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Luscious Language Boxes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students experience a writing activity aimed at spicing up their writing. They use the classroom Luscious Language Box to add creative parts of speech to their writing.
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Multiplication Books

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars create multiplication books. Inside, students create addition and multiplication sentences, and write the math equation to represent the sentence.
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Solving Mysteries!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solve a mystery. In this lesson on journalism, students learn how writing an article is like solving a mystery by answering the 5 "W" questions. Students solve a mystery provided to them on an attached worksheet.
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How Do You Plan For Your Writing ?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, learners organize their thoughts for a story by creating an outline. Students use the rubric at the top to help ensure they have the components they need to write a great story.
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Reading a Local and National Weather Map

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate weather maps. For this weather lesson, students discover the meaning of different weather icons and symbols. Working independently, students use the local forecast to correctly label a state map.
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The Human Face of Flagstaff

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students make a brochure for Flagstaff, Arizona. In this geography lesson, students look at a map of Arizona and the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce sheet to find natural and human features of the city. They create a brochure describing...
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Planning a Trip

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their choice. They design a brochure to travel to the chosen cities. It should be of a quality that it could be used by a customer to decide if they would like to take this trip.
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Just How DO Those Plates Move?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students experiment with water, temperature and paper to explore how convection currents occur and how they are used to explain the movement of the Earth's plates.
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Inventions Research Reports

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders reserach inventions and create a report on a specific invention.
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Using Children's Literature to Teach Writing: No, David!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners review beginning, middle, and end of a story and how details add to a story.
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Does Word Choice Affect the Quality of a Piece of Writing?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss the importance of word choice in writing. In groups, they rank a list of words from one extreme to the other. After viewing an example, students apply their knowledge of word choice by writing a descriptive paragraph of...
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Fairy Tale Press

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create the front page of a newspaper by writing news stories about the main characters and plots of fairy tales.
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The Postcard

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students listen to the book "Kate on the Coast" and plot her journey on a map. Then they decorate, address, and write a message on a postcard. They discuss where the postcards are being sent and plot the destinations on map.
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Expository Writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create Inspirations webs with graphics, and write five paragraph essays.
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The Nutrients Public Transportation System

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the human circulatory system by experimenting with hoses.  In this human body activity, students create a system of hoses simulating the circulatory system which they utilize to pass objects through.  Students...
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Animal Story: An Informational Narrative

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the computer to research information and publish creative narrative stories about the life of a specific Everglades animal. This lesson uses many educational, computer programs including the iLife suite, publishing...
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Outline a Travel Narrative

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are taught how to outline a fictional narrative essay. They review the definition and structure of narrative essays. Students use the activity to brainstorm specific ideas for narrative essays. They are given a...
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Solids and Water

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate mixtures made of water and familiar solid materials. They observe and discuss the changes that occur immediately and set the mixtures aside for a day. Finally, students observe the mixtures, note changes, and graph...
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Irregular Singular Verbs Review

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this verb usage worksheet, learners practice using irregular singular verbs. Students complete each sentence by adding the correct verb and matching it with the correct statement. There are ten in all.
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Adventure Stories

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students write an adventure story. In this writing lesson, students listen to an adventure story and identify the elements of an adventure story. Students use story starters to create their own adventure story.
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What is Suffrage? Understanding the Right to Vote

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover one of the restrictions forced on women of the early 1900s. In this civil rights lesson, students investigate suffrage and why women were not allowed to vote in the early twentieth century. Students create a mock...
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A Keen Sense of Smell

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate their sense of smell by experimenting with smelly objects.  In this human senses lesson, students examine the length of time it takes to smell a random object that is close to them.  Students record the different...
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Searching the Literature and Defining the Problem

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students discover the scientific method by researching a known problem.  In this problem solving lesson, students identify a problem known in the scientific community and research the Internet to find information about it.  Students...
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students discover the biases between the two genders by comparing males and females in different species.  In this gender identity instructional activity, students research National Geographic Magazine and view videos demonstrating the...

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