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Letter B: Initial Sounds

For Teachers K - 2nd
For this letter B activity worksheet, students examine 12 pictures of various objects and identify the pictures of the items that begin with the letter B. A word bank is provided.
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The Letter D: Letter Homework

For Students K - 2nd
In this letter/phonics worksheet, students draw, color and label 5 things that begin with D, practice writing the upper and lower case letter, and as a challenge activity, describe what it might be like if dinosaurs were roaming the earth.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Miss Spider's New Car

For Teachers K - 5th
Students read Miss Spider's New Car by David Kirk. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of spiders. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-The Wheels on the Bus

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read The Wheels on the Bus by Maryann Kovalski. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of travel and transportation. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and...
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Montana Vocabulary Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Montana worksheet, students read ten definitions that pertain to the state of Montana. Students match these to the words they describe.
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Revising Writing: Plain English

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Eschew obfuscation! Using dictionaries, writers revise a complicated text so that it reads more simply and improves the clarity of the passage. Focusing on word meanings, they revise the sample worksheets and then present their...
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Sentences With Describing Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing sentences worksheet, students write 3 sentences with describing words that tell about pictures with dinosaurs in them. 
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Mastering Spelling

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this spelling activities worksheet, students read each sentence, circle the spelling errors in each sentence and then write the correct spelling on each line.
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Spot the Differences

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
In this spot the difference worksheet, learners analyze pictures of two different dinosaur scenes to see if they can find ten differences between the two.
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Beginning Consonants: T and D

For Students K
In this beginning consonants worksheet, students write either t or d at the beginning of 4 words. They look at pictures of a dinosaur, a tiger, a dog and toast to help identify the words.
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Scientific Advances Could Bring Back the Dodo & Mammoth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students reflect on the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life.  For this ESL lesson, students debate the pros and cons of extinction reversal then complete several activities centered around the topic.
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K-2: Dino-Rhythms

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read rhythm notation and combine four-beat rhythms. In this rhythms lesson, 2nd graders read quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests in rhythms that are written on dinosaur shapes. They clap, snap, or stamp out the...
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Labor, Choice, and Sales Tax

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners consider the idea of earning and spending money. In this money management lesson plan, students discuss the concept of saving and spending money through the reading of a story and by completing several activities that involve...
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No bones About It -A Mosasaur

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Learners model a paleontologist's activities. They identify dinosaur bones and reassemble them into a skeleton of an extinct reptile.
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Math Averages

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perform different activities to better explain that the word "Average" has 5 different meanings.
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Feature Column: Virtual Field Trips

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars discover ways to stay healthy by utilizing Internet education software.  In this computer technology lesson, students investigate Internet programs that simulate a field trip by showing images and video.  Young...
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Fossils

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners act as paleontologists to discover who a mystery guest to the classroom was. They do not know the identity of the guest but infer the identity from items left behind in the classroom. They make inferences from dinosaur fossils.
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Fantastic Pictures

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This activity gives students the opportunity to review nouns and adjectives while creating imaginative works of art.
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Rhyming Words, phonemes, Word Recognition: D

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 6 words listed to the appropriate pictures. Students may submit their answers to be scored. All of the words begin with the letter D.
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Doing Dewey Decimal

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the Dewey Decimal System and locate books in the nonfiction section. They examine a shelf of books and try to determine how the books are arranged, then watch a short video "Media Mania." Students then match construction...
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Make Words

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For this making words worksheet, students make as many English words as they can from the letters found only in the word Ichthyosaurus.
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Make Words

For Teachers 5th - 7th
In this making words worksheet, students make as many English words as they can from the letters found in the word Tyrannosaurus only.
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Fossil Hunters!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the various ways in which geologists create fossil records. Working in pairs, students create a model of a fossil record through a hands on activity. They relate their experience to recent discoveries in geology and...
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Mighty Metaphors

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore metaphors and then complete a worksheet on which they write metaphors. They may illustrate the metaphors.