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Shadow Play

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate shadows.  In this shadows and technology lesson, students listen to the book Ten Grouchy Groundhogs or Gretchen Groundhog, It's Your Day! and discuss how shadows are made.  Students match objects to their...
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Identifying Problems and Solutions in the Story

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students explore story structure. In this Groundhog's Day story structure literacy lesson, students listen to the story Groundhog Stays Up Late by Margery Cuyler, then pause half way through the story to identify the problem and...
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Internet Project - Project Groundhog

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners share weather and community information with other students across the continents. In groups, learners collect details, pictures, and drawings about their community, its weather patterns, and school. They predict if groundhog...
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Groundhog Day in Punsxutawney, PA

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read the history of this tradition, examine Phil's predictions for the last 100 years.
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Crypto Spy

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this decrypting symbols worksheet, students answer two questions regarding Groundhog's Day by decrypting the symbols and filling in the blank boxes with the appropriate letters to answer each question.
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Groundhog Day Writing Paper

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students use the paper to create writing samples to work on various types of activities under the theme of Groundhog Day.
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Groundhog Tag

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars act like groundhogs in order to practice the skills of chasing, fleeing, and dodging.
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February Acrostic Poem

For Students 1st - 4th
In this poetry worksheet, students use the letters in the word February to write an acrostic poem on a page that has a picture of a groundhog and an amethyst at the top.
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Blossom and Snappy Go to the Post Office

For Teachers 1st
First graders label three major holidays on a February calendar. In this calendar lesson, 1st graders watch a video about and discuss Valentine's Day, President's Day and Arbor Day. Students label these three holidays on a February...
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Groundhog Day

For Teachers All
Students practice moving in general space and to increase listening skills.To enhance movement during this activity ask them to perform a variety of different locomotor skills as they move throughout the space.
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Weatherman Phil

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine the life of a groundhog and their role in predicting weather. They write a postcard or a letter to Punxsutawney Phil on the Internet.
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Starring...Bears!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students illustrate a First Nations' legend.  For this legend of bears lesson, students read several legends which involve bears and groups of stars or constellations. After reading, students illustrate portions of the stories....
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February Following Directions Wordsheet

For Teachers 4th
In this February holidays direction following worksheet, student follow 9 sets of directions to color the word February which is placed at the top of the page. They make choices on things such as whether they have ever seen a groundhog...
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What is Temperature and How Is It Measured?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students complete activities to measure temperature. In this temperature lesson, students read Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather and make a KWL chart about predicting weather. Students discuss folklore about temperature and learn...
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Poetry Coffeehouse

For Teachers K - 1st
This resource contains a vague plan for a poetry unit conducted at an elementary school during the month of February. Although this plan does not included detailed instructional strategies, this does outline a basic unit, some creative...
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Holiday Exercises

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this interactive holiday worksheet, students view 20 symbols of various holidays and match the correct name of the holiday to the symbol.
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What Is a Business?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover how to maintain successful businesses as they assume the roles of owners and drivers of their own ice cream trucks.
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Mystery State #43

For Students 4th - 6th
How much does your class know about the states in the union? Could they determine the name of a state from given clues? Here, pupils consider each of the five clues to name mystery state number 43. Note: There are two handouts on one...
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Hunt the Fact Monster: February #3

For Students 3rd
In this search engine worksheet, 3rd graders will need to use factmonster.com to discover answers. Students will respond to 5 multiple choice questions using the given website.
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State Facts A Right Angle Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
In this geometry activity, students create words making a right angles each time. There are 50 questions to be solved with an answer key.
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Jane Goodall

For Teachers K
Students identify Jane Goodall as a scientist who studies the behavior of chimpanzees. They listen to a biography of Jane Goodall and review the location of Africa. Then students participate in an animal observation activity.
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
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Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify...

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