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Calculating Discounts and Sales

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover that a discount is used by manufacturers and merchants to mean taking off a certain percentage of the price given in a price list. This price is called the list price. The list price less the discount is known as the...
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Union vs. Confederate (Drama)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experience a creative lesson in history. They investigate the events of the Civil War. Then students use the information to reenact different scenes that portray historical events. They conduct the simulation and have a...
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Malnutrition

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students attempt to find innovative ways to solve the problem of malnutrition. They focus on finding workable and reasonable solutions, adoptable by any patient. Students enhance critical thinking to create an avenue by which...
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Biomes and Ecosystems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study biomes and ecosystems. They watch videos on rainforests and the food web and select a country of ancestry or interest to research. They write a report on the flora and fauna of their selected country. They present to...
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Night Hike

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Students explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.
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Build-A-Horseshoe Crab

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover many facts about horseshoe crabs. Students identify the main body parts of horseshoe crab. They explore the habits of the horseshoe crab and their importances to the ecosystem. Adaptations for younger students are...
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Vocabulary and Word Work Units

For Students 6th - 8th
In these 4 vocabulary unit worksheets, middle schoolers create compound words, complete word puzzles, finish sentences with the proper words or phrase, and match pictures to the proper word.
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National Gallery of Art: Leonardo da Vinci

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study a portrait of Ginevra by Leonardo da Vinci. In this art appreciation lesson, students study this unique double-sided work by Leonardo da Vinci and are asked to create their own double-sided piece of art.
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The Boston Tea Party: Massachusetts Gazette

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students respond read an article from the 1773 Massachusetts Gazette regarding the Boston Tea Party. Students discuss the excerpt and its significance in American history.
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English Exercises: Similes

For Students 6th
For this English exercises:  similes worksheet, 6th graders read the explanation and examples of similes, then interactively fill in 15 sentences using similes, with immediate online feedback.
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Irregular Verbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this irregular verbs worksheet, students put irregular verbs in the past tense, the future tense, and in the blanks of sentences. Students complete 2 activities.
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Halloween

For Students 3rd
In this Halloween vocabulary worksheet, 3rd graders interactively select the correct word for 12 pictures, fill in 13 words and find 14 Halloween words in a word search, with immediate online feedback.
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Classrooms: Then and Now

For Teachers K - 1st
Students look at schoolhouses from the past. In this comparative analysis lesson, students visit a one room school house and look at the tools used for learning. Students then compare the schoolhouse of the past to the schoolhouse of today.
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The Secret Surprise

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this comprehension worksheet, students read a story called The Secret Surprise and complete multiple choice questions. Students complete 5 questions.
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Agreement Between Subject and Verb

For Students 3rd - 12th
In this grammar worksheet, learners find agreement between the subjects and verbs of sentences. Students indicate the subject and verb in the sentence by underlining once or twice. When the subject and verb do not agree, learners correct...
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Centennial: But Mom, I Have Nothing To Wear

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the contributions of Native American Indians, explorers, and Utah's pioneers. They discuss ways in which clothing can communicate and help identify time periods, thoughts, and values.
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Clothes

For Students Higher Ed
For this ESL worksheet, students focus on the names of clothing.  Students complete a crossword puzzle with 8 questions and a word search consisting of 9 vocabulary terms with pictures shown.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Consumer Education

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students research the various establishments where one can buy clothing and the cost of those purchases. With the help of a lengthy vocabulary list, magazines and newspapers, students name and identify the cost of basic items of clothing.
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Making Decisions with Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore probability. They discuss the likelihood of events happening and the terms certain, impossible, likely and unlikely. Students discuss various situations and the likelihood of that situation occurring.
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From These Beginnings

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students prepare a bulletin board that shows the changing identity of their state before and after statehood.
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Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students listen to the teacher who explains the layering of the bowl; demonstrating marking and freehand cutting and fusing. They use satin stitch to practice on scraps. Teacher talks about finishing the edge. Students mimic.
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Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: History of Costume

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital scans of the illustrations from a nineteenth-century publication about historic costumes constitutes a pictorial survey of changing modes of dress from ancient times to the mid-1800s. Five hundred designs in all.
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Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Victorian Fashions in the Upper Ottawa Valley

For Students 9th - 10th
100 years of fashions, 1840-1940, are showcased in this collection of images. Included are close-up photographs that detail much of the intricate work produced during the Victorian Period.
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Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: Hartford Web Pub.: Pre Columbian Hispaniola

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes the Arawak and Taino Indians on the island of Hispaniola. Read about their lifestyle, housing, dress, food, and religion.