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Montgomery County Public Schools

Summer Journal Ideas

For Students 2nd - 12th
Twenty prompts, fifteen starters, and ten situations. What more could you ask for from a list of journal ideas?
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Kelly's Kindergarten

August Daily Activities

For Students K - 2nd Standards
You'll feel more than prepared for the start of the school year with this collection of daily activities for the month of August! From filling in numbers on a calendar or coloring patterns to solving addition and reading...
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Read Works

Cats in the Catacombs

For Students 4th Standards
Fourth graders read a short story and then answer questions based on what they read. Learners are asked to support their answers with evidence from the text.
Lesson Plan
Clark County School District

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A thorough lesson plan takes your first grade class through Jane Yolen's beautiful Owl Moon. It crafts the unit with clear objectives, high-level guiding questions, cloze activities and sentence frames, and extension...
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Facing History and Ourselves

The Power of Images

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
One picture but a thousand stories. As a part of a case study of how the death of Michael Brown was reported by professional news sources and on social media class members examine the reactions of various groups to a photograph taken by...
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Echoes & Reflections

Studying The Holocaust

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
While many young scholars are familiar with the Holocaust, they may not understand the specific history that led to the unprecedented atrocity. The first lesson in the unit helps teachers gauge their pupils' background knowledge. A...
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Science 4 Inquiry

Phases of the Moon

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
The moon takes just over 27 days to orbit around Earth. Young scientists position themselves as the earth as they rotate around the sun and hold the moon. This allows them to observe the patterns and phases of the moon.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Day and Night

For Students Pre-K - K
In this time worksheet, students match day activities with a picture of the sun, and night activities with a picture of the moon.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Night Harry Stopped Smoking

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math and language worksheet, students complete word problems and match vocabulary based on the story The Night Harry Stopped Smoking. Students complete 16 problems total.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sleep and Energy

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students explore the concept of a good night's rest. In this sleep and energy lesson, students keep track of hours slept per night for a week and how they feel each day. Students discuss how good rest contributes to feeling alert...
Organizer
Curated OER

Dark Nights-Nature Notebook

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this night time worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer about the night, drawing and filling in information about the night sky, the night ground, and the lights they may see. 
Unit Plan
Curated OER

The Bard, the Globe, the Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 6th
Students complete a unit of lessons to learn about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. In this William Shakespeare lesson, students complete 7 lessons of activities to study William Shakespeare, the Globe Theatre, and the play 'A...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is April Fool's Day?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore humor by creating their own practical joke. In this April Fool's Day instructional activity, students read different situations in which practical jokes were taken too far. Students discuss their reactions to the jokes...
Printables
Special Education Learning Centre

I Am Working For...

For Teachers K - 12th
Give your students something to work for with this simple incentive program. Requiring children to earn three stars in order to meet their goal, this is an easy way motivate them to try their hardest and be on their best...
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Curated OER

New Year's Day: Crossword Puzzle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this New Year's Day worksheet, students read 16 clues pertaining to the celebration of a new year. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Charting Seasonal Changes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research the Earth's patterns of rotation and revolution, create a chart and graph of these patterns and use them to explain the causes of night and day and summer and winter.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mother's Day

For Students Pre-K - K
For this holiday worksheet, students color in a bouquet of flowers and illustrate a poem about Mother's Day. The poem begins with, "You fill my days with rainbow lights..."
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Curated OER

First Day Photo Frame

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this first day of school frame worksheet, students showcase photos of themselves as they decorate and cut out the 3 by 5 frame template to be used to attach their own photo to.
Worksheet
Curated OER

A, An, The and Prepositions Assessment

For Students 4th - 5th
In this articles and prepositions worksheet, students complete 10 sentences using the articles a, an or the. Students then complete 10 sentences using a preposition from the word box.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What and Why (Cause and Effect)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine cause and effect. In this cause and effect activity, students discuss examples of cause and effect that their instructor shares with them. Students identify examples of cause and effect in their own lives and then...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Superpowers: US and Europe

For Students 10th - 12th
For this global issues worksheet, students read the listed reference articles and then respond to 15 short answer questions about the relationship between the United States and Europe and their role as superpowers in the world.
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American Museum of Natural History

A Closer Look at Mars

For Students 6th - 12th
A website looks at how we know so much about Mars—telescopes, robots, and spacecraft—and the search for martian life. Following the informational text are three questions that quiz pupils about possible life on Mars. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Career Explorations and Personal Finance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use various search engines and Web sites to find out information for a career they think they might like to pursue. They present their information to the class in an oral report.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Home Child Arthur and Grandma Wilson

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Language Arts worksheet, students read a quote from the novel Home Child about the friendship between Arthur and Grandma Wilson. Students also list the ways Grandma Wilson stood up for Arthur.

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