class or as part of a unit in a History or Language Arts...
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What Physical Activities Do Sneakers and His Friends Do?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate fun physical activities that can be done year round.  In this physical education instructional activity, students read the story Big News! Straight From the Heart, and list the activities written about in the story....
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Easy & Elegant Lone Star Quilts

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students watch a demonstration on making a quilt. Using that information, they practice making their own lone star quilt. They share their creation with the class to end the lesson and can make more quilts with different types of...
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Haiku

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss haiku poems and how they are written with a certain number of syllables in each line. They look at examples and then write their own haiku poems and publish them on the computer.
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Hoosier Artists

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine the paintings of various Indiana artists. Using the internet, they relate the landscapes shown to the history of the state and how it affected Native Americans. Using the information they gathered, they write story...
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Living Thoreau As A Means Of Approaching Walden

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the essays and life of Thoreau in order to appreciate his point of view and understand his way of thinking. They participate in various activities and writing assignments to gain a similar perspective. Students write...
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Santa's Scrambled Syllables

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this scrambled syllables worksheet, students unscramble a set of 2 Christmas words, matching parts of the words shown in 2 of "Santa's bag." 
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A Monster's World

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Study African American inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger and create imaginary monsters using texture.
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The Story that Tracks Tell

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders observe and investigate animal tracks. They draw prints for local animals and switch with another student to guess the animal, identify animal tracks in a nearby wood lot, create plaster casts of the tracks, and write a...
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Biodiversity in Our Watershed

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a database of animals and birds in the area in which they live. They use molded prints to make a cast of an imprint from a specific animal. They identify and research animals and prepare an outline for an oral...
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Graphing Groundhog Predictions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students create a bulletin board graph illustrating Punxsutawney Phil's past predictions. Students also perform research about past predictions. The learners also graph the predictions and answer questions about the data.
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Nebraska's Wild Weather

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the weather in Nebraska. Using this information, they describe the cause and effect relationships in the environment based on these changes in weather. They write various types of poems with weather themes and share them...
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What is Important to You?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the life of Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist known for her self-portraits. After discussing her works and life as an artist, students use mirrors to examine their faces and begin drawing their own self-portraits.
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Comparing the Ancient and Modern Olympics: A Venn Diagram

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students compare and contrast today's Olympic Games to those held in ancient Greece. They read newspapers, conduct Internet research, watch TV coverage of current Olympic Games and organize their findings on a Venn diagram.
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Scavenger Hunt Through Figure Skating History

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Pupils research the pioneers of figure skating and write a feature story for a Web publication. They write articles investigating "The Story Behind a Gold Medal" and graph the medals won by different countries between 1976-1996.
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Pond Animals During The Seasons

For Teachers K
Students interact with a CD Rom to examine pond life. In this pond life activity, students access a CD Rom entitled "Sammy's Science House CD Rom" in order to see pond life during the different season of the year. They study the...
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Journey North

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study butterflies and their migration habits. They track butterfly migration and communicate via e-mail with students in Mexico where the butterflies migrate. They write letters to the students in Mexico, as well.