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American Inventors
In this online interactive American inventors learning exercise, students read a brief selection and respond to 10 fill in the blank and multiple choice questions.
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Applied Science - Built Environment Pre Lab (Morse Code)
Students study communication. In this telegraph instructional activity, students examine Morse code and the composition of an elementary telegraph circuit. They listen to a presentation and try to create Morse Code messages on a...
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ESL: Passive Voice Activity
For this ESL passive voice worksheet, students put sentences into passive voice with 50 total. A link to audio and additional resources is given.
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Active or Passive
In this active and passive voice worksheet, learners write sentences and choose the correct tense for the active and passive voice. Students complete 3 activities total.
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World Wide Web Historical Timeline
High schoolers use newspapers and magazines to identify six recent political and social events from around the world. In groups, they use a timeline template to place the events on the timeline in chronological order. They share with...
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Common Two-Word Verbs Exercise 1
In this grammar activity, students change five questions into answers utilizing the two-word verbs call off, hang up, thing over, cut out, start off, look over, bring about, think up and put off.
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Two-Word Verbs
In this grammar worksheet, students study, discuss and write nineteen grammatically correct sentences utilizing a variety of verb combinations with the verb up.
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Common Two-Word Verbs Exercise 1
In this grammar activity, students define and discuss a list of two-word verbs: call off, hang up, think over, cut out, start off, look over, bring about, think up and put off. Students use a variety of these two-word verbs to answer...
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Web Training: Do You Know How to Use the Internet?
Students discover how to use the Internet for research. In this technology lesson, students access and use the World Wide Web to research. Students are encouraged to critically consider information they find on the Internet.
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Long, Long, Ago
Students discover details of pioneer life. In this history instructional activity, students examine artifacts and play games from pioneer times.
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It's All in Your Mind
Students recognize diminishing cognitive abilities. affect independence. In this health instructional activity, students explore the struggles older people have so to their diminishing cognitive abilities.
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Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, students put the words in brackets in the correct passive form. Students are given 25 sentences to practice the skill.
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Quiz Cards for Kids
In this trivia worksheet, 4th graders answer 62 trivia-style questions on small cards (22 to a page, ready to be cut out) covering all topics, with answers printed upside down on each card.
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Breaking News English: Koreas Joined by First Phone Link
In this English worksheet, students read "Koreas Joined by First Phone Link," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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A Unified China
Young scholars examine the major changes Qin accomplished as emperor. They look at his steps to unify China, create a money standard, measurement standards, and a system of bureaucracy.
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Papyrus
Students study what papyrus was and what it was used for. Students explore how papyrus was made, and the two writing systems hieroglyphics and cuneiform.
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Extraordinary Lives
In this extraordinary lives worksheet, students answer questions about David Platonoff's Russian grandmother. Students answer 17 questions.
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Science Trivia
This science trivia activity gives the students 66 science trivia questions and answers. Students are to cut out the questions an fold them in half. The question is on one side and the answer is on the other side. This...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Invention of the Telephone
This primary source set uses physical objects, documents, photographs, and drawings to tell the story of the invention of the telephone and its transformative impact on modern-day communication. Includes a teaching guide.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Primary Source Set: Telephone Invention
This collection uses primary sources to explore the invention of the telephone.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Invention of the Telephone: History and Timeline
While the invention of the telephone is usually attributed to Alexander Graham Bell, credit must also be given to others who were working on the concept around the same time. Read about the history of the telephone here. Includes a...
A&E Television
History.com: Inventions & Science
Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The Telephone
The home page to the PBS feature film on the invention of the telephone. The People and Events section has biographies and commentary on the invention of the telephone and its subsequent success. Be sure to click on Gallery for pictures...
Library of Congress
Loc: Everyday Mysteries: Who Is Credited as Inventing the Telephone?
Find out who is credited for the invention of the telephone in this brief history.