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• Art Collage: Natural Resource theme (primary/elem)
  Directions for making an art collage with a natural resources theme.


• Art Project: Natural Resource Wallhanging (primary/elem)
  Directions for making a natural resources themed wall hanging.


• Fiction: Credible Evidence (middle/high school)
  "The loss and destruction here was almost tangible." A short story about a polluted lake. The focus of this lesson is embedded SAT-level vocabulary (all adjectives). The story is followed by questions to check vocabulary-based comprehension, context practice, synonym matching, and a guide word exercise.


• Large Poster: Natural Resources (b/w)
  This poster shows natural resources categorized as renewable, non-renewable, and cultivated.


• Large Poster: Natural Resources (color)
  This poster shows natural resources categorized as renewable, non-renewable, and cultivated.


• Posters: Natural Resources (b/w)
  These three smaller posters show natural resources categorized as renewable, non-renewable, and cultivated.


• Posters: Natural Resources (color)
  These three smaller colorful posters show natural resources categorized as renewable, non-renewable, and cultivated.


• Coloring Pages: Red Things (Booklet) -b/w
  Black and white version of our red coloring book.


• Mini Office: Regrouping (b/w)
  Directions for regrouping in addition, subtraction, and multiplication. One page for each skill, plus examples.


• Mini Office: Regrouping (color)
  Directions for regrouping in addition, subtraction, and multiplication. One page for each skill, plus examples.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - black
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are black to use in a color sort activity.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - blue
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are blue to use in a color sort activity.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - green
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are black to use in a color sort activity.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - orange
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are orange to use in a color sort activity.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - purple
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are purple to use in a color sort activity.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - red
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are red to use in a color sort activity.


• Flashcards: Color Sort - yellow
  Fourteen pictures (eight to a page) of things that are yellow to use in a color sort activity.


• Book: Double Fudge (elem/upper elem)
  Includes multiple-choice, short- and long-answer comprehension questions, a writing prompt, a matching exercise and more for this book from Judy Blume's beloved Fudge series.


• Vocabulary Poster: Anagram
  This poster defines and demonstrates anagrams.


• Vocabulary Poster: Malapropism
  This poster defines and demonstrates malapropism.


• Vocabulary Poster: Mnemonics
  This poster defines and demonstrates anagrams.


• Vocabulary Poster: Oxymoron
  This poster defines and demonstrates oxymorons.


• Vocabulary Poster: Palindrome
  This poster defines and demonstrates palindromes.


• Vocabulary Poster: Spoonerism
  This poster defines and demonstrates spoonerism.


• Vocabulary Posters: Homonym, Homograph...
  Co-ordinated posters for homonym, heteronym, homograph, and homophone.


• Writing Paper: Blank 60 pt. (primary)
  Primary-lined paper with a blank space in the top half for students to draw their own illustrations. (60 pt, landscape layout)


• Color and Write: Bunny (primary)
  A picture of a bunny to color and space to write.


• Coloring Page: Bunny
  Color this picture of a bunny, or trace and cut out to make a great shapebook.

Seasonal Materials

• Holiday/Seasonal >> Holidays >> Earth Day
• Holiday/Seasonal >> Holidays >> Arbor Day
• Holiday/Seasonal >> Months >> April

• Bar Graph: Earth Day
  Use this simple bar graph to determine how many trash items (categorized by type) were picked up.


• Crossword: Earth Day
  3. Across: ______ Day is a day to remember to protect our earth.


• Large Poster: Think Green - Do your part!
  


• Word Problems: Environment (elem/upper elem)
  "It takes 55% less water to make recycled paper than normal paper... How much water would the same factory use to make the same amount of normal paper?" Five word problems with an environmental theme.


• Comprehension: Arbor Day (primary)
  Arbor Day is the last Friday in April. This great Arbor Day mini-unit features a story, a word search, and more!


• Comprehension: Types of Trees (elem/ upper elem)
  This reading comprehension introduces coniferous, deciduous, and tropical trees.


• Border Paper: April Birthdays
  Unlined paper with the title "April Birthdays" at the top and color illustrations of festive balloons in the surrounding border.


• Poem: April Fool's Day (elementary)
  A poem for the holiday, with border paper for students to write their own April Fool's poem.


