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Rituals, Scapegoats, and Mobs...Oh My!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
One way to teach "The Lottery," a suspenseful and rich short story by Shirley Jackson.
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Punctuation

For Students 3rd - 6th
Sharpen those punctuation skills with this multiple choice worksheet. There are 10 sentences to read, and learners make corrections where needed. Tip: Have your emerging editors go back to their own written work and edit where necessary.
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Pilgrims and Puritans

For Teachers 11th - 12th
With graphic organizers galore, learners will follow the changes of church and state in early colonial America. They look at the differences between the pilgrims and the puritans in terms of beliefs and life ways. Myths and...
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Web of Interdependence

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the colonial era and the crafts practiced in each of the trades as an expression of the interdependence the colonists had on each other. The impact of emigration from an American colonial town is experienced as...
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He Said, She Said, So: What's the Point?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin! Upper graders and middle schoolers read the story The Three Little Pigs and other tales related to the story from various points of view. They use the Internet to find more stories from...
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"Big Three" Bailouts

For Students 9th - 12th
What does your class think about big business bailouts by the U.S. Government? Find out with this activity, where learners analyze a political cartoon comparing the "Big Three" automakers with the Greek Myth of Sisyphus. Background...
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Introduce Vocabulary: I Love You the Purplest (Joosse)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Use Barbara Joosse's heartwarming story I Love You the Purplest (which can be found on YouTube if you don't have it) to practice vocabulary in context with emerging readers. This sensory text is an excellent opportunity to learn new...
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Additional Folklife Information

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Use a packet packed with ideas for how to celebrate the traditions of your country, state, community, and pupils's families. Suggestions for how to draw on oral and material traditions, customs, beliefs, music, and stories all find a...
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A Plump and Perky Turkey

For Teachers K
Help readers recognize elements in a story. They will use pictures and text to gain meaning from written material. Have learners listen to the story A Plump and Perky Turkey and participate in a discussion. They recognize the Internet...
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Simple Past

For Students 2nd - 5th
An interactive online instructional activity for practicing simple past tense verb forms features cute pictures, and offers a decent challenge with three exercises. First, learners choose the correct form of a verb from a drop-down menu...
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Holiday Greeting Cards: A Graphing Activity

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students examine statistics about the popular type of greeting cards and create pie or bar chart using an online tool. They illustrate the sales statistics for the greeting cards before making the charts.
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Tis the Season for Turkey Math

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Put a mathematical twist on the classic turkey-related projects.
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Dreaming to Come to America

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine reasons for immigration to America, including economic, political, and religious considerations, and conduct research to determine immigration history of students' families and compare reasons other groups have come to...
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Numbers in Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students choose a number from one to twelve and tell a number story about it. They listen to the teacher read "Numbers in Art" by Lucy Micklethwait. Students choose three numbers from one to twelve and view works of art while looking for...
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Make This Week's Lessons Pop(corn)!

For Teachers K - 7th
Students create popcorn timelines, maps, and graphs; do popcorn science and math; explore popcorn history and nutrition; and munch leftover popcorn snacks too!,
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Asian and Other Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view and discuss a video showing different festivals celebrated in Asian cultures. They participate in a class survey of the different festivals celebrated in their own families and brainstorm the purposes for festivals. In...
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Where I Come From

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine family traditions as a microcosm of larger cultures. They examine their own family traditions to identify how beliefs, values, and customs vary from culture to culture and how those traditions influence their perception...
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State Facts A Right Angle Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
In this geometry worksheet, students create words making a right angles each time. There are 50 questions to be solved with an answer key.
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Author’s Purpose Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this author's purpose worksheet, students read a few sentences about a book and then answer short answer questions about the author's purpose. Students complete 12 questions.
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Sisyphusian Auto Bailouts

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about auto bailouts and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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"A Christmas Carol" Novel Study

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Lesson plan ideas for the story "A Christmas Carol."
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The 50 States and its Holidays

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
Though the format of this ELL lesson is confusing (the standards listed are for plate tectonics, yet the objectives are for American geography and holidays), a teacher could glean some ideas from the main idea. Here, pupils complete a...
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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

For Students 11th - 12th
In Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas chapter questions worksheets, students complete several activities of chapter questions to advance their understanding of the text.
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Halloween Candy Sort

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use their Halloween candy to practice sorting and classifying. They compete a Venn diagram comparing their candy wrappers. They develop ways as a class to catorgize the candy in different ways.

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