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Problem Solving
Students explore the concept of problem solving. In this problem solving activity, students use a decision square to solve a word problem. Students practice using a decision square to problem solve.
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Potato Launcher Energy Lab
Students investigate conservation laws using a potato launcher. In this physics lesson, students measure angles, time and distance of the potato. They discuss applications of experiments like this.
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Writing a Legal Brief
Twelfth graders work together to write appeals for their side in a famous case. Using a format, they write a legal brief and incorporate the legal, scientific and environmental information needed to make a strong case. They share their...
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Buying and Selling Horses Terms
In this online quiz learning exercise, students answer a set of trivia questions about buying and selling horses terminology. Page has a link to submit answers for review.
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Black Alabamians in World War I
Eleventh graders describe the racial climate of Alabama, then discuss some of the war-related concerns of black and white Alabamians.
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Will It Rain Today or Tomorrow?
Students examine how to forecast weather. They examine the different types of weather and learn the correct vocabulary.
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How to incorporate local history into your Arkansas History class
Fifth graders explore their local history through research and then providing reenactments about the history.
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Using News Broadcasts in Japan and the U.S as Cultural Lenses
Students view archives of news broadcasts in order to create a context of cultural understanding. They compare and contrast the news broadcasts in Japan and the United States.
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Distortion Unleashed
Pupils view examples of man-made structures and create a building that matches the style. Using the internet, they research the style of Frank Lloyd Wright and create plans for creating their own community. They use a painting of...
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The End
Learners listen as the teacher reads a story. Pictures are displayed as the teacher reads the story. Students jot down ideas for the story ending, and create an illustration to compliment their story. Student story endings and...
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Choose Your Own Adventure
Students investigate the historical underground railroad. They also access technology to conduct research and write stories with the railroad as part of the historical fiction. The cumulative assessment is the creation of a book that...
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Young Author Books: I Am a Leaf on My Family Tree
Fourth graders create family tree books. They discuss culture and brainstorm interview questions for family members. They write stories, poems, and captions for family photos. They interview family members and assemble the interviews...
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Hearts and Partners
Tenth graders explore, examine and study poetry within a variety of different strategies within this lesson. They review and discuss a diagram of the big picture of why it's importance to study, analyze and deconstruct poetry, so that...
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Craters!
Eighth graders examine the formation of craters. In this craters lesson, 8th graders discover the various energies involved in the formation of a crater, where you can find a crater in the Solar System, and observations of craters on the...
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Victorian Age Topics in Literature
This resource discusses four controversies that concerned the Victorians: evolution, industrialism, what the Victorians called "The Woman Question," and Great Britain's identity as an imperial power. Includes multiple-choice quiz and...
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W. W. Norton & Company: Norton Anthology: Introduction to the Romantic Period
The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
The full text of this 1919 novel is offered here in multiple digital formats.
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Project Gutenberg: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
This famous examination of the struggle for identity and equality is presented in multiple digital formats.
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Project Gutenberg: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic
This lesson focuses on creating a research question including determining the purpose and audience, brainstorming a topic, researching the question for information, and refining and narrowing the question. W.9-10.7 Research....
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Usps: Charles W. Chesnutt: Dreamweaver
Celebrate Black Heritage Month by studying this Dreamweaver who used his talents as a teacher, writer, speaker, and activist to persuade people to share his passion for a world in which all people are treated equally. Write poems,...
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: In the Sky Garden by Elizabeth W. Champney
This ebook version of Elizabeth W. Champney's In The Sky-Garden has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Open Library: Lightfoot the Deer by Thornton W. Burgess
This ebook version of Thornton W. Burgess's Lightfoot The Deer has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Avoiding Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a serious offense in many educational settings. Plagiarism and copyright laws are reviewed here. Activities to avoid plagiarism are also provided through links. W.9-10.8 Sources, W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite;...