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Viral Invaders

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct a critical investigation of the West Nile Virus. They assess the relationship between the sources of information and their credibility. Students use their findings to create a public health campaign about the virus.
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Transformation, Reflections, Rotations and Translations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a quilt, using different patterns. In this geometry lesson, students apply prior knowledge as they use different patterns to help them create a quilt using transformations and geometric shapes.
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Playground Issues and Resolutions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Getting your students to buy into good behavior on the playground improves everyone's year.
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Inequalitities Mixed Review

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners solve inequalities and graph it on a number line. In this algebra activity, students rewrite word problems into algebraic equations and graph it using compound inequalities.
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Divided We Stand

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research historic issues and events that have divided Americans in the past. They assess the division in American society shown by the 2000 presidential election by writing from the perspectives of people who have seen other...
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Them Bones

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students learn the correct names of various bones in the human body by using locomotor skills. They, in groups, move to the "pile of bones" to get the specified piece of the skeleton and the label required and return to the group.
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Writing Conversation: Using Quotation Marks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, young scholars learn to use quotation marks in written conversation. Students proofread 5 sentences and add the necessary punctuation. Then young scholars write a conversation, starting a new line and...
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Math Club Worksheet #30 - Visual Stretches

For Students 6th - 9th
In this visual math puzzle worksheet, students work in groups to find the answer to 6 math puzzles. They work with geometric shapes and symbols.
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Accentuate the Positive!

For Students 7th - 8th
Students participate in an interactive online activity about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing positive and negative integers. Students look at sample problems through out the activity and have the opportunity to complete ...
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If You Meet a Dinosaur Book

For Teachers K
Students utilize the facts presented in the story, " If You Meet a Dragon," by Joy Cowley to make a dinosaur following the features of a template, track the text of the story, and dramatize its main idea.
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"What Is Depression?"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the topic of depression and how it relates to their own lives. They watch and discuss a video, complete a worksheet about their own experiences, and in small groups design and display a poster.
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Creative Dancing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students dance a Cossack dance.  In this dance lesson, students learn to keep the beat and follow a movement sequence to dance a Cossack Dance. 
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Candidates: Michael Bloomberg

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about Michael Bloomberg and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Scales Problems

For Students 4th - 8th
In this scales worksheet, students find the weight of the shapes on the scale by comparing it to the other side, and make up their own problems. Students complete 5 sets of problems.
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Dinosaurs are for the Birds

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students use the Internet to see photographs of fossils from dinosaurs. They read articles about dinosaurs and birds and what they had in common. They also examine a dinorama site in which they discover why some dinosaurs needed feathers.
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Word Family Memory Match

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word families matching worksheet, students cut out 24 word cards. Students place beginning sound cards face down in one group and word family ending sound cards face down in a separate group. Students turn over cards to make...
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The Periodic Table Introduction Question Exercise

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, students are introduced to the periodic table of elements. They find the answers to 13 questions about the periodic table.
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Logical Relationship of Postulates & Theorems

For Students 10th - 12th
In this postulates and theorems instructional activity, students explore a concept map containing information about angles and sides, alternate interior angles, and diagonals of a parallelogram.  They use the concept map to prove...
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Fire Safety Spelling / Vocabulary Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this fire safety worksheet, students read the fire safety paragraphs and then practice writing spelling and vocabulary words from the paragraphs. Students write 5 words 4 times.
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Bacteria and Viruses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students use basic scientific concepts to complete the series of puzzles that are intended to increase science literacy based upon bacteria and viruses.
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Linear Equations 1

For Students 5th - 6th
For this linear equations worksheet, students study and analyze how to solve simple equations online. Students solve forty-four simple equations and check their answers on line as they go.
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How Big was that Quake?

For Students 6th - 10th
In this earthquake learning exercise, students determine the magnitude of an earthquake based on the seismogram reading. This learning exercise has 5 problems to solve.
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Vowels Short And Long: Farmer Pete

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...
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Giving Oral Directions

For Teachers 2nd
Student practice giving directions. In this giving oral directions instructional activity, 2nd graders play Simon Says, identify differences between clear and unclear directions, and practice giving someone else directions in the room....