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Sunny Day Shadow Pictures

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore shadows. In this art lesson, students put black construction paper on the ground and place objects on the paper. Students leave and when they come back at the end of the afternoon the sun has faded the black paper with...
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Tying Your Shoes- Poem

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students recite a poem to organize the steps to tie their shoes. In this shoe tying lesson, students learn a poem that gives the directions on how to tie shoes.
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Let’s Make Cottage Cheese

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students watch the process of making cottage cheese from milk, then season and taste the product.  In this making cottage cheese instructional activity, students make a connection between what they eat and where it came from. ...
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CGC1P -- Unit 1 Lesson 2 Video Introduction

For Students 5th
In this listening worksheet, 5th graders fill-in the blanks and respond to questions. Students watch a video and fill-in the blanks and answer questions with information that they hear during the video.
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Modular Arithmetic Station

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders find ways to use math everyday. In this algebra lesson, 8th graders model equation and problem solving as they multiply and divide numbers. They split up in to groups as they perform hands on operations. 
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Homeschooling Lesson: Sea Turtles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write down the names of common turtles and observe pictures of various types. For this sea turtles lesson, students review names and features of these animals, label and draw a picture. Students research habitat, migration,...
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New York Times

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore current events. In this cross-curriculum lesson plan, students read and answer questions about the various articles included in the magazine.
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Iowa: Reading Comprehension

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Iowa reading comprehension activity, students read a 2-page selection regarding the state and then respond to 10 true or false questions.
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Lesson 6: Native Americans in the West

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students recall their knowledge of Native American people who lived in the West and reflect on how their perspectives differed from pioneers and argonauts of the 19th century.
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Manifest Destiny

For Students 5th - 6th
In these manifest destiny worksheets, students read the definition for manifest destiny and its appearance in America in the 1840s. Students learn about the Homestead Act and study a painting of a depiction of manifest destiny.
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Butterfly Camouflage

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss camouflage and warnings by butterflies as a class. Students design and color their own butterflies that they are to place somewhere in the classroom. Students explain why their butterfly is colored the way that it...
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Food Group Fitness Relay

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, put in teams, line up behind one of numbered cones. Player #1 in each group does designated locomotor skill, hop, skip, gallop, slide, etc., to center circle and selects a food card, then brings card back and places it under...
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A Cowboy Song

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders sing "Cowboy Lullaby" with two-part harmony and discuss the text of the song.
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Six Trait Writing with Jack Prelutsky and the Brothers Grimm

For Teachers K
Students identify and discuss six traits of writing and complete some beginning drawing and writing utilizing the traits. Six lessons on one page.
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Design a Poet-T

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners gather poems they find of interest to them. They create a t-shrit with the poem and a design. They share their poems with the rest of the class.
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Hide the Acorns

For Teachers Pre-K
Students search for acorns. In this art lesson students imagine they are squirrels finding and storing acorns. The students dig through a water table filled with sand or soil looking for acorns that have been buried.
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All Things Chinese

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders bring in items or pictures related to Chinese culture. The items are displayed in the room as a museum exhibit.
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Nursery Rhymes

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students copy a memorized nursery rhyme on to writing paper. They illustrate their writing and the finished piece is posted for conferences or Back-to-School night.
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Slang Ain't the Thang!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how a speaker uses words and images to express a message. They read a speech written by Sojourner Truth and discuss the purpose and audience, and identify the speaker's tools used in a speech by George W. Bush.
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Make a Leaf Banner

For Teachers K
Students create an leaf print banner, and classify, sort and find patterns in the leaves as they work.
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Shadow Theater of the Mahabharata

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the Hindu epic, Mahabharata, by creating Javanese shadow puppets and performing significant scenes from the story. They combine their artistic ability with their desire to learn an important aspect of the Southeast Asian...
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Changing the World, One Month at a Time

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars participate in kindness and good citizenship activities in this lesson plan. Each month of the school year, they are assigned a different activity. For example, in August the theme is "Getting to Know You!" The students...
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Aerobic Activities

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss what aerobic exercise is, and the origin of its meaning. They view a list of activiities and and discuss why they are considered aerobic while other activities such as baseball is not considered aerobic exercise....
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Arkansas- Economic System

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars investigate how the six natural regions of Arkansas work together to form the economic system of the state. They read a paragraph and articles about the state and complete an activity that demonstrates interdependence....

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