Certificate Street
Most Improved Student Award
Recognize improvement with a certificate and reinforce the idea that hard work does pay off. The document is editable; type in a student name, date, and teacher name to personalize and finalize the award.
NASA
Launch Altitude Tracker
Using PVC pipe and aquarium tubing, build an altitude tracker. Pupils then use the altitude tracker, along with a tangent table, to calculate the altitude of a launched rocket using the included data collection sheet.
Mississippi Whole School Initiative
Dream Big...With Your Eyes Wide Open
For many people, Barack Obama's presidency was the next step in Martin Luther King, Jr's dream of America's future. Explore the dreams of Americans past and present, as well as the young Americans in your class, with a set of activities...
PBS
Latino Americans: Timeline of Important Dates
From 1500-2000, an interactive timeline details important events related to Latino Americans. Next, to each date are small, yet informative blurbs—some of which include videos.
Teaching Tolerance
Act Up! Drama for Justice
A lesson turns young historians into playwrights to understand and speak out against social injustice. Pupils work individually or in groups to write and perform monologues that deliver personal messages on social justice. Writers then...
Curated OER
Food: Discussion questions
In this discussion about food worksheet, students participate in an ask and answer session about food.
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Dialogue: Languagae Learning
In this dialogue about language learning worksheet, students read questions and answers concerning learning various languages.
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Dialogue: Work
In this dialogue about work worksheet, students answer questions about work and work conditions. Student A asks the questions, and Student B provides the answer.
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iCivics: State Government
Young scholars explore the role of state government. In this civics lesson, students play an online game that requires them to consider the needs of state residents and the structure of state government.
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Government Agencies
Students are taught that there is more to executive branch of the federal government than the president and cabinet. They identify in pairs the names and fucntions of different departments under the executive branch of federal...
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The Living Constitution
Young scholars investigate why the Constitution is a living document and dissect the document to discover why it has survived while so many other charters have not. Students use James Madison's constitutional admonition concerning checks...
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Roles of the President
Learners read a document which explains the roles and responsibilities of the President of the United States. In groups, they tour the George Bush Presidential Museum and participate in a Presidential scavenger hunt. Once back in the...
Carnegie Mellon University
Battery Workshop
Introduce your class to the workings and parts of a battery-operated circuit. Pairs of pupils use lemons to make batteries and measure voltage and current with a multimeter. An accompanying worksheet is used for recording values and...
Curated OER
The Nestle Scandal
Students read an article about the use of breast milk and formula milk in developing countries and answer comprehension questions. In groups, they recall facts from the article and discuss how Nestle is being boycotted in certain areas...
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Verb Tense Exercise 6
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding simple past and present perfect verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Are You Aware?
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read several short paragraphs about farm animals and then answer five multiple questions about each paragraph.
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Can You Haiku?
Everyone loves haikus! They're short, quick, and fun to write! Analyze the rules and conventions of haiku. Readers interpret examples of haiku and develop a vocabulary for writing haiku. Then they compose a haiku based on a personal...
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Space Shuttle
One slide details the features of Space Shuttle Discovery in graphic form. Another shows a faulty hydrogen fuel sensor. The final slide is a picture of the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger and the ill-fated crew. If you wanted to...
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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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The Recycling Factory
In this density of materials worksheet, students examine ways to sort a dump truck of recycled materials using the density of the material types. Students write a letter to the city council to describe their method of sorting.
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Truth and Advertising
Learners view and analyze fragments of advertising images from magazines to become familiar with different techniques used to sell products, write captions for advertisements, and create their own advertisements from scratch based on...
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The Coldest Place at the Bottom of the World
Students research and trace Shackleton's actual and intended route on an area map. They analyze the altitude changes involved in a trek across Antarctica and complete a worksheet comparing Antarctica to their own state.
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Running on Renewables
Students investigate the costs and benefits of switching their school to sustainable technology energy production. They use software called HOMER developed by the National Renewable Energy Lab to do the cost/ benefit analysis. They then...
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The Coldest Place at the Bottom of the World
Learners examine Ernest Shackleton's journey through the Antarctic and trace Shackleton's Actual Route on a map using longitude and latitude coordinates. Students compare his intended route with his actual and determine how far off...