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Comparing Fractions with the Same Numerators, Assessment Variation
Have your class demonstrate their ability to compare fractions with this short multiple-choice assessment. Using the fractions 9/8 and 9/4, the learners first make comparisons using both words and the greater than/less than signs. Next,...
New York State Education Department
Comprehensive English Examination: June 2013
Tired of having to create your own formative assessments? Use a ready-made resource to assess listening and reading comprehension, essay writing, and literary skills. Scholars work through 28 questions in response to five different texts.
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Meteor Monitor
Student's measure sporadic meteor activity. In this physics and astronomy lesson, 11th graders construct a dipole antennae, and build, test and wire a full wave diode rectifier between the dipole antenna and the laptop.
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Planning An Escape Plan
Learners participate in a mock fire escape plan in this lesson. They identify the reasons for remaining calm, closing doors, ad testing doors between rooms and the main exits. They also watch a experiment that demonstrates what fire...
Calvin Crest Outdoor School
Survival
Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...
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Recognizing Cause and Effect
Students define cause and effect and recognize an effect as something that happens as a result of a cause. They apply information they have learned about cause and effect to their study of literature.
Cornell University
Beam Focusing Using Lenses
Explore optics using an inquiry-based experimental approach! Young scholars use a set of materials to design and build a unit capable of focusing a beam of light. They experiment with different lenses to determine the best approach to...
Prestwick House
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Planning an adventure with ol' Tom Sawyer? Revist Mark Twain's classic tale with a review crossword puzzle on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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What Can I Do?
Students understand situations that cause different feelings. In this conflict resolution lesson, students read a story and complete an e-sheet about making good choices during conflict. Students to discuss the choices in the story and...
LABScI
Vision Lab: The Eye
Our bodies have some amazing capabilities, but there are some limitations. Explore the limitations of the human eye through the eighth lab activity in a series of 12 biology lessons. Individuals measure their own peripheral vision and...
Santa Barbara City Collage
Connecting Independent and Dependent Clauses
Dependent, independent, coordination, and subordination. Everything you wanted to know about clauses, but were afraid to ask, recorded on this two-page information sheet.
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P.E. Lesson: Black Bear
Students run and try to tag a classmate as "Black Bear, Black Bear" is yelled by another student. For this P.E. lesson, students try to get to the opposite side of a playing area without being tagged or being tricked by the person who is...
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Recording Electricity in the Brain
In this electricity in the brain learning exercise, students read about neurons, electrical impulses, brain activity and EEGs that measure electrical activity in the brain. They answer four critical thinking questions about brain activity.
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Prehistoric Native American Lesson Plan: Pictionary with the Past
Students participate in a vocabulary exercise at a website dedicated to Prehistoric Native Americans.
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Preservation and the Power of Light
Students identify the effect of light on objects. In this scientific inquiry lesson plan, students use a chart to write a hypothesis about what will happen when colored construction paper is left in sunlight. Students observe and discuss...
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Fact Or Fiction
Young scholars demonstrate their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. Students identify the features of weather-related adages and proverbs. After reviewing several weather adages, young scholars explain whether they are...
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Nouns: Gender
In this nouns and nouns gender learning exercise, 7th graders review and discuss how to differentiate between the different genders of nouns. Students find the feminine forms of eight nouns.
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Alphabet Soup
Students play a game in which they use the letters of the alphabet and different motor skills for review.
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Direct And Indirect Discourse
In this direct and indirect discourse worksheet, students review and discuss how to recognize direct and indirect discourse in sentences and circle the indirect discourses in five sentences.