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How Atoms Work
High schoolers analyze the way atoms function and how they combine to form molecules and various compounds. Using a software program, they create a diagram of an atom and write a summary about their functions. They complete a worksheet...
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Writers Workshop
Students work together to brainstorm using a software program. Individually, they decide on a topic to write about and begin their pre-writing activities. They write about their topic using the pictures they previously drew and...
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How Atoms Work
Learners explore the concept of atoms and how they combine to form molecules and compounds. In pairs, they read an article on how atoms work and discuss the main points. They draw atoms and write a paragraph about their elements.
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Gerund or Infinitive
In this gerund or infinitive worksheet, students complete sentences with the gerund "ing" ending or the infinitive "to" form of the verb. Students answer ten fill in the blank questions.
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Past Continuous Tense
For this past continuous tense worksheet, students choose the correct form of the past continuous tense in ten multiple choice sentences.
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What We Need
First graders identify basic needs of plants. For this plant growth lesson, 1st graders observe types of plants and review the parts of a plant as well as the development of a seed. Students review related vocabulary and read The Carrot...
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How New Words are Created
Young scholars complete a matching activity, matching words with "method of formation." In this language arts lesson plan, students complete sentences using rhyming pairs, break down words into 2, and complete a creative exercise,...
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Interesting Idioms
Students are introduced to the topic of idioms in figurative speech. Using the definition of idioms, they use literature to view examples. They identify idioms in different forms of writing and practice using them in speech. ESL...
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Crime and Deviance
For this Crime and Deviance worksheet, students answer seventy-eight questions, then respond to ten essay questions on these topics.
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More Complicated Functions: Introduction to Linear Functions
Students explore the concept of linear functions. For this linear functions lesson, students translate linear functions from tables to graphs to equations. Students use an applet to write a function rule for a linear function in...
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Participial Adjectives 2
In this participial adjectives worksheet, students are asked to fill in the blanks using the correct form of the adjective provided.
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Plan a Mission to Recently Discovered Planet
Students plan a mission to a recently discovered planet. In this science lesson plan, students research spacecraft design, distances in space, long-term missions in space, and life-sustaining planets. Students work in groups to research...
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Meet the Nonfiction Main Idea Challenge
Help your class develop the ability to determine a main idea with a packet of materials that you can introduce and use over a period of time. The packet includes some information for the teacher and rationale for the exercises. There are...
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King Tutankhamun
Using the King Tutankhamun exhibition as the topic for this 12 question activity, learners change sentences from the declarative to interrogative forms. Students would need to given information about King Tutankhamun in order to complete...
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Five Paragraph Essay
Eighth graders are introduced to the mechanics of writing a standard-form essay. They draft, edit and polish a five-paragraph essay about spending the day as an animal of their choice.
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Enhancing Writing Through Technology
Students participate in a class survey of their favorite activity to do in the snow and organize the results in a graph. They write a paragraph about the graph using language from a class-developed word web and include both an opening...
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Introduction to Poetry
Learners determine the rhyme scheme of a poem and find examples of similes. In this poetry analysis instructional activity, students review definitions needed for the topic and analyze the rhyme or rhythm for the example poems. Learners...
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Civil War Museum Exhibit
Fourth graders summarize the participation of Indiana citizens in the Civil War. They research an assigned topic and build a museum exhibit that displays at least five points of information relating to the topic. Students write a...
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Proofreading
Students review the techniques of editing and proofreading then complete writing prompt worksheet to assist the beginning of the writing process. They write a first draft on an assigned topic then revise, edit and format the finished...
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Bean Addition
A hands-on lesson created students use beans as manipulatives to solve addition number sentences. Requires the book, Mission Addition by Loreen Leedy.
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Describing Words
First graders brainstorm adjectives, recognize adjectives within text read by teacher, identify sentences that contain adjectives using Hyperstudio stack, and write two descriptive sentences for abstract image they create.
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Basic Design Elements Computer Art Project
Students use PhotoDraw software to create original drawings. Using the basic design elements, line, shape, form, texture, value, and color, students create original drawings on the computer based on drawings previously rendered by hand.
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Verbs; Simple Past (Regular Verbs)-1
In this foreign language worksheet, students read ten sentences. Each sentence contains a missing word (verb). Students fill in the blank with an appropriate verb that fits with the intended meaning of the sentence.
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Literature and Interactive Writing: "Plenty of Penguins"
Pupils listen to and discuss the story elements of the story "Plenty of Penguins." They discuss the elements of reality and fantasy, and as a class write two sentences on small dry erase boards in the form of a letter to the teacher in...