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Lesson Plan
UAF Geophysical Institute

Observing the Weather

For Teachers 4th - 7th
How can you predict the weather without any technology? Young scientists learn to forecast the weather using traditional Native American techniques. Based on their observations of the weather, as well as talking to their classmates, they...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather on the Internet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
What the weather like today? How about in other countries? In Celsius and Fahrenheit? Have your learners use the Internet to look up the weather in Spanish! They'll discuss their findings in Spanish with a partner and create a chart over...
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Lesson Plan
World Wildlife Fund

Land of the Midnight Sun

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
From days of 24 hour sunlight, to endless nights that last for days, the Arctic is a very unique place to live. Examine the seasonal changes that occur in the northern-most reaches of the globe and the impact they have on the plants and...
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Worksheet
Super Teacher Worksheets

Idioms

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
If figurative language makes your kids feel blue or under the weather, use an activity focused on idioms to help them feel on top of the world. Kids complete a chart with seven idiomatic phrases, adding the meaning of each along with an...
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Lesson Plan
Lakeshore Learning

Winter Bear Warm-Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Don't be left out in the cold, ensure young learners are prepared for the winter weather with this clothing activity. After introducing them to different clothing items using the provided picture cards, young scholars sing a song before...
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Lesson Plan
MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Learn the ins and outs of hurricanes through a series of lessons answering, "What is a hurricane? How does it travel? How is one formed, measured, and named?" Information is presented through informative text and images, while...
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Worksheet
abcteach

Spring Missing Letters

For Students 2nd - 4th
Welcome the arrival of spring with this fun little spelling worksheet. Including different terms relating to plants, gardening, and springtime weather, children must correctly spell each word by filling in the missing...
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Printables
PreKinders

Winter Word Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Walk in a winter wonderland with a set of picture word cards. Kids work on their seasonal vocabulary with 18 cards, which include both pictures and names of winter items and animals that live in the cold.
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PBS

Blow the Roof Off!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Blow the minds of young scientists with this collection of inquiry-based investigations. Based on a series of eight videos, these "hands-on, minds-on" science lessons engage young learners in exploring a wide range of topics...
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Worksheet
K5 Learning

The Coat

For Students 2nd Standards
The moral of the story: listen to your parents! A concise reading passage introduces learners to Tom and the consequences of his choice to go out without a coat.
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NOAA

The Cycle of Water

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Help young scientists get to the bottom of the water cycle with this comprehensive earth science lesson. After first viewing and discussing presentations about the states of water and the water cycle, the class performs a...
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Worksheet
Macmillan Education

Comparative Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
How can you show that an item is colder than something else? Or that it is more beautiful? Use a worksheet to reinforce the concept of comparative adjectives. With fill-in-the-blanks, word banks, and multiple choice questions, the...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Adjective or Adverb?

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
What's the difference between an adverb and an adjective? And aren't all -ly words adverbs? Reinforce the difference between adverbs and adjectives with a straightforward exercise.
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Choose the Adjective

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Is this worksheet challenging or chewy? Allow your pupils to choose the correct adjective for 18 sentences in order to find out.
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K12 Reader

Questioning Adverbs

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
How do adverbs enhance the meanings of verbs? Use a worksheet that prompts kids to identify what question adverbs are answering: when, where, or how.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Night and Day: A Digital Art Lesson based on Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Think about your favorite place ... now, think about what it looks like at different times during the day. How does the change in lighting affect the colors you see? Young artists explore the tools available in digital art software to...
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Lesson Plan
Skyscraper Museum

Building a Skyscraper

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Creating buildings that reach hundreds of feet into the sky is no easy task. The third instructional activity in this series begins with four activities that engage young architects in exploring the major challenges that are faced when...
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Handout
Weebly

Ancient China

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
From China's physical geography and earliest beginnings of civilization to the Qin and Han dynasties, here is a nicely designed worksheet on ancient China, which includes a graphic organizer and timeline to summarize the reading...
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Workbook
Aurora Trust

Journey Under the Sea

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Discover the interesting world of maritime archaeology and explorations under the sea with this nice set of worksheets, which cover such topics as search tools and techniques of underwater archaeology, carbon dating,...
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Lesson Plan
National Park Service

Living & Non-Living Interactions

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
What better way to learn about ecosystems than by getting outside and observing them first hand? Accompanying a field trip to a local park or outdoor space, this series of collaborative activities engages children in...
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Writing
Have Fun Teaching

March Journal Prompts

For Students 2nd - 7th
Engage your class in writing right away during the month of March. This resource provides writing prompts for every day in March, and each is decorated with a shamrock. For most of the prompts, learners use creative writing skills,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Lowercase Letters

For Students 3rd - 5th
Break down lowercase cursive letters with this packet of materials. Learners copy a cursive alphabet chart, practice letters grouped by starting strokes, work on joining letters, and complete several other activities using...
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E Reading Worksheets

Predictions Reading into the Future

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Practice making inferences about fiction with a language arts slide show presentation. After kids read a few tips about ways to predict the next event in a story, they read several passages and try to find out what will happen next based...
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E Reading Worksheets

Making Predictions #2

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
What happens next? Learn to make predictions with five short passages. As kids finish reading each passage, they jot down what they think will happen next, as well as the evidence from the text that supports their prediction.