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How Cell Phones Work

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to the text, LITERACY LINE viewing the contents page. They review the definition of explanatory writing; discussing the features used and complete a KWL chart to identify what they already know about how a...
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Summer of My German Soldier

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners participate in a layered curriculum unit for a novel study. The teaching method allows for a student centered classroom that includes different methods of instruction and assessment.
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Shopping: In a Cafe

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explore English by participating in a role-playing activity. In this food ordering lesson, students utilize new vocabulary terms to conduct short dialogues with fictitious servers in a Cafe role-play activity. Learners analyze...
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Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review basics of subject and verb agreement, and write sentences in which the subject and verb are in agreement.
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Fun Fonix: Do it. Say it. Write it in order.

For Students 1st
In this spelling worksheet, 1st graders respond to 9 fill in the blank questions by performing the action represented by the picture, saying the word of the action, and writing the word with the correct spelling in the spaces provided.
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Message in a Bottle

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders write a short story about being stranded on a deserted island. After a brief geography review of locations at various latitudes and longitudes, 6th graders draft their story about being stranded. They use sensory and...
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Keira Knightley

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous leaders instructional activity, students read a passage about Keira Knightley and then complete a variety of activities including spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and scrambled sentences.
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Gore Vidal

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people worksheet, learners read a selection about the life of Gore Vidal, then complete a variety of comprehension activities including synonym matches, fill-in-the-blank sentence completions, unscrambling words and...
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Jennifer Lopez

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people learning exercise, students read about Jennifer Lopez and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to synonym matching, sequencing, writing, spelling and vocabulary activities.
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Preity Zinta

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people learning exercise, students read about Preity Zinta and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to synonym matching, sequencing, writing, spelling and vocabulary activities.
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Describing the Physical World

For Students 6th - 12th
In this physical world worksheet, learners review concepts relating to the chemical and physical properties of matter, density of matter, and if matter is a solid, liquid, or gas. This worksheet has 9 terms in a word puzzle, 4 true or...
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Great Online Art Sites

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils complete an online study of art websites. For this art and technology lesson, students explore the links and try the activities to learn about art online.
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Analyzing a Science Fiction Movie

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders watch the movie "Contact" and write a review. They discuss in their review how scientists deal with technological problems, the movie's connections to the nature of science and how technology affects science. They share...
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Awesome Alliterations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars review examples of alliteration in Shel Silverstein's poems. They are assigned a letter of the alphabet and then write an original alliterative poem using that letter.
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Details, Details, Details

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students review paragraph development, use of adjectives and grammar requirements. They incorporate various details in a written paragraph describing a visual image used as a writing prompt.
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Barack Obama

For Students 4th - 8th
In this famous person instructional activity, students read a passage about Barack Obama and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze,...
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Suppressing Short O

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore/review the letter 'o' and the short /o/ sound. They recite short /o/ tongue twisters, practice writing the letter 'o', and listen to stories, identifying words with the short /o/...
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Fun Fonix: Do it. Say it. Write it in order.

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics activity, students perform the task pictured, speak the word represented in the picture, and respond to 9 fill in the blank questions providing the correctly spelled word of the task pictured.
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Chocolate Chaos

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate the ability to examine the elements of a story (theme, plot, setting, mood) and characters, by discussing and writing about each. They have fun with chocolate related activities and enjoy reading about some...
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Dig This Dinosaur Relief Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners create low-fire ceramic relief sculptures of dinosaur bones. They incorporate art history, aesthetics, and criticism with hands on activity. Students work together to draw an enlarged skeleton on butcher paper. The Stegosaurus...
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Where No Student Has Gone Before

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners create a story about an unknown planet invaded by humans as a pre-reading activity for the novel, A Wrinkle In Time. They discuss good versus evil, and identify examples of the theme good vs. evil in books, film, and their own...
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Holiday Cards

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners review basic computer skills needed to create a holiday card along with a database of at least twenty five contacts. They create their family greeting card including graphics, correct spelling an grammar. Using their database...
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From McGee's Farm to the Movies

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in several plant-themed activities. They keep a food log, identify any plants they have eaten and then classify these foods by the part of the plant that is edible. Students sing songs about plants, make collages,...
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Taking a Cruise To U=/u/

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities related to the short /u/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the short /u/ using letter manipulatives. Students then read the book "Bud the...