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Animals A to Z: Octopus

For Students 3rd
In this octopus instructional activity, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of an octopus and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Penguin

For Students 3rd
In this penguin learning exercise, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a penguin and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Orangutan

For Students 3rd
In this orangutan worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of an orangutan and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Porcupine

For Students 3rd
In this porcupine worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a porcupine and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Quoll

For Students 3rd
In this quoll worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a quoll and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Turkey

For Students 3rd
In this turkey worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a turkey and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Sea Turtle

For Students 3rd
For this sea turtle worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts to gain an understanding of a sea turtle and its particular attributes.
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Animals A to Z: Shark

For Students 3rd
In this shark worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts about a shark to gain an understanding of the animal's characteristics.
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Animals A to Z: Urchin

For Students 3rd
In this sea urchin worksheet, 3rd graders will add pages to their "animal books." Students will read 10 facts about a sea urchin to gain an understanding of the animal's characteristics.
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From A Different Perspective

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Emerging writers create a response to their reading. They read Notes from the Trail and discuss whose perspective the journal entry is written from. Then, they write a response to the journal entry in first person perspective as if...
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ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.9-10.2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Semicolons and colons are tricky, and the Common Core creators knows that. If you are stuck on what to teach to make sure your learners can master Common Core skill L.9-10.2 use this resource to fine-tune your content. The multiple...
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Who is on that Bill? Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, who are adult learners, participate in an Internet scavenger hunt in order to assimilate information about the biography of Alexander Hamilton and the Federalist Papers. They look at the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers...
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Analyzing Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A reading of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech launches a study of rhetorical devices such as hyperbole, allusion, metaphor, simile, personification, connotative language and parallel structure. Class members then...
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Anne Frank and Louisiana - There is a Connection!

For Teachers 8th - 10th
How is Louisiana connected to the Holocaust? After reading The Diary of Anne Frank, eighth graders complete a research report about a survivor of the Holocaust who currently resides in Louisiana. Though the idea is a good way to...
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Taste Test - Combining Sentences

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students combine sentences to create compound sentences. They write about creating their own soda, then make their own soda, comparing and contrasting it with a national brand. They write a paragraph containing compound sentences.
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Some Houses Are Made of Straw, Wood, or Brick: But... This House is Made of Mud...

For Teachers 1st
First graders read and discuss several stories. They share information about different types of shelter around the world. They explain that lifestyles and shelter depend very much on where people live and how they use the resources...
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"Data Dabble"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students engage in a lesson which facilitates their use of web sites to find data, graph it, and interpret it, thus scaffolding graphing skills to prepare students for their 8th grade I-search exit project.
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Poetry--Homeless People

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a poem about homeless people using images they saw on websites. After reading the book "The Outsiders", 8th graders make connections of real life homeless people with characters in the book. Students search the web...
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Character Development Through Song

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use songs to analyze their sense of identity and self-worth. In groups, they discuss and explore their own character development and discover how far they have come in recent years. They also identify the positive and negative...
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Penguin Writing

For Teachers 1st
After discussing the main events in Mr. Popper’s Penguins, young writers describe in sequence what they would do if they had 12 penguins living in their house. The narratives are then glued onto a penguin cut-out, mounted on construction...
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Lesson Two: Writing Letters in Code

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Combine your friendly letter lesson, grammar lesson, and technology lesson with this fun activity! Young writers compose letters to friends, and then convert the text to Webdings font. Their friends then decode the letter based on a key....
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Rubric for Research Papers

For Students 9th - 11th
This rubric is decent, but it doesn't provide a point allotment for each category. Use this as an outline to create a more comprehensive assessment for your writers' research papers. 
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Marching to Freedom: PowerPoint Presentation debating for or against going to war

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders present research on war. In this debate lesson, 4th graders create a power point presentation debating for or against the American Revolution. Students share their presentations with the class.
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Using Personal Pronouns Correctly

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Complete personal pronoun practice activities. Pupils use correct personal pronoun form in sentences the teacher writes on the board. They review the function of a pronoun and the various cases and practice placing personal pronouns by...

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