• Spelling: April (primary)
  From "April" to "spring". A list of ten April-themed spelling words, then practice pages including a page for copying the words, ABC order, a spelling test, and room to draw a picture for the month.

Spanish Materials

• Spanish: Abril - Práctica de vocabulario y ortografía (elementaria).
  Práctica de vocabulario y ortografía centrado en el mes de abril. Vocabulary and spelling practiced centered on the month of April.


• Spanish: Actividades sobre "Un Arbol Magnífico" por Dick Gackenbach (elementaria)
  Preguntas de comprensión y otras actividades de dibujo y escritura para acompañar el cuento de Dick Gackenbach sobre tres árboles: uno usado como material primario, otro usado como árbol de Navidad y el último que continúa en el bosque. Una gran actividad para el Día de La Tierra. Open-ended comprehension questions and prompts to go with Dick Gackenbach's tale of three trees: one used for material, one a Christmas tree, and one left in the forest. A great Earth Day tie-in.


• Spanish: Comprensión de lectura - "Guillermito Sapo" (elementaria)
  Comprensión de lectura simple para estudiantes de elementaria sobre un sapo y su rutina. Simple reading comprehension for elementary students about a toad and his routine.


• Spanish: Comprensión de lectura - "Harriet Beecher Stowe" (elementaria/secundaria)
  Comprensión de lectura sobre la autora de "La cabaña del tío Tom" y su papel en el inicio de la Guerra Civil Americana. Reading comprehension about the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and her role in the start of the American Civil War.


• Spanish: Comprensión de lectura - Abril (elementaria)
  Comprensión de lectura simple sobre el mes de abril para estudiantes de elementaria. Simple reading comprehension about the month of April for elementary students.


• Spanish: Comprensión de lectura - Azerbaiján (elementaria/secundaria)
  Comprensión de lectura, con preguntas siguiendo la selección, basada en el país Azerbaiján. Reading comprehension, with questions following the selection, about the country of Azerbaijan.


• Spanish: Investigación - ¿Reciclas? (elementaria/secundaria)
  Un página para colectar información sobre los hábitos de la gente en cuanto a reciclar diferentes artículos. A page to collect data about people's recycling habits.


• Spanish: Problemas de matemáticas: El Medio Ambiente (elementaria/secundaria)
  Práctica de problemas de matemáticas centrada en el tema del medio ambiente. Word problems centered around the environment.


• Spanish: Similes - El Día de La Tierra #2 (elementaria/secundaria)
  Otra práctica de símiles y comparaciones centrado en el tema del medio ambiente. Another practice of similes centered around the theme of the environment.


• Spanish: Similes - El Día de La Tierra (elementaria/secundaria)
  Una práctica de símiles y comparaciones alrededor del tema del medio ambiente. A practice of similes centered on the environment theme. Great for Earth Day.


• Spanish: Unidad para estudiar el trabajo de Van Allsburg (elementaria/secundaria)
  Una lección fantástica para apreciar arte. En lugar de envocar esta lección en el texto, la lección estudia el uso que Chris Van Allsburg hace de luz y sombra para contar un cuento de hadas que seguramente fuera un sueño. Rather than focusing on text, this lesson addresses Chris Van Allsburg's use of light and shadow to tell a dystopian fairy tale... but it was surely just a dream. This is a great art appreciation lesson

German Materials

• German: Card Game - Garden
  "Hast du eine 'Blume'?" These matching garden cards can be used for a card game or a memory game.


• German: Chart - Garden
  Three versions: one with pictures, English, and German; one with pictures and German; one with pictures only. These are great teaching tools and review worksheets.


• German: Cloze - Garden
  Complete these simple sentences with nouns, using the picture clues and word bank. Good vocabulary practice.


• German: Flashcards - Garden
  Picture cards for landscape vocabulary words in German, with no text, and flashcards with the words in German and English.


• German: Matching - Garden
  Two matching exercises: match German vocabulary words with illustrations, and match German vocabulary words with their English counterparts. With answers.


• German: Picture Sentences - Garden
  "Das ist der Gärtner." Choose the sentence that best matches the picture.


• German: Word Wall - Garden
  20 garden-related words from AST to ZWEIG


• German: Wordsearch - Garden
  Find the 20 words from "Ast" to "Zweig" in this flower-shaped puzzle.

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