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Lesson Plan
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Let the River Run

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the environment by reading a story in class. In this water formation instructional activity, students define environmental terms such as rivers, streams, gulf, oceans and lakes. Students read the story A River Ran Wild...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Combining Clouds and Art in the Classroom

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students observe landscape paintings consisting of cloud formations. In this identifying cloud types lesson, students discover different cloud types and characteristics by looking at paintings. Students paint their own pictures at the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Watch the Sky: Observing Clouds and Patterns

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students observe clouds outside of the classroom. In this weather lesson, students investigate and record the clouds above their classroom everyday for three weeks. The students then analyze their data and discuss what causes specific...
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Lesson Plan
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Let's Look at the Clouds!

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate the water cycle and cloud formations by examining photographs.  In this weather lesson, students observe pictures of specific cloud types and identify them by putting them in groups.  Students describe the type of...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Off to Adventure!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Give language skills a boost with a series of ESL lessons in an Off to Adventure! themed unit. Using a speak, listen, move, and look routine, scholars enhance proficiency through grand conversation and skills practice. Discussion topics...
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Mr. Indent

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Mr. Indent will help your class learn how to indent paragraphs! He flies across the screen and punches the top line over, just to make sure it's clear when a new idea begins. An entertaining presentation with some practice for youngsters.
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Lesson Plan
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Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scientists explore Earth elements by conducting an experiment. They define water vocabulary terms such as condensation and precipitation. In addition, they conduct a water experiment in which they build a terrarium, so they can...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Role Play Debate

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Suggested topics for a role play debate include school uniforms and culpability for drunk driving, but any issue of interest to your class will work. What are the hot issues in your community or on the news right now? Class members...
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Interactive
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Word Formation

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this online interactive forming words worksheet, students complete 15 sentences online by typing in the correct form of each word in parenthesis.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring Cloud Coverage

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Earth science by completing weather symbol worksheets. In this cloud identification lesson plan, students identify the different types of clouds in the sky and how they are formed. Students complete a cloud measurement...
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Lesson Plan
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Rivers... for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate U.S. geography by exploring it's bodies of water. In this river formation lesson, students identify the reasons rivers are needed in our country by reading assigned text. Students examine a diagram which explains how...
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Lesson Plan
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Inner Circle/Outer Circle Debate Strategy

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Arranged in facing concentric circles, half the class discusses an issue. The other half of the class takes notes which are then used to fuel a class discussion and to prepare editorial opinions on the topic at hand. So much emphasis is...
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Lesson Plan
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Italics or Quotation Marks?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Be sure to click "Download this Activity" to view the plan in its formatted version. The first worksheet has learners review what types of titles are italicized, underlined, or placed in quotation marks. The second page contains the...
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Lesson Plan
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Introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
"Ode to la Tortilla" and "Ode to Joy"? Sure! Use Gary Soto's poem to introduce learners to the ode format. After examining the descriptive words Soto uses, class members study a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven, suggest words that describe...
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Activity
NWT Literacy Council

How to Kit: Readers Theatre

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Immerse your class in a good story with an extensive resource featuring reader's theater techniques. The worksheets are designed for both teacher and student, and carefully explain how to organize, write, and perform stories in a...
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Reader's Theater

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Conduct a Reader's Theater. Third, fourth, and fifth graders rewrite books with a baseball theme to a Reader's Theater format. They form groups of four or five, practice reading the script, and then perform it for an audience.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing the Date

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this language arts instructional activity, students identify why a comma is used between the date and the year when writing the date. Then they copy the dates listed and use a comma when necessary.
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Lesson Plan
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What's Proper?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice using capital letters for proper nouns and adjectives. They play a matching game with word cards and correct paragraphs with incorrect capitalization, and edit their work with a partner.  
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Lesson Plan
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My Daily Routine

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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Printables
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Group Meeting Log

For Teachers K - 6th
Need a meeting log worksheet for a reading group in your class? Use a quick and easy format for your groups to monitor their progress. The questions available cover group accountability, topics discussed, and good things or problems that...
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Lesson Plan
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate water formations by conducting an experiment. In this water properties lesson, 3rd graders utilize pie tins, sponges and salt shakers to create an evaporation and saturation experiment. Students collaborate in...
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Interactive
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Possessive Adjectives With the Verb "To Be"

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this interactive grammar worksheet, students complete the illustrated sentences by using the correct possessive adjective. There are eight fill-in questions and 10 sentence formation fill-in's.
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Interactive
Curated OER

English Exercises: Subject Pronouns - Possessive Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this subject pronoun and possessive adjective interactive worksheet, students use drop down menus to fill in the missing words in a friendly letter format. They fill in 10 words. They click the "Done" button to submit their answers.
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Lesson Plan
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A Conventional Family

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore writing techniques by analyzing their own families. In this family values lesson, students view the film "The Incredibles" in class and discuss the different types of modern-day families. Learners write about their...

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