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Sound Search (Elementary, Reading/Writing)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars learn initial sound recognition by walking through the school and its grounds looking for items that begin with the same sound as their first name.
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Jambo Means Hello: An Introduction To Swahili

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students gain an appreciation for Swahili as a language spoken in many parts of Africa. They share and illustrate words from their own culture using English and Swahili and others to create a word quilt.
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Track the Meteor Storm Online!: Leonid Meteor Showers, Astronomy

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Students are guided through an online series of readings and questions to explore the Leonid Meteor Showers and related topics. Modifications are provided for teaching this lesson to k-4, 5-8, and 9-12 students.
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A Virtual Museum of the Mojave Desert

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners study deserts and the plants, animals, and people who inhabit them. In groups, they create their own stories about the inhabitants of the Mojave desert.
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Feelings From A to Z

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders express and interpret information and ideas. They identify a variety of feelings and their effect on people. They explain how someone's actions can cause someone else to have a specific feeling.
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Spelling Review Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students play a fast-paced game to review spelling words. This quick spelling practice game can fill a 2-minute transition time or serve as a 20-minute review lesson. It can be used in a class which has the same, or different spelling...
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Indiana Igloo

For Teachers K - 1st
Your young charges practice identifying the /i/ sound in this lesson. The class looks at words on cards and identifies which word has the target sound. They continue their practice using Elkonin letterboxes to spell words with the /i/...
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How Many Feet Will We Meet?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Emerging speakers distinguish between the sounds for short vowel /e/ and long vowel /e/. They are introduced to the vowel patterns that comprise the long vowel sounds, with emphasis on /ee/. They practice reading and spelling a variety...
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Pumpkin Carving Sequencer

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students arrange illustrations in sequential order. In this text organization instructional activity, students access a webpage where they must follow the instructions to learn about the steps of pumpkin carving. Students then click and...
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Making and Describing Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of creating and describing 2D and 3D shapes.  Using geometry your scholars will describe the attributes of shapes and their properties.  They explore and discover what happens when you combine shapes and then take...
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States Database Searching and Sorting

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders search and sort prepared databases for information to use in classroom projects, locate, gather, evaluate, organize, and analyze information.
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Voting Simulation

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students explore the process of voting. They study the lawmaking branch of the state government.
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Stereotyping of Native Americans

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Here is a lesson that covers the stereotyping of Native Americans in American culture is here for you. Learners see that there are many instances of stereotyping that are an accepted part of our society. After a lengthy discussion, a...
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Fill a Jar

For Teachers K - 6th
Sometimes short lesson outlines are enough to give you a great idea. Young writers draw any object inside an image of a jar, that doesn't belong in a jar. They can draw a tree, truck, or dinosaur. Tip: Have kids write a short story...
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Buoyant Behavior

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Combine science and literature with this lesson on buoyancy. Read There's an Ant in Anthony by Bernard Most to examine words containing the letters a, n, and t. Then introduce your class to the word "buoyant." Demonstrate how an egg...
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"Painting" More Expressive Language

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to the book Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me, by Eric Carle. They create an illustration using a computer paint program. Learners type one sentence describing their picture into a text box in the paint program to explain...
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Hand-Painted Paper Fruits and Vegetables

For Teachers 1st
First graders create hand painted fruits and vegetables to hang in the Sukkah, a temporary shelter used during the Jewish Holiday, Sukkot. They are excited about the creation of the works of art and the lesson engagement is high being...
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Hand Drawing

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Explore contour and shape with your class as they  complete a hand drawing. This resource outlines important points to focus on as you teach learners of any age how to successfully draw a human hand using a contour or single-line...
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Getting To Know You

For Teachers K
Students use personal information to enter into a teacher generated database. The focus is upon name recognition and promoting socialization with classmates. Word recognition is emphasized with the simple development of basic computer...
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Slim Pig

For Teachers K - 1st
Beginning readers study the short /i/ sound. First they determine how the mouth moves when they say the target words in a tongue twister. They complete letterbox activities by making words with the short /i/ before reading What Is It and...
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Winter Syllables pg. 1

For Students K - 1st
It's winter! Bring the winter theme into your classroom with a syllable worksheet. Scholars identify the winter picture, clap the number of syllables in the word, and then write in the matching number of syllables for the word. There are...
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Things You Find in the Classroom: Alphabetical Order

For Students 3rd - 4th
This back-to-school instructional activity requires alphabetizing typical school and classroom vocabulary. A word bank and space for writing is provided.
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Next up: A neat "N" Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
Challenge your high schoolers' research skills by having them use the Internet to find the answers to the trivia questions in this on-line worksheet. Answers all begin with the letter "N." All sorts of questions are posed: everything...
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A is for Area, B is for Billion

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use important math vocabulary by creating an illustrated storybook. They become familiar with the mathematics terms they encounter on a standardized test and connect these words to the world around them.

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