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Reading Adventure Pack: Green Eggs and Ham

For Parents K Standards
A reading of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and a nonfiction book of your choice begins a reading adventure pack comprised of three hands-on activities. Following the reading, scholars craft a food mobile made of colorful fruit and...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech as Visual Text

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young historians watch a video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his "I Have a Dream" speech and answer questions that test their knowledge of the event. After discussing the fact sheet, they reread the speech, select a phrase or...
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Great Leap Forward

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore Web sites dedicated to Leap Day and leap years, create a checklist for reviewing Web sites, and write reviews of Leap Day and leap year Web sites.
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Party Time: Partners of Ten

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this numbers worksheet, students draw how many more birthday items are needed for a 10-child birthday party, then write the partners of 10.
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Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Learning Unit

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore counting and classification. They sort leaves, create graphs, write sentences for the data in the graphs, develop graphs for shapes, favorite animals, birthdays, and participate in a die prediction game.
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Worksheet
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Test Your Research Skills - Famous Britons – When Were They Born?

For Students 9th - 11th
In this research skills worksheet, students write a list of 15 famous Britons in their birth order. They find the birthday of each one using an encyclopedia or an Internet search.
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Shapes and Colors Practice- Squares

For Students K - 1st
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students learn to recognize the square shape. Students analyze a picture of birthday packages and trace the squares and color them red.
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Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln. In this Lincoln celebration lesson, students create short films using images and narrate facts found online.  Students use a video editing program and publish final products on Lincoln's...
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Growing Native Plants From Seed

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders plant seeds of native plants. They study the concepts of native plants, where they grow, how they grow, and why they are so special. They assess long term care monitoring the seedlings as they grow and write the name...
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Enchanted Enhancements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this writing worksheet, young scholars insert descriptive words or phrases into a story to enhance it. Students are given examples of adjectives to use in this story about a family surprising a boy on his birthday.
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Primary History: Children of Victorian Britain - Rich and Poor Families

For Students 5th - 7th
In this world history worksheet, students examine the lives of rich and poor families. They research information about Queen Victoria's children, imagine they are a child in a Victorian nursery, and compare a Victorian birthday party...
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Is There a Wocket in my Pocket?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Accompany Dr. Seuss' Is There a Wocket in my Pocket? with this graphic organizer. Young readers make inferences about why the main character has certain feelings towards the creatures found in the story. 
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Investigating: Interpreting Graphs and Analyzing Data

For Teachers K
Students explore statistics by researching class birthday data. In this data analysis lesson, students investigate the different birthdays among their classmates and create data tables based on the given information. Students view bar...
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Winnie the Pooh Loves to Read, Too

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders engage in a lesson plan which provides a purpose for reading, writing, and technology. It also instills a sense of pride in students as they create birthday cards for a reading project in the community called, "Happy...
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Courageous Voices that Shook the Nation to Action

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars study Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. In this Martin Luther King, Jr. day lesson, students learn about the holiday for Dr. King through literature and music. Young scholars learn the lyrics to Stevie Wonder's 'Happy...
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Calendar -- Months of the Year

For Teachers 1st
First graders study the months of the year. They enjoy making a class book using their birthdays and the types of weather in that month. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to design their book.
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Let's Celebrate!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, as a whole class, create a calendar of holidays using cards. Afterward, they add their birthdays to the calendar.
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Forces and Balloons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the forces of compression, tension and torque on common birthday balloons.
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Life of a Chinese Emperor Through Art

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create an invitation to the Chinese Emperor Qianlong's birthday party using historical knowledge of the Emperor and customary practices of the time. This lesson suggests using Microsoft Publisher for creation of...
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Numbers, Time, Dates, and Prices

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this reading numbers worksheet, students say a series of varying numbers. Students practice saying ordinal numbers, time of the day, dates of the year, fractions, and prices. Students also write numbers for their address, birthday,...
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Environmental Graphing

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students experiment with graphing. In this graphing introduction lesson, students complete four activities: 1) a bar graph based on class birthdays 2) an estimation graph of the raisins in raisin bread 3) another estimation example with...
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Civil War Time Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students draw a time line on graph paper on a scale of one square to every five years beginning in 1770 and ending at 2000. They place historic events and inventions in their correct time period on the time line, and add their birthday...
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Mathematicians

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore famous mathematicians. In this mathematician lesson, students investigate for a mathematician who share their birthday and research their accomplishments in math.
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Presidents Day

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students access a variety of Presidents Day themed websites. They locate the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, biographies, timelines, memorials and documents written by both men.

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