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Every Student Counts: Building a Positive Learning Environment

For Teachers 2nd - 9th
Join in the effort to end bullying through building a positive learning environment for everyone.
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Classroom Guide for Grandfather Counts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore Asian American culture. In this multicultural guided reading instructional activity, students brainstorm a list of communication tools and share languages they speak. Learners read Grandfather Counts by Andrea Cheng,...
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Picture (More) Perfect

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students help their community. In this character counts activity, students discuss problems facing the world and their community. They come up with solutions to some of these problems. 
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Respectful Interview

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners interview elderly people in a senior citizen community center. In this character counts lesson, students interview the elderly about how society can be more respectful.  They videotape and watch the interviews together. 
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Spookley the Square Pumpkin

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete activities with the story Spookley the Square Pumpkin. In this holiday instructional activity, students listen to the story and create their own Spookley pumpkin with Popsicle sticks and paints. They use their character...
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Money Counts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify bills and coins to $20 bills and make equivalencies. They organize bills and coins in groups from greatest to least and least to greatest. Students count out change.
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FBI Counts Mosques

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather as much background as possible about this controversial FBI directive and what Muslim and civil liberties groups believe about it. They perform interviews with Muslim students to gather opinions and then form a conclusion...
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FBI Counts Mosques

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research the term "racial profiling to help decide if this directive fits in that category. Students explore the reaction of each side and the pros and cons each offers. Students Prepare a debate with one side supporting the FBI...
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Michael Jackson's “Beat It” Dance

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Looking for a line dance? Look no further. This dance is performed to Michael Jackson's "Beat It". It is comprised of four eight-counts. The moves consist of walking forward, swinging the hips, doing the grapevine, walking backwards, and...
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Your Vote Counts! Election Activity

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a simulated election. They serve as 'checkers', marking off names of those who vote, a ballot person hands out ballots, and ballot sorters and counters. Teacher rigs up a voting booth where voters mark ballots...
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Personality Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a bio-poem for themselves or characters in stories they have read. They explore common character traits.
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Counting Objects in Set (Up to Five)

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this counting to 5 worksheet, students solve 10 problems in which objects in a set are counted. Students circle the number that tells how many.
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How Many? Counting to Seven

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this counting to seven worksheet, pupils solve 8 problems in which objects in a set are counted. Students circle the number that tells how many; all answers will be 7 or below.
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Count the Bunnies

For Students Pre-K - K
In this counting to ten worksheet, students solve 6 problems in which bunnies in a set are counted. Students write the number in the box. The range here is 5 to 9.
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Train Skip Counting: Count by 2s

For Students K - 6th
Skip counting builds number sense and prepares learners for multiplication. Intended for use with Autistic children, but appropriate for anyone, this worksheet provides a way to practice counting by 2s. There are 6 trains, the child...
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Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...
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Fun Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform a dance step in physical education class. They move to the beat of the music, counting eight beats to a set of movements. Students walk forward four counts and do two jumping jacks. They walk backwards four counts and do...
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It Counts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners assign numbers to describe objects. In this number lesson, students assign numbers to objects and compare more, less, and equal values. They write down descriptions of plants including the number of leaves and height of the...
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It Counts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this activity, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. They should be able to use numbers...
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Empathy

For Teachers K - 6th
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes is a common phrase we hear from time to time, but do children really understand? Explore empathy with elementary schoolers using these activities. Focusing on feelings and emotions,...
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Math Snack

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners practice math skills as they sort treats for snack. They prepare a table for snack. They count snack items. They complete a graph using the counted items.
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Measuring the Effect of Adrenaline on the Heart Rate of Zebra Fish

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the heart beat of zebra fish in timed intervals. They record the heart beats and average three counts to display in their data tables. They repeat these steps increasing the adrenaline solution.
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Filling Up the Pigs

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this adding money worksheet, students solve 3 problems in which coins in a piggy bank are counted and an additional amount of money is added to it.
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Bee Count and Graph Book

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this counting and graphing activity, students count the number of bees on each page and graph the total number counted by filling in the squares at the bottom of each page. Students answer ten problems.