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Uen: Family Responsibilities
Lesson that helps students understand that people share responsibilities. Students discuss the jobs families have to do around the house and identify who in the family does each job.
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Uen: 1st Grade Act. 11: Fairy Tale Riddles & Puppet Shows
During this multi-day unit, students will engage in segmentation and blending skills. Students will work with fairy tales and include them into a puppet show.
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Uen: Matter: I Love Density
Directions for a lab that compares the density of a marble, wood, water and two different types of candy bars.
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Uen: Force, Energy, and Motion: Complex Machines for Simple Tasks!
Designed for Grade Eight, this collection of lessons provides information, examples and quizzes related to simple machines. Elementary students studying this topic will find this site informative as well.
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Uen: Understanding Decimals
This math game will help students understand the connection between fractions and decimals. Students will use dice, a recording sheet, and their number sense as they find equivalent fractions from decimals. During the other part of the...
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Uen: Offspring Traits Asexual Is the Question!
Get an overview of the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction. You'll also be able to contrast the two types of reproduction to better understand the advantages of each. Students are then asked to construct a Venn diagram comparing...
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Uen: Blowing and Flowing
Students make predictions about the erosion of three types of soil. The three soil types contain varying amounts of vegetation. This investigation requires the construction of an erosion table. The activity takes only 45 minutes, but the...
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Uen: Weathering Landforms
This lesson plan will demonstrate the mechanical weathering process known as frost wedging and the biological weathering process caused by plants. The materials required include plaster of Paris, balloons, seeds, paper plates and a...
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Uen: Patterned Paragraphs
Students will learn about the importance of including specific details when writing. Students will watch the teacher model "How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich." Then student will replicate the process for writing with specificity as...
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Uen: The Cinderella Projects
Students will compare and contrast various versions of Cinderella in the mini-unit. Students will engage in shared readings, an art project, and dramatic play during the unit.
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Uen: Equivalent Expressions
This multi-segment lesson plan uses games and calculators to explore the concept of equivalent expressions. Learners work together using inverse operations to isolate variables in algebraic equations. It also provides attachments for...
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Uen: Whittle, Whittle It Down: Summarizing
This multi-day jigsaw activity engages students in summary writing. Students will work in small groups after direct instruction and write short summary paragraphs. Students will refer to the 'Five Rules For Writing a Summary' chart for...
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Uen: Tracking Sunrise and Sunset
Young scholars will collect, record, and graph the sunrise and sunset times to see how they change throughout the year.
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Uen: Why Angle Changes Intensity
This hands-on activity will help students understand why summer is hotter than winter.
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Uen: Facs: Communication
This lesson plan is to help students identify good listening and talking skills. The different kinds of communication are verbal, written, and non-verbal. Included in this instructional activity are activities for each type of...
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Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Dry Farming in Utah
Provides information about dry farming in general as well as specific information about dry farming in Utah.
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Uen: Animal Coverings
In this lesson, students sort animal pictures by their body coverings. They learn about the functions of animal coverings and where the different categories might live.
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Uen: Lesson Plan: You Were There!
Comprehensive activity plan for elementary-level young scholars that uses literature to enhance social studies content. Students read a work of historical fiction about the Boston Massacre (My Brother Sam Is Dead by James and Christopher...
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Uen: 5th Grade Opinion Writing Prompt
In this lesson, 5th graders are asked to write an opinion about whether the United States should stop using pennies. Their opinion must be based on ideas and information from the two reading passages provided.
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Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 05: Olympics
Stuents will participate in the shared reading of Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy. After the reading, 2nd graders will fill out an Olympic events recording sheet.
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Uen: Camp Paws and Claws & Farm Animals
Students will visit centers about farm animals. The tradebooks Mrs. Wishy Washy, The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, and Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type will be featured at the centers. Students will record their observations in...
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Uen: Lower Grade Basketball Activities
Students will learn basic basketball skills and drills during this lesson. Different types of dribbles and tosses are the foci during the lesson.
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Uen: Decoding Two Syllable Words
The lesson will focus on reading and writing to meet a Phonics and Word Recognition standard: decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. The lesson is a review of two-syllable words using a...