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All About Trees

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the artwork of Robert Harris and discuss how trees are an important part of their lives. In groups, they discover how people's use of the environment has changed over time and describe the climate and vegetation...
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Tapping the Trees-Traditional Oneida Song

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice singing the song, Tapping the Trees. They discuss the meaning in both the English and Oneida languages and how the words to this song demonstrate important feelings for the Oneida people.
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The Froggy Page

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students investigate the cycle of life by observing tadpoles.  In this biology lesson, students utilize the Internet to read stories, observe pictures, and listen to sounds of frogs.  Students create a poster board collage...
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Home of the Brave

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use various types of people and the special places they each call home. They discover houses, like the world, are always changing. Students start out by brainstorming what was the one thing that made a house a home. They were...
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Personification Poetry Lesson Plan

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars take part in two exercises to boost their knowledge of personification. After reading a detailed description and excerpts from famous poems, writers list action verbs and objects then combine words to create a humorous...
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Adding Written Detail: Using Jane Yolen’s Owl Moon as a Mentor Text

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Access your senses with a worksheet on sensory language. Based on Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, the worksheet prompts kids to find examples of each of the five senses, as well as phrases for inner emotion. 
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Eagle Song

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students read a book.  For this comprehension lesson, students read the book Eagle Song stopping to answer comprehension questions about each chapter.  Students complete post reading activities including a Tree of Peace.
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Giving Human Rights a Human Face

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students produce a creative expression of an article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They may also create posters to serve as reminders for creating a human rights environment or community.
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The Twelve Days of Christmas

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students determine the number of each gift given in the song, “the Twelve Days of Christmas.”  The worksheet includes the history of the song and a look at the cost of the gifts over...
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Born on a Mountaintop? Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students compare and contrast the details from the life of the real David Crockett and the legendary folk hero he later became. They identify the characteristics of a tall tale and follow a rubric to create a tall tale of their own.
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Lollipop Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students plant a lollipop stick and bean seeds. In this plant lesson, students water the seeds everyday until they start to sprout, after which they tie lollipops to the tree.
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Plot and Conflict

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students listen to a short story by Mildred Taylor entitled, "Song of the Trees." They focus on and discuss the elements of plot and conflict. They determine which events are examples of the central conflict and which elements of the...
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Christmas Around the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students 'travel' around the world gathering Christmas traditions. In this Christmas tradition lesson students sing songs, listen to stories and legends, and make crafts associated with different Christmas traditions around the world....
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Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Challenge young grammarians with a worksheet on prepositional phrases. Given ten sentences, learners must decide which ones include prepositional phrases that function as adjectives to the nouns in the sentence.
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Adjective or Adverb?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
What's the difference between an adverb and an adjective? And aren't all -ly words adverbs? Reinforce the difference between adverbs and adjectives with a straightforward exercise.
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Whatʼs the Same and Whatʼs Different?

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about radiation, convection, and conduction with a multiple choice worksheet. Each question prompts kids to decide what is different about each form of heat energy transfer, and what is the same.
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The Elephant Song

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this songs worksheet, students listen to the song, fill in the blanks, sequence sentences, and label images for The Elephant Song. Students complete 5 activities total.
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How Poets Evoke Social and Historical Representations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore how poems represent the social, historical, and cultural times that they were written in. In this poetry lesson plan, students compare and contrast poems with music of the time and explore implications of writing...
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Under the Christmas Tree

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Christmas word search worksheet, students use the clues in the word bank to fill in the blanks and finish spelling the names of the toys. Students write 9 answers.
Worksheet
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Life Cycle of a Butterfly

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this activity on the life cycle of the butterfly, students look at 4 pictures representing the life cycle stages, and choose words from a word box that match each picture. Students then number the pictures in the correct order of life...
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ROCKING ON TO THE ROCK

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students view the illustrations of family life in the early colonies and make a list of 10 things they see. Then compare those 10 items with your life today. Then read some of the novel "Constance" and write down 8 things that are learned.
Interactive
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English Exercises - Animal Exercises - On The Farm

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this online farm activity, learners complete a matching activity in which they write the number of a picture next to its name. They answer yes or no, how many, and what color questions about the items in the picture. They choose the...
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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine Harriet Tubman's contribution to the Underground Railroad. They read and discuss an excerpt from the book "The Tamarack Tree," listen to the CD for the book "Follow the Drinking Gourd," and write a journal response from...