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Create a Family Crest

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create their own family crest using prior knowledge and Japanese and Native American examples of symbolic art. Lesson extensions include the creation of a school crest or woodblock examples of crests.
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NGA Kids Inside Scoop Spring 2007

For Teachers K - 8th
Students become familiar with the work of Claude Monet and his garden paintings.  In this Monet lesson, students compare the garden works of Claude Monet.  Students examine pictures for the colors in his paintings. Students...
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Folklife Around the Year and Around the State

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Research how seasonal changes in Louisiana affect learners' lives and the folklife of their communities and the state. They investigate differences in the seasonal round in the regions of Louisiana, including celebrations, festivals,...
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Spring Potted Plants

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify and interpret plant growth as well as gain graphing skills and other important knowledge related to potting plants. They take a regular milk jug and cut off the top, leaving the handle and the rest intact. Then,...
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Find the Hidden Words (#7)

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this spring words worksheet, students locate and highlight the following 6 key terms associated with spring in a word search puzzle: picnic, swing, grass, statue, ants and flowers.
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Dove Color Sheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this color worksheet, students will create a spring masterpiece. Using colors of choice the students will color a dove centered among a floral design.
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Rewriting Similes and Metaphors

For Students 4th - 8th
As part of a study of comparison, kids transform similes into metaphors and metaphors into similes.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Moonbear's Bargain (Asch)

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you are reading Frank Asch's book Moonbear's Bargain, here is an excellent way to practice vocabulary in context with budding readers. Although you could include others, the recommended words for this text are: blossom,...
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Changing Between Singular and Plural Nouns

For Students 4th - 6th
Appropriate for language learners and native English speakers, this worksheet asks learners to provide the plural version of singular nouns and the singular form of plural nouns.
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Evoking the Senses in a Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Budding poets choose a topic for a sensory-filled poem. Authors describe that topic using detailed language based on the five senses. Then, switch the senses to create a fanciful poem intended to add a touch of fun to the objective. 
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Easter Sunday

For Students 5th - 10th
All questions in this Easter Sunday worksheet involve the religious significance of the holiday. Students complete twelve activities such as phrase matching, fill in the blanks, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing...
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Autumn Internet Hunt

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Which is better for a harvest party, apple juice or apple cider? Are there many black bears in your state? How soon in advance do you need to plant pumpkins in order for them to be ready by October? Find the answers to these questions...
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Shizuko’s Daughter: List-Group-Label Strategy

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Help your learners navigate the vocabulary of Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori with a lesson on categorizing words. After coming up with a list of things that grow from the earth, learners decide which categories each words belong in.
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Periods, Question Marks, Exclamation Points, and Quotation Marks

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students supply all necessary punctuation marks in fifteen sentences. Students place a C in the space provided if the sentence is correct.
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Fairy Tale Similes

For Students 2nd - 4th
Discuss similes in fairy tales using a simple worksheet. Learners take a look at the fairy tales they have read, talk about the definition of a simile, and list examples. Then, they create an illustration for one of the similes they have...
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Easter Word Scramble

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Easter word scramble worksheet, students decipher 15 words, all pertaining to Easter or spring. There is an optional word bank which can be used.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Moonbear’s Bargain

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore language arts by reading a book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson plan, students read the book Moonbear's Bargain and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Learners define the selected vocabulary words...
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Fun Faces of Wisconsin Agriculture: Berry Bunch's Strawberry Fast Facts

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students use facts about strawberry production in Wisconsin to complete math and art activities. In this strawberry production lesson, students read about strawberry production in the state of Wisconsin. They answer math word problems...
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Autumn Bulb Planting Outside - Making a Daffodil Spiral

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars plant daffodil bulbs. In this gardening activity, students work outside to plant daffodil bulbs in the autumn so that they can grow roots and emerge by spring.
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Non-Fiction Reading and Writing

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this non-fiction text worksheet, students read the passage about spring flowers. Students then underline the sentences about Daffodils and Primroses.
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Fruit and Vegetable Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create complex forms from simple items. In this portrait lesson, students examine the work of artist, Giuseppe Arcimboldo and compose self-portraits using vegetables and fruits as features on the face.
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Using Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this adjectives review learning exercise, students practice their grammar skills as they identify the adjectives in 12 sentences and use the adjectives in the word bank to fill in the blanks in 5 sentences.
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I Have A Little Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this poetry worksheet, students read the poem "I Have A Little Garden," color the picture, underline the rhyming words in the poem and then write the rhyming words on pages two through three.
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Seasons--Autumn (fall)

For Students 3rd - Higher Ed
As part of a discussion of seasonal words, class members identify words relating to autumn and then identify the language used to describe what happens during this time of year.