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Pecan Fingerprints
Students investigate the traits that make them individuals. They study that natural items have traits that make them unique by looking at pecans. They make fingerprint animals which they use to design fingerprint cards.
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Exploring Probability
Fifth graders work in small groups of five or six to conduct a series of investigations. While recording the results using pencils on individual tally worksheets rotating to different stations and comparing results with the other...
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Sammy's Wish
In this reading response worksheet, students read a story about a boy's wish. Students give their opinion about the end of the story and have the opportunity to continue writing about the boy's adventures.
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Elodea Lab
Students observe the changes between elodea leaves placed in darkness and light. In this life science lesson, students experiment to find evidence of photosynthesis in elodea leaves. Students use indicators to detect the presences...
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Making a Globe
Young scholars examine the mercator projection or nautical chart and observe how global maps do not have the same distance as flat maps. They design handmade globes using the meridians and equator as guides to draw in the land. They...
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Color Investigation Puzzle
Try making words on the screen disappear by changing the background color of this page. Add or subtract red, green, or blue, and see how light is made up of many different colors.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Colored Animal Game for Kids
How did this zebra turn green? Do the other zebras like him still? Young writers click on the animal button and the color button until they find a combination they want to write about. Then they write a story about the animal including...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Mark Twain's "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It." Neutral phrases are blue while non southern phrases are red and southern phrases are...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chinese Jade: An Introduction
What is jade? The English term "jade" is used to translate the Chinese word yu, refers to a number of minerals including nephrite, jadeite, serpentine and bowenite, while jade refers only to nephrite and jadeite. Chemically nephrite is a...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Rainbow Math Activity Plan
Red apples, orange candles, yellow stars, green frogs, and blue, indigo, and violet flowers-they all add up to Rainbow Math fun! During this adventure children learn the colors of the rainbow as they practice counting, adding and...
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Prism: "The Tone of American Pie" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted the lyrics to Don McLean's "American Pie." Details with a nostalgic tone are blue while details with a sad tone are red and an indignant or outraged tone...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Color Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Are your students still using words like red, blue and green instead of words like crimson, aqua and emerald to describe nouns? This flipchart will jump start them into thinking about more interesting...
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Prism: "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Maya Angelou's poem "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." Details that show unjust treatment are blue while details that show poverty are green, and details...
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Prism: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Text highlighted in blue represents insightful details, red represents things that are difficult to understand,...
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Prism: "The March of the Flag" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Albert J. Beveridge's "The March of the Flag (1898)." Text highlighted in blue shows benevolence while red shows economic interest in red, and...
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Prism: "Mine Is a Wide Estate" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Still's "Mine is a Wide Estate." Text details that are neutral are blue, non-Appalachian are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see...
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Prism: "Affrilachia" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Frank X. Walker's "Affrilachia." Text details that are neutral are blue, African-American are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of...
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Prism: "The Road Not Taken" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Text details related to sight are blue, time are red, and agency are green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...
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Prism: "What Mitosis Has to Do With Families" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have ReadWorks' "What Mitosis Has to Do with Families." Text details related to descriptions are blue, definitions/examples are red, and comparisons/contrasts are green....
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Prism: "What I Learned From the Incredible Hulk" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Aimee Nezhukumatathil's "What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk." allusions are blue, questions or pauses are red, and details that are liked or important...
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Prism: "Tom Sawyer Chapter 2 Opening" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted the opening of chapter 2 of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer. Emotional details are blue, sensory details are red, and nature details are green. Click on any word to...
![Prism: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Excerpt]" Visualization Activity](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/177128-01c8c981ebc00a5db97e6ea78230ac52.jpg?1661558148 "Prism: \"The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Excerpt]\" Visualization Activity")
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Prism: "The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Excerpt]" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue." Diction is blue while tone is red and imagery is green. Click on any word to see the...
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Prism: "Maples" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Judith Pordon's "Maples." Imagery is blue while personification is red and archetype is green. Click on any word to see the percentage of users that...
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Prism: "Sam and Jack" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative. Details that show pathos are blue while details that show catalogue are red and details that show epistrophe...