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Colours of the Church Year

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Colours of the Church Year worksheet, middle schoolers use the chart 'Colours of the Church Year' to complete the pie-chart with the Church seasons and fill in the missing words.
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Informational Text Features

For Teachers 7th - 9th
How can you tell if the text you're reading is informational or narrative? Show your reading class this basic PowerPoint to illustrate the characteristics of an informational text. What makes this presentation especially effective is...
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Poetic Math Greeting Cards

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders work in groups; collect data in a survey; depict in tables, charts, or graphs the results of the survey; and make predictions. They use creative writing skills and computer skills to generate a greeting card of their own.
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Virtual Field Trip: Lesson Ten - Publishing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Class members publish a letter describing their Virtual Field Trip incorporating data from previously developed charts, graphs, and data tables. The final activity in a series devoted to collecting information and publishing data.
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Lobster Business Charts

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students research four Maine based businesses involved with lobster fishery as a career analysis. For this career exploration lesson, students research lobster fishery businesses and write a class book showing the progression of a...
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Water: From Neglect to Respect

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The goal of this collection of lessons is to make middle schoolers more aware of the ways in which they are dependent upon water to maintain their standard of living. Learners compare water use in Lesotho to water use in the United...
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Where Oh Where on the Playground, Do I Love To Be?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to poem, Where Oh Where On the Playground, Do I Love to Be?, and practice reading, interpreting, and making maps, charts, and graphs in surveying classmates and discussing their favorite places to play in school playground.
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Inference Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students practice assessing graphics to infer and identify an author's implicit and explicit meaning in a piece of text. They evaluate the effectiveness of information found in maps, charts, tables, graphs, diagrams, cutaways and through...
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A Research Project and Article For the Natural Inquirer

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Get your class to use the scientific process to solve a scientific problem. They utilize the Natural Inquirer magazine to identify a research question which they write an introduction to and collect data to answer. They use graphs,...
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James and the Giant Peach Plot Analysis

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
It's all about the plot, main events, and story mapping with this lesson. As the class reads the novel James and the Giant Peach, they create an excitement graph that actually charts key events and moments of excitement. After creating...
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Understanding "The Stans"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore and locate "The Stans" in Central Asia to create, write and illustrate maps, graphs and charts to organize geographic information. They analyze the historical and physical characteristics of Central Asia via graphic...
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Visual Literacy: Using Images to Increase Comprehension

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
A colorful PowerPoint is a great way to introduce the topic of visual literacy. The eye-catching presentation begins with an overview of visual literacy and then provides some specific strategies to help enhance reading comprehension. As...
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The New York Times

The Careful Reader: Teaching Critical Reading Skills with the New York Times

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The 11 lessons in this educators' guide focus on using newspapers to develop critical reading skills in the content areas.
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Catcher in the Rye Activity Pack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The Catcher in the Rye is the focus of a sampler that models some of activities included in a for-purchase packet based on J. D. Salinger's novel.
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Let's Go Shopping

For Students 4th - 5th
In this fraction and pie chart worksheet, students draw a line from the toys with the prices of 50 cents, 75 cents, and 25 cents to the pie chart that show the part of a dollar the toy costs.
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The Guise of a Graph Gumshoe

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice constructing bar, circle, and box-and-whisker graphs. They practice reading and interpreting data displays and explore how different displays of data can lead to different interpretations.
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Your Just Desserts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet. Students turn their survey results into colorful graphs.
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Spotlight on Students

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in social skills activities at the beginning of they school year that including graphing work. Each student acts as the "Top Banana" while other students ask them questions about their likes and dislikes. As a...
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Countdown to Disaster

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover the potential dangers of weather in their hometown.  In this environmental lesson, students research Hurricane Hugo and the devastation it caused South Carolina in 1989.  Students record weather data from their city and...
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Charting the Changes in Our School Forest

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the ecosystem and how forests are disappearing.  In this environmental protection lesson, 4th graders analyze the changes in their school for 2 weeks.  Students practice identifying trees, birds, and foliage...
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Bird and Breakfast

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners examine winter birds. In this KWL chart lesson, students fill out the chart and view a PowerPoint presentation. Learners then complete the chart and discuss winter birds.
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Pronouns and Nouns

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders identify nouns and pronouns from a story. For this nouns and pronouns lesson, 2nd graders review the definition of these words. Students then locate nouns and pronouns in the book they are reading. Students list these...
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Equal Parts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this equal parts worksheet, students, working with a partner, study, formulate and calculate the answers to six word problems or drawings.
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You Know, Jack

For Students 3rd - 6th
Increase communication skills, especially among your ESL population, with this activity. Get children up and out of their seats asking clarifying questions about their hypothetical friend "Jack." A chart categorizes questions into "last...

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