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Mean, Median, Mode, and Range: Reteach
For this line plots worksheet, students review how to make a line plot to show data and review the steps to find mean, median, mode, and range. Students then make a line plot for the data in exercise 1 and use it to answer the remaining...
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Guided Reading: What Is Government?
Learn about the government's role in everyday life in a guided reading activity. Groups create a KWL chart concerning the government's impact on the community.
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Citizenship and Elections: The Importance of a Ballot
Approximately 58 prcent of those eligible voted in the 2016 US Presidential election. In an attempt to impress upon learners the importance of voting and voting rights, class members examine primary source documents related to the...
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Flying with Pythagoras
A lengthy narrative about Pythagoras and his students precedes an activity in which your young mathematicians practice using the Pythagorean theorem to solve three problems about flight and distance. Answers are provided.
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An Eye for an Eye
High schoolers watch a view introducing them to modern Indian History. During the film, they answer discussion quesitons and discover the concept of non-violent civil disobedience. They share their responses with the class and write an...
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Literary Elements and Vocabulary: Mini Quiz
Readers match five literary terms -- personification, narrator, tone, dialogue, foreshadowing -- with their definitions. They also spell, identify the part of speech, define, and write a creative sentence for each of five dictated words....
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Maggie's Adventures Grades 1-2
Students use Maggie's Learning Adventures online activity. They play a matching or memory game to become aware of homophones. Students recognize that there two ways to use many words. They practice with noun or verb identification by...
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Immigration Unit
Third graders develop an appreciate for the various cultures that are present in their local community. Through reading and research, they explain how various culture came to live in their area. At the conclusion of the unit, 3rd...
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Decimal Concepts
Fourth graders complete a journal page to review decimal concepts. In this decimal lesson, 4th graders use manipulatives to represent decimal amounts. Students complete a homework sheet related to decimal and fractional parts.
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What's the Matter with My Snow?
Students collect snow samples around their school. They explore the concepts of density and phase change as well as the math skills of measurement and statistics. Students explore the water cycle through an interactive, down loadable...
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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique
Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...
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Long-Lasting Impressions
Young scholars evaluate how their reactions to certain images have been altered by the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent world events that followed. They share their personal memories associated with that day.
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Under Pressure
Young scholars view a video clip on dams. They discuss how the dam is reinforced and how it holds the pressure of water. They participate in an activity in which they use liter bottles to represent the dam.
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Area
Young scholars solve problems involving area. In this geometry lesson plan, students calculate the area of an object and relate it to the area of the ocean. They define what exactly and area is and then solve problems relating to the...
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Alexander the Great
Students examine the accomplishments of Alexander the Great. In this ancient civilizations lesson, students research the life and leadership of Alexander the Great. Students then script and perform modern news conferences, talk shows, or...
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Predators and Prey
Students explain how the food chain works. They contrast predators with prey and describe their function in nature. Students discuss how the food chain aids in keeping nature balanced. In small groups, they play a game that simulates the...
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Common Factors and Greatest Common Factors
In this GCF worksheet, students use factors and GCF's to solve a set of word problems. All problems relate to factors and GCF's.
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The Spanish Armada
In this Spanish Armada study guide worksheet, students discover the background and significant details of this event in world history. Students read 7 sections of information and examine photographs and maps.
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Determining the Age of Fossils
Students examine the concept of radioactive dating. In this radioactive dating lesson plan, students investigate how to determine the ages of fossils and rocks as they learn about half-life radioactive decay.
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Discovering Advanced Algebra More Practice Your Skills, Lessons 11.1-11.6
In this six page series of worksheet, students answer short answer questions about a variety of topics. The six topics covered in this packet are: Experimental Design (4 questions), Probability Distributions (3 multiple choice...
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Conjunctions
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about conjunctions in sentence writing. They then use what they read to answer the 12 questions on the page. The answers are located on the last page of the packet.
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The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs
First graders compare fictional and real pigs. For this pig comparison lesson, 1st graders read a fiction text then a non-fiction text on pigs. Students complete a K-W-L chart and fill out a Venn Diagram.
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Graphic Organizers Aid Comprehension
Students create story webs to aid comprehension of ecosystems. For this reading strategies lesson, students discover the importance of organizing information while reading a nonfiction text. Students produce story webs to communicate...
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Stoichiometry
Students research chemical formulas and balance chemical equations. For this chemical equations lesson students complete a class activity on chemical equations and answer questions.