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Creating an Interesting Setting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this setting worksheet, students fill out a chart for seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting, and hearing in a setting. Students complete 20 boxes total in the chart.
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Awesome Alliterations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review examples of alliteration in Shel Silverstein's poems. They are assigned a letter of the alphabet and then write an original alliterative poem using that letter.
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The Art of Simple Machines

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the inventions of simple machines in our past and how they affect us today.  In this engineering lesson, students discover who Rube Goldberg was and his ideas about complicated machines performing very simple tasks....
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Words into Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the history of writing through images, and the universal themes that are still relevant.  In this communications lesson, students analyze a group of symbols on the black board and must translate them into a complete...
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Fractal Fraction Fun

For Teachers K - 8th
Students discover the interesting patterns and shapes referred to as "fractals."  In this geometry lesson, students utilize pieces of colored construction paper to create the branches of a fractal tree.  Students discuss the rules and...
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In the Loop

For Teachers K - 8th
Students practice comparing items by using a Venn diagram.  In this diagram instructional activity, students divide a group of similar buttons by the small details that separate them using a Venn Diagram.  Students compare and contrast...
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Can You Believe Your Eyes?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students investigate hidden messages by analyzing images.  In this art analysis lesson, students assess specific photographs by their use of light, framing, distortion and size.  Students create their own juxtapositions in images and...
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Art and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine the writing process by describing a piece of art.  In this art analysis instructional activity, students examine a painting in a museum and write a story describing the painting to someone who has never seen it before....
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We Garden: My Life as a Fruit or Vegetable

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore agriculture by participating in a role-play activity. In this farm to fork lesson, students ask and answer questions as though they were a specific plant about to be eaten. Students write responses to critical thinking...
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Just the Facts, Ma'am

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use tables of content, chapter titles, and key words as a strategy for organizing non-fiction information. They write a paragraph with a partner using information from a graphic organizer.
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What I Dream For:

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate about the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr., watching video clips from unitedstreaming. They identify ways that they can help make Martin Luther's dream of peace a reality. Pupils identify contributions that...
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Comma Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
In this comma exercise worksheet, learners are given 18 sentences they must proofread and edit for comma usage.
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Lake Log: Diary of the Basin

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners log news articles about the changes in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin. In this wetlands and news lesson, students track articles about the wetlands area around Lake Pontchartrain, write brief summaries, include pictures, and put...
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Choosing Plymouth - Pilgrim Study Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils identify the principal physical features the Pilgrims considered when choosing the location of Plymouth. They create a postcard to send to a friend in Europe as if they were a Pilgrim; illustrating one aspect of the settling in...
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Follow the Drinking Gourd: Creative Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct Internet research to identify the conflicts and positions of slaves, slaveholders, and members of the Underground Railroad network in the time preceding the Civil War. Students write an essay about their findings written...
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Third Conditional

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this grammar worksheet, learners will match an "If you'd..." statement with the correct "...I would have..." statement for a total of 14 sentences.
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Types of Prepositions

For Students 5th
In this grammar instructional activity, 5th graders examine the use of relation and location prepositions. They identify prepositions, and write lists of prepositions to be used in sentences. Includes teacher suggestions.
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Cultural Comparison

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students choose from a group of entries about the culture of Peru. In this Peruvian culture lesson, students understand the definition of culture. Students describe the culture of Peru researched in the entry and complete a worksheet.
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Digital Storytelling

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students write a personal narrative and convert the story into digital format. In this digital storytelling lesson, students write a personal narrative, record the story, create images for the story, add animations or transitions, and...
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Sustainable Southern Belize: Coral Health Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate coral reefs and the dangers they face by labeling and drawing.  In this oceanography lesson, 5th graders view a PowerPoint presentation of photographs of coral reefs in Belize.  Students investigate and...
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Build an Ice Cap

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research Earth science by conducting an experiment in class. For this ice-cap lesson, students identify what an ice cap is and create a biome using a box which measures 1 ft. x 1 ft. Students participate in an animal...
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A "Tail" to Tell

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a sequel to the original The Three Little Pigs story or a fractured version of it and share it with classmates.
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Partner Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students interview each other to get to know one another better. They discuss hobbies, achievements, sports, and music. Then they each write a poem about their partner.
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Decimals: Collaborative Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore mathematics by participating in a group activity. In this number value lesson, students identify the uses for decimals and how to best estimate whole numbers based on decimals and fractions. Students collaborate with...

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