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Working Like a Dog
Students consider ways animals help human beings with certain chores, then research more specific tasks dogs are trained to do. They create a help wanted ad enumerating the traits a dog should have before applying for a particular position.
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An Appointment to Remember
Young scholars examine the arguments for and against President Bush's recess appointment of John R. Bolton as the United States ambassador to the United Nations and debate the appointment. They write letters to Mr. Bush expressing their...
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The Art of Adaptation
Students examine and discuss animal adaptation. They read an article about snakes, conduct research on ways animals adapt, develop a diagram, and write a short story written from the perspective of the animal they researched.
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The 13 Colonies HyperStudio Presentation
Fifth graders research their colony, synthesize the data, and put their information in a HyperStudio Presentation. Finally, they need to do a self-evaluation of their work and work habits.
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Measure It!
In this ruler measurement learning exercise, students measure a set of books, a bookcase and a bicycle with the ruler provided and then place their answers in the boxes provided.
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Exploration, Development and Planning for the Future
Students research their strengths and weaknesses and helps them make a career choice.
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Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Students explore plate tectonics, earthquake faults, and the types of volcanoes.
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Fancying the Full-Time
Students consider rights a worker deserves and research the impact of migrant workers in countries around the world. They create public service announcements to increase awareness and address letters to individuals capable of redressing...
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Exploring Technology in Careers
Students discover how technology is used in the workplace. In this careers lesson, students compare and contrast careers and how technology is incorporated into each of them. Students set goals to achieve their ideal career.
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Visit the Rainforest
Fifth graders define what a tropical rain forest is, what animals and plants exist there and realize how important the tropical rainforests are to life on Earth. They work in pairs to access websites imbedded in this plan to research the...
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Serving Up Reality
Young scholars consider the factors that go into running a restaurant and examine how the restaurant industry impacts the economy of the United States. They create skeleton proposals for new restaurants and consider the costs of this...
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Determining Needs Versus Wants
Students discriminate between a need and a want in home buying. They write a detailed description of their dream home. Finally they categorize each of their listed home features as a need or a want.
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Students identify slang words that they would use in a conversation. They practice expressing their likes and dislikes in speech and written form. They complete worksheets and discuss them to end the activity.
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Verb Tenses
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blanks with a form of the verb in parenthesis. They can use any appropriate verb tense. There are 14 blanks to fill in.
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Appropriate Verb Tenses
For this verb tense worksheet, students fill in 14 blanks in a paragraph using the correct form of each given verb. They complete a selection about using computers.
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Verb Tenses
This interesting verbs worksheet, has students read a paragraph, and fill in 14 blanks with the appropriate form of the verb tense that is shown parentheses. Very good practice in using the correct verb tense.
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Cloze Exercise: Verb Tenses
In this cloze activity worksheet, students examine a reading selection and use their language skills to fill in the 14 blanks with the appropriate verb tenses.
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Fill in the Blank Verbs
For this past tense verb review worksheet, students fill in the 14 blanks in a paragraph with the appropriate forms of the verbs listed in parentheses.
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Fill in the Blank: Verb Tense
For this fill in the blank verb tense worksheet, students are given a sentence and a verb. Students choose the correct form of the verb to complete the sentence.
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Adventures on the Eastern Half of Planet Earth
Seventh graders explore a country in the Eastern hemisphere. They develop a packet that could be used by someone visiting that country during the month of December. Students explore the climate, foods, geography, customs and culture of...
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The Power Behind the Throne
Students choose a professional field of interest, consider what modern day or historical figure they would most like to assist, research the economy & its effect on support staff/entry-level jobs in that field, and create a strategy...
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"The Science Times"
Students create their own newspaper after gathering information at the Museum of Natural History's Hall of Biodiversity.
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Management and Leadership
Pupils undertake the study of leadership theory. The skills of being a leader and manager are covered. There is a comprehensive use of real life examples throughout the lesson.
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Blood Vessels & Circulation
Learners participate in a layered curriculum designed instructional activity in order to study the cardiovascular system of the human body. The assessments and activities are student centered.