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Fraction Strips

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this learning tool worksheet, students create fraction strips. Each strip is divided into equal parts showing fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12.
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Strip-Teasers: A Collaborative Writing activity

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young writers engage in a fun writing activity. They write three different sentences on three strips of paper. Then they get into groups of three, and take a look at all nine sentences that have been written. Their task is to write a...
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Reading Adventure Pack: Bees

For Parents 3rd Standards
A Reading Adventure pack explores the busy life of bees. After reading a fiction and nonfiction text, scholars complete three hands-on activities. Participants invent a robot that can do the work of bees, cheers to hardworking bees with...
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Don't Tell. Show!

For Students 3rd - 8th
As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.
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Timeline for Anne

For Teachers 4th - 9th
It is key to the learning process to make everything a child with visual impairments does as tactile as possible. After reading Anne of Green Gables, the class discusses her life events in order to make a tactile time line. They...
Lesson Plan
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Bouncing Bubbles

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities exploring the joys and science of bubbles. They listen to the book "Bubbles Bubbles" by Mercer Mayer, create a bubble picture using Kid Pix, and explore blowing bubbles. Students experiment...
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Take a Deep Breath: Air Today, Air Tomorrow

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This is the introductory lesson in a series about air quality. Why is it so important that we breathe clean air? How can we make sure we're keeping our air clean? A discussion is the central idea of the lesson, and example questions are...
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Patterning Fun

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice making patterns with paint and stamps.  In this arts and crafts activity, students utilize the floor of their classroom to create a giant pattern on the floor using different colored paints and foam stamps....
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Interactive Question Asker

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice studying chapters from a unit by creating an electric circuit.  In this electronic studying lesson, students utilize a file folder, hole punch, foil, light bulb and battery to create a wired circuit behind answers...
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My Friend's Sister is a Pole Dancer!

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the workout that is provided by pole dancing.  In this lesson, 8th graders read an article then complete several activities that check their comprehension of the article, such as answering questions that can...
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Egg Carton Stories

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create stories with better structure when they are able to focus on its characters, setting, and plot. Teacher creates settings, character, and problem cartons with information written on strips of paper.
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The All About Me Poster

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discover the literary genre of biographies.  In this creative writing lesson, students write about their own life experiences and personal stories.  Students create a poster about their lives, a biographical...
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Dolch Number Booklet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create a sight word booklet for number words, "one" through "ten."  In this sight word lesson plan, students write and read number vocabulary.  Students write Dolch word sentences to create a booklet.
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All About Me Poster

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this biography/autobiography lesson, students read a few biographies and discuss the term and it's characteristics. Students then brainstorm what makes a good biography/autobiography and create an 'All about me' poster. Suggested...
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I'm a Hundred, You're a Thousand

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders put themselves in the correct place value, write the correct number on paper, and create their own place value problems. The entire class plays a game using place value necklaces. This is a fun way to practice place value!
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Bountiful Butterflies

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a symmetrical butterfly after reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. They fold a piece of fingerpaint paper in half to create a crease and after paint has been added , they refold and open their...
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Patriotic Cards

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss color symbolism and patriotic colors of red, white, and blue, and create patriotic cards using Fiskars CardBoss and ShapeBoss, and Starter or Celebration Card Stencil Set.
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Earthquake Machine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore plate tectonics by conducting a class experiment. In this earthquake lesson, students utilize scrap wood, sandpaper, rubber bands and a sanding belt to create a model earthquake experiment which shakes a nearby building....
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Compound Word Match-Up

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate an understanding of compound words. They create a compound word with a partner. In addition, 2nd graders correctly use their compound word in a written sentence.
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Genres, Genres Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young readers assume the role of Genre Sleuths to investigate the characteristics of folktales, fantasies, and mysteries. For this session you will need to collect a variety of books on a topic you have been studying. Groups then examine...
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Waste Not Want Not

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners are introduced to the need to save natural resources. Through inquiry, hands-on activities, and problem solving, students increase their understanding of solid waste materials and the need to reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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In The Leaves Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students are exposed to Chinese characters. In this multicultural early childhood lesson plan, students identify objects by using folding cards which have Chinese characters on one side and the English equivalent on the other.
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Alphabetical Order- By First, Second and Third Letters

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to put words in alphabetical order by first, second or third letters. There are 12 exercises on the page.
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Thanksgiving History

For Teachers 1st
First graders decode Thanksgiving vocabulary while learning about the history of this holiday.  In this Thanksgiving history lesson plan, 1st graders listen to a story, trace their hands to make turkey feathers and listen to a...