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The Magic School Bus Plays Ball

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students work in small groups to find how movement changes when there is more - and less - friction.
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Creative Homework Assignments Can Motivate Students

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Teachers can make homework more meaningful by giving students interesting and motivating assignments.
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Growing Plants

For Teachers K - 7th
Students grow plants and track their growth over time. In this growing plants lesson, students plant seedlings and chart their growth in a data analysis activity.
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Johnny Appleseed Theme Unit: Day 2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a variety of activities surrounding a thematic unit on apples and Johnny Appleseed.
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Quiz 5A: Indefinite Pronouns / Some and Any

For Students 4th - 5th
In this pronouns worksheet, students complete 22 sentences by inserting an indefinite pronoun in the blank. The pronoun choices are: some, any, something, anything, someone, somebody, anyone, anybody.
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All About Ants

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create model ants in order to study the characteristics of insects such as body segments, number of legs, and feelers, as well as how these characteristics serve the insect.
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Communicating Who I Am

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers practice their Spanish grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and pronunciation skills by creating a personal portrait and personal narrative, and sharing it with native Spanish speakers via email.
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Apple Exploration!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore a variety of classroom stations about apples and Johnny Appleseed.
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Nutrition: Gregory the Terrible Eater

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars listen to a story about a goat who craves human food. They discover the four basic food groups and discuss what they might eat if they were terrible eaters. Students retell the story by looking at the pictures. They...
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Rhyming Word Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read poetry and identify rhyming words using highlighters. Students may also add rhyming lines to the poetry they read.
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Learn Under the Old Masters

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Young scholars take a closer look at portraits. In this art appreciation lesson, students may visit the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria Art Gallery, or the Scottish National Portrait Gallery online or in-person to discover works...
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Friendship

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore the importance of being kind and loving to others. As a class, students read and discuss a story about friendship. They share experiences of friendship and sing songs about friends. In groups, young scholars...
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Health Education: Self Esteem

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders focus on people skills. In this personal health lesson plan, 2nd graders distinguish between evaluations of performance and self-worth.
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Quiz 6A: Indefinite Pronouns

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blanks of the sentences with indefinite pronouns. There are 21 sentences to complete.
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Total English Intermediate: Have They Got the Ability...?

For Students 4th - 5th
For this modals of ability worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they respond to 16 fill in the blank and short answer questions that require them to use verbs.
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Favorite School Activities

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this school activities activity, students complete the sentence using one of the phrases from the word bank related to their favorite school activities. Students then draw a picture of the activity.
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QUIZ 6A: Indefinite Pronouns

For Students 6th - 8th
In this indefinite pronouns activity, middle schoolers examine 21 sentences and fill in the blanks with "anything, nothing, anyone, anybody, no one, or nobody".
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The Daily News

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete a news writing activity and improve their writing skills. In this news writing lesson, students write about an activity they experience each day of the week. Students use the articles to make a newspaper about their year.
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Christmas Around the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 'travel' around the world gathering Christmas traditions. In this Christmas tradition lesson students sing songs, listen to stories and legends, and make crafts associated with different Christmas traditions around the world....
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Checkbook

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine how to balance a checkbook.  For this economics lesson, students demonstrate that they can balance a checkbook by completing an activity that includes a check register and bank statement.
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Is It Possible?

For Teachers K - 6th
Students brainstorm ideas on how to a group of people could reach the highest together. In this possibilities lesson plan, students test their ideas and see how high they can reach.
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Sink or Float

For Teachers All
Students experiment with different objects to test if they sink or float. They predict what the object will do before it is put into the water. They are allowed to play with the items after the experiment is over.
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Where We Live

For Teachers K - 7th
Students make a 'where we live' chart to find what's common and unique about where they live. In this living analysis lesson, students complete a chart about where they live.
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students appreciate African folktales, make "connections" between geography and literature, and research facts about Africa's animals and present findings through art and writing.