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Volcanoes!: Forecasting the Path of Mudflows

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students construct a mockup of a volcano by crumbling up newspapers and piling them into the shape of a volcano. They place a tarp over the newspapers making sure the tarp is large enough to simulate a flat area at the volcano's base....
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ASL: Lesson 12

For Teachers 1st - Higher Ed
Interested in learning ASL? Lesson 12 in this ASL series gets you ready to identify the days of the week, ask question, and modify time signs. Note: If you are a special eduction teacher, use the vocabulary list to teach your non-verbal...
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Get Acquainted with the Great Outdoors

For Teachers K - 8th
National Parks and Recreation Month offers opportunities to improve health and education.
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Subtracting

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Subtraction word problems are the focus here. Learners are given 15 simple, one-step subtraction problems to solve. Some of them require subtracting money, others use inches and feet, while others use standard numbers. An excellent...
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The Old Man and the Sea: Problematic Situations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Bring the drama of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea to class with a fun role-playing activity. Given a list of survival items, readers decide which items would be the most necessary for an adventure like Santiago's, and rank...
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Penny and Her Dad

For Students 5th Standards
A divorce can seem like everything's changing, but some things do stay the same. Read a passage about Penny and her parents, comparing and contrasting the ways her parents' houses are the same and are different.
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Mathematics Assessment Project

Geometry

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Help learners find joy in facing mathematical challenges. The questions posed on this worksheet encourage young mathematicians to utilize skills learned throughout a geometry unit, and to apply themselves and persevere through problem...
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

For Students 5th Standards
Reinforce reading comprehension strategies and contemplate an important life lesson with a learning exercise featuring Aesop's fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. After reading a brief passage, scholars show what they know by way of five...
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Sunwise Animals at Your Zoo

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this science worksheet, students read about how 11 different animals protect themselves from the sun. Students try and locate the animals at the zoo.
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Past Time Words Quiz 4A

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Cut this worksheet in two to have two short quizzes for your class. Either use this as a PDN (Please Do Now) at the beginning of class, or use it as a formal assessment. Each half-sheet provides the learner with 11 sentences to conjugate...
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Must & Can

For Students 7th - 8th
In this grammar instructional activity, students choose the appropriate verb, can or must, to complete ten sentences grammatically correct.
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Elapsed Time - Practice 13.2

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this reading clocks worksheet, students study the analog and digital clocks and then tell what time it will be using the instructions for each example. Students then look at the pair of times and write how much time elapsed between...
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Time from Analog and Digital Clocks

For Students 1st - 3rd
Put time into context by relating it to familiar meal times. Scholars examine two analog clocks and one digital clock to determine the times displayed. Each is labeled with a meal time for the hypothetical "Robert." They use their...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Warming and Cooling

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Is it too hot to go hiking? This task asks learners to refer to a graph that shows temperature as a function of time and answer five questions about the scenario depicted by the graph. The exercise could be used for instruction to help...
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Weather Lesson 6

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars prepare a classroom weathercast and present a broadcast.
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Explore Addition and Subtraction of Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th
Exploring problem solving involving the addition and subtraction of decimals can be done with word problems. For this worksheet on decimals, students add and subtract distances measured in miles and expressed as decimals. This worksheet...
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Prepositions of Place Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
Can you name prepositions of place? Using the words in, at, on, or to, learners complete 17 sentences. They also write a few sentences of their own. An answer key is included. 
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Firestorms: The Bombing of Civilians in World War II: War, Ethics, Guernica, Precision Bombing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the history, rationale and ethics of civilian bombing in times of war. They consider war strategy, the laws and conventions of war and international implications.
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George Orwell's 1984

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders engage in a literature study that is concerned with the strengthening of reading comprehension skills while they practice using context clues to arrange meaning to the text. The total assessments for this unit includes...
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction #6

For Students 5th - Higher Ed
Intermediate level ESL classes could benefit from this worksheet that requires reading a passage and correcting the identified errors. The mistakes include verb tense, spelling, and syntax. This might also prove useful for middle schoolers.
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Hispanic and English Literature

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders listen to a brief history instructional activity about the 40's and 50's mid-West America and the Migrant workers that worked the fields. Next, learners will read a short story written by Tomas Rivera (both in Spanish...
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Articles and Article Check-Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your learners practice proper article usage with this informational handout and brief exercise. After reading information about articles and their uses, including details about when to omit articles, scholars complete fourteen...
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How to Write an Essay Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Clichéd and repetitive introductions got you down? Try this lesson on for size! Start off by instructing your class members on techniques for writing introductions and what types of introductions they should avoid. Several general lesson...
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Time Zones

For Students 4th - 6th
In this time zones worksheet, students complete the total length of trips for time zones and answer short answer questions. Students fill in 3 spaces in the chart and answer 3 questions.