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Morning Message-Mystery Code
Students copy and figure out the Mystery Codeword each day. They copy Mystery Code into journal. They match the number with the letter to decipher the code word. They draw a picture to match code word. At the end of the week, the...
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Matching Objects and Patterns
First graders participate in hands-on activities and use objects to create patterns. They observe a PowerPoint lesson plan describing matching objects and patterns. In groups, 1st graders complete geometry computer activities such as...
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Quilting Canada
Students explain the symbols of Canada and their relevance. In this Canada lesson, students read Oh Canada and exchange pen-pal letters with students in Canada. Students create a class quilt with Canadian symbols.
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Light and Our World
In this science worksheet, students solve a variety of curriculum related puzzles. They also practice basic mental math skills using four operations. The concept of light and color are explored and how it interacts with different objects.
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Printing Practice D d
In this printing practice worksheet, students follow the arrows and trace the dotted lines to print 8 examples each of an upper case D and a lower case d. They color three pictures that start with the letter e which include a dog, a...
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Silly Siggy
Students recognize the short /i/ sound in spoken and written words in this instructional activity. They say a tongue twister which emphasizes words with the short /i/ sound. They then listen to the book "Liz is Six" and identify the...
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Coloring Alphabet
In this alphabet instructional activity, students color in a picture of an elephant. The instructional activity also includes the uppercase and lowercase letter E and the word "elephant" in cursive.
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Practicing Sight words
Review sight words with readers. They will look over their sight words and come up with sentences for each of them. They also review the alphabet and identify unfamiliar words.
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Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Name Changes
Set up a listening center, record the provided script, and see how well your class can manipulate phonemes based on the instructions you've provided. This center-based activity builds the phonological awareness and phoneme manipulation...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Niche Partitioning Activity
Dinnertime on the African savanna is a highly choreographed event! Introduce young ecologists to the concept of niche partitioning through a hands-on activity. Pupils research animal behaviors and use data to develop an understanding of...
Star Date
Modeling the Night Sky
Dramatize the stars and planets as they become a visual representation of the solar system in this activity. Young astronomers track and simulate various constellations as they orbit the Earth to learn the position and motion of...
Capo Beach Calvary
The Messiah Is Born
Use this simple nativity lesson in pre-kindergarten through third grade to familiarize children with Bible verses by way of a hands-on learning activity and coloring page.
Freedom Archives
Special St. Augustine Issue
The articles and images in the June 1964 edition of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Newsletter detail the events in St. Augustine that were instrumental in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The stirring...
Kenan Fellows
Unit 1: Introduction to Biotechnology
Biotechnology is big! Introduce the uses of biotechnology to science scholars with a fascinating, fact-filled unit. The first installment in a series of four biotechnology units covers the role biotechnology plays in human and...
Fun Music Company
Relative Major and Minor
It's all relative. Young music theorists are asked to count to three and identify the relative major and minor keys of keys that share the same signature.
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Letter Chase
First graders are consonants or vowels. If a vowel is called out the vowels try to run to the base line and the consonants chase them and try to tag them. If a consonant is called out, the consonants run to their base line chased by the...
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ESOL Alphabet and Number Recognition
Students review the alphabet and numbers using flash cards. They work in pairs to list words and numbers from newspaper headlines or sales ads on a piece of paper then they read each others list and shre it with the class.
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September Following Directions Activity
In this September worksheet, students follow 10 steps and color in the illustrations according to the directions. Students choose colors based on their opinions about the month of September.
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A to Z of Black Inventors
In this Black history worksheet, students trace the letters and color the invention for all of the inventions created by Black inventors.
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Making Words Activity #11
For this making words worksheet, students cut out a set of letters, color consonants yellow, create as many words as possible and sort by number of letters per word.
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Making Words Activity #3
In this making words activity, learners cut out a set of letters, color consonants yellow and create as many words as possible, sorting by numbers of letters per word.
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Making Words Activity #5
In this making words learning exercise, students cut out a set of letters, color consonants yellow, create as many words as possible and sort by number of letters per word.
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Making Words #10
In this word activity worksheet, students color all consonants in a set of letters yellow, then cut out the letters and create as many words as possible, sorting by how many letters the words have.
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Making Words-2
In this word building worksheet, students color in the given consonants and cut out all of the letters. Students make as many words as they can from the letter cut-outs and write them down in the provided columns.