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The Brain Teaser Five Pack
In this brain teaser worksheet, students find the answers to 5 word and number puzzles. They reason answers and use number skills to find the answers.
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Bank on It!
In this language arts worksheet, students study 9 words in a word bank. Students use these words to insert into a paragraph to make the sentences complete.
Novelinks
Nightjohn: List-Group-Label Strategy
Encourage readers of Nightjohn, Gary Paulsen's young adult novel about slavery set shortly before the Civil War, to develop their categorization and organizational skills with a strategy that asks them to list all the words they can...
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Bank on It! The Caterpillar
In this language arts worksheet, students examine 10 commonly used words in a word bank. Students use the words to complete a paragraph about a caterpillar as it should appear.
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Bank on It! -- Moose at the Pond
In this language arts worksheet, students study a word bank with 9 words and use them to finish the sentences about a moose at a pond.
Get Reading Right
Phonic Noughts and Crosses: v, w, y, z, j, n, k, e
Another version of noughts and crosses, the classic English game known as tic-tac-toe in American. This fundamental phonics matching activity uses the letters v,w,y,z,j,n,k,and e, in CVC words that are great words for beginning blending....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Songwriting Skill - Finding Your Voice: The Academy Is - “About A Girl”
The seventh in a series of nine exercises focusing on songwriting models for young lyricists on how to find and develop their unique voice. Class members suggest songs that they feel sound authentic and contrast the wording with songs...
Novelinks
The Little Prince: Request Strategy
Teach your readers how to engage with a text by using the request strategy. As kids read Antoine de Saint Éxupery's The Little Prince, they choose a passage of text and formulate questions to stump their partners or their teacher, based...
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Hollywood Magic-The Dream Factory Recreates the Novel
The Great Gatsby, The Jungle and study HRC's Teaching the American Twenties-The Dream Factory are the focus of this lesson, Your students will rewrite a small scene from the novel into a dramatic film scene and then create a modern movie...
Santa Cruz School District
Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 1
Build unity in the dojo or the gym with an activity that not only teaches the importance of stretching and flexibility but also offers class members an opportunity to get to know one another. After warming up and engaging in a Medicine...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 7
"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts instructional...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 15
“A man without decision of character can never be said to belong to himself … He belongs to whatever can make captive of him.”—John Foster. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts instructional activity 15 of 20 teaches the class about...
Writing Educators Symposium
Asking the Right Questions
It can be difficult to find the theme of a book or story if you don't know the questions to ask. Teach your kids to discern the universal theme in works of literature with a set of activities that promote critical thinking and active...
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Parts of a Plant
First graders discover the parts of a plant. For this science lesson, 1st graders identify and label the parts of a plant and record their findings on a word processor.
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Theater Lesson: Modify My Action
Young scholars engage in a lesson plan that is about the meaning of a verb or adverb. They perform sketches with the subject matter of the words. The goal is for the actors to show the meaning of the verb or adverb with an action.
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Applying Ahimsa to Traditional Stories
Investigate the life of Mahatma Gandhi by researching non-violent lifestyles. Learners define the word ahimsa and discuss the personal characteristics that made Gandhi a peaceful warrior. They also create a poster about the story "The...
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Britney Spears: Famous People, ELL Assignment
If you teach English learners and want a thorough assignment that addresses reading and listening comprehension, speaking skills, vocabulary acquisition, and more, a high-interest content worksheet on Britney Spears may be useful. It...
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Los días de la semana
Here's a great resource to teach your middle schoolers and up the days of the week in Spanish! First, read over each day of the week, modeling the correct pronunciation. Then, have learners complete the rest of the worksheet...
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Phineas Gage: Questioning Strategy
Focus on chapter two of Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science with a questioning activity. After teaching and modeling several types of questions, learners work with partners and then independently to answer and...
Edutopia
Empathy
Teach your learners about support, respect, and listening skills with an activity about empathy. Class members set goals for themselves regarding their peer relationships, and monitor their own progress over a period of time.
Classroom Law Project
How do we hire a President?
What are the job requirements for the office of president of the United States? What attributes should a candidate possess? Are the qualities needed to govern the same as those needed to win? What can an analysis of the management style...
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Learning English through Poems and Songs
Exposing learners to the power of words in poetry is a stimulating way to learn languages. Songs, haikus, rhyming words, and narrative works are all employed in a resource for teaching English as a Second Language.
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Triaxial Blends: Ceramics Lesson
To me, art implies color. Your class can learn all about triaxial blends, glazed colors, and ceramics. Included are the step-by-step instructions needed to teach learners how ceramic glazes developed, color blends, and how to measure and...
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What's Next?
Teach the class how to continue a given number pattern, and have them state a rule to explain their answer. Arithmetic sequences and related worksheets are used to reinforce the concept of numerical patterns using the nthterm.