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The Importance of Rules

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
No rules...awesome! Or is it? It's tough for young learners to think about what would happen if a rule didn't exist, but understanding the rules and where they come from helps keep everyone safe. Youngsters write a rule on the front of...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Berryman, Roosevelt, and the Teddy Bear

For Students 8th - 12th
Do your historians know the story behind the teddy bear? Background information clues learners in to the context of a political cartoon, which depicts Teddy Roosevelt on his famous hunting trip. They will read about renown cartoonist...
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Unit VII Energy: WS 1 Qualitative Analysis - Pie Charts

For Students 9th - 12th
For each of eight diagrams of objects in motion, physics masters draw pie charts to depict the changes in energy. For each they must identify the energy conditions at each position. This is a unique activity, perfect for assessing how...
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Fun With Sorting and Classifying

For Teachers K
Using a variety of activities, kindergartners explore sorting and classification. Learners engage in an online sorting activity, read books involving classification, and create their own class book. This is a marvelousway to explore this...
PPT
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Some Spelling Rules

For Teachers Higher Ed
This presentation offers up some of the trickier rules of the English language when it comes to spelling. For example, one slide goes over the "i before e, except after c," rule. The rest of the slides present examples like this one and...
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Middle Tennessee State University

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? A Comparison in American Culture

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
As part of their study of the Progressive Era, class groups examine a 20th century version of "The Three Little Pigs" through a New Era lens and identify how ideals such as the value of hard work, creativity, and problem solving,...
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K12 Reader

Adverbial Phrases

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What is the purpose of adverbial phrases? Find out what questions adverbial phrases answer with a worksheet that focuses on grammar. As kids work through 16 sentences, they underline the phrases and use the space provided to mark what...
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Favorite Sports and Athletes: an Introduction to Sports Media

For Teachers K - 3rd
Even young children watch sports and like team logos and products. It's never too early to think critically about what's onscreen. This exercise develops awareness that media communicate values (i.e. who participates in sports and who...
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International Folklore

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Folklore is composed of stories that convey cultural heritage and traditions. Many types of tales are listed as well as what they portray in various contexts and situations. Give your learners a brief description or definition of...
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DK Publishing

Money Word Problems #2

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Are you experiencing money problems? Here are some more! Young mathematicians practice their addition and subtraction skills with money values in these word problems and number sentences. Some of the 25 questions prompt scholars to...
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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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Possessives

For Students 5th - 7th
What is a possessive? Review the information at the top of the page before asking your class to work on this independently. For the first eight questions, your learners add the necessary s's and apostrophes when appropriate. For the...
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Bringing Household Items to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use folk tales as inspiration for learning about and using personification in creative writing. Learners brainstorm together in order to practice personification before writing their own poems or paragraphs about a household object.
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Your/You're Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Does the sight of a misspelled your make you cringe? Then this is the worksheet for you! Make sure your learners are prepared to make the right decision next time they are faced with the task of choosing between your and you're.
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Positively Autism

"Going to Visit Santa" Social Skill Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Prepare learners with autism for a visit to Santa Claus with this social skill story that tells them what to expect, as well as explains how they should behave
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Missing Objects Game

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help students learn how to encourage others using kindness and supportive words with this social skills game. Designed for learners on the autism spectrum, students practice using encouragement phrase prompts while...
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Mixed Practice Word Problems #12

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Five questions make up a mixed practice worksheet consisting of word problems that cover subtraction, multiplication, pounds, and distance.  
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Ball and Triangle Game

For Teachers K - 8th
Students view and discuss pictures of the Ball and Triangle Game the Penobscot Indian students in New England played. They construct cardboard versions of the game, and practice the game and keep score using beans.
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What is a Pet?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils define what a pet is and what it needs to be healthy and happy. They explore pets through the use of of puppets and/or stuffed animals and discover what a pet needs by identifying items in a "pet bag."
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Math Word Problems: Simple Addition and Subtraction

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math word problems:  simple addition and subtraction instructional activity, student read five sentences and solve the simple addition or subtraction problem.
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How many more?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this subtraction instructional activity, students complete word problems that ask how many more of something there is. Students complete 5 word problems.
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Addition and Subtraction word problems

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students solve word problems involving one and two digit numbers. Students solve 5 problems.
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Goldilocks: The Sequel

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars explore their creative-thinking and writing skills while writing a sequel to the classic story, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Students work in small groups to complete this activity and share their completed story with...
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Practice Buying Stocks

For Students 6th - 9th
In this practice buying stocks activity, students utilize a chart to answer five comprehension questions about buying stocks and then participate in selling stocks.