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Gerunds and Participles

For Students 6th - 8th
Young grammarians are asked to demonstrate their ability to identify gerunds, gerund phrases, participles, and participial phrases. The resource could be used as an assessment or practice review.
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Name and Describe a Street

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Build creative writing skills through a project centered around a street name. Young writers start by creating a unique street name and brainstorming what life might be like on that street before writing a descriptive piece about this...
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Synecdoche vs. Metonymy: Definitions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Ask your class to lend their ears, and eyes, to a short video that defines and offers examples of synecdoche and metonymy. Whether it be brand names like Kleenex® and Band-aids® that have come to stand for all the products in a category,...
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Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative lesson plan, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will...
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Using High Stakes Testing to Make Students and Schools Accountable for Learning

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students conduct an informal survey about their views on high stakes testing and use basic computation skills to evaluate results as a group. They participate in activities related to high stakes testing and "No Child Left Behind"...
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in African American Students: Exploring African American Achievers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to ways to increase their self-esteem. As a class, they share their specific talents under three categories. In groups, they use the internet to research the lives of various African Americans making sure...
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Evolution of the Virus: Teaching Macroevolution Through Microevolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students describe the anatomy of a virus. In this biology lesson, students compare and contrast the characteristics of bacteria and viruses. They discover the genetic adaptations of viruses over time.
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National Standards Can Be Met With Goal Setting and Tracking

For Teachers K - 12th
Here are ways to map and meet students' content needs.
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Geometry is Fun and EverywhereGeometry, You Don’t Care? Geometry is Fun and Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate shapes in our world. In this geometry lesson, 3rd graders describe plane and solid shapes and identify angles, solid objects and lines of symmetry. Students use online resources, graphic organizers and conduct...
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Science Performance Assessment

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can use performance assessments to obtain a richer and more complete picture of what your students know.
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Mean, Median, Mode and Range

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Mean, median, mode, and range lessons can link math to real life experiences.
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Gravity: A Relatively Heavy Subject

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine planetary movement and its relation to the tide.For this gravity lesson students describe how and why the high and low tides change every day.
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Grade Expectations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how the ten percent plan and other education initiatives promote diversity, as well as about their practical effects on students from different types of educational and economic backgrounds. They discuss college...
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An Activity to Introduce Critical Thinking

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover how easy it is to accept oulandish claims by witnessing a fellow student show that they have a form of ESP but is secretly working with the teacher. This demonstrations uses skepticism as a starting point for...
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Humpty Dumpty

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty." They break a real egg and try to put it back together, and complete a class word web. Students also complete egg measurement activities and create...
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A Day in the Life

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars inquire about the politics and culture of Ancient Rome. In this Ancient Rome project/unit, students research life during ancient Roman times and create a newspaper with articles on politics, sports, culture, and economics.
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Responding to Open-Ended Questions using RASP

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn how to answer questions correctly.  In this writing instructional activity, students learn the acronym RASP and view model responses for each part of the writing strategy.  Students practice using the RASP model to answer...
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Prime Factorization

For Students 6th - 8th
In this prime factorization worksheet, learners solve 7 multiple choice problems. Students find the prime factorization of 91, 84, 78, 70, 67,63, and 36.
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Analogy Lesson Plans That Make Connections

For Teachers 4th - 8th
With the right analogy lesson plans students can get a handle on this important, and sometimes difficult, concept.
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Gardening with Your Students

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
By growing a class or school garden you can teach students about the environment, the life cycle of a plant, and healthy eating.
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Improving Students' Math Proficiency

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
We can help our students improve math proficiency by using a cross-curricular approach and multiple problem-solving techniques.
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Integrating Language Arts and Math

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Here are simple ideas to integrate math and language arts skills.
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New Year's Resolutions for Teachers

For Teachers 1st - 6th
New Year's can be a time for teachers to make resolutions as well.
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Here's an Instant Activity for December 20, 2004

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Help learners improve their spelling skills by completing a word analysis activity. They complete the instant activity by finding the hidden words inside each given word. There is a menu of skill ideas and various ways suggested to...

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