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Ancient Greece Lapbook / Interactive Notebook - EBOOK teaching resource preview
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Ancient Greece Lapbook / Interactive Notebook - EBOOK

Students assemble a 3-folder lapbook base and complete more than 20 individual foldable/cut-and-glue booklets (including Map, Warfare, Slavery, Philosophers, Science, School, Religion, Who's Who mythology, Women, Homes, Home Life, Clothing, Food, Art, Music, Olympics, Timeline, Literature, Parthenon, and Vocabulary)…

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NGSS Third Grade Life Cycle and Migration Project - Activities for 3-LS1-1 teaching resource preview
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NGSS Third Grade Life Cycle and Migration Project - Activities for 3-LS1-1

Read learning pages about monarch generations and migration, complete an exit-ticket comprehension check, handwrite life-cycle/season vocabulary onto butterfly wing cutouts, color the wings by generation using guided color instructions, then cut, fold and glue the butterflies together in seasonal order to build a…

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Hands On Map Skills: Cross Curricular Project to Teach Map Skills (Grades 2-4) teaching resource preview
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Hands On Map Skills: Cross Curricular Project to Teach Map Skills (Grades 2-4)

Take a continents/oceans pre-test and correct it as a class; play a matching game ('Slap that Continent'); explore local/regional/state maps and locate their own community on maps; complete a 'Zooming Into My Community' handout; match map-feature vocabulary to definitions; design and build an individual paper community map and…

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2–4
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Collaborative Vocabulary Activities teaching resource preview
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Collaborative Vocabulary Activities

Gives secondary teachers a multi-activity vocabulary unit (competition, word draft, flashcards, and video project) to build student retention of assigned vocabulary words instead of rote memorization.

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9–12
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Construction Hangman Game to Practice Vocabulary teaching resource preview
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Construction Hangman Game to Practice Vocabulary

Students first review construction vocabulary practice cards (terms like bricklayer, crane, dump truck, hard hat, excavator), then play a hangman-style game in class by guessing letters of construction terms/words via mouse clicks on the projected slides; the teacher's figure is 'hanged' one body part at a time for…

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7–12
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Bugs Curriculum Pack teaching resource preview
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Bugs Curriculum Pack

Participate in teacher-led activities: sensory table play with plastic bugs/dirt, art projects (flyswatter painting, thumbprint insects, button bugs, class caterpillar, etc.), and related circle-time/vocabulary discussion.

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Pre-K–K
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Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House #7 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities) teaching resource preview
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Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House #7 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)

Students read assigned chapters (independently or aloud), watch a themed video each day, complete a KWL worksheet (Know/Want to Know before reading, Learned after), answer chapter-quiz questions (e.g. 'What time of day was it?', 'Where did the tree house land? Describe it.'), learn vocabulary words, and complete a daily craft/drawing…

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Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House #3 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities) teaching resource preview
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Mummies in the Morning (Magic Tree House #3 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)

Read two chapters per day (independently or aloud), watch a suggested Ancient-Egypt-themed video, complete a chapter quiz (short-answer comprehension questions) and vocabulary work, do a daily drawing activity (e.g. draw a mummy, pyramid, pharaoh, sarcophagus, Egyptian), complete pre-reading 'Before Reading' and KWL…

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Word Games Puzzles Anagram Themes teaching resource preview
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Word Games Puzzles Anagram Themes

Multi-theme ESL/vocabulary anagram puzzle compilation where students unscramble letters to spell vocabulary words across roughly 60 everyday-life topics, each with a self-checking answer page.

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Holes by Louis Sachar Novel Study teaching resource preview
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Holes by Louis Sachar Novel Study

Learn and be tested on section vocabulary (definitions), complete a vocabulary companion worksheet, take quizzes on the novel, fill in a plot chart, and complete an end-of-book comic project against a rubric.

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3–6
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Word Games with Puzzles Matching Themes teaching resource preview
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Word Games with Puzzles Matching Themes

Large ESL/thematic-vocabulary matching-activity bundle: the collection covers 64 themed sections (e.g. Air Animals, Airport, Bakery, Buildings, Devices, Pharmacy, Shop, Supermarket, Weather) each built around a set of vocabulary words for that topic, for practicing English word/picture matching.

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Planting Curriculum Pack teaching resource preview
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Planting Curriculum Pack

Students engage in a variety of hands-on activities such as: exploring a sensory table (potting soil, gardening gloves, hand shovel, small pots); making art projects (seed collages, egg-carton tulips, seed-texture painting, paper-plate daisies, muffin-cup flowers, marshmallow flowers, handprint flowers/butterflies…

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Pre-K–K
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Grade 7 Science Curriculum Bundle | NGSS-Aligned Year-Long Lessons teaching resource preview
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Grade 7 Science Curriculum Bundle | NGSS-Aligned Year-Long Lessons

Students take part in daily lessons and guided notes, read original leveled science passages, complete practice worksheets and vocabulary activities, conduct labs/quick investigations and an open-ended STEM engineering challenge per unit, complete exit tickets, quizzes, performance tasks and unit tests, and finish…

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7
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ESL Vocabulary Flashcards Puzzles Games 13 teaching resource preview
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ESL Vocabulary Flashcards Puzzles Games 13

Complete themed vocabulary puzzles for "CRAFTS/AIRCRAFTS": unscramble letter anagrams into vocabulary terms, solve a crossword using across/down clues, complete a numbered picture-to-word matching page, match two columns of related terms, and locate the theme's vocabulary words in a word-search grid.

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Who Was King Tut? (Lesson Plan, Quizzes, Vocabulary, Videos, Activities) teaching resource preview
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Who Was King Tut? (Lesson Plan, Quizzes, Vocabulary, Videos, Activities)

Following a printed day-by-day plan, students watch linked videos, read a chapter of the companion book each day, take notes, answer open-ended chapter quiz questions, define vocabulary words, fill in a chapter events timeline, and complete varied activities (coloring pages, word searches, writing their name in…

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3–6
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Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House #5 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities) teaching resource preview
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Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House #5 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)

Watch suggested videos, read assigned chapters (independently or aloud), complete a before-reading prediction sheet and KWL worksheet, answer open-response chapter quiz questions for each of 10 chapters, define/illustrate vocabulary words per chapter, and complete themed activities (draw a ninja/samurai, make a ninja star, ninja crafts).

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1–3
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Communities Around The World Gr. 2-3 teaching resource preview
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Communities Around The World Gr. 2-3

Follow a 27-day lesson-plan sequence; complete a student booklet covering customs and traditions, foods, games, and celebrations from around the world, a case study of a community in Egypt, and a comparison community chosen by the student; complete jot-notes and vocabulary-match activities; use report outlines to research background…

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2–3
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