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Learning About Weather
Students decide what type of weather they would like to write about such as tornadoes, hurricanes, snow, hail, floods, or another type of weather.
Then, they look up the information and jot down notes about that particular subject....
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Weather
In this weather learning exercise, students will match 4 weather terms to their correct definition. Vocabulary words include wind, weather, air mass, and front. Then students will complete 3 short answer questions based on high and low...
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Present Tense: Simple Versus Progressive
In this present tense worksheet, students read the sentences about a description of a hurricane. Students select the simple present tense of the verb forms to complete the 30 sentences.
US Mint
Absolutely and Relatively: The Puerto Rico Quarter Reverse
How much does your class know about Puerto RIco? How much can they learn from the back of a 2009 quarter? Use the coin, part of a series of quarters that depict US territories, to teach learners about the geography, culture, and history...
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Feelings about Current Events
Learners explore feelings about negative events. In this health and social studies lesson plan, students discuss and write about personal feelings about events that have had an impact on their life, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and...
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Wild Weather Vocabulary Dice
In this wild weather vocabulary dice worksheet, students assemble a dice that uses the words: tropical, hurricane, tornado, monsoon and tornado. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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The Impact
Students investigate the impact inventions have on people. For this technology lesson, students explore inventions, such as the light bulb, and identify ways the invention impacted society. Students design a simple project that could...
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Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers - Exercise 4
Teachers who are looking for resources to supplement their teaching of misplaced and/or dangling modifiers in writing should enjoy this learning exercise, and the interactive activities embedded in the sheet. Students complete twenty...
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What's in That Cake?
Cooperative groups research trip logs from deep-sea expeditions and explore characteristics of deepwater habitats. Using a cake as the ocean floor, they work together to decorate it as a model of such habitats. They also prepare a...
NASA
Erosion and Landslides
A professional-quality PowerPoint, which includes links to footage of actual landslides in action, opens this moving activity. Viewers learn what conditions lead to erosion and land giving way. They simulate landslides with a variety of...
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Floods and Flash Floods
Junior geologists, hydrologists, or meteorologists simulate what happens during the flooding of a river and demonstrate factors that contribute to flash flooding. This outstanding resource provides a vocabulary list, online resources,...
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Lesson: Unmonumental: Yesterday's News
Upper graders are tasked with developing a social consciousness as they analyze the impact of the news media. They view a presentation depicting various media events in order to understand threshold moments in history. There are three...
International Technology Education Association
Team Up on the Weather
There's a little bit about every aspect of weather in this trivia game. The lesson resource provides 36 questions and answers pertaining to four different topics related to weather: effects, science, technology, and statistics. Groups...
EngageNY
Synthesizing Information from Texts about Natural Disasters: What Makes an Earthquake a Natural Disaster?
Are all disasters natural? Scholars reread Earthquakes! to determine what classifies these events as a natural disaster. They label earthquake facts as N for natural or D disaster to support their ideas. They then discuss academic...
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Microscopic Water Life
Students use a light microscope to observe the organisms living in a sample of ocean or fresh water. Students create a drawing of the organisms that they observe. Students then discuss the different body plans of the organisms and the...
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Misplaced Modifier
Learners may giggle as they read some of the questions on this worksheet which features the perils of incorrect placement of a modifier. In this ten-question activity, 7th graders read three sentences to determine which one makes sense.
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The Coastal Ocean: Estuaries and Continental Shelves
Amazing high-quality satellite imagery, photos, informational graphs, and detailed diagrams comprise this presentation on the movement of estuaries and the continental shelf. Data used as an example is from The Chesapeake Bay and because...
American Museum of Natural History
Cosmic Cookies
Scholars read about each planet then bake a plate of cosmic cookies—no-bake cookies decorated to look like the planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
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Organizing Evidence from Multiple Informational Texts to Prepare for Writing: What Makes an Earthquake a Natural Disaster?
Fifth graders prepare for their end of the unit essay assessment by continuing to look at what makes an earthquake a natural disaster. They complete a graphic organizer and write a topic sentence. To finish, they view a model essay and...
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Tornado in a Bottle
Students learn about the causes and properties of tornados. Students create a simulation of a tornado and observe its characteristics.
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It's a Gas! Or is it?
Oceanography enthusiasts are given a series of thought experiments to consider in order to relate the solubility of gases and solids to underwater volcanoes. It is not particularly engaging to perform these thought experiments. Choose...
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What Was That All About?
Through direct instruction, the teacher demonstrates how to identify the main idea and supporting details of a text when creating a summary. As a class, read a paragraph, highlighting relevant information and crossing out extraneous...
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Summer of the Monkeys
While reading the book Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, the class ties together the core reading objectives, which are making predictions, comprehending new information, reading for author's purpose, independence in reading, and...
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Every Day Edit - The Big Wind
For this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the strongest wind ever measured. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
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