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Length of the Day
Students investigate how the Earth's rotation affect the length of day. In this earth science activity, students construct a sighting apparatus and record their observations over a few days. They analyze data collected and formulate a...
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Armistice Day
In this Armistice Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Clean Off Your Desk Day
In this Clean Off Your Desk Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey,...
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Pi Day
In this Pi Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions, take a survey, and...
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Hours, Days, Weeks, and Months - ESL
In this time measurement worksheet, 2nd graders work with the definitions for the words hours, days, weeks, and months. They fill in 8 blanks in order to determine which is longer, 2 weeks or 15 days and to determine which is longer, 1...
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Day and Night Definition Informational Page
In this day and night worksheet, students read an explanation of when daytime begins and end. They read that night-time is from sunset to sunrise. They read the definitions of AM and PM.
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Garbage in the Garden
Students create their own compost. In this soil lesson, students fill a bag with waste and soil, in order to create a mini compost bin. Students observe the baggies over a 6 week period, they record their findings and collect data on...
Class Antics
Leap Year
What is a Leap Year and why do we have it? Find out with this Leap Day/Leap Year response to reading worksheet in which scholars read a short passage and use their new-found knowledge to answer five questions with short answers.
World Wildlife Fund
Land of the Midnight Sun
From days of 24 hour sunlight, to endless nights that last for days, the Arctic is a very unique place to live. Examine the seasonal changes that occur in the northern-most reaches of the globe and the impact they have on the plants and...
PBS
Unions Today
Three scenarios that examine the role of unions in the fast-food industry and pro sports are used to launch a discussion of present-day union influence.
PBS
Reading Adventure Pack: Time
An activity packet explores the concept of time. First, scholars read two stories—The Very Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle and Telling Time: How to Tell Time on Digital and Analog Clocks! by Jules Older, illustrated by Megan Halsey....
Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation
Marc Chagall / Magic Realism
Surrealistic painters like Marc Chagall and Wendy Rouse show viewers an expansive world in a small area. Young artists have a opportunity to create their own surrealistic paintings in response to a study of works by Chagall and Rouse.
National Park Service
The Young Naturalist
Beginning with a brief history of our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, then followed by a discussion of his interest in nature, young scientists take to the outdoors to locate and observe local plants and insects. Scholars return to...
National Park Service
A Tale of Two Men
Theodore Roosevelt and the Marquis de Mores were both born in 1858, and both came to the Dakota territory in 1883, but they influenced the developing country of America in different ways. Elementary and middle schoolers apply written and...
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Minutes and Hours
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify about how long it takes to do each task illustrated. Then they do three things that take minutes to complete and three things that take hours to complete.
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Sunrise, Sunset: Quickly Go the Days
Young scholars explore the concept of daylight. In this daylight lesson, students compare the amount of daylight on a particular day in Anchorage compared with daylight where they live. Young scholars color maps of the US according to...
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Day and Night
Third graders view a classroom simulation that demonstrates how the Earth's rotation creates day and night.
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What Makes Day and Night? The Earth's Rotation
Students discover that the Earth rotates on its axis in a cyclical fashion. They examine how this rotation results in day and night.
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Day And Night
First graders examine how the earth experiences day and night by using a flashlight and a globe as a model.
T. Smith Publishing
Valentine's Day Multiplication Practice Worksheets 1 and 2
You'll fall in love with this assignment! In this Valentine's Day multiplication practice activity, cupids use problem solving skills to find the product. All 25 problems require them to multiply two-digit multiplicands by one-digit...
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An Emergency Mother's Day Card!
In this Mother's Day card worksheet, students fold, assemble, color and decorate an emergency Mother's Day card for their mothers.
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Earth Day - Bursting Beans
Students fill jars with dried beans and water, cover the jars, and wait to see what happens in this excellent Science experiment ideal for Earth Day (April 22nd). Emphasis is placed on discovering the reactions of seeds to water.
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Countdown
How many days until summer? Find a special day, and use this activity to determine how many days, weeks, hours, even seconds until it arrives! There are three levels of difficulty, which can provide differentiated instruction with...
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Light Saver
Turn off the lights! That's right it's time to start thinking about conservation and saving electricity. Here is a very quick and very simple Earth Day craft that kids can do in a wink. They'll make light-bulb-shaped door hangers that...