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Science and Art Design

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the scientific process by completing a pegboard activity. In this art design lesson, students identify the similarities between the art process and the scientific method while experimenting with art beads and...
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Working with Words Teacher Directed Activity by Mark Cogan for Elem. Test Prep

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars build word families. In this interactive language arts activity, students visit a website where they play a game creating word families. Young scholars may print out their work when finished.
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Art and Technology - Design - Alexander Calder

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars gain an awareness for the work of Alexander Calder, study a variety of utilitarian objects and discuss their purposes, and create graphic of a utilitarian piece using computer graphic software.
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Communicating At Work: Facilitating Good Communication

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students identify characteristics of good communication. They role-play different scenarios from a work setting that require good communication and evaluate their efforts.
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Identify and Evaluate Problem-Solving Processes and Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students identify a problem, the process by which it is solved, and the solution in a piece of literature.  For this problem solving lesson, students read a nonfiction passage and use a think-pair-share strategy to identify the...
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Symmetrical Design: Pennsylvania Barn Signs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explain and apply the visual arts elements and the design principle of symmetry and apply media, techniques, and processes. In addition, they describe how different materials, techniques, and processes cause different...
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Identifying Fragments

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this identifying fragments worksheet, students label sentences and fragments and revise fragments. Students complete twenty three fill in the blank and short answer questions.
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The Arts of Sub Saharan Africa

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research Sub-Saharan African art and the regions it comes from. In this African art lesson plan, students discuss art and compare the tribal and ceremonial art and what it is used for.
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Identify letters and sounds

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this letters, words, and sounds learning exercise, students say sounds, identify letters, read sentences, read words, and read -ed and -en words. Students complete 6 activities total.
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Identifying Genre and Subgenre #2

For Students 9th
In this identifying genre and subgenre #2 worksheet, 9th graders read 17 short summaries, then select the genre and subgenre from the choices given and explain their choice in writing.
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Creating Stage Designs that Reflect

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and research cultural, historical, and symbolic clues in dramatic texts. They demonstrate knowledge of research sources.
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Print Patterns, Please!

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students practice the art of stamping and pattern design in this lesson using cotton fabric, ink, acrylic paint, watercolors, Elmer's Glue, and Model Magic. Emphasis is placed on the creation of individual student stamps and cooperative...
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Similes with Energy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write or dance a simile to show the relationship between two unlike nouns. For this simile and grammar lesson, 5th graders explore dance movements and identify smooth and sharp energy examples. Students...
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Word Art with King's Words

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners investigate equality and racism by creating a word art project.  In this civil rights lesson, students discover the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and create a word art project using the Internet site Wordle Web. ...
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Working With Tenses

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
This worksheet provides a good way for older students or adults to practice verb tenses. In this 12 question worksheet students fill-in-the-blank to identify the verb tense appropriate for each sentence. It could be used in an English or...
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Extreme Work Makeover

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students revise paragraphs for effective word choice.  In this effective word choice instructional activity, students analyze a paragraph for purpose, audience, development, and conventions.  Students identify commonly overused...
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Identifying the Principle Parts of Irregular Verbs

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students write the correct form of irregular verbs. Students identify the principle parts of given verbs. Students answer forty fill in the blank questions.
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Identify the Underlined Part of Speech

For Students 9th - 11th
For this grammar worksheet, students identify the underlined part of speech in twenty sentences. Students check their answers when done.
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Poems That Work!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the elements of poetry. As a class, they practice the correct way to read a poem and determine the author's audience. They identify similies and metaphors and determine the rhyme and meter. To end the...
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A Raging Tide – Identifying Dialect

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the use of dialect in the works of Mark Twain. In this literature lesson, students read selections from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Life on the Mississippi. Students paraphrase the dialect found in the passages and...
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Working in Photographs

For Teachers K - 6th
Students analyze illustrations of workers in the 19th and 20th centuries. In this social science lesson, students examine photographs of workers and identify the types of work that were available in the 19th century compared to the 20th...
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The Amazing Maud Lewis

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate cultural art from Canada by reading about Maud Lewis.  In this Canadian history lesson, students identify the work of Lewis by visiting her magazine website.  Students identify other heroes in Nova Scotia...
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Making Life Easier

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use a chart of the six simple machines and become aware of how the machines improve our ability to meet the following needs: shelter, food, water, and transportation. Students use model cars to experiment with force. They divide...
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Line Hunt

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify lines in everyday images.  In this art analysis lesson, students practice drawing diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines on pieces of chart paper.  Students examine a page from a magazine and identify the...