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Running Colors

For Teachers K
Students play a game with mats of different shapes and colors spread out over a playing area. As a shape and color is called out students run the the corresponding mat and stand on it.
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Learning Phonics Worksheet: Consonants and Vowels 1a

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coloring consonants and vowels instructional activity, students color the shapes that have consonants in them red. Students color the shapes that have vowels in them blue.
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Cubes and Cylinders

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this geometry worksheet, students identify cubes and cylinders by coloring a given number of each shape red, green, blue, or yellow.
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Navajo Rug

For Teachers K
Students explore geometry in Navajo rugs. In this shape art lesson plan, students create a Navajo rug design using triangles and squares. Students investigate designs on the Internet and then create an original design.
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Penguins

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and eat goldfish crackers all to learn about penguins. In this penguins lesson plan, students also color black and white pictures of penguins.
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My Animal Book

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Don't you just love resources you can print and use? Here is a complete printable packet all about animals. Kids can color the animal pictures, answer animal questions, and complete the animal crossword puzzle, then put them all together...
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Pattern Value Portraits with Light

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use the elements of art and principles of design to explore value. In this color value lesson plan, students use the portrait of a a face to help them understand color value, tints, shades and tones.
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Complete the Patterns

For Students K - 2nd
In this patterns activity, students look at the each of the patterns in the 5 rows of shapes. In each row, students recognize patterns by filling in the last 2 shapes to complete the pattern in each of the 5 rows.
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Prokaryote Coloring

For Students 7th
In this prokaryote coloring activity learning exercise, 7th graders read an informative passage about prokaryotes. Students answer questions about the passage and color the picture.
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Body Parts in Spanish

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use Spanish to recognize and recall body parts. In this Spanish anatomy lesson, students identify and name the parts of the body in Spanish. Students describe a person physically by his hair and color of eyes. Students graph...
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Home Sweet Home

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete activities with the books Color Me Dark, The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, and The Great Migration North.  In this literature/History lesson, student read the story and discuss the plot. They analyze photographs taken...
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Patterns Worksheet: Complete the Patterns (#2)

For Students Pre-K - K
In this patterns activity, learners look at 3 rows of patterns and then complete each pattern by drawing the appropriate shape at the end of each row. A good logic and reasoning activity.
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Autumn's Palette

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Ranger Rick worksheet, students participate in a nature walk, observe the leaves, and sketch some of the leaf shapes they encounter. Students also respond to a question regarding the range of leaf colors they observe.
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Investigating Different Rock Types

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze a rock using their eyes and then a hand lens. In this science lesson, students determine and discuss how hard or how easy it was to find and classify the assigned rock. Students record their observations on an index...
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Apple Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K
Students participate in a recalling activity with three colored felt apples.  In this apple lesson, students discuss the colors of apples, sequence apples, and choice a favorite apple. Students participate in an apple tasting.
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Plant Parts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize the parts of the plant and the function it provides.In this plant parts lesson, students participate in three activities relating to plant parts and properties.
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Look At Those Leaves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students observe leaves. In this plant biology activity, students examine leaves and classify them according to size, shape, and color. Students learn more about the leaves by visiting suggested websites.
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Perimeter Playground

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore geometry by participating in a school measuring activity. For this perimeter lesson, students discuss the techniques and methods used in order to measure a large perimeter or geometric figure. Learners utilize grid...
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Short 'e'

For Teachers 1st
First graders recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Building Shapes From Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners experience how to illustrate some of the many connections between number and geometry. Through this 2-3 day focus on square numbers and triangular numbers, students make connections among mathematical topics.
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Shaping the View: Symmetry and Balance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine how artists structure their compositions to convey a sense of symmetry and balance. They analyze various paintings, identify objects and figures in the paintings, conduct Internet research, and evaluate paintings.
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Shaping the View: Symmetry and Balance

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view an image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and identify the focal point of the painting. They discuss symmetry and balance as it pertains to the images. Students use the Student LaunchPad (linked to this lesson) to help...
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Classifying Activity

For Students 6th - 9th
In this classification instructional activity, students classify items in two rooms into eight different groups by choosing different characteristics to classify items.
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Sun Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this space science worksheet, students find the answers to the questions concerning the topic of the sun and they label the diagram for the sun.