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Read Works

Read Works: Bff

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text between two girls who are best friends, but one is vacationing with her family in Venice. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Bff

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text with running emails between two friends, one who is at home and one whose family is vacationing in Venice. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works

Read Works: Nick Visits the Lincoln Memorial

For Teachers 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Nick who visited the Lincoln Memorial while on vacation with his family. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
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Lesson Plan
Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: 'Truth' Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ian's parents go on vacation and leave him on his own, which he sees as an opportunity to have a large party. But a friend of the parents comes to check on him and is murdered. No one will talk and two school newspaper reporters put...
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Article
Other

Kwasi: 7 Futuristic Predictions From 1968 That Came True

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1968, a science fiction writer named James R. Berry wrote an article entitled '40 Years in the Future' for the magazine Mechanix Illustrated. It was his futuristic vision of the 21st Century. Berry's predictions of a world featuring...
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Website
InterKnowledge Corp.

Geographica.com: Adventure in Argentina

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Geographica.com contains information on a variety of parks in Argentina. A description of each follows the name of the park.
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Website
InterKnowledge Corp.

Geographia: Latin America

For Students 9th - 10th
This Geography portal to Latin America features maps, photos, and drawings relating to each country. Click on desired country icon to see related pages.
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eBook
Other

Business Education Resource Consortium: Computer Science & Information Systems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this online manual you will find examples of integrated performance activities developed to coordinate with the Computer Science and Information Systems Career Path in the Business Education Career Path and Model Curriculum Standards....
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Website
Other

Ecuador Explorer: People and Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed look at Ecuador's population, religion, language, and indigenous culture.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Crystal Beach, Ontario

For Students 9th - 10th
Crystal Beach in Fort Erie, Ontario was, until 1989, the home to an amusement park and a famous roller coaster, the Crystal Beach Cyclone. Information is provided on the history of this popular Ontario vacation spot.
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Handout
Other

Haines Junction Travel

For Students 9th - 10th
A "travel guide & vacation planner for Haines Junction, Northern Canada, Canada". Provides basic city facts along with photos, travel articles, and maps.
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Other

Lulu's Games: The Right Order: Travel

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Put five pictures in the correct sequence to see a story of a family going on vacation.
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Other

Pbs Teachers: Check It Out [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Reinforce problem-solving, estimation, addition, and subtraction skills by playing a game in which students are required to use a checkbook to keep track of a vacation budget. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Haunted Island by Algernon Blackwood

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the full text of the suspenseful short story "A Haunted Island" by Algernon Blackwood set in an empty vacation house on an uninhabited island.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Washington Dc: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Travel to Washington DC with the family on vacation. See the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

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