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Describing Your City and the Weather
Tenth graders explore how to describe the weather in their own town or city. They complete a paragraph that describes a city by filling in the correct words into the sentences in the paragraph. Students translate English weather...
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Pet Inventions
In this activity, children can let their imaginations fly when they create fanciful inventions to make their pets' lives easier or more fun.
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Thankful List
Learners practice using free association as a pre-writing technique as they list things that they are thankful for. They share the lists of words and apply them when they write a descriptive essay or poem after identifying commonalities...
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Cookie Sharing
Students create a cookie that is inspired by their holidays. They write a paragraph explaining why the shape represents their holiday.
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Sea Turtle Rescue
Students create a three column chart about working with wildlife and how different organizations help sea turtles. In this sea turtles lesson plan, students compare the Oregon Coast Aquarium, the Coast Guard, and Sea World and what they...
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Stitching Our Way Through Time to Learn About Nebraska Animals
Pupils study about animals that have lived in Nebraska in the past, and animals that currently live in Nebraska. They examine how animal life changed since the early beginnings and what has caused these changes?
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Comparing-Contrasting With Cookies
Students compare and contrast cookies. In this compare and contrast lesson, students complete a graphic organizer and identify the similarities and differences in Girl Scout Cookies. Students write an analysis.
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Who Wrote That?
Scholars creatively respond to writing prompts. They respond to writing prompts that reveal clues regarding their personalities and then use the prompts written in class to guess the prompts that belong to their classmates.
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Let's Make A Dill
Young scholars perform an "autopsy" on a dill pickle to determine its' cause of death. After finding "clues" inside the "body," students organize facts and use their imagination to write an epitaph. As an alternative, young scholars...
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Ziplock Chemistry
Students investigate various chemical reactions when creating mixtures in ziplock baggies. In this chemistry lesson, students will recognize various chemical reactions and cite evidence. Safety and assessment strategies are included in...
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Coin Collections
Students explore why coin collectors would find American Eagle coins important additions to their collections. They generate a list of items that they collect or save. They identify reasons that people collect different items.
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Historical Fiction- Thanksgiving
Students write a story. In this historical fiction lesson plan, students research how Thanksgiving began. Students write a fictional story where they are a main character of this time period.
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poem "Smart" by Shel Silverstein from "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Students incorporate their conceptual understanding of proportions to write a creative piece similar to the example poem.
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Shifting Gears
In this activity, students will write a personal narrative that is designed to help them reflect on the nature and meaning of change in their lives.
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"All Day Nightmare"
Students read an "All Day Nightmare" by R.L. Stine. They use the interactive book to choose the plot at the end of each chapter. They also complete an open-ended story.
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Change Over Time
Students write a personal narrative that is designed to help them reflect on the nature and meaning of change in their lives.
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Internet Pen Pals
Students write letters to e-mail pals and respond to letters received. Students describe the geography of their community to their pals.
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Into the Future
Fourth graders investigate how new inventions and technology change how we live.
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Question Words
In this ESL instructional activity, students focus on words used to create questions. Students complete 19 fill in the blank and short answer questions using words that are commonly put into question form when asking about...
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Alex: Hershey Kiss Descriptive Essay
This is a fun lesson to demonstrate the power of words to describe a simple chocolate treat prior to writing a five-paragraph descriptive essay.