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Geography Project: Australia
A presentation packed with project ideas and research questions encourages viewers to use images to describe Australia's climate, leisure activities, location, interesting facts, culture, and landmarks. Learners combine technology and...
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Leads in Narrative Writing
The beginning, a very good place to start, is also a very difficult thing to craft. Provide your writers with this handout that identifies, and provides examples of, six different types of narrative leads.
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Biographical Narrative: Journal Prompts
The opportunities are endless with a worksheet containing 24 biographical narrative writing prompts. Although there are no directions or specifications for the writing process, the prompts promote the use of narrative writing techniques...
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Physiology of Reproduction
In this health worksheet, students examine the human body and make mental connections to the target function highlighted in the sheet.
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Resources
Students are introduced to different context clues. In this context clues lesson, students analyze sentences to find the meaning of a word using context clues.
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Negative Space People
Learning about negative space can help kids see things in a whole new way. They use negative space and bright, primary colors to create an image of people in action. Each of the four squares will contain a single negative-space person...
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Julius Caesar: Study Guide
What makes a good leader? Use the curriculum guide for William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to help scholars answer that question. Pupils research the play's historical context and other background information before engaging in...
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Cardboard History
Students investigate the history of baseball and create baseball cards based on research they have collected about early baseball players.
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Holding Out for a Hero: Roberto Clemente
Learners brainstorm lists of heroes, heroic qualities, and ways to pay tribute to heroes. For this Holding Out for a Hero lesson, students record Clemente's heroic attributes as athlete ad humanitarian. After visiting the Beyond Baseball...
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The Ultimate Athletic Background
Eighth graders analyze the criteria used to identify "Soul of a Champion" athletes. In this Current Events lesson, 8th graders write, edit and organize a script for a “live” documentary on the athlete. Students rehearse and perform...
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Adjectives Sentence Gap Fill
In this ESL activity activity, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences with the correct adjective from the provided word bank.
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Public Trust
Students discover public trust. In this civics activity, students explore how to promote public trust as they use their resources to support worthy politicians, athletes, celebrities, and corporations.
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The All About Me Poster
Students write about themselves and create a poster to illustrate who they are.
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Who in the World Is....?
Students access how to scan the newspaper for relevant information. They become acquainted with the sections of the newspaper. Students practice summarizing what they have learned.
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Relationships, Rules, and Responsibilities
First graders identify jobs in the environment. In this social justice lesson, 1st graders describe rules to protect the environment and the roles specific jobs play. Students construct environmental rules for an imaginary town.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Students discuss Huck Finn's decision about whether or not to turn Jim in to the authorities. In this language arts lesson, students are reading Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. After reading chapter 31, students discuss the conflict Huck...
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All About Me Poster
In this biography/autobiography instructional activity, students read a few biographies and discuss the term and it's characteristics. Students then brainstorm what makes a good biography/autobiography and create an 'All about me'...
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The All About Me Poster
Young scholars discover the literary genre of biographies. In this creative writing lesson, students write about their own life experiences and personal stories. Young scholars create a poster about their lives, a biographical collage.
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Heroic Images: Visualization and Media Messages
Students examine media messages. In this media awareness lesson, students analyze online messages about heroism as they complete a jigsaw reading activity.
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Narrative Journal Prompts
Need some possible writing topics for your class? Look no further, this resource consists of a list of 24 writing prompts. Perfect for journal writing or quick writes, all 24 prompts ask about pupils' personal experiences and thus elicit...
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Latinos in the United States of America
Students explore a website about Latinos in the U.S., and answer worksheet questions about information on the website. They create a puppet show, organize a press conference, or create a brochure regarding Latinos living in the U.S.
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Sunday School Inspiration Lessons
Many activities related to the Chrisitan religion are included in this lesson about storytelling; students create their own Bible related art from stickers, stamps, t-shirts and hats. Puppets also help to to retell Bible stories and...
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Vocabulary 21 Practice Quiz
Use the context clues provided for each of the 20 sentences to define the words provided. All word choices are listed at the top of the page. Answers are found at the bottom.
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Greek and Roman Symbolism
Students explore Greek and Roman symbolism in art. In this visual art lesson, students draw portraits of ancient leaders based on the written descriptions they read about them. Students also design campaign posters using Greek or Roman...