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Start-Stop Counting
Similar to the game duck, duck, goose, assemble your class in a circle. Choose a number range (within ten numbers) begin walking around the circle counting and select a child by tapping her. The child then picks up the counting sequence...
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Mouse...Mouse...Snake!
Use this activity as an anticipatory set to warm up for a instructional activity on predator/prey relationships. Pupils will play a round of "Duck, Duck, Goose," substituting the ducks and geese for two animals that have a predator/prey...
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Stella the Swan
Students study the similarities and differences between ducks, geese, and swans. They tell the story about how water fowl adapt to life in water using props.
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Who Am I?
Birds and ducks are the stars of this colorful word search. In it, learners identify 16 different species of birds and ducks. There are colorful and accurate pictures of each of the birds. Pupils must match up the picture with...
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Move Your Body- Just Like Clifford!
Learners read the book Clifford's Sports Day. In this kinesthetic instructional activity, students mimic movements from the text and participate in a game of "Simon Says."
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Stella the Swan
Students analyze the telling of a story with props. They study similarities and differences between ducks, geese and swans, how wildfowl are adapted to life in water, how wildfowl move and feed, and wildfowl family life, how they nest,...
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Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Writing to Explain: Creating How-To Scripts and Demonstrations
Excuse me, can you give me directions? Scholars examine and practice technical writing to increase their ability to write directions. They participate in discussion, watch videos, and complete an assignment to create their own directions.
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Preschool Lesson: Guinea Pigs
In this Guinea Pig themed lesson, students hear the story, Guinea Pigs Add UP! and then engage in several themed learning activities. Each activity fosters skills in letter/number recognition, art, math or writing.
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Summer Activities: Our Amazing Bodies
Students use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even size. In this early childhood science lesson, students build science and critical thinking skills as they take part in up to 6...
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Measure for Measure Act II, Scene 2 Vocabulary Magic Squares
Readers of Measure for Measure use words from Act II, scene 2 to complete a magic squares vocabulary exercise. An answer sheet is included.
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Name Scramble
For this name scramble worksheet, students practice the skill of unscrambling ten various types of birds. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Waterfowl Name Scramble
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders focus on the names of various waterfowl. Students unscramble the names of ten birds and write the names in the spaces provided below each picture.
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Animal Babies on the Farm
Learners observe pictures of farm animals and name the animals. They match the animals to their offspring in a number of matching activities.
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Animal Babies on the Farm
Students identify different farm animals and match farm animal babies to their parent(s). They recognize more specific gender terminology for farm animals.
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Shadow Know-How- Identifying Pond Species
In this science fill in the blank worksheet, students fill in 10 labels next to shadow pictures of pond animals. They check their answers with the names in the word bank at the bottom of the page.
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Name Match: Australian Birds
In this name match worksheet, students match up fourteen Australian birds with their formal names by drawing a line from one to the other.
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Oddball Out: Pond Creatures
In this problem solving worksheet, students analyze a row of pictures of various pond creatures to determine which creature is different from the others pictured.