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3D Houses
Students construct 3-dimensional structures from 2-dimensional paper. They design and compile their structures to resemble a neighborhood community.
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Sunflower Seed House
Students use sunflower seeds to make a picture of a house. This instructional activity uses the book, "Sunflower House."
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Geometry House!
Fourth graders use computer drawing tools to create a house of geometric shapes.
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Great Big House
Third graders sing and play the song "Great Big House" in the Orff style using soprano and alto glockenspiels, bass xylophones, bass marimbas, triangles, woodblocks, and the singing voice. The instructional activity includes...
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What Room Do I Belong To?
In this ESL rooms in a house vocabulary worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict common objects. Students match each picture to the room in the house where it might be found.
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"Escuela" Debate
Students observe a documentary on "Escuela" to explore the life and education of migrant families. After discussing the related topics in the movie, students share their conclusions migrant farmworkers. Using the Internet and other...
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Rebuiding Houses of Worship
Students explore architecture as a reflection both of culture and history as well as practical/functional considerations. They discuss examples of local architecture they find beautiful or interesting, and their criteria for making such...
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A House Dividing: The Growing Crisis of Sectionalism in Antebellum America
Students trace the development of sectionalism in the United States. They explore slavery, freedom and the Constitution. Students identify influential opponents and defenders of American slavery. They explain different solutions to...
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Writing
In this writing worksheet, students write a short story. Students write their story inside an illustration of a house and within six given lines.
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BIOMIMICRY, Housing Naturally: Habitat as Model
Students explore natural animal habitats. In this lesson on biomimicry and habitation design, students will use classroom and field examples to examine animal habitats. Students will construct a model of a natural animal habitat. This...
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Who Prays?
In this religious education learning exercise, students view a diagram of a house and the various people in the house who pray. Students read the five sentences about prayer. Students may color in the sheet afterwards.
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A More Perfect Product
Young scholars participate in a discussion about the basics of house design including the influence of site, materials, function, form and style. They explore these concepts by creating a floor plan and conceptual drawing of a house.
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Amazing Mazes
In this artistic activity, students study and determine how to efficiently help a bird into his bird house via a maze. Students share their routes with their classmates.
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Counting shapes
In this counting shapes worksheet, students count how many squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles they can count in the picture of a house. Students count 45 shapes total.
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Maze
In this maze instructional activity, the students find the route for the fish to find its way back to the fish bowl and then sign the words "fish" and "house". Students solve one maze.
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Prayer
In this prayer worksheet, students cut out the pictures of people praying and insert them into a house picture. Students cut out 4 pictures.
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Firefighters
Students read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 10
“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”—Michael Korda. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts lesson 10 of 20 continues discussing nutrition focusing on serving size. Americans overeat which leads to many health problems....
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The Magic School Bus In the Haunted House
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students explore the science of sound as they complete a science experiment in small groups.
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Living Conditions in Victorian Houses
Students interpret a painting and draw conclusions about life in 10th century Britain. In this British history lesson, students determine what life would have been like for an affluent British family including their heating sources,...
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Family Sells House to Help the Hungry
Students compare their wants and needs, then read a news article about a family that downsized their home to help African villagers. In this current events and poverty in Africa lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a...
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Simple Coordinates Game
Let coordinate pairs show you the way home. Scholars plot houses on a coordinate plane with given coordinates using an interactive app. Alternatively, they can identify the coordinates of houses already plotted on a coordinate plane.
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The Road to Civil Rights
Here is a fantastic resource on the civil rights movement! It includes reading materials and worksheets, and particularly highlights major legislation and the role of the judicial branch in the federal government in addressing the...
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Focus On The Lighthouse
Students explore the equation of a parabola. Given a real life situation concerning a light house and a boat, students use wax paper to model and observe a relationship among given points. They write an equation describing the possible...
