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My Ocean Life Coloring Book
In this ocean life coloring book worksheet, students assemble a personal ocean life book and then color each page with a type of fish on it with appropriate colors.
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Make a Purim Pattern
In this Purim patterns worksheet, students cut out, color and match up five out of ten mini pictures to the five strips of Purim patterns shown. Students match the next pattern design in each line.
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Butterflies!
In this butterfly cut-out worksheet, students cut out circles that contain the four stages of a butterfly's life and glue them on the wings of the butterfly on the worksheet. Students are instructed to look at a butterfly's life stages...
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Make a Flower
For this flower cut out worksheet, students cut out the pieces of the flower and the labels. Students then assemble the flower on another sheet of paper and label each part. This worksheet contains 7 labels and 20 flower pieces.
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Help Santa's Elf Wrap Presents Worksheet
For this Christmas present wrapping worksheet, students cut out the 4 presents and glue them in the correct box that matches their shape. The presents are the following shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
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Holiday Gift Tags
In this holiday gift tags activity, students color and cut out 9 gift tags. There are tags for both Christmas and Hanukkah, and each tag has a space to write whom the gift is to and whom it is from.
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Snow Play
In this maze instructional activity, students draw a line through the maze to help the little boy get to his friend for the snowball fight.
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Fertilize the Corn
In this counting from one to five worksheet, students cut out three pictures with different amounts of fish on them and place them in the corn stalk with the same number on it as the number of fish in each picture.
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Make an Easter Pattern
In this Easter patterns worksheet, students analyze the pictures in each of 5 rows of Easter symbols. Students determine what the pattern is and cut and paste what would come next in the sequence.
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Train Set
In this counting to five worksheet, students cut out five trains and put them in sequential order from one to five. Students rely on the numbers printed on each train.
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Rev. Joseph Lowery: What Makes a Civil Rights Leader?
Students examine the attributes of civil rights leaders. In this Civil Rights Movement lesson, students design "body biographies" of selected civil rights leaders after they have conducted research and discussed the qualities of leaders.
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Project H.O.P.E. (Highlighting Opportunities for Potential Employment)
Learners explore career paths by creating a job scrapbook. In this employment lesson, students discuss what types of skills employers look for in the job market. Learners decide on a career they would like to explore by creating a...
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Responsibility in the Classroom
Students study responsible behavior. In this behavior lesson, students discuss ways friends show responsibility. Students take turns selecting a card about responsible behavior and describe the card's behavior. Students make a list of...
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MAXXI
Students consider building design. In this architecture lesson, students read an article titled, "MAXXI." The reading is not provided with the lesson. Students discuss the reading and design their own buildings, with attention to...
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Discriminating Issues
Students examine how U.S. Law Defines Discrimination In this lesson. They research the issues surrounding a variety of types of discrimination, and then write editorials analyzing legal and social positions on discrimination in the...
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What Do Scientists Do?
Learners do a report on distinct scientific fields using the Internet resources provided. They see the connection between what they learn in the classroom and what goes on in the enterprise of science.
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Documents Related to Churchill and FDR
High schoolers groups divide up into 2. One gathers 10 facts about FDR and the other gathers 10 facts about Churchill. On the board, they compile that facts gathered in two separate columns so they can compare and contrast these two men.
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Immigration to the United States
Third graders search TDC database for images of immigration from other countries, maps, and diaries. They identify why immigrants came to the United States and engage in a role-play simulating an experience the immigrants might have had.
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JAPAN, IMAGES A PEOPLE
Students interpret Japanese and American paintings; evaluate paintings as sources of cultural and historical information
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"Once a Jolly Swagman" (Australian vocabulary)
Students listen to the song "Waltzing Matilda" in order to become familiar with some Australian words.
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Views of the American West: True or False?
Students explain that a landscape painting may or may not accurately represent a specific place. They identify techniques that create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface.
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A Fun Way to Learn Math History!
Ninth graders, in groups, search for and locate resources on a chosen famous mathematician. Enough information needs to be gathered to examine the mathematician's life and his/her contributions to the field of mathematics.
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Heartfelt/Handmade Activities: Genre Painting
Students examine genre painting. They explore the Illinois State Museum website, identify how genre paintings were composed, analyze the activities of an Illinois farm in the 1850s, and create a genre painting of current everyday...