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Physical Interdisciplinary Activity
Students discover directions and their motor skills by participating in a physical education activity. In this direction following lesson, students are asked to perform certain physical actions all at once and with the teacher's...
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Compass Rose Directions
Second graders use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps and places in the classroom, school, and community. They draw a setting map of "Little Red Riding Hood." Students give five steps of cardinal or...
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Can You Follow Me? Writing Instructions
Students write directions for completing everyday activities. In this writing instructions lesson students exchange their set of written directions with a partner and follow their partners directions. If the directions are...
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Following Instructions Using BBC Skillswise
In this computer worksheet, students complete a BBC Skillswise task. Students complete 9 steps that include finding the home page and locating different activities.
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The Middle East
Young scholars investigate the countries of the Middle East. In small groups, they conduct Internet research, conduct a debate, draw and label a map, and present their information to the class in the form of a presentation.
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The Middle East
Students research countries in the Middle East. They explore the differences and hardships in each area. Using a specified website, and in groups, students examine the economy, government, military, people and geography of given Middle...
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Locating Direct Objects
In this online interactive direct objects worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions identifying the direct objects in 10 sentences.
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Funny Thanksgiving Food
In this Thanksgiving music activity instructional activity, students follow the instructions provided to color the 7 foods according the piano keys featured.
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Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice
In this active voice and passive voice practice worksheet, students read an informative lesson plan. Students then respond to 5 questions that require them to identify the voice the sentences are written in and rewrite them in the...
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Finding Wind Direction
Young scholars identify the wind direction. For this weather lesson, students use a weather vane to find the wind direction. Young scholars complete a worksheet.
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Make a Cow Mask
In this mask making worksheet, students follow 8 steps to make a cow mask out of paper. Students may use the cow mask for various classroom activities.
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Put the Elephant First
Students recreate the order of animals they read about in a book. In this relative positions instructional activity, students color and cut out pictures of animals in the book. Sudents glue these onto construction paper and line up...
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Pirate Treasure Hunt
First graders name the directions North, South, East, and West on a map. They work collaboratively in small groups and create a treasure map using directions as clues.
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How to Recognize and Eliminate Passive Voice
This handout presents the appropriate times to use the active voice and the passive voice with examples and a short exercise. After reading through the information and examples, pupils transform passive sentences into active sentences.
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Reported Speech Review 2
Young learners rewrite sentences using reported and direct speech, put sentences in order, and more. A total of four activities are completed. Note: this is an on-line, interactive worksheet.
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Passive Voice
Are you looking for a warm-up activity or quiz about passive and active voice? Use this passive voice practice activity, in which learners rewrite the ten active voice sentences to passive voice sentences. The activity would be a good...
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Beans Activity
Students participate in an activity in which they analyze the amount of resources. They discuss and answer the questions given to them by their teacher. They work together to research different groups that have been successful in using...
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Music Patterns
Little ones can listen and follow along with the images to practice making rhythmic patterns. They clap and play to a variety of simple beats. This is a great way to build coordination, listening skills, pattern recognition, and music...
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Dental Chemistry Analogy
After taking in background information on teeth, marble, eggshell, and fluoride, chemistry aces design an experiment. Their goal is to demonstrate whether or not fluoride has a similar effect on marble or eggshell as it does on tooth...
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Character Tea Party
A tea party in Wonderland? An East Egg brunch with Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Nick? Breakfast with Miss Havisham, Lady Macbeth, and Abigail Williams? Or dinner with Andre, Hamlet, and Randle Patrick McMurphy? Class members select a favorite...
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Flexibility Cards and Panels
Support pupils who struggle with changes, trying new ways of doing things, or seeing the perspectives of others using this set of activity cards and panels. Designed for learners on the autism spectrum, this activity will provide...
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Inertial Mass, Weight, and Newton's Second Law of Motion
The stage is set for you to guide future physicists through three forceful activities about motion. In the first, learners experiment with rolling carts to discover how objects interact. In the second, they inspect images of an object in...
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The Power of a Project
How does PBL differ from a basic thematic unit? Discover the answer to this important question. A bulleted comparison is made between each type of teaching method, example projects are included, and a full "how to" is laid out in an easy...
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Living With Rules
Young children explore the concept of the Golden Rule in this fun primary grade lesson. To begin, the class sings the song "The Lion and the Mouse" before discussing what the Golden Rule means and how it applies...