Amelia Bedelia
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students understand the importance of using clear and precise communication when giving directions.
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Apollo to the Moon Online Exhibition
(View Complete Item Description)This online interactive exhibition by the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum examines the story of America's effort to master the challenges of an unprecedented journey across thousands of miles of space is told in this online exhibition: Apollo to the Moon. The story is told through primary and secondary sources in the context of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
All Summer in a Day
(View Complete Item Description)In Ray Bradbury's “All Summer in A Day†takes place on the planet Venus in a future world where people have come to set up a civilization. In this CCSS lesson students will explore this fiction story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
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Double and Halve
(View Complete Item Description)Students spin two numbers and write a multiplication sentence, using the doubling and halving strategy to compute the product.
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0-20 Counting
(View Complete Item Description)Students demonstrate one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, understanding of "one more", and writes numbers.
Material Type: Assessment
A Case for Reading - Examining Challenged and Banned Books
(View Complete Item Description)Students examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces expressing their views about what should be done with the books at their school.
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Exploring Linear Equations
(View Complete Item Description)Students will be able to have a better understanding of the slope of a line, the y intercept, and parallel lines.
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Parts of a Plant: Create a Plant
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students create a plant model from a variety of scrap materials and label the parts on their model.
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5.NBT Kipton's Scale
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Kipton has a digital scale. He puts a marshmallow on the scale and it reads 7.2 grams. How much would you expect 10 marshmallows to weigh? Why? Kipton ...
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Addition Bag (Decompose Numbers)
(View Complete Item Description)Students decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way by using objects or drawings, and they will record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g. 5= 2 + 3 and 5 = 4+1).
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Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students read Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco to identify words that are unfamiliar to them. Working collaboratively in small groups, they discuss the meaning of these new words, using context clues from the text, prior knowledge, and both print and online resources. Students then apply their knowledge of the new vocabulary to further their understanding of the text.
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2 PreWriting Activities Your Students Must Do Before Writing the Argument Essay
(View Complete Item Description)This resource details prewriting strategies for students to employ when writing arguments.
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
(View Complete Item Description)This cross-curricular resource contains a primary source text on the Civil War, along with text-dependent questions, an academic vocabulary list, and a writing prompt that goes along with the text, including student responses. Students read Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address independently, then as a class before beginning work.
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8.EE Summer Swimming
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: The local swim center is making a special offer. They usually charge \$7 per day to swim at the pool. This month swimmers can pay an enrollment fee of ...
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Above and Below
(View Complete Item Description)This worksheet reviews position words.
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ABC Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness Practice
(View Complete Item Description)In this interactive, students click on a letter to see it in uppercase and lowercase. They click on the letter again to hear its sound and words associated with that sound.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Ecology: Life in the Balance
(View Complete Item Description)In this series of activity, students explore an ecosystem and the interconnectedness of organisms within an ecosystem.
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Let the Games Begin!
(View Complete Item Description)This is a project that follows the PBL framework and was used to help students master the fundamentals of probability, specifically the laws of probability (NC.M2.S-CP.1 to 8). Note that the project was designed and delivered per the North Carolina Math 2 curriculum and it can be customized to meet your own specific curriculum needs and resources.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Case Study, Data Set, Demonstration, Formative Assessment, Self Assessment
2D Shape Sort
(View Complete Item Description)Students sort a scoop of shapes onto their sorting mat and draw a picture to show how they sorted them and write the number of shapes in each group.
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4th Grade Informational Unit
(View Complete Item Description)This unit engages students in a variety of different reading standards through face to face and online components. In this unit, students will practice many skills to aid them in reading and understanding nonfiction texts.
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