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Investment Activity
A one-page financial-literacy activity prompting students to write about how they might invest their money.
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Careers Now and Then | Measure with IT Directors Day 1 | Ancient India
Students do a timed quick-write from a picture prompt, read a real-world word problem about ordering fiber optic cable, research and define related vocabulary on flashcards, discuss and select tools/strategies in groups, solve multi-step measurement/conversion/cost word problems, take a timed multiplication/division facts quiz, and…
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Where do the Candidates Stand on the Issues? Website Research
A media-literacy and civics research lesson in which students compare the two major U.S. presidential candidates' campaign websites (and a nonpartisan comparison site and a third-party candidate's site) to analyze platforms, messaging, and coalitions.
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Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 5 - Sea Animals (PPT)
Read a nonfiction passage presented slide-by-slide, then answer multiple-choice and short-answer comprehension questions, unscramble/spell vocabulary words, summarize the passage in own words, and do a word-association activity
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Matilda the Musical Lesson Plan & Worksheets | Grades 5 - 6
Students match characters to descriptions, use context clues to determine word meanings, read a bar graph and a pie chart, fill in a story map, analyze unfair scenarios and propose fair responses, answer reflection questions, and write the opening of an original story.
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Letter B Printables
A multi-activity packet for practicing letter B recognition, handwriting, and early literacy skills.
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Death Valley | Interactive Science Lesson | Micro-Learning Deck
Watch an embedded video and read a passage (with audio) about Death Valley; complete a fill-in-the-blank vocabulary activity ('What's Missing?') using key words (Badwater, Celsius, extremes, meters); sort statements as true or false; write a summary of the passage using sentence-starter prompts (First, Next, Also…
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Dark Water Rising Novel Study Unit
A 27-chapter novel study unit for Marian Hale's 'Dark Water Rising,' providing comprehension worksheets, vocabulary/spelling practice, historical reference material, exit quizzes, writing prompts, and summative assessment for a full-book unit.
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Lions at Lunchtime (Magic Tree House #11 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
A 111-page, 5-day homeschool/co-op lesson-plan unit built around the novel 'Magic Tree House #11: Lions at Lunchtime', covering the savanna biome and related topics through videos, reading, worksheets, and discussion.
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The Renaissance | Reading Comprehension Deck | Interactive Lesson
An interactive PowerPoint micro-learning deck teaching the concept of humanism and an overview of the Renaissance through a reading passage, vocabulary, and comprehension activities.
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Explore sports
A multi-activity vocabulary and literacy unit teaching sports vocabulary (swimming, basketball, soccer, karate, tennis, skipping rope, ice skating, skiing, running) through picture-word matching, reading, writing, and comic-creation activities.
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OA OW OE Vowel Teams – Phonics Activity Packet
An opening anchor chart introduces oa, ow and oe as long-o spelling patterns. The three units provide word lists, tracing, picture and word-part matching, poems, writing prompts, cards, alphabetical order, cloze passages, word searches and crosswords for oa and ow. In “Joe’s Snow Boat,” students highlight all three patterns in different colors. A combined picture-labeling and spelling-choice page and a KWL grid conclude the packet.
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ACK Word Family Cut and Paste Worksheets
Provide Kindergarten and Grade 1 students with cut-and-paste practice reading, matching, sorting, and alphabetizing ACK-family words.
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Science Reading Passages on Properties of Objects and Materials (PPT)
Five PowerPoint reading-passage lessons teaching physical-science concepts about matter: observable properties, measuring properties, classification of matter, states of matter, and phase changes.
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Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 - Animals (Fillable PDF)
Read a short fiction story, answer a Mixed Questions section (multiple-choice, short-answer, and a predict-what-happens-next question), complete either a vocabulary-matching-plus-sentence-writing activity or a spelling multiple-choice activity (varies by lesson), and respond to a reflection/writing prompt.
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Substitute Survival Kit
Students complete a variety of print-and-go activities across the two days: solve multiplication problems to decode a secret message, do a close reading of a nonfiction passage ('Sony's New Smart Watch') with a graphic organizer and vocabulary work, write a persuasive design pitch for a new smart watch, participate in a math task-card…
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Robot Art Lesson for Kids
Combine an art-making dice game with writing and reflection activities so students create an original robot drawing and then write about it, blending creative art-making with numeracy (dice/random number use) and literacy skills.
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Reading Comprehension Fiction Set 1 Sample: Basketball (PPT)
A single-lesson PowerPoint sample (a free/sample slice of a larger Fiction Set 1 series) built around a short story, 'Basketball,' about a girl who surprises her classmates with her basketball skill, with comprehension questions, a vocabulary matching and sentence-writing exercise, a writing prompt, and an answer key.
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Literacy worksheets: Artic habitat
An independent-work literacy booklet that builds vocabulary and literacy skills (reading, writing, and comprehension) around the topic of Arctic habitat, for use at home or school.
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Ecology Unit
Complete CLOZE (fill-in-the-blank) vocabulary worksheets, annotate CLOSE-reading nonfiction passages on ecology topics using an annotation system (circle/underline/exclamation/question marks), define and use vocabulary word cards, answer text-dependent questions, complete graphic organizers (KWL chart, tree map, Venn…
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Animal Science Unit | All About Turtles | Learning about Animals
An expansive PreK-2nd grade animal science unit teaching students about turtles, using real photos, differentiated nonfiction reading, discussion questions, and hands-on activities.
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The Solar System | Interactive Reading Packet
Answer true/false questions about the planets, match planets to facts, read individual planet fact pages (Mercury through Neptune), and complete a 'Space Quest'/'Far Out!' creative writing prompt about visiting outer space.
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Health Mazes (PDF)
Complete each themed maze (navigate through it), draw target vocabulary words listed for that theme into the scene, and optionally color the page.
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Common Core Language Arts Activities for Grade 1
A Grade 1 Common Core language arts practice worksheet covering foundational phonics and word-recognition skills.
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