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Think About Me: My Needs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
For this personal needs worksheet, students draw 4 pictures that depict something that is needed in life. Students rate each need in order of importance by coloring 1 to 3 stars.
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Family Picture Quilt

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore family backgrounds and traditions while discussing how memories are preserved. In this patchwork quilt instructional activity, students create a keepsake by compiling pictures, drawings, and magazine clippings of things...
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Water Has Many Uses

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners research the uses of water and complete related activities. In this water uses lesson, students investigate the ways their family uses water. Learners complete a collage activity, an illustration activity, a trace activity, a...
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data and graph or chart the information. In this data organization instructional activity, students poll their classmates about certain topics and chart or graph the information to show the results of their research.
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Teaching in the Shared Way of Ghandi and Montessori

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this differentiated lesson, learners incorporate different subjects using the Ghandi and Montessori methods instead of the traditional method used in regular schools. In math they investigate shapes, colors and sizes. In writing they...
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Animal Instincts

For Teachers K - 5th
Students compare animal adaptations to human behavior. In this science lesson, students discuss animal instincts vs. learned behavior. Options for student writing, drawing and research are incorporated into this lesson plan
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Breaking News English: Put More Babies into Care: UK Charity

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Put More Babies into Care: UK Charity," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.
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Motivation

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this psychology review worksheet, students complete 5 short answer questions on human motivation, homosexuality and Maslow's Theory.
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Love Your Neighbors Like Yourself

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students sing a song which enforces the idea of loving your friends as you do yourself. They identify ways they can help others in and out of the classroom. They participate in acts of kindness in the community.
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Appreciation Cards

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils discuss jobs in which have impacted their lives directly. They create appreciation cards for a person who they believe needs appreciation. They give their cards to that person and share their reaction with the class.
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Kids Health: Sibling Rivalry

For Students 3rd - 5th
"Sibling rivalry is totally normal. Rivalry means competition, and you probably know that siblings are your brothers and sisters. So put themtogether and sibling rivalry is competition between brothers and sisters! Read about rivalry and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Sibling Face Off

For Teachers 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An essay about the complicated relationship between siblings. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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ReachOut USA

Reach Out Usa: Fighting With Your Sibling

For Students 9th - 10th
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses why siblings may not get along and offers suggestions for handling conflict with a sibling.
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Kids Health: Welcoming a New Baby Into Your Family

For Students 3rd - 5th
Having a new brother or sister can create many opportunities and challenges for you. You can show how responsible you can be by helping as much as you can. You will have to deal with all the attention that the baby receives from your...
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BBC

Bbc Languages: Talk Age and Siblings

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is focused on the context of talking about the family and includes a video and a worksheet. This video explores the vocabulary and structures of family, age, marriage and family celebrations. The grammar areas of focus are on...
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Read Works

Read Works: Siblings

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a brother and sister whose relationship starts to change as they grow older. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Paired Text: "World's Greatest Robot" by w.m. Akers

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The paired passages "Streetcar!" and "World's Greatest Robot" explore the nature of sibling relationships. Question sets are provided for each passage separately and combined.
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Kids Health: Things to Expect When Your Mom Is Pregnant

For Students 3rd - 5th
"Maybe you've always wanted a baby brother or sister and your parents just told you you're going to have one. Perhaps you've always liked being an "only" and now your parents have announced that you'll have a brother or sister soon....
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PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life: Family

For Students 3rd - 8th
A peek into the dynamics of family life provides useful tools to help with sibling rivalry, divorce, family vacations, and more. Listen to kids' testimonials, role play, express digital creativity, and take real-time surveys on current...
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Orca Book Publishers: 'Hypnotized' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In Hypnotized by Canadian author Don Trembath, a sibling rivalry prompts Rufus to have his sister Alexa hypnotized by his friend. Her subsequent behavior causes both boys to feel confused about their feelings towards her. This teacher's...
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Kids Health: When You Are a Twin or Triplet

For Students 3rd - 8th
"Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be a twin?" KidsHealth considers the types, troubles, and terrific things about twins and triplets.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

For Students 9th - 10th
In this novel, Louise dreams of leaving her tiny island home in Chesapeake Bay, but first she must escape the shadow of her twin sister who seems to rob her of everything. Selected (11) reading passages (grades 6-10) to pair with "Jacob...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: White Rose a Lesson in Dissent

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an account of civil bravery, the German resistance group "Weisse Rose" with the the siblings Scholl as its most prominent members. They were murdered by the Nazis.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Relative Report Narratives

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After sharing Margie Palatini's charming "bad-situation-that-only-gets-worse tale", Tub-boo-boo, writers will plan a story about a humorous household accident that gets worse before it gets better. Borrowing Palatini's exciting idea from...

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