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Clucking Chickens
A comb, wattle, and beak are three characteristics that describe a chicken. Your class can explore the life of a chicken through reading, art, movement, and music. Using a plastic cup and string, they'll create a pretend chicken that...
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Math Games Students Like to Play
These may not all be your cup of tea, but you'll likely find some gold in this math games packet. Find brief, easy-to-execute games (like Integer Football) and that are perfect for review or even a substitute teacher plan.
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Reader's Theatre for The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza
Students participate in reader's theatre. For this compare and contrast lesson, students read the book The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza. This lesson promotes fluency and expression. Students also read the traditional story of the Little...
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Jogging Chicken Dance
Students engage in a light cardiovascular instant activity while actively listening for audible cues.
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RPS evolution
Stuck inside on a rainy day for PE? Try a fun game that will get your little learners moving around inside during wet weather. The game involves moving like various animals and peer interaction through games of rock-paper-scissors.
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The Ogre Bully
English language arts, math, science, dramatic arts, and cooking; this lesson plan has it all! In this multidisciplinary resource, your scholars will take part in a read aloud of The Ogre Bully by A.B. Hoffmire and have a grand...
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DNA Extraction with Kitchen Chemistry
Young scholars extract DNA from green peas. In this DNA extraction lesson plan, students use a blender to chop up peas, they mix them with a little soap, they tenderize them and they mix them with alcohol to see the DNA precipitate...
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Egg Toss
This cross curricular lesson involves eggs. Students read about eggs. A counting game involving an egg carton and ping pong balls (eggs) is played as students toss balls into numbered egg carton cups and adding their score. Students...
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King Henry's Meat Group
Second graders hear a story about King Henry the Egg, Little D and the meat group. They act out the parts as the story is read aloud and complete a worksheet. They pantomime activities that use and build muscle
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Al Gore Heats up a Debate
In this current events worksheet, students analyze political cartoons about Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Students respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Story switch up
Gather your class around to hear the real story of Jack and the Bean Stalk. In this version Jack is mean and rude, and the Giant is friendly and kind. Have your class rewrite a classic fairy tale to build strong written communication...
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A Healthy Diet is a Balancing Act
It's important to teach kids how to have a balanced diet. They are provided with six different meals, they fill in the blanks to complete each one to make it balanced. The answers could be anything and the meals offered don't seem very...
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Idiom Exercise
Don't let your pupils bite off more than they can chew! Comprehending idiomatic speech can be very perplexing to language learners. Readers must use context clues, common sense, and knowledge of the connotative and denotative meanings to...
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Simple Past
An interactive online instructional activity for practicing simple past tense verb forms features cute pictures, and offers a decent challenge with three exercises. First, learners choose the correct form of a verb from a drop-down menu...
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Country Sayings Exercise
In this idioms instructional activity, learners read 12 country expressions or colloquial expressions and then match each with its correct meaning, Students then write down 3 colloquial expressions or idioms from their language and...
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Maxim Mix Up
In this language arts activity, students rewrite ten well saying into mixed up sentences. There are 9 mixed up sentences the students must decipher to get their other 9 well known saying. There is an answer key provided.
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Full Dolch Word List
Sight words are listed based on how frequently they are used. There are 250 words on the list. This would be a good, general resource for a teachers of grades 1 - 3. It is useful to know what words your class should know, and how well...
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Group Initiatives
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Stone Fox Chapter 1
In this comprehension worksheet, young scholars read chapter 1 of Stone Fox and complete multiple choice questions. Students complete 10 questions.
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Philanthropy: What Is It?
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students hear stories of philanthropists, discuss what philanthropy is, and create a philanthropy poster.
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How Fragile Is an Egg?
Young scholars design a "container" for his/her egg to determine whether the egg remain intact when dropped from a predetermined height.
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Replace a Word
Learners read Dolch words and use them in their own sentences. In this sight words lesson, students read sentences from their teacher and identify the Dolch words needed to complete the sentences from a list. Learners then write Dolch...
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Emily Carr: Reading Comprehension
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about Emily Carr. Students then attempt to determine the meanings of italicized words from the context in which they were used.
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Louisiana Folklife Bingo (North Louisiana)
In this Louisiana folklife bingo worksheet, learners test their knowledge on a game board that displays information on Louisiana folklife.