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American Indians and Their Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students create a storyboard of the three American Indian language groups showing the geography of where they lived and how they adapted to the environment. They compare European and American Indian views of nature and explain how these...
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For The Birds

For Teachers K - 4th
Students observe birds building their nests. In this habitat lesson, students develop a Best Building Supply Bag and record how the birds build their nests. Students keep a Field Journal.
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Spying on Spiders

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate spiders. In this spiders lesson, students create a habitat for a spider with a jar, twigs, and dirt. Students observe the behavior of the spider and record how they spend their days.
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Phonics Lesson Plans Brought to Life With Music

For Teachers K - 3rd
Phonics lesson plans using music for kindergarten through first grade can make learning about letter sounds more fun.
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Digital Storytelling Lesson Plans Bring Stories to Life

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students can use technology to enhance and improve their stories using digital storytelling lesson plans.
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Fabulous Fossils

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate how fossils are formed. They read the book, "Digging Up Dinosaurs," examine fossil samples, create a fossil imprint using play-doh, and complete a Fossil Questionnaire activity sheet.
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Making a Rainstick

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars construct a rainstick. In this music lesson, students investigate the history of the rainstick by reading the book Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema. Young scholars express their feelings about the...
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New York State Testing Program-English Language Arts Test Book 1

For Students 3rd
In this New York State Language Arts Testing Program worksheet, 3rd graders answer twenty multiple choice questions and one short answer question based on the third grade language arts curriculum.
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Sandwich Feast

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Creative! Youngsters listen to the reading of "Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich" by Shel Silverstein as a warm up activity for a lesson in punctuation. They use bread-shaped pages, one for each type of punctuation, to identify which...
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Chinese Calligraphy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore Chinese calligraphy. In this art and social science lesson, students copy the Chinese character ideograms in order to create words or phrases.
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Author’s Purpose Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In 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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Introduce Vocabulary: Ruby the Copycat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students analyze tier two vocabulary words. For this vocabulary lesson, students explore vocabulary words used in Ruby the Copycat. Students assess the meaning of new vocabulary words and record their new words in a word journal.
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Fall Bulletin Board Ideas

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Fall is a perfect time to make colorful bulletin boards that you can use to display student work.
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Awesome Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students collect data from classmates about their favorite animal. They use the ClarisWorks graphing program to enter data, graph results, and interpret data.
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Trees, Trees, Trees!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students increase their awareness and knowledge of trees. They be involved within the world around them at home and at school and hopefully become caretakers of their environment. They adopt a tree of their choice and research it.
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Japanese Inspired Activities for the Classroom

For Teachers K - 8th
Students become more aware of cultural differences by reading a variety of multicultural books about social issues. They assess various Haiku's by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Kamishibai stories by Dianne Clouet and snapshots from Japan by Peter...

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