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Simple Machine Scavenger Hunt
How are simple machines used in professional settings? To find out, scholars examine various pictures, cross-reference a list of simple machines, and write or verbally share how those items are used in specific jobs.
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Flight Dreams - Folding into Flight
Combine measurement, following directions, physics, and art with one fun activity. Learners read a set of instruction to create three different kinds of paper airplanes. They measure, fold, and fly the planes, and record data and answer...
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Solving a Simple Maze
It is a-maze-ing how lost one can get. Teams reconstruct a simple maze and solve it. Participants create an algorithm that a robot would follow in order to solve the maze as well. The activity includes an extension directing pupils to...
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MYSTERY PICTURES (Following Oral Directions)
Students draw pictures while following simple instructions. They discuss the importance of following directions explicitly. They discuss the differences between each child's work. They follow a second set of directions.
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The Following-Directions Follies
Students participate in a P.E. following directions game. They each receive a slip of paper with specific directions written on it, and observe other students' actions in order to perform their directions in the correct order.
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Simple/Complex Machines
Young scholars make a simple machine. In this physics lesson, students learn about six types of simple machines and the purpose of each and brainstorm examples of simple and complex machines in the classroom. Young scholars create a...
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Gadget Anatomy
Sure to be a hit with your charges, here is a science lesson plan that has lots of hands-on activities packed into it. The focus is simple machines, and how they help us perform work. After a discussion and demonstration session, groups...
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Internet Field Trip: Simple Machines
Young scholars observe and identify the types of simple machines. They conduct research and gather data to increase the comprehension of simple machines. Students identify and comprehend data to complete a graphic organizer and focus...
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Following Instructions
Use this simple plan to teach your physical education class how to make a jump shot in basketball. It includes an introduction, objectives, methods, and more!
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Simple Machines
Learners engage in a instructional activity that explores the concept of simple machines. They view a powerpoint media presentation and then are introduced to adult volunteers for the instructional activity. Each volunteer is at a...
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A Simple Task Made Complex: Types of Sentences
Looking for a activity about differing sentence types? Use this activity on compound and complex sentences in your grammar unit. After composing simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences individually and as part of a...
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Can you Follow Me? Conventions
Use the present tense to create written assignments. Critical thinkers take a passage written in past or future tense and rewrite it in present tense. They then write a set of instructions in present tense.
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A Simple Motor
Instructions for building a simple electromagnetic motor are provided for the teacher. Aside from some sketchy background information and a list of content standards to be met, that is about all you will find in this resource. The motor...
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Concept: Dependent Events
Middle and high schoolers determine the probability of dependent events. Students compute both compound and simple probability. This four-page worksheet contains six multi-step problems.
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Easy Tie Die
Perfect for summer camp, an after school program, or your classroom, these instructions will make tie-dying a breeze! Simple instructions and helpful images make tie dying a fun and easy project. Tip: Have learners predict the outcome of...
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Congruent Rectangles
Very simply, geometers examine a pair of rectangles on graph paper and find a translation and rotation to demonstrate their congruence. A couple of questions follow to stimulate critical thinking about other possibilities.
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The Spread of Enlightenment Ideas
Looking for a simple and straightforward reference on the Enlightenment for your young historians? Check out this list of key terms and important figures from the period, followed by a traditional assessment where your learners will be...
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Simple Research
Students conduct a simple research project using the internet as a source. They are shown how to narrow down a subject area to facilitate the search process. Students are shown the various search engines and how to tell whether a source...
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You are Uniquely You
Students compare and contrast simple machines and their functions. In this cross-curriculum science simple machines lesson, students observe examples and read about simple machines, then use body movement to demonstrate how machines...
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Kindergarten Here I Come: Rules
Designed to thoroughly reinforce your classrooms' rules with young learners, this activity makes several suggestions for instructional procedures to accomplish this goal. For example, repeated questioning and procedures as well as...
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Binomial Probabilities: Understanding Math
Although this binomial probabilities worksheet is based on a computer math program (Neufeld Learning Systems: Understanding Math), it can easily be used without the program. If you don't have the program, skip the first question....
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DNA Extraction
What does your DNA actually look like? Use simple materials with this experiment to find out! Geneticists of all ages can follow these instructions to extract their own DNA. For learners who are hoping to extend the activity, there are...
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Buoyancy Boats
What did the sea say to the boat? Nothing, it just waved. An inquiry-based instructional activity starts with a simple concept on the Archimedes Principle and challenges pupils to make something out of clay that floats....
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 3--Maintaining Employment
Students explore the best ways to ask for clarification to instructions and then practice those techniques by pairing up to write their own scenarios giving simple instructions to each other.