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Keep Your Brain in the Game: Grades 3-5
Boost physical activity as well as concept proficiency with brief bursts of movement. Before taking a test, scholars vote on five exercises to complete from a set of 8 cards. After two minutes, learners begin their work with heightened...
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We Are All Different in Many Ways!
Students discuss differences such as skin color, eye color, hair color, emotions, families, etc., to reinforce that it is okay to be different.
Joe Paprocki's Catechist's Journey
40 Ideas for 40 Days
From constructing a colorful paper chain for learners to keep track of their Lenten goals to baskets of plastic eggs filled with suggestions for observing Holy Week, here you'll find a variety of activities and ideas for...
Do2Learn
Social and Emotions Picture Cards
Social and emotional skills are a difficult task for people with autism to master. Help them become more aware of day-to-day emotions as well as how to express them with this massive set of picture cards.
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Human Heredity II
Using deductive skills and reasoning based on the data provided about a family's blood genotype, blood phenotype, chromosomes, and genetic conditions, 9th graders answer the questions below. The conditions discussed are Down Syndrome and...
Mobile Education Store
StoryBuilder for iPad
Invite your kids to tell all sorts of stories with this interactive app. Learners view images and record their own voices as as they create short narratives to go along with the images. The app provides plenty of...
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Create and Analyze Rectangular Patterns
Learners explore the concept of geometric patterns. For this geometric pattern lesson, students use Microsoft Excel to explore geometric patterns. Learners analyze growth rates of pattern growth. Students create their own patterns...
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"A Bright Moon Last Night" Comprehension Activity
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students color a picture and read a sentence about it, then answer questions about the sentence read and practice tracing the word "night."
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Living things
In this living things worksheet, students color the pictures of living things. Students circle 3 pictures and have 5 to choose from.
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Comprehension: The Bouncing Ball
In this comprehension: the bounding ball worksheet, student color the picture, read the sentence, answer 3 multiple choice questions about the story, trace and write the word ball.
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Groups We Belong To
Learners explore society by completing a class identification activity. In this student identification instructional activity, students participate in a classification activity in which learners with a certain hair, eye or clothing color...
Overcoming Obstacles
Staying Healthy
The third lesson in the Building Confidence module focuses on healthy habits. Middle schoolers engage in activities that underscore the need for a healthy diet, daily exercise, and a good night's sleep. They create customized food and...
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Periodic Table Families
In this periodic table learning exercise, students complete a graphic organizer by listing the elements in each of the periodic table families.
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Fact Families in Kid Pix
Second graders study Fact Families in Kid Pix. They use the mouse to open, close and navigate within this application. They assess one click to select, double click to open, drag to highlight, drag and drop, drag to select an area, use...
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Math: Matching Rods and Religion
Math and religious studies are integrated together using using cuisenaire rods and Kid Pix for this problem-solving exercise. In pairs, they match different colored rods to represent various groups of people. Meanwhile, students at...
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There's a Rainbow on My Plate
Students complete a variety of activities to learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables. In this healthy eating lesson, students complete activity sheets, make a wall poster, create a take home flyer, participate in a...
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What Genes Do You Have?
A great handout to introduce genetics. Young geneticists will begin to examine which traits are prevalent in their own families, helping them begin to understand the concept of dominant and recessive genes. This is an excellent resource...
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #3
Students explore the meaning of unique and special. They study about why a birthday is significant. They investigate how families celebrate birthdays in different ways and they reflect on why growing up is a good thing.
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Designing Families
Students design a tee shirt that depicts some aspect of their family history.
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Role Models
First graders identify heroes by researching their family history. In this personal heritage lesson, 1st graders define the term "hero" and the characteristics that represent it. Students research family resources and family trees in...
Lisa Staab Shadburn
Play Therapy Activities to Enhance Self‐Esteem
Discover activities to help learners increase self-awareness, build peer and family relations, and develop positive self-esteem. Here you'll find six suggestions for instilling a sense of confidence and self awareness in youngsters. Each...
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Tracing Our Own Family Pilgrimages
The Pilgrims may have arrived in North America by way of the Mayflower, but chances are, your class members' ancestors came to the United States in another way. Guide them through an exploration of their own heritage, countries of...
Curriculum Corner
Academic Math Vocabulary
The ABCs of math are so important. Find commonly used math terms in a 42-page packet. Each page has the word, a place to write the definition, and a place to give specific examples of the term. A must-have for all math classrooms!
Mr. E. Science
The Periodic Table
This science presentation focuses on the elements in the periodic table. It begins with the parts of an atom, explaining atomic mass and atomic number, valence electrons, and isotopes. Then it moves on to discuss various ways of...