Watermelon Animated Writing Activity | Short Film
Uses a short animated film called 'Watermelon' to teach story sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summary writing.
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Uses a short animated film called 'Watermelon' to teach story sequencing, true/false comprehension, and summary writing.
A 5-day homeschool/classroom unit study lesson plan teaching about mountain gorillas: habitat, behavior, anatomy, conservation, and endangerment, using videos, readings, discussion, and worksheets.
An 'emergency lesson plan' (substitute-ready, cross-curricular) for grades 1-2 built around a non-fiction reading passage about Vikings, combining reading comprehension, creative writing/drawing, vocabulary syllable counting, basic math word problems, plural word forms, and a dot-to-dot activity.
A 5-day interdisciplinary unit study teaching students about porpoises (vaquita and finless porpoise) as endangered animals, covering reading, writing, science, and art.
Practice creative writing, sequencing, sentence building, descriptive/adjective use, and character creation through a Gingerbread Man theme, for K-3 students.
A 5-day cross-curricular unit study teaching students about zebras (an endangered species) through reading passages, videos, worksheets, and activities covering language arts, science, and art.
A full science workbook (Book A of the 'Simple and Fun Science' series, ages 4-6) teaching science process skills (observing, sorting, comparing, recording, classifying) through hands-on activities across life science, plants, animals, the human body, and weather topics.
A 5-day cross-curricular unit study about the endangered bumble bee, combining ELA, science and research skills through videos, readings, worksheets, and activities, aimed at homeschool/co-op families.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study teaching students about penguins (an Arctic/polar animal), using linked videos, reading passages, and printable worksheets across science, reading, and writing.
Give practice with the different spelling patterns of the long I sound (i, igh, ie, y) through a set of coloring, sorting, stamping, and word-work pages.
Practice reading, spelling, and building words in the -ick and -uck word families.
No-prep science activity packet teaching young students about meteorologists, weather forecasting, weather maps, and weather vocabulary.
Support shared reading of the picture book 'B Is for BANANAS' by Carrie Tillotson with language, literacy, and AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) activities focused on the letter B, core vocabulary, comprehension, and story retelling.
Give first/second-grade students practice sorting words into grammar categories (nouns/verbs, common/proper nouns, nouns/possessive nouns, nouns/pronouns).
Teach elementary astronomy concepts (the universe, astronauts, Earth, the sun, the moon, the solar system, planets, stars, astrology, sunlight, gravity) through a hands-on lab/activity book with discussion questions and experiments.
A no-prep, multi-activity packet introducing elementary students to dentists, dental hygienists, and oral care through reading, writing, and skills practice.
A 52-page grade 1 math workbook (published by Milliken Publishing Co./Lorenz Educational Press, 1995) providing structured practice progressing from numeral recognition through single- and two-digit addition and subtraction, counting, place value, and number comparison.
A teacher's guide for building a cross-curricular transportation theme unit organized around classroom learning centers, for early-childhood classrooms.
A cross-curricular activity packet teaching butterfly anatomy, biology, and life cycle through informational reading, reading-response questions, vocabulary, and creative writing.
A multi-unit practice test workbook for assessing and drilling core Grade 1 math skills across arithmetic, shapes, fractions, graphs, place value, and two-digit operations.
Build addition and subtraction math-fact fluency (facts 1-9) over a full school year through a structured, timed daily-practice plan.
Build early-childhood alphabet, number, letter-sound, and shape-recognition skills through fill-in-the-blank, tracing, and counting activities.
A Grade 1 language-arts practice workbook (standardized-test-prep style) covering capitalization, punctuation (periods, question marks, exclamation points), common and proper nouns, plural nouns, verbs, and writing/recognizing complete sentences.
Single-word sight word practice flip book (foldable single sheet) for the target word "around", covering recognition, tracing, spelling, and reading the word in context.