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How to Incorporate April Fool's Day into Your Teaching
Celebrate the merriment of April Fool's Day without the mischievousness.
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Party Time
Third graders produce a schedule to provide to the birthday party guests The party must last 5 hours and fifteen minutes.
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Sayings Quiz: Mixed 6
In this common English sayings worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions where they choose the correct meaning of common English sayings. Students complete 10 problems.
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Ramadan (Islamic Holiday)
Students recognize that different groups of people have celebrations unique to them. They identify countries on a map where Islam is a dominant religion. They demonstrate their understanding of fasting and abstinence.
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Phase In, Phase Out, the Magnificent Moon
First graders discuss why the moon appears to change shape. They use flashlights and balls to simulate the sun's light shining on the moon during its different phases. They read books, paint pictures and write sentences about the moon.
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Chinese New Year: Lai-See Envelopes Lesson Plan
Students are introduced to the purpose behind the Chinese New Year celebration. As a class, they examine different traditions focusing on the Lai-See envelopes. After watching a PowerPoint presentation, they make their own envelopes...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Kindergarten ABC
Students explore vocabulary words. In this language arts lesson, students listen to the story Kindergarten ABC and discuss the vocabulary words. Students discuss the word meanings and use the word in context.
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Learning the Effects of Weather
Second graders examine how weather affects animals and people. They discuss Navajo and Ute stories told during different seasons of the year, and create a drawing of people or animal behavior and the connection to the weather.
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History Close to Home
Students examine primary sources as related to Nevada and the Civil War. In this United States history lesson, students gather and analyze various primary sources in small groups and interpret unknown vocabulary words by using context...
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Matching Verb Tense and Adverbs
In this verb tense and adverbs learning exercise, students choose the correct verb tense for the adverb to complete the sentence. Students complete 45 sentences.
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Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
Students demonstrate their understanding of the traditions surrounding Rosh Hashanah (food, shofar, "casting off").
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Intermediate Matching – Types of Books
In this book genre worksheet, students draw a line from the book type words to their definitions. They match nine words, which include dictionary, cookbook, encyclopedia, and fiction, with the definition that best describes it.
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Bimaadagaako Adventure
Learners use an interactive website to complete a wilderness trail adventure where they learn about Native cultures, voyagers, and the Canadian fur trade. For this interactive history lesson, students visit the wilderness classroom...
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Lesson Plan for St. Catherine
Learners analyze the art of St. Catherine and Gothic Art. In this art analysis lesson, students read the biography of St. Catherine and read about the carving of the statue. Learners complete a related statue art activity and carve...
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Cows on Parade
Students use assorted drawing materials and sheets from a cow shaped pad to create a unique, bright, colorful cows.
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Scanning Text
Students search for particular piece of information in text. They develop skills of looking for information and finding specific data without reading the whole text.
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Stargazing Astronomy: A Ceiling Full of Stars
Students make an observe a planetarium using a can with nail holes, black paper and a flashlight.
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Chessboard Challenge
Second graders read "The King's Chessboard" by David Birch. The teacher reads the story aloud and pauses at several points for students to calculate the next number in a pattern of doubling.
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A New, Capital Idea#141
Learners design a pamphlet which explains where a capital for a new country, which is comprised of the New England region, should be located. They include the reasons for their decision based on where physical and human features are...
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Changing the Water in the Aquarium
Students discover the importance and how to change the water in an aquarium. As a class, they review the types of impurities that are found in water and discuss how to keep the tank as clean as possible. They develop a water change...
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Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
In this allusion worksheet, students work in pairs to define the allusions assigned to them from the play 'Skin of Our Teeth.' Students present their research to the class.
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Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Calendars in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this instructional activity, they explore a variety of calendars to investigate when...
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Days and Months in Spanish Language
The names of the Spanish months and days are included on this site's reference chart. After reviewing the Spanish months and days shown on the poster, an interactive online game can be played.
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Macrohistory: Babylonian Science and the Gods
Babylon can be credited with many achievements in science in math. This short passage describes some of these achievements and how they related to their religious beliefs. A bibliography is included for further reference.