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Using "Was" and "Were"
In this using was and were worksheet, students practice usage by completing sentences with the words was or were. Students fill in ten blanks to complete sentences.
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Water Works Wonders
Students examine where water is found in the world, how we use it, and the various forms it takes. They observe the refraction of light through a prism, record the day and night sky over a week's time, and create a topographic model of...
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Night and Day
Students will learn that the time of day and weather in an outdoor setting will affect one's perception of color by creating two impressionistic paintings showing two different times of day using the Blending Mode feature in Photoshop.
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Introduction to Time
Students explore the concept of time. Through discussion and artistic projects, they define time in their own words and tell how it is used to represent the seasons. Students draw a picture to portray time as it elapses during the...
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Prepositions Can Show Positions in Time
Who knows where or when? The preposition knows! Young grammarians are asked to identify the preposition and the connecting prepositional phrases in 16 sentences. An answer key is provided.
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Question Tags Using Verbs Could, Would, and Should - 2
Help your English language learners develop grammar skills! There are 20 questions, and for each question the learner must use a question tag including could, would, or should. An answer sheet is included.
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Vampires, Vampires, and More Vampires!
From a variety of countries, vampire legends have arisen and entertained for centuries. Ten multiple-choice questions focus on basic reading comprehension. Challenge your vampirophiles with the original vampire legends.
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The Fall of Rome and the Beginning of the Middle Ages
A major turning point in world history is the focus of this presentation. Rome has fallen, and with its descent comes the Dark Ages. With pictures, maps, and important information about the Middle Ages, this slideshow would be a great...
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Sun or Water? or Both?
Over the course of 10 days, young scientists observe their cups of seed and soil—one that gets sun and water and one that gets no sun and only water. Then they reflect on the results of the experiment to determine if their hypothesis was...
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The Right to a Clean Environment: Water
First, young citizens learn about water consumption by doing some research themselves on their home water usage and sharing their findings with the class. Then, they do some brainstorming and devise a plan to reduce water consumption.
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The Effects of Color on Heat Absorption And Climate
Students conduct an experiment to determine the effects of soil color on its day and night time temperatures. In small groups, they prepare dishes of black soil, brown peat moss, and white sand. They record the temperature changes when a...
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Night Sounds
Pupils listen and discuss the sounds they heard at night. They write a class poem about those sounds at night. They keep a chart on their desk for ideas. The poem is read aloud to the class when it is finished.
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Worksheet 4 Prepositions of Time
In this prepositions worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete 5 sentences with prepositions of time: at, from, in, on, or to.
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 1
Learners create skits based on pairs of words. In this Twelfth Night lesson, students create a cluster map in which they brainstorm a dialogue/scene based on their word pair. Learners perform and record their scenes and discuss...
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Using a Colon for Time
In this colon activity, students rewrite sentences with the numbers and a colon to represent the time. Students complete 12 problems total.
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Worksheet 3: Time Words
In this vocabulary skills activity, students respond to 8 questions that require them to fill in the blanks with the appropriate time-related words.
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Time Words Worksheet 3
For this time words worksheet, students read 8 sentences and from four possible choices, select any phrase that will make sense in the sentence. All will be expressions of time.
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Telling Time, Clocks
Young scholars practice their skills in telling time and reading clock faces by singing simple songs and reading two clever poems.
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Worksheet 1: Time Words
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students examine 8 time-related words in the word bank and use them to fill in the blanks in 8 sentences.
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Present Time and Past Time
In this present and past tense verbs worksheet, students respond to 30 multiple choice questions that require them to use the appropriate verbs.
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Present Time and Past Time
In this present and past tense worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they respond to 30 multiple choice questions.
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Capitalization and Punctuation (Pizza and Camping)
Second graders demonstrate their command of Standard English conventions for capitalization and punctuation by indicating the errors in two passages. They must circle all the words that should be capitalized and provide any missing...
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How Safe is that Fresh Autumn Cider?
Corn stalks and pumpkins, caramel apples and cider, falling leaves and brisk nights. There are a few of autumn's favorite things. But how safe is that unpasteurized cider bought at the roadside stand? Young researchers investigate the...
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Reacting to the Rapture
FamilyRadio.com publicized that the Rapture or Judgement Day would happen on May 21, 2011, it didn't. Informed students read a New York Times article on the topic, then answer nine related comprehension questions.