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Shared and Guided Reading with Ice Cream Money
Here is a lesson plan which has young scholars locate an exclamation point and a comma from the text. They locate previously learned words on the page, and create a word map from the word "Money." Students write about and illustrate...
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Sentences In Motion
Explore the elements needed to make up a sentence (the sentence itself, the period, the comma, the question mark, and the exclamation point), with this language arts lesson. A loco-motor activity is embedded in the teaching of the...
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A Sentence for Life
What is a sentence? Second graders will explore the components of a sentence in the ten lessons of this unit. The subject, predicate, the process of proofreading, punctuation, and sentence sequence are analyzed in this unit. Handouts and...
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Punctuation
As a short review of punctuation, such as the use of commas and semicolons, this presentation could be helpful in an upper elementary classroom. The series of slides defines each term and provides examples.
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Standard Punctuation
Clear up the confusion that comes with the question, do I use a comma or a semicolon? This presentation provides examples and reasons for using particular end marks, apostrophes, commas, or semicolons. Information is presented in a well...
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English Exercises: Punctuation Marks
In this punctuation mark interactive worksheet, students in the proper punctuation in each of 10 sentences. They insert commas, periods, question marks, semi-colons, colons, or apostrophes as needed in the sentences. They submit their...
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Conventions-Interjections
Fifth graders discuss interjections reviewing them to be words or phrases that express excitement or strong emotion. In this language arts activity, 5th graders understand that commas or exclamation marks are used to separate...
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Oscillations
Students construct and compare the actions of various pendulums. In this pendulum motion instructional activity, students build and test different types of pendulums. They conduct experiments with the length of the swing arm and apply...
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Getting Triggy With It
The concept of sine and cosine is explored in this activity where high schoolers graph sine and cosine graphs using a transformation application on the graphing calculator. Students change the coefficients for the amplitude, period,...
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Pendemonium - The Posse in Australia
Students revise letters focusing their revision on comma and periods usage. In this creative grammar lesson, students watch a video on commas and periods, write a letter to a partner without the use of commas or periods, and revise a...
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Woody Sine
Students explore the concept of sine. In this sine lesson, students create a sine graph from tooth picks. Students create a unit circle with tooth pick length radius. Students then take the tooth picks from the unit circle and put them...
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Pendulums
Students explore the period of a pendulum. In this pendulum lesson plan, students make a pendulum using a fishing weight, hook, string and paper clip and measure the pendulum's period. Students measure the number of seconds for 10 cycles...
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Periodic Properties Lab
Students investigate the periodic properties of elements in the periodic table. For this periodic properties lesson plan, students experiment with elements from the Alkaline Earth Metals, the Halogens, the Transition Metals, and for...
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Periodic Table Fun!
In this periodic table learning exercise, students answer 5 questions about the periodic table, the elements and their properties and the families and groups of the periodic table.
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Periods and Groups; Valence Electrons; Masses
In this periods, groups, valence electrons and masses worksheet, students are given information about all these components of the periodic table. Students identify 4 elements in specific periods and groups, they find the valence...
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HW Unit 10:2-Harmonic Motion
In this harmonic motion worksheet, students answer 9 questions about pendulums, a slinky and characteristics of harmonic motion. They identify the changes in waves as the amplitude gets bigger and interpret a graph of position vs. time.
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Writing a Plan for Wave Observation
In this observation worksheet, students practice writing a plan for observing waves including the instruments used, the objective of the observations and the process used to collect data.
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Geological Time Scale
In this geological time worksheet, student use a geologic time scale to understand the difference between eons, eras, and periods. Then students complete 2 short answer questions.
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Periodic Table of Elements on Mars
In this periodic table of elements activity, students are given clues and descriptions for elements in order to determine where they belong in the "Martian Periodic Table". They place the elements in the proper place in the given...
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Main Group: Properties and Reactivity
In this main group instructional activity, students apply their knowledge of the organization of the periodic table to correctly answer 30 multiple choice questions. Students relate information about the properties of the different...
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Periodic Table Basics Review Sheet
In this periodic table worksheet, students complete a chart with the appropriate element symbol, the atomic mass and the atomic number. They classify elements by their groups and as metals, nonmetals or semi-metals. They also answer two...
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Thermochemistry
In this thermochemistry worksheet, students indicate whether the given processes are endothermic or exothermic reactions. Students complete the phase change diagram as well as define a given set of vocabulary words. Students calculate...
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Harmonic Motion
In this harmonic motion activity, students read about repetitive motion, the parts of harmonic motion, and graphing harmonic motion. Students then complete 5 matching and 20 fill in the blank questions.
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Exclamation Points
In this exclamation points worksheet, students determine if sentences need exclamation marks. In this multiple choice worksheet, students answer fifteen sentences.