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Challenge your 4th-8th grade kids with the Math Olympiads
Discover this great program for challenging and training advanced math learners.
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The Clever Monkey Rides Again
Use a West African folktale to practice several different skills in your first grade classroom. Learners read The Clever Monkey Rides Again and focus on rhyming words, reading comprehension, measurement, art, movement, and word...
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Get Your Ball
Students use a ball to improve their dribbling skills, defensive and offensive strategies, cardiovascular fitness, and cooperation. For this ball handling lesson, students try to grab the ball and trap it from their partner. Partners try...
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5-4-3-2-1 Blast Off To Reading
Young scholars practice reading with fluency by rereading texts to increase their speed. They listen to the teacher model fluent, smooth, and expressive oral reading. They then work in a small group reading orally and self-assessing...
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Check Out Lights and Shields with Beads
Students explore Ultraviolet detecting beads and conduct several investigations with them. In this investigative activity students participate in an experiment to see the harmful effects of UV light and discuss their findings.
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Occupations
Students listen to Maybe You Should Fly A Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet. In this occupations lesson, students define occupation and make a job drawing of them and their job choice. Students become familiar with tools for each job.
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Two-Word Verb Exercise 3
In this grammar worksheet, students practice filling in the blanks in twenty sentences with composite, two-word, verbs to make each sentence grammatically correct.
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Algebra Pinball
Students explore a website to practice math skills. In this algebra lesson, student go to Carol Fisher's web-page where there are explanations and games to follow along with an entire year of algebra.
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The Magic School Bus Takes a Dive
Young scholars learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students find out how partners can help run a race just as Wanda learns that survival on the coral reef often depends on cooperation.
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Learn Classmates' Names
Students create a classroom book of names and photos. In this icebreaker lesson, students read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See and create a classroom book with the same pattern using classmates' names and photographs.
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The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. For this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover that skin protects our bodies the way apple skin protects an apple.
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Not Just A Man's War
Students write 2 letters from a woman who may have lived during the Civil War and 2 letters from her relative which include factual information that they have research using the Internet and other resources, along with other activities.
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The Magic School Bus in a Beehive
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students dance the Honey-Bee-Bop to communicate the location of hidden flowers.
Love to Know
Free Capitalization Worksheet
Not really a worksheet, but rather, a website that has 10 sentences void of all capital letters. Copy these onto a handout or project them on the wall for your class to use as practice. Answers follow, along with an explanation as to why...
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The Magic School Bus Holiday Special
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students learn the importance of recycling as they explore how things can be reused or recycled again and again.
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Cinderella Project
Students compare and contrast the stories of "Cinderella" and "Little Gold Star." Students discuss the magic helper in both stories. Students become the magic helper by bestowing random acts of kindness on others. Students receive stars...
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The Magic School Bus In a Pickle
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover what microbes need to grow - and how cold affects microbe growth - by growing bread mold.
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The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students spin separate colors into a new color just as the Magic School Bus kids did.
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The Magic School Bus Lost in Space
Learners learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students explore outer space as they visit the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in order to learn about our solar system.
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The Three States of Matter
This PowerPoint introduces the three states of matter. The slides clearly depict examples of the three states of matter, along with detailed definitions. There are a few interactive slides where students must guess the correct form of...
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Comparative and Superlative Adjective
Class members practice using the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives here. A word bank of nine words is the source for choices with which to complete 10 sentences using the comparative or superlative as appropriate. Bad and...
Playbooks
Reader's Theater Exercise
Here's a great idea for your Parent/Family Night—host a Reader's Theater! Everything you need to organize the night, as well as a K-3 and a 4-7 script, is provided in the packet.
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Give Peas a Chance this International Day of Peace
Encourage creativity while tying in homonym and homophone lessons with the International Day of Peace.
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The Politics of Rocks and Minerals
Combine politics with science as the class discovers the intricacies of studying rocks and minerals.