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Worksheet 8: Adjectives
In this adjectives worksheet, students read the sentences and select from the options the best adjective to complete the 12 sentences.
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Self-Portraits
Eighth graders create self-portrait showing value and emotion, and gather information about color and emotion through different handheld applications.
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Analysis of the Tuck Everlasting and The Birchbark House Text Exemplars
Looking to introduce some text-based questions into your ELA lessons? Practice the kinds of skills the Common Core demands with the seven text-based questions and the essay prompt provided here. Designed to be a three-day lesson, day one...
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Camel Container: Ceramics
Play with clay while building finger dexterity and important sculpting techniques. Learners make camel containers while they practice throwing and molding clay. Fun camel facts make this an interdisciplinary art lesson plan.
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Bigger Flowers
Students discuss flowers and their parts, examine works by Georgia O'Keeffe, and draw, color, or paint large flowers.
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The Crucible
Students participate in a layered curriculum unit. Credit is earned for learning, which comes about through listening, discussion, reading, and/or doing. They are verbally assessed for each activity chosen to complete.
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Game Shows in the Classroom
Learners participate in game show like games when reviewing material for any subject or grade level.
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Coordinate Graphs
Students use coordinate graphs in order to identify objects and their locations. They are shown how to plot the x and y coordinates and then are given values to be plotted during guided and independent practice. Students are assessed on...
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Games for Culminating Activity
Students need to be creative in developing an activity that will help other students review the information studied in the past four weeks. They will work effectively in groups to develop a culminating activity and to play other groups'...
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Tetrahedron Kites
Let's go fly a kite! Discuss the concept of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects with your math class. They examine a triangle and discuss the face, vertices, edges, and angles. Then they build their own Tetrahedral Kites and...
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Force And Motion With Cars
Students discover that different things move at different speeds. They compare the distance a car travels on a ramp with and without a push. They
push the car with one finger the first time, let it move without a
push the next time (no...
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Transforming Triangles
Sixth graders graph translations (slides) and reflections (flips) on a coordinate plane. They visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. Finally, 6th graders write a paragraph telling...
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Junk Sort
Students analyze objects by one or more attributes. In this sorting lesson plan, students use manipulatives and string or yarn to create a sorting game. Students read books and items from the classroom to sort.
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Let's Build a Truck
Students study the basics of trucks and transportation vehicles. For this transportation vehicles lesson, students study pictures of basic key truck components and recognize differences between various product transportation vehicles....
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Self-Portraits
Eighth graders practice the techniques of color, face proportion, emotion through color, and how to integrate handheld applications in Art projects in this Art lesson for the 8th grade classroom. Self-Portraits are used and emphasized in...
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How Do You Get to School?
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Earthquake Waves And Their Destructions
Middle schoolers investigate primary and secondary waves and how to measure the magnitude of waves. They discover how to find the epicenter of earthquakes. They examine why waves are more destructive in some areas than others through...
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Design - Lettering
Young scholars, using the concepts of radial design and balance, create a project that focuses on craftsmanship, lettering, promoting a positive self-image, and design elements.
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Transforming Triangles
Sixth graders examine how to graph translations (slides) and reflections (flips) on a coordinate plane. They practice the slides and flips kinesthetically and apply it to a worksheet working with triangles.
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An Early American Culture
Students identify the locations of the Hopewell culture. In this map skills instructional activity, students use a globe to mark several locations of the Hopewell culture.
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Water as a Cycle
Pupils collaborate with a partner to create a large diagram containing one aspect of the water cycle. They are encouraged to include academic language and pictures for their presentation. Their is a peer evaluation sheet that is included...
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Exploring Restoration Techniques
Learners, after taking a field trip to a museum, use paint to try to restore old objects.
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What is Ride Sharing?
Third graders discover the concept of ride sharing. They discuss how it helps the environment. They use the internet to gather information as well.
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Mixing Up Magic
Pupils explore the relationship between art and science through experimenting with color, design and recycled materials and creating their own art work.