Worksheet
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Secret Number Painting

For Students 4th - 5th
In this art worksheet, learners make a folk-art style painting of a room in their home. Students select a room. They choose a secret number and draw items in sets of the number they selected. Learners are directed to keep their painting...
Lesson Plan
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Make Your own Treasure Hunt!

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Students participate in a variety of treasure hunts to promote critical thinking skills. In these problem solving lessons, students go on a photo hunt, scavenger hunt, clue hunt, and map hunt, looking for specific treasures.
Worksheet
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Quarters and Equal Amounts

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this counting coins worksheet, students learn to count with quarters to find the equal amounts. Students solve six counting coin money problems.
Lesson Plan
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Sharing

For Teachers K
Students solve problems based on sharing scenarios. In this sharing lesson plan, students listen to a book on sharing and answer questions. Then the teacher presents different scenarios to the class and they have to problem solve to come...
Lesson Plan
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Being Thankful

For Teachers K - 1st
Students generate words and pictures to show their thankfulness. In this Thanksgiving art lesson, students draw various circles, labeling and illustrating the things for which they are grateful.
Lesson Plan
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Conflict Resolution

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners demonstrate conflict resolution skills. In this character education lesson, students read the book Oh, Bother! Someone's Fighting! and sing a song which models a conflict resolution strategy.
Worksheet
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I Thought That I Was Crazy

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this music poem worksheet, students spell out the music words using the music notes instead of alphabet letters. Students determine the 10 note names and write them in the blanks so solve the puzzle.
Activity
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Christmas Morning Surprise

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students "plant" mints for Christmas. In this Christmas lesson, students "plant" starlight mints in the ground. You switch the mints with candy canes, so when the students come out they think their mints have grown. 
Interactive
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English Exercises: Present Continuous-Advanced

For Students 4th - 5th
In this present continuous activity, students read about the usage of present continuous, then correctly fill in blanks in sentences. Links to additional resources and audio are included.
Lesson Plan
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Sand Castles: Pre-engineering 101

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how soil holds together and what the effect of particle size and water content is on soil.  For this engineering lesson students complete a lab, record their observations and discuss what they learned. 
Lesson Plan
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NFE Christmas Quiz

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore the details of Christmas. In this Christmas history lesson, 6th graders participate in a bingo quiz on Christmas. Students complete a worksheet after the quiz. 
Lesson Plan
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Where is Agriculture?

For Teachers K
Students study agriculture. In this agriculture instructional activity, students investigate how agriculture helps to meet a family's needs. Students identify things in their home that began as agriculture.
Lesson Plan
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Ow Sound

For Teachers 1st
First graders write words containing the "ow" sound and use those words to write sentences. In this simple language arts instructional activity, 1st graders view models of sentences written by their teacher which contain examples of the...
Interactive
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Simple Horse Care

For Students 4th - 7th
In this online quiz learning exercise, students answer a set of trivia questions about simple horse care. Page has a link to submit answers for review.
Worksheet
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Dog Aggression

For Students 4th
In this trivia quiz, the information focuses on dog aggression. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions and submit answers electronically via this interactive website.
Interactive
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Dog Breeds A-Z

For Students 5th - 8th
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of questions about breeds of dogs. Answers may be submitted for review by clicking a link at the bottom of the page.
Article
CNN

Cnn: Toys to Tackle Climate Change: A Young Inventor Wants to Inspire Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This article profiles a young woman named Ann Makosinski who has been hailed as a 'child prodigy' for her toy inventions that use renewable energy. She earlier invented, for example, a flashlight that is powered by heat from the hand and...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Build a Toy Workshop

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Working as if they are engineers who work for (the hypothetical) Build-a-Toy Workshop company, students apply their imaginations and the engineering design process to design and build prototype toys with moving parts. They set up...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Want to Be an Activist? Start With Your Toys

For Students 9th - 10th
McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13, Pope started an online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: My Toy Abc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of My Toy ABC, an alphabet book with the theme of toys.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Live Toys or Anecdotes of Our Four Legged Pets by E. Davenport

For Students 4th - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Live Toys, or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets by Emma Davenport (1864), a collection of stories about pets.
Handout
Other

Dog Breed Info Center: Toy Poodle

For Students 9th - 10th
Affectionately called the French Poodle, here is a darling picture of two little ones plus a good description of temperament, height, weight, origin and more.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering in Reverse!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the process of reverse engineering and how this technique is used to improve upon technology. Students analyze push-toys and draw diagrams of the predicted mechanisms inside the toys. Then, they disassemble the toys...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...