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A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
It's not the best of guides nor the worst of guides, but time spent examining the guide to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities is certainly not wasted. The 17-page guide includes book-by-book synopses of the novel, before, during, and...
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Ballad

For Teachers 7th Standards
Young balladeers analyze examples of ballads and generate a list of common traits (story, quatrains, rhyme schemes, refrains, etc.), then identify these traits in Robert W. Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and a ballad written by...
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Commercial Salmon Fishing

For Students 9th - 12th
Students work with data about commercial fishing ofsalmon in Alaska. Students gather data, graph it, and analyze it.
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The Librarian from Conneaut School

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the elements of the story "The Librarian from the Black Lagoon." They listen to the story and list the story elements of character, settling, problem, and solution. They then use KidPix to create individual...
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Modern day Folktales: Recasting Folktales in the 21st Century

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write their own modern day folktale and compare it with "Cathal O'Cruachan and the Cowherd." In addition, they illustrate a character from the original Irish folktale and how the same character would appear today. Students read...
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Inequalities and Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 11th
In this inequality and measures of central tendency worksheet, students solve and graph linear inequalities. They organize given data to identify the mean, mode and range. Students interpret box-and-whisker plots. This three-page...
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Minimum, Maximum and Quartiles

For Students 8th - 10th
In this statistics worksheet, students identify the different parts of a whisker plot. They find the minimum, maximum and the three different quartiles.   There are 8 multiple choice questions with an answer key.
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Sonar Mapping

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use a shoe box to create a seafloor model and use cardboard for layering inside of the shoe box to simulate the ocean floor. They probe the ocean floor to simulate sonar echoes. Finally, students graph their data to get a...
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Cumulative Frequency

For Students 6th - 7th
In these word frequency worksheets, students choose a page from a newspaper and count the number of letters in each word and complete their results in a table. Students then calculate the mean number of letters. Students then collect...
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Bias in Statistics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students work to develop surveys and collect data. They display the data using circle graphs, histograms, box and whisker plots, and scatter plots. Students use multimedia tools to develop a visual presentation to display their data.
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The Dog Days of Data

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice an alternative form of data presentation. They practice sequencing data, identifying the stem-and-leaf, creating stem-and-leaf plots, and drawing inferences from the data by viewing the plots.
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Lesson Design Archaeology

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in their own excavation and measure and record as they go. In this archaeology lesson students divide into groups and solve the mystery of what they uncovered in their dig box.
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Optimization For Breakfast

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students identify he proportion of a cereal box. In this algebra lesson plan, students define the relationship between patterns, functions and relations. They model their understanding using the cereal box.
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Building a Literature Pyramid

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create a literature pyramid. They review and discuss their assessment task and rubric and select the literature for their pyramid. They read the literary selection and complete a pyramid sheet for one of the four literary...
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Graphs Review

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders review different types of graphs such as bar graphs, line graphs, box & whisker plots. As a class, they read a story and construct graphs to solve the data in the story. Students play "Graph Jeopardy" which requires...
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"A Sound of Thunder" Worksheet

For Students 6th - 10th
For this "A Sound of Thunder" worksheet group, students complete a graphic organizer for the plot of the story. Students then complete activities with vocabulary from the reading and edit passages from the text.
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Comic and Film Strip Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a funny story and illustrate it in a comic strip. In this comic strip lesson, students study comic strips and determine the plot of each story. Students then write a short story and illustrate it using a comic strip...
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students map data on employment in wood products manufacturing in Oregon counties. In this Oregon forest instructional activity, students discover the percentage of people employed in the forest manufacturing industry. Students create a...
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Story Framing Legends

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students review, examine and study the seven stages to a traditional legend or modern story in legend form. They locate two traditional legend stories and see if they fit into the two categories listed for them in two boxes. Each student...
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Slip Slide'n Away

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars analyze the sliding of boxes along a warehouse floor. In this algebra lesson, students connect math and physics by calculating the friction created by the sliding of each box. They develop faster method to move the box,...
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"The Golden Ball"-Drama Lesson

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students read "The Golden Ball" and discuss plot and story elements. In this drama lesson, students review script vs. story writing and presentation. Students take turns reading parts of the play and discuss, make paper crowns and...
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Family Activity: Bar Graphs and Line Graphs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students work at home with a family member on a graphing activity. Students count the number of cans, glass jars, boxes and bags in the pantry. Students make a bar and a line graph to represent the data.
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Left to Their Own (Literary) Devices

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students write scenes for stories using their own original characters. However, they write using the literary and plot devices found in the Lemony Snicket book series.
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A Place In Space

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Pupils work together to create a 3D coordinate system. They plot points that are given to them and asked to find these points in space. They discover how engineers use coordinates in their careers.

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