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Ancient Greece
For this Ancient Greece worksheet, students read a 3 page article on Ancient Greece, answer 3 facts about Ancient Greek with multiple choice answers, answer 4 statements as true or false and answer 4 fill in the blank facts about Ancient...
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Vocabulary Practice
In this vocabulary practice instructional activity, students choose the correct word out of the 2 words given that completes each of the following 16 sentences.
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Washing Hands
Students formulate questions about a germ book before it is read to them. In this washing hands lesson plan, the teacher gets glitter on each students hands that represents germs. Before the teacher reads a book about germs the students...
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A Holiday Card in KidPix
Students create a holiday card using computer software. In this computer card making lesson, students design an original holiday card using a variety of tools. Students navigate the software utilizing various tools.
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Rules for Differentiation
Twelfth graders review the rules for derivatives and use them to solve problems. For this calculus lesson, 12th graders apply the power rules for derivatives correctly to solve equations. This assignment contains lots of examples of...
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Government Spending - Earmarks
In this government spending - earmarks activity, students research this topic (there are many links listed), examine the issue, write a letter to their congressional representative or a local newspaper, make a video or analyze the...
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Choose Your Toy
For this decision-making worksheet, learners choose 1 out of 6 toys for a young boy. Students match 7 vocabulary terms to their proper definitions. Learners fill in 3 blanks in 2 sentences. Students complete a variety of assignments...
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We the People…in the News
Students use the newspaper to explore the world around us, our past and our government. For this civics unit, students complete 40 different lessons in civic education using that day's newspaper to reinforce the concept being taught.
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That's Dope - Part 1
High schoolers investigate drugs in sports. In this performance enhancing drugs lesson, students discuss the uses for steroids in medicine and sports. High schoolers utilize the web to play a steroid related game, view media clips of...
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Four Color Map
Students explore geometry by completing a color puzzle. In this shape identification instructional activity, students utilize deductive reasoning to complete a Google SketchUp puzzle with trapezoid, triangles and rectangular shapes....
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Workers Who Help Us At School (Part 2)
First graders identify the roles and responsibilities of various school workers. They identify the skills that school workers need to complete their jobs. Students discuss what a role is. They discuss the term responsibility.
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All Around the Neighborhood - Part 3
Second graders illustrate the roles, responsibilities, and skills of community members and write a paragraph that summarizes the importance of those roles, responsibilities, and skills. They are asked: "What is a role?" Students are...
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Sunken Treasure
Go on a treasure hunt with your language arts class! They read "Treasure Hunt" and "Exploring the Titanic," then create a final product by taking part in an unusual art activity.
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The Interactive Boston Computer Museum Tour
Fifth graders use the Internet to use an interactive program which helps them explain the Internet better. They take a tour of a computer museum and focus on how the Internet works through an exhibit.
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Railroads in Antebellum Augusta and Franklin Counties
Eleventh graders are divided up into groups and work on separate worksheets. They reassemble as a class and discuss the different articles and how the railroads affected people's lives.
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Planning A Railroad Online Lesson
Students plan a route across Donner Summit using topographical maps in order to understand the challenges involved in constructing the railroad in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In this history lesson, students first discover how to read...
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Building A Topographic Model
Students visualize, in three dimensions, features represented by contour lines on a topographic map. They see that the different elevations shown on a two dimensional topographic map can be used to build a 3-D model.
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Architecture Makes An Imprint
Fifth graders explore architecture of the world, uses of buildings and discuss architecture as a career. They work in cooperative groups and present their findings to the class. This lesson can be expanded to include a printmaking lesson.
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What Women Want
Students investigate the role of women in leadership in history. They conduct research in order to find the real story. The instructional activity stresses the fact that women are not well known in history. There is a variety of...
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Doctor Mae C. Jemison - First African American Woman in Space
Seventh graders trace and analyze the life of Doctor Mae C. Jemison and the circumstances that enabled Dr. Jemison to achieve her goal of becoming an astronaut. They explore the role of NASA in the development of America's Space Shuttle...
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Worksheet 4. Reading: The First Woman in Space
In this vocabulary review worksheet, students read a brief 4 paragraph selection about the first woman in space and answer 10 multiple choice questions pertaining to it.
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First Aid Gives Pets a Second Chance
Students demonstrate basic animal first-aid techniques. Students practice these skills on stuffed animals, responding to their injuries promptly. Students work together in groups to practice these new found skills. Students demonstrate...
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Alphabetizing
In this alphabetizing instructional activity, students alphabetize many words with the 1st letter, write missing letters, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Eureka! I've Got an Idea
Young scholars research the accomplishments of an inventor. They create a web site based on the research including historical, economic and scientific impact of the invention.