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Map Studies

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study maps and use web based activities to develop their mapping skills. In this mapping skills lesson, students use the internet to define cartography they make a list of information regarding a typical road map and explain the...
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Picture Prompt: Penguins and Christmas Tree

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
What happens when penguins put up a Christmas tree? Only your students know for sure, since they're the ones writing the story! A picture of penguins around a Christmas tree is sure to inspire even your most reluctant writers to begin,...
Worksheet
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Giving Advice

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students use should, shouldn't, or must to fill in the blanks in 7 sentences in order to correctly complete the sentences.
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The Touch N Feel Box

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight.  In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not by...
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Letter Names

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore language arts by participating in a letter identification activity. In this word recognition lesson, students are shown a list of vocabulary terms which they practice reciting with their classmates. Young scholars...
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Ice Cream Toppings

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the five senses. In this senses instructional activity, students use their senses to top their ice cream. Students compare and contrast the different toppings and write their observations, using descriptive words, in a...
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Sound for Sight

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study echolocation and understand how dolphins use it to locate prey, escape predators, and navigate their environment. They view a video, "In the Wild-Dolphins with Robin Williams" and see first hand how dolphins communicate. ...
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Hide In Plain Sight

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students view video clips and use the Internet to look for hidden animals. They then use the Internet to print out animal shapes and color them. They create environments on construction paper in which their animals can hide.
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Halloween Activities

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online/interactive Halloween activity, learners view and listen to the "Five Little Pumpkins" video to fill in the blanks to complete sentences, use picture clues to unscramble words about Halloween, match sentences and pictures,...
Worksheet
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First Word: Play

For Students 1st - 2nd
Kids are learning their first words! Help them learn how to spell and write the word play. There's a picture of children playing, a place to trace the letters that form the word, and an opportunity for learners to write the word...
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First Word: Bus

For Students K - 1st
Young learners are introduced to some basic vocabulary. In this worksheet, learners focus on the word bus. There's a picture of a bus, a place to trace the letters that form the word, and section on how to write the word themselves. 
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Leadership Challenge

Elvis Evolution

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Future leaders engage in a modified of "Rock, Paper, Scissors" game to gain insight into their approach to leadership. At the end of the game, participants were asked to consider whether they were focused on winning the game or on...
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Sight Words on a Snowy Evening

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read various poems by Robert Frost. In groups, they use the text of one poem to identify sight words that are new to them. As a class, they listen to a recording of the poem and then repeating it outloud practicing their...
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Underwater Vision

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars use colored lights and fabric to study an underwater ocean scene. In this light study lesson, students draw a picture using colored markers and hypothesize what their drawing will look like using filters. Young scholars...
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Fun Robot Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students complete a variety of activities that have to do with robots. In this robot lesson plan, students pretend to do tasks blindfolded, look up a chat bot online, list TV shows based on robots, and more.
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Word Family Activities and American Symbols

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word family and American symbols activity, students learn about word families and American symbols. They complete an activity in which they create real and nonsense words by combining sounds of the alphabet with 7 different word...
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Fry's Second Hundred Words 61-70

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this sight word worksheet, students use Fry's words 61-70 to fill in blanks in a set of sentences. Blanks are shaped to fit the correct words.
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Home Spelling Practice

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling worksheet, learners practice their spelling words that include short u words, short vowel words, and short sight words that writers use. Students practice 25 words.
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Targeting an Action

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how the brain how the brain infers the position of a moving target. They investigate how the brain can fine-tune its motor control over the muscle groups that will perform the intended action. Students participate in a...
Worksheet
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US Election: Barack Obama

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Barack Obama worksheet, students read 2 pages of basic information about President Obama, then complete true/false questions, locate sight words in the selection, complete fill-in-the-blank questions and a word search.
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The Dirty Water Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate different methods (aeration and filtering) for removing pollutants from water. They design and build their own water filters. Students identify the pollutants in a water sample using sight and smell, explore what...
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ESL Writing Practice-Sight Words

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this ESL writing practice worksheet, learners trace and write a set of 10 basic sight words on lines provided. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Hunter Fred's Quest for Dinner

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners solve problems using trigonometric functions, specifically a problem about a tree stand. Pupils try to maximize the distance of hunting sight given certain restrictions. They use the Pythagorean Theorem, sine, cosine, and...
Lesson Plan
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Human Skin Color: Evidence for Selection

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Skin color is controlled by at least six genes. Young scientists learn about skin colors through a documentary. They discuss the topics of pigment, natural selection, and vitamin D absorption. They apply their knowledge to higher order...