DePaul University
Chicago Changes
Scholars determine statements as fact or opinion in a practice page consisting of two reading passages followed by multiple choice and short answer questions. Fact and opinion passages detail information about Chicago and Ethiopia.
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Creating Summary Tables
Let the computer summarize all that data. Pairs work together to learn how to create pivot tables by following directions in the online module. They then utilize the data collected from the beginning of the unit to create their own...
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The Green Truck Garden Giveaway
Young scholars read "The Green Truck Garden Giveaway" and explore the hobby of gardening. After observing illustrations in the book, students predict possible events in the story. They discuss gardening and write a story about a...
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Back from the Dead
If you could bring back one extinct animal, what would it be? That is the question your class will ponder. Your budding scientists read a passage, follow a cloning timeline, and review a diagram about the process of reviving a woolly...
Evergreen Exhibitions
Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion
Motion is the focus of ten hands-on activities that challenge scholars to build machines invented by Leonardo da Vinci. Following several steps, small groups work collaboratively to recreate machines including levers, pulleys, wheels,...
American Museum of Natural History
Living Large
Get to know all about sauropods from a paleontologist, Jonah. Following an introductory video, scholars choose from five fossils to learn more about. Each fossil begins with a video, provides information from several different...
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Directing Me
First graders practice the language of directions and positions in this unit. They follow sequences in which they rotate their bodies and other objects through quarter and half turns while participating in games.
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Following Verbal Directions
For this ESL worksheet, students follow 12 verbal directions from their teacher. For example, "Turn your paper on its side to landscape view."
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Following Verbal Directions
In this ESL activity, learners follow 12 verbal directions from their teacher. For example, "Turn your paper on its side to landscape view."
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Recipe for Beignets
In this reading and following directions worksheet, students read and make New Orleans beignets. Students follow 10 directions.
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Classroom Instructions
In this ESL following instructions learning exercise, students will focus on classroom activities. Students will complete 5 matching questions, by looking at the pictures in one column and matching them with the correct terminology and...
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Vectors: Follow That Arrow
Vectors and their connection to motion. A video will be presented to provide information for the class to use methods of solving vectors with and without grids. Real-world physical concepts will be explored in reference to vectors.
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Reading Skills - Giving Directions
In this reading skills learning exercise, students identify places on a map. After reading a description of where each of the fifteen places is located, students match each building to the names of the places.
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Graphs of Direct Variation
Young scholars identify graphs for direct variation. In this algebra worksheet, students analyze graphs to determine their direct variation. They also determine whether the graphs are functions or not.
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Graphs and Direct Variation
Students solve problems with direct variation. In this algebra lesson, students analyze graphs to figure out the direct variation of a line. They observe the slopes based the steepness of the lines.
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East Meets West: Americans on the Move
Students imagine what it was like to be part of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In this Lewis and Clark Expedition lesson, students watch "East Meets West: Americans on the Move," and then write journal entries from the perspective of...
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We're Gonna Have A Party
First graders explore map skills. They discuss the map vocabulary and use directions to find a location on a map. Students discuss and use the components of a map to answer a variety of questions. They use the map and directions to find...
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The East Africa Times
Students work in teams as editors to design the front page of a newspaper covering a country in east Africa. They individually research and write articles that define modern life for the country's citizens.
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Factual Writing: Instructions
Students write step-by-step instructions for tasks. In this factual writing lesson, students complete an online activity. Each group also writes directions for completing a task. A worksheet is available for more practice.
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Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements
What sets this worksheet apart are the clear, concise explanations for some rather complex grammatical terms. Object complements, subject complements, transitive and intransitive verbs, and direct and indirect objects are all carefully...
Center for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
Vectors
Investigate vectors and learn how to use them. Explore why size and direction, as well as knowing speed and distance, are important components of the vector problems you are trying to solve. This is an extensive lesson plan which...
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Following Directions - Ndakinna Wilderness Project
Students draw a diagram of the steps used to camouflage a person. In this biology lesson, students watch and take notes on a video about using camouflage as a tool to observe nature. Then students follow instructions to create a diagram...
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Computing the Net Force
Adorable little stick figures push and pull a cart of blocks to explain the push and pull of forces. Future physicists then define force and identify it in different situations on the instructional activity that follows. Concepts covered...
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Two Object Pronouns Using se
Are your intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers learning how to incorporate indirect and direct object pronouns in the same sentence? Review each independently, and then complete a short writing exercise to practice the correct...