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Remembering Jackie Robinson
Students create a list of famous African Americans, then read a news article about Jackie Robinson. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then students read the news...
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Apples Are A...peeling
Second graders participate fully in cooperative learning groups, assuming all the different job roles.
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Magnetic Discovery Bottle
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data. In this magnet lesson students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets.
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Historical Fiction- Thanksgiving
Students write a story. In this historical fiction lesson, students research how Thanksgiving began. Students write a fictional story where they are a main character of this time period.
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Symmetry Collage
First graders, in groups, studying symmetry, compose collages and bulletin boards.
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Faces of the Family
Middle schoolers and teachers share their individual concept of families to begin the lesson. As they read different pieces of literature, they keep a journal of the activities and problems each main character gets into. To end the...
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Reader Rabbit 1
Second graders participate in a reading lesson in order to improve phonics skills. They generate the short vowel sound in CVC pattern words. Students blend beginning consonant, short vowel sound and final consonant into words.
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The Punch and Judy Show
Young scholars view a puppet show and learn how people from the past spent their leisure time. In this puppet show lesson plan, students view the show and see how people 400 years ago would spend their time. Then young scholars get to...
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Two Vowels Making one Sound
First graders become word detectives and find words with the vowel combinations: "ee" and "ai". In this phonics lesson, 1st graders read the words they find and create pictionaries of the words read.
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Show Me The Money
Students use "play money" as manipulatives, moving from coin identification to coin combinations totaling one dollar. They combine classroom work with Internet sites. Students use a buddy system to practice writing and solving word...
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Changing Sounds
Students listen to sound. For this changing sounds lesson, students play instruments to help them hear volume and pitch. Students use the interactive whiteboard to experiment how change can make sounds go higher or lower.
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Ants in Your Pants
First graders read "One Hundred Angry Ants" by Elinor Pinczes. They identify various sums that equal ten and display them on a chart.
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Food Labels Lesson
Students analyze nutrition by completing an interactive activity with classmates. In this food choice activity, students discuss the importance foods have on our daily lives by keeping us healthy and giving us energy. Students examine...
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What Sense Does It Make?
Students identify the five senses and their functions and explain what information each sense gives us. They collect information gained through observation and experiences. They practice identifying new vocabulary words from the word wall.
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Shopping
In this asking questions worksheet, students go out in the field and do some shopping while asking the questions given and writing the answers they find. Students ask 25 questions.
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15 Common Grammar Mistakes in Written and Oral Work
In this grammar worksheet, students will read 5 of the 15 most common grammatical errors in written and oral work. There are 2 examples of each mistake and 2 examples of the corrected mistake.
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What Is It? Tommy Tastes
Students complete multi-curricular to learn about senses and sensory words. In this sensory words lesson, students discuss the five senses and the anatomy of a tongue. Students complete a food tasting activity and find descriptive words...
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Magnetism
Students explore physical science by participating in a class science activity. In this magnet attribute instructional activity, students define a list of scientific vocabulary terms associated with magnets and participate in hands on...
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Microscopes
Microscopes are more than instruments. They are windows into the scientific world.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Sound-Alike Words 1
In this listening and speaking worksheet, students will read 20 sentences each containing a misspelled homophone. Then students will circle the misspelled homophone and write the correct sound alike word on the line.
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The Earth, Sun Mood and Stars Unit (Planets too!)
Fifth graders prepare five activities to do then show their energy saving skills. In this investigative instructional activity students create five projects then participate in an energy saving demonstration.
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Pick a Particle: In, On or Up
In this online interactive grammar worksheet, students read sentences that are missing participles. Students mentally make note of the words that should fill in each of the blanks and then click to reveal the correct answers.
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The Family Tree
In this patterns practice worksheet, students read a 3-paragraph excerpt regarding a family tree and respond to 1 graphic organizer question and 1 short answer question.
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Family and Friends
Students examine the importance of family, investigate sharing time with family and participate in a family experiment. In this family lesson students over a one week period sit down to dinner with their families and make...