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Ellen the Elephant

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students build their sight vocabulary. They study the short vowel correspondence e. They practice pronouncing the /e/ phoneme when shown the grapheme e in written words. They read e = /e/ and write words that contain the e...
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The Cay

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read The Cay as a shared literature experience. This lesson plan has many good activities across the curriculum to keep your students actively engaged in the story. They will do math, art, music, science and geography...
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One, Two Jumping Fish

For Teachers K
Students watch video segments of counting fish. They participate in counting fish in an activity.
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The Opposable Thumb

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners explore the physical importance of the opposable thumb among primates. They discover which of their simplest daily activities are possible only because of their opposable thumbs.
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Light at the Bottom of the Deep, Dark Ocean?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in an inquiry activity. They relate the structure of an appendage to its function. They describe how a deepwater organism to its environment without bright light.
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Capture the Circle (A Fraction Game)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compare and order fractions in a fraction game activity. In this fraction game lesson, 4th graders play a game that requires them to add fractions with like denominators and compare fractions. Students create posters where...
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Citizenship Program

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore teamwork, decision-making, and ways to communicate. They discuss their favorite activities, places they would like to travel and set ground rules for their groups. After identifying their feelings toward the program,...
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Pieces of Mind: Remembering What Matters

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars watch the program "Pieces of Mind" from PBS and participate in a class discussion about PET scans and their advantages. Students then brainstorm activities a PET scan could be used for.
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Miners

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete various activities related to mining and mining safety. They write an energy sentence, complete a word puzzle, cut and glue safety equipment on a mining character, solve a math code word puzzle, and complete a maze...
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Lucky Ducky

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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ABC Bingo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice recognizing letters and phonemes. After the instructor reads a book emphasizing the sound each letter makes, students play letter recognition games. Through matching and listening games, they recognize the letter from...
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Breaking News English: Animal Rights Road Kill Candy Victory

For Students 6th - 8th
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to the passage, then complete a wide variety of warm-up activities, as well as before listening/reading, while listening/reading, after listening/reading, discussion,...
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The Crowd

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students compose and illustrate a scene in which a crowd of some kind, (people, animals, monsters, etc.), is reacting to some event happening out of the field of vision of the viewer.
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What's In A Name?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students analyze themselves as members of the community. They choose a name to describe themselves and explain why they choose the name they did. They identify activities they perform in and out of school to help the community.
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Mixing Colors

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to a story about mixing colors. They explore color using cups of water, color and coffee filters. They use sight word vocabulary to describe the colors.
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Boston Park System

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students complete a variety of activities that go along with the study of and possible fieldtrip to the Emerald Necklace park system in Boston, MA. They discover how urban conditions influenced the creation of city parks.
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Picnics-- Chinese Style

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore about the Chinese rituals of poetry competition. They compare and contrast Chinese picnics with American picnics. Students create short poems, celebrating their own spring poetry picnic. They discuss words or...
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Getting Oriented

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the geography, culture, and philosophy of Asia using all five senses and information about China and Japan. This lesson plan is detailed and may take several days of in-class activities to complete.
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Voices From Your Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars create individual representations of Chinese calligraphy symbols in this cross-curricular lesson for the elementary Language Arts or Art classroom. One enrichment activity is included.
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Acting With Honesty

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students analyze stories to study the value of honesty. Songs and role playing are included in this lesson of character education. Activities include: brainstorming situations that would be easy to be dishonest, drawing pictures to...
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Star Patterns

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create constellation maps and record their own legends of how constellations came into existence. After observing the sky at night, 3rd graders discuss star maps, read previously recorded legends on the origin of stars. ...
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Mmmm, Good!

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the letter M. They trace and write the letter M, and identify words on word cards that contain the letter M. Students also participate in a Letter M Hunt in their classroom, and...
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Aaah, I'm hungry

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and spell...
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My English classroom

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore all the resources for using language in the classroom. They realize that actions can speak louder than words. Students aim to keep their vision straight and narrow with an end destination.