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Shattered Images Value Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create cubist drawings using grids and enlargement.
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Vocabulary Review

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students circle the letter of the word or phrase that means the same as the word in bold. There are 10 sentences and 4 choices for each.
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The Adjective Alphabet

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students paint alliteration pictures. In this adjectives lesson, students select an adjective and noun that begin with the same letter, for example: hairy heart, to represent in a painting.
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Pop Into My Community

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish cityscapes from seascapes and landscapes and explore the features of a community. Then, they create a pop-up paper city showing foreground, middle ground, and background.
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Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an ocean haiku. In this haiku activity, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Students watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.
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Preposition Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in forty blanks with the appropriate preposition that makes each one grammatically correct.
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This I Can Do: The Drive

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read The Garden of Happiness and discuss the importance of the common good in a community. In this common good lesson, students understand how overcoming diversity and working together for a neighborhood drive. Students create a...
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Reading: A Speech by Helen Keller

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Helen Keller worksheet, students read a speech that was delivered by Helen Keller in 1925. Students answer 8 true and false comprehension questions.
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Clay Personality Boxes Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners create cut slab boxes from clay using the slip and scoring technique. They impress a surface texture into the clay. Students decorate their box to represent themselves in some way.
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The Golden Gate Bridge

For Students 4th - 9th
In this comprehension activity, students read and respond to five multiple choice questions about the story. Then they explain in a short answer response why there were people who opposed to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge and why.
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Future Time

For Students 5th - 6th
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students check the word that does not belong in each group of words. The learning exercise provides 10 problems for practicing the skill.
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Wrap It Up for Chanukah!

For Teachers K - 6th
Prepare gifts for the eight nights of Hanukkah with a fun and artistic instructional activity. Learners use various materials to make an array of unique gifts, including splatter paintings, decorated flowerpots, and stained glass...
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Esperanza Rising: Lesson 8

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete activities with the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. In this literature lesson, 6th graders read Chapter 8 of the book and discuss the chapter. They practice putting events in sequence and record new...
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Bowl of Love Lesson 6

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the concept of having a fundraiser to benefit a local soup kitchen. In this fundraising service project instructional activity, students participate in different activities that explain the history and making of clay...
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HEALTHY EATING

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students devise their own scheme for encouraging healthy eating and discuss health eating. They prepare a talk for younger students from the government to promote healthy eating.
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Carborundum "Intaglio"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a print using a mixture of Carborundum grits of different textures that are mixed with an adhesive and brushed onto a plate. The plate is then inked and wiped like an intaglio plate or it can be printed in relief.
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Kalahari Explorations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research the area of the Kalahari Desert. They use the online and print resources and evaluate the information they find. They present their information to the class.
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Cranimals in 3D

For Teachers K - 5th
Students design their own mix and match animals, using lesson framework that emphasizes transformation, explore differences between clay and model magic, experiment with clay, and shape their animals into 3D sculptures.
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Noun-Tastic

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this nouns worksheet, students rewrite 20 sentences. Students fill in each blank with a noun from the word box given. Students are also reminded that a noun is a person, place, or thing.
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Conjunctions

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this grammar worksheet, students complete 14 sentences by adding the appropriate conjunctions. For example, "I can help you (blank) I finish my homework."
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Sentence Parts Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students label all the subjects, verbs, direct objects and complements in ten sentences. Students justify their choices.
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Music from the Silk Roads

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explore different types of musical instruments. For this musical instrument lesson, students create a replica of a sheng. Learners utilize this instrument to understand different types of breathing used in different sounds....
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Classical Greece

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students research historical events in ancient Greece.  In this ancient Greece lesson, students design a magazine which includes a cover, table of contents, cover story, advertisement and visuals. Students focus on Pericles and his...
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Idiom Quizzes I

For Students 4th - 6th
For this identifying idioms in an online/interactive worksheet, students read sentences with expressions written in brackets and choose the expressions that best replace those expressions. Students choose 21 answers.