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Investigation: Is Dilution the Solution?
Systematically diluting a full-strength sample of food coloring is meant to help earth scientists understand concentration in parts per million. While they will enjoy the lab exercise, it might be a challenge to help them relate it to...
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Strategies for Organization and Elaboration of Personal Narrative
Personal narrative writing is usually a favorite form of writing for youngsters because they get to write about a personal experience. The lesson here asks pupils to take a piece of narrative writing and improve it by following...
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Putting Toxicogenomics To The Test
Learners evaluate the pros and cons of a new approach to food, chemical, and drug testing. They read and discuss the Times article, 'DNA Chip May Help Usher In a New Era of Product Testing.'
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How Fast Are You?
Students explore constructive ways of handling conflict. In this conflict resolution lesson, students brainstorm things that make them angry, sad, happy, etc. Students listen to a story and identify ways the characters handled conflict...
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A Test Case for Individual Rights
Students examine the different points of view regarding testing students for drug use. They then work in pairs to create and perform dialogues that flesh out two sides of the argument around this controversial issue.
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President Obama's Address to Students Across America
Learners write about goals, responsibility, and persistence, and listen to President Obama's speech. In this President Obama lesson students create concept webs, listen with a purpose, and list the challenges of our generation.
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Testing Bangladesh's Waters
Students assess the causes and effects of massive arsenic contamination in the water supplies of 43 of Bangladesh's 64 districts. They evaluate why this contamination occurred, and how it affects the population of Bangladesh.
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A Life to Remember
Students test and discuss their ability to remember events in their recent and past history and reflect on cases of dissociative fugue and amnesia. They graph and analyze data to look for patterns in the ability to recall a list of...
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France's New Medieval Castle Takes Shape
Young scholars explore how a dream to build a medieval castle came to reality. In this lesson, students read an article about a knight's castle that is being built in France, then complete numerous activities such as a quiz, a debate, a...
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Heart to Heart
Students examine how social class affects health factors and outcomes by analyzing three case studies of heart attack patients. They reflect on the effects of commodifying health.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 1--Grade 8 (2008)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test activity, students listen to an article twice while taking notes. Students then answer reading comprehension questions and write an essay using details and examples from...
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 2--Grade 8 (2006)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts learning exercise, students listen to an article and take notes. Students then answer reading comprehension questions and compose an essay using details from the article.
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New York State Testing: English Language Arts-Grade 5
In this NY state language arts test, 5th graders read passages and complete comprehension and writing activities after each.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2--Grade 8 (2007)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts instructional activity, learners listen to an article twice, then answer reading comprehension questions. Students then use details from the article to compose an essay.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test
In this New York State Testing English Language Arts worksheet, learners listen to an article, and answer comprehension questions. Students listen to the article twice and take notes. Then they answer comprehension questions.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 2
In this English Language Arts worksheet, middle schoolers read an article twice and take notes. Students may use the notes to answer multiple choice questions on reading comprehension.
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New York State Testing Program: English Language Arts Grade 4
In this NY state grade 4 language arts test, 4th graders complete a total of 35 questions, reading passages and completing questions and instructions for writing that follow each.
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New York State Testing:English Language Arts Grade 6
In this NY state English/Language Arts testing worksheet, 6th graders complete 30 questions, reading passages and completing the exercises after each passage.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2--Grade 7 (2010)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts learning exercise, students listen to an article and answer reading comprehension questions. Students then compose an essay using details from the article and identify...
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2: Grade 7
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension. Students then complete an essay response.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Grade 8 (2010)
For this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read two passages and answer reading comprehension questions. Students also write an essay in which they use details and examples from the passages.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2--Grade 8 (2009)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to an article and answer reading comprehension questions. Students compose an essay using information from the article.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 3--Grade 8 (2007)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read two articles and answer reading comprehension questions. Students also compose essay responses to the passages.
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New York State Testing: English Language Arts-Grade 3
In this language arts testing worksheet, 3rd graders complete 34 questions, reading passages and then writing relating to passages as instructed.