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Mystery Words - Part One
Students read the questions carefully on the "Mystery Clues" worksheet and answer the clues using a word from the given word list. They study how they must read the clues carefully to come up with the correct answer.
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Ramadan - living in a diverse world
Students examine Muslim traditional and Ramadan. They explore traditions and history of Ramadan. Students discuss positive and negative habits. They create a Ramadan 'advent calendar.
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Present Perfect
In this activity, students answer five short answer questions that require the proper use of present perfect tense. Next, they make required changes to fifteen sentences to place them present perfect tense. The next ten sentences require...
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The Achievements and Challenges of Guatemala
Young scholars research the Mayan number and calendar system. They translate a variety of math problems from base-10 Arabic numbers into a base-20 Mayan representation. They discuss current challenges faced by the people in today's...
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What's up with the weather?
Students use the weather as a context for collecting data and making interpretations based upon the observations. The scientific method is also taught to give them a way to conduct the data collection.
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I'll Just Charge It
Third graders explore advantages and disadvantages of credit card use before they fall into the credit trap!
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The Lunar Calendar
Students examine the Chinese calendar and Zodiac signs in this early elementary lesson plan on calendars and culture. Discussions on cultural beliefs and values are emphasized and could be controversial.
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How Often?
In this social studies activity, students answer 24 questions about a variety of social studies questions. Students are divided up into two teams and the first team to answer a question correctly gets a point.
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Sky Watching
Students trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
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Verb Forms And Contractions
In this mixed verb and contraction worksheet, student fill in the blank with the proper verb form the first 16 statements. They insert the proper present perfect or past simple verb in 28 statements and insert the proper contraction in a...
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Fun in the Sun
Students freeze colored water. In this art lesson, students take the blocks of ice out of the freezer, put the blocks into a small pool and watch the ice melt.
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Hide the Acorns
Students search for acorns. In this art lesson students imagine they are squirrels finding and storing acorns. The students dig through a water table filled with sand or soil looking for acorns that have been buried.
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Nativity Play
Students participate in a play. In this Christmas lesson, students act out the Nativity. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.
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Potato Head
Students create a potato looking object. In this art lesson, students decorate hamster bedding with a face making it look like the potato. Students water the object causing the grass to grow making it look like hair.
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Valentine Hat
Students create a valentine hat out of red construction paper and a paper towel tube. In this art lesson, students create a hat out of strips of red construction paper attached to the paper towel tube. Students glue hearts on the hat as...
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Mini pinatas loot bags
Students create mini pinata loot bags. In this pinata lesson, students take three balloons and cover them with flour, water, and tissue paper. They cut off the bottom to fill them and cover the opening.