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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Look Around!: Challenge Activities (Theme 3)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Let's Look Around! is the theme of a unit that offers a plethora of challenge activities. Enhance your scholars' learning experiences and reinforce concepts with activities such as writing a book about farm animals, an imaginary place,...
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Novelinks

Walk Two Moons: Story Impressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Story chains connect literary concepts, reinforce context clues, and even help learners predict what's coming next! Using words from the next chapter of Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons, middle schoolers craft story chains to determine...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Virus Hunters: Epidemiology of Nipah Virus

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Who actually goes looking for a virus? Expose your class to the high-stakes life of an epidemiologist on the trail of the Nipah virus. Pupils engage in a short video, then examine how scientists predict, model, and find the source of...
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Curated OER

Introduce: Cause and Effect

For Teachers K - 3rd
Introduce beginning readers to cause and effect in a story by exploring it together. Learners make predictions about a book based on its cover, title, and a brief flip through the pages. They listen to an explanation of cause and effect...
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Curated OER

Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA): Pre-Reading In Cold Blood

For Students 11th - 12th
Start your unit by reading the "Ballade des Pendus," by the character Villon. The class makes predictions, discusses what they might already know about the text, and reads the selection together. There are step-by-step plans detailed...
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Curated OER

Using the Synoptic Code for the Prediction of Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a thermoscreen for the experiment. In this earth science instructional activity, students make observations and interpret them using synoptic codes. They predict the weather based on gathered information.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Predicting Molecular Shapes

For Students 9th - 12th
For this molecular shapes worksheet, students read about how to predict molecular shapes in molecules based on the number of electron pairs and the VSEPR theory. Students are given twelve molecules, they draw the Lewis structures and...
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Curated OER

Making Predictions

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students collect and classify items. In this making predictions lesson, students go outside and collect specimens of plants, insects and minerals. They classify each item and place them in a Venn Diagram. Students compare and contrast...
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Curated OER

The Seed Match

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine seeds and predict the plant it comes from. In this seed match lesson, students match seeds to plants and then see if their predictions are correct. Students predict the number of seeds found in plants as well. Students...
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Curated OER

Using the Synoptic Code for the Prediction of Weather

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars interpret the synoptic code. They construct a thermoscreen with an anemometer. Students identify different types of clouds and understand and read barometric pressure. Young scholars predict weather pattern as they apply...
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Curated OER

You Make the Call

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this reading predictions worksheet, students read a short story starter. After reading these suspenseful beginning sentences, students answer the question, "What do you think will happen next?" Students write their predictions on the...
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Curated OER

Predicting the Products of a Reaction

For Students 10th - 12th
In this reactions worksheet, students predict the products of 5 equations and write the equations for 5 reactions using their knowledge of types of reactions.
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Curated OER

Microbiology Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners collect water samples and use a microscope to find bacteria in the samples. They categorize the different bacteria they find, determine the number of colonies there are, and predict how the bacteria levels might affect animals...
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Curated OER

Getting Ready To Do It: Predictions With Evidence

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading and speaking worksheet, students practice using the prediction "going to--" by participating in a mime activity. Students come to the front of the class, choose a card and mime getting ready for the activity on the card....
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Curated OER

Predicting Plate Movement

For Students 6th - 12th
In this plate movement worksheet, students review the 3 types of plate boundaries and predict where plates will be as they continue moving along their current path. This worksheet has 2 short answer questions.
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Curated OER

Egg In a Bottle

For Students 6th - 8th
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students observe a demonstration where paper is ignited and placed in a bottle with a hard-boiled egg at the opening. Students predict what will occur, they make observations and they make...
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Raytheon

Probability, Percent, and Proportion

For Students 6th - 8th
In this probability and predictions learning exercise, middle schoolers read 1 page of facts, then solve 8 pages of problems related to probability, with answers keys included.
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Curated OER

Changing the End of a Story

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders re-write a story. In this alternate endings lesson, 2nd graders read Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, by Leo Lionni, stopping to discuss the events and predict what will happen next. Students work in groups to come up with...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Today's Weather

For Students 4th - 12th
In this weather worksheet students complete an interactive activity and complete a series of short answer questions on temperature and weather fronts and predict the weather. 
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Curated OER

Baseball Saved Us Teacher’s Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners read the book "Baseball Saved Us" and respond to the story through writing activities. For this reading lesson, students create a chart of events  which they predict will take place in the story. Learners then use their chart as...
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Curated OER

Coal Flowers

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Let's make coal flowers! With this fun activity, young learners watch and learn as they grow crystals! With simple household materials and the instructions included in this lesson plan, your class can grow their own crystals. Learners...
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Curated OER

Secrets of the Mummies

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
How did the ancient people of Egypt preserve their dead so well that their bodies are still recognizable today? Learn the painstakingly complex process they used for preservation. Young scholars read and summarize a narrative detailing...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Engaging Young Scientists with Inquiry: Part One

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Building inquiry into your science lessons will make science concepts more concrete for your class.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Harnessing the Olympic Spirit

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Use the energy and excitement of the 2014 Winter Olympics to motivate your class to research and write.

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