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Design-A-Weed

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a "super weed" that prospers in teh harsh conditions on plant Weediv. They comprehend how weed adaptations give the plants an advantage over native plants. Students define the term adaptation. They give three examples...
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Shadowing a Musher For Nine Days

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders follow and record the progress of a musher on the Iditarod race. They access the official Iditarod website, determine the musher's overall speed, the daily average temperature and daily hours of sunlight, and develop a...
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Congruent and Similar figures

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore congruent and similar figures.  In this eighth grade geometry lesson, 8th graders use geoboards to create congruent and similar figures and explore the relationships between the sides and angles. 
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The Malnourished Paragraph

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Pupils revise writing to improve style, word choice, sentence variety and subtlety of meaning after rethinking how questions of purpose, audience and genre have been addressed. They recognize the importance of details in writing.
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Solar Energy

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate solar energy. They explore ways that energy from the sun can be turned into energy that humans can use in our everyday lives. In various experiments, they explore the effect of clouds and dust on photovoltaic energy...
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Tree Friends

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students are introduced to tree structure and use. They identify their special tree using all senses except sight. Students identify six different internal parts within a cross section of tree trunk (bark, phloem, xylem, cambium,...
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THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE

For Students 4th - 5th
For this reading comprehension worksheet about the Wampanoag Tribe, students are given a two-page essay to read, and 6 multiple-choice and short-essay questions to answer.
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Types of Sentences

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar activity, students identify twenty sentences as correct as is, fragments, contains a comma splice or is a fused sentence.
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Mt Perfect Place

For Students 4th - 8th
In this ESL activity activity, students role play a conversation between an interviewer and another person as they use the questions provided on this activity.
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Adjectives and Their Opposites

For Students 4th - 7th
In this ESL activity worksheet, students match the 11 adjectives to their opposites and then write nouns that could be described by them.
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Beginning Sentence Completion 7

For Students 4th - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students read the sentences and select the best word to complete the sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Natural Refrigeration

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students build a refrigerator that does not require electricity. In this environmental science activity, student consider desert dwellers of Africa who have no access to electricity. Students use flower pots, sand and water to study the...
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What Do We Use From the Rainforest?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify items we use from the rainforest. In this earth science lesson, students recall prior facts about the rainforest and list items we use from the rainforest. Students create "Rainforest Cookies" using ingredients that...
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The Smallest Metric Measurements

For Students 5th - 6th
In this metric measurement worksheet, students solve 15 problems in which three metric measurements in a series are analyzed. Students circle the smallest metric measurement in each problem.
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One Word Substitution

For Students 4th - 6th
In this letter d words activity, students match letter d words with their definitions. Students complete 10 letter d word matches.
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Spanish Animal and Sounds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars memorize the names of farm animals and the sound they make in Spanish. In this Spanish vocabulary lesson, students use total physical response, music and games to learn the names of nine farm animals and the sounds they...
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Time and Cycles - Dendrochronology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the lives of trees by examining ring cycles.  In this plant life lesson, students identify the field of study known as dendrochronology and discover its history.  Students investigate a simulated tree ring and...
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Bovine Oversteps Boundaries

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read a newspaper account of "Grady the Silo Cow" and complete news-writing activities. In this news-writing lesson plan, 7th graders read the newspaper account about the cow. Students examine newspapers and work in groups...
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The Log Book of a Connecticut Slave Trade Ship

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the slave trade. In this Middle Passage instructional activity, 7th graders read excerpts of ship logs from Connecticut Slave Trade ships. Students respond to the provided analysis questions based on the logs. 
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ESL: Verb Forms-Passive

For Students 5th - 6th
in this ESL verb form worksheet, learners fill in blanks in a text about Maple Syrup, using the passive simple present or past simple tense of verbs given, identify products make with maple syrup and put steps to making syrup in the...
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Email Writing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students review rules of writing emails for letters, informal to a friend and formal.  In this writing lesson, students sort email strips into these categories and then review examples of good and bad semi-formal emails. Students work in...
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Baltimoreans in the California Gold Rush

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the reasons for migration to California during the Gold Rush.  In this American History lesson, 11th graders read letters about the opportunities and obstacles people faced.  Students create a map of migration...
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Killer spiders invade Sydney!

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the issue of killer spiders in Sydney, Australia. In this Sydney history activity students read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students complete a quiz with a partner on the information that they...
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Lawnchair Larry Flies!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students research and experiment to discover the lifting power of helium gas.

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