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Trees as Symbols: Composing Poetry and Creating Images
Learners analyze the tree as a symbol, sharing ideas in class discussion. They use art as the basis for a creative writing assignment in poetry or represent a selected poem with an original student drawing.
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Picture Prompt: Squirrel
In this story starter, a picture of a squirrel surrounded by falling leaves prompts students to think of a story idea. Students can then write the story, practicing a beginning, middle, and ending. The worksheet includes a word box area...
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Bringing Forestry into the Classroom
Here are ways to incorporate science, math, and language arts while learning more about the forests that sustain us.
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Weather "Whys"
Students complete activities to explore fall weather. In this weather lesson, students use the given links to examine weather forecasts. Students complete a weather graph activity and watch Internet field trips. Students complete fall...
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Fall Word Scramble
In this Fall word scramble worksheet, students, utilizing a word bank, practice unscrambling twenty words associated with Fall and all its different activities.
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Fruit and Vegetable Portraits
Students create complex forms from simple items. In this portrait lesson plan, students examine the work of artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and compose self-portraits using vegetables and fruits as features on the face.
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Romare Bearden
Students identify artwork by Romare Bearden and to explain his techniques. They look for cut and pasted papers and images, paint, ink and pencil designs, shapes and spaces and the rhythms therein. They listen to music by looking at...
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Seasons--Winter
This well-designed seasons worksheet has students look at 33 words, circle the words that are associated with winter, and complete 8 sentences by circling the multiple choice words that completes each sentence correctly. Students...
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Water is Life, Water is Poetry
Students read poems about water and relate to their own experiences. In this poetry lesson, students create drawings relating to a specific relevant memory. Students write a poem about the same event as their illustration.
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What color are the fish?
In this fish colors worksheet, students look at pictures of fish and choose what color that fish is. Students complete 15 multiple choice questions.
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Prepositions of Time
For this grammar worksheet, students will replace an incorrect preposition of time with the correct preposition by rewriting 15 sentences.
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Seasons: Summer
For this summer words worksheet, students analyze 36 words in a word bank and circle the "summer words". Students then read 10 sentences and from 4 choices, circle the correct word to describe summer.
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A Year
Students examine an author's philosophical look at life through anecdotes he describes as a teacher in Uzbekistan. In this Uzbekistan lesson, students analyze a literary passage in order to identify, then practice using, similes,...
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Christo/Transformations--from Discovering Great Artists
students challenge their imaginations like the artist Christo by transforming an everyday object into something new. Students use everyday objects in order to create something new. Students use materials such as objects found in nature...
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Season's Readings
Learners use descriptive language to write riddles on their favorite seasonal subjects; they illustrate the "answers" to their riddles using the medium of their choice and compile both riddles and illustrations to create a book.
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Dr. DooRiddles
In this riddle worksheet, 4th graders read the given clues and solve the riddles. Students write the missing word below each riddle on the line provided.
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Explorit's Tasty Food Quiz
In this foods instructional activity, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive instructional activity about foods that we eat.
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Sequence
First graders are read a story and discuss the beginning, middle and end. Using a piece of paper, they draw three trees each one in a different season of the year. They show their trees to the class describing each one in the correct...
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Visions of Pigs
Students examine the importance of silent reading before practicing the technique of visualization. They listen while the teacher leads they through a visualization exercise in which they imagine they are at the beach. Next, they...
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Boucher, Francois
This site provides a biography of French painter, noted for his pastoral and mythological scenes, Francois Boucher. Includes full color images of his work with captions.