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Story Quilt Project
Students investigate how quilt making was a family and community activity. They read and discuss books, complete various handouts, and create a paper quilt celebrating philanthropic activities.
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Inventing Insects
Students explore the world of insects and discover what it might be like to live like one. They create an insect with physical characteristics and demonstrate how it moves. Students also compare and contrast insects to spiders and how...
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All About Me Mini Book
In this writing worksheet, students will fill in the blanks to complete sentences that tell all about them. Students will write about their family, their favorites and their summer vacation.
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Electricity - How it Works and How We Measure and Pay For It
Students investigate energy consumption by researching wattage. Â In this electricity lesson, students discuss how electricity works and gets transferred to our electronic devices through generators and circuits. Â Students examine their...
Teach With Movies
Title: "The Yearling" - Topics: Literature/U.S.; U.S./1865-1913 & Florida
Life in the Florida swamps after the Civil War comes alive in the 1946 film adaptation of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings’s The Yearling. The film of this powerful coming-of-age story, filled with love and loss, can be used with or without a...
Reed Novel Studies
Runaway Ralph: Novel Study
Maybe the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Ralph, a mouse character in Runaway Ralph, thought that summer camp had to be better than dealing with his mother, uncle, and cousins. However, camp has its troubles, too. Worksheet...
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What's Your Design?
Sixth grade students: design a stained glass window, submitting their initial plan detailing the measurements of all lines and angles. Seventh grade students: create a scale drawing of their own geometric family of four members.
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Collecting My School Family Data
Pupils are tasked with collecting data on their school. In groups, they collect data on various aspects of school life along with social and economic backgrounds and charactertics of their hair and eye color. They draw two pictures,...
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LIONS and TIGERS and BEARS. . .Oh My! Animals of Connecticut and the World
Students identify and list the different types of pets owned by the children in the class.
They graph the total number of each type of pet owned. They draw or cut-out a picture of an animal. Using the materials listed above, the children...
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Be Prepared With Emergency Supplies
Students identify what needs to be in a Family Emergency Supplies Kit. In this safety lesson, students discuss items that are necessary to have in emergencies. Students use pictures of items and order them according to importance.
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A Taste of Blackberries
Fourth graders participate in a shared reading of Doris Buchanan's, A Taste of Blackberries. They read about grief in the loss of a best friend and examine the skills of a responsible family member.
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We Need More Than Money
Students identify examples of private resources. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and identify the private resources the characters used in the text. Students name private resources that can help...
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Making Graphs
Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. In this graph making lesson, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their statistics and...
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Writing A Character Sketch
Middle schoolers are introduced to how a character sketch is an outline of a character that includes the character's outward appearance, family members, personality, interests, and beliefs. They then think of a character they would like...
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Visiting a Zoo
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a paragraph about a family at the zoo. They then answer 5 true and false questions about the reading. Finally, students write a paragraph explaining how Mr. Chow can solve his problem.
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Show Me Economics - Families Have Needs
First graders explore the four basic needs. Through discussion, 1st graders discover that all people need food, clothing, shelter and love. They create a collage representing the four basic needs. Students sing songs about basic needs.
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Guided Reading with I Had a Hippopotamus
Students discuss animals that would make good pets and a kind of pet that might scare someone in their family. They view the cover of the book and predict what the book might be about. They tell the story based on looking at the...
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Animals in Japan
Young scholars compare and contrast common animals children love and have as pets in Japan and America in this early elementary lesson. The culminating project is an original work of art by each student depicting an animal of their choice.
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Word Families 'eep'
For this word families worksheet, learners create eight different words that contain the letters "eep." Students also choose words from the "eep" family to complete each of the 8 sentences.
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Birds in a Nest Word Search
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 8 words in a word bank that pertain to a bird family in a nest. Students find the words in a word search puzzle and color the picture on the page.
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Safety With Animals
Students investigate and become aware of when a dog is about to bite. In this safety and dogs lesson, students discuss dog bites and when they occur. Students complete a related worksheet and create a bulletin board about when dogs may...
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Working-with-Animals Careers
First graders list and discuss careers that involve working with animals and draw pictures of careers that interest them. They compare and contrast domestic and wild animals.
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Animals All Around
In this animals worksheet, students write about the animals they see and design a cup, plate, or pitcher in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Students complete 4 activities.
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The Greenhouse Effect
Why does it get so hot inside of our cars in the summertime? The greenhouse effect! Lab groups experiment to see what happens to an ice cube enclosed in a jar and placed in sunlight as compared to an ice cube outside of the jar. They...