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Writing The Cover Letter
Students identify the differences between the different types of cover letters and determine which type of letter should be used given different scenarios. They determine which type of letter is best for different situations.
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Writing The Resume: Skills And Accomplishments
Students spend time listing the things they are good at. In this exercise, there are no limits; students are encouraged to list all types of skills. They focus on those skills and accomplishments that are directly related to their job...
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Making Effective Presentations
Students learn the importance of good presentation skills. They make their presentation focused on a particular type of audience, learn what information to include, explain how to keep the audience interested, and explore how to deal...
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Business Writing Lesson Plan: Common Misused Words
Students learn the importance of business writing, including content and presentation. They avoid using commonly misused words and phrases.
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Business Writing Lesson Plan:
Young scholars learn the importance of business writing, including content and presentation. They improve their usage of punctuation and commas.
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Writing the Resume: Defining a Job Target
Learners identify their own interests by reviewing job postings, reading about different types of professions, and by reviewing their personal interests.
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Genetics: Who are you?
Study, manipulate, and research genetic traits. Discuss how genetic traits are passed from one generation to another. Classmates explore how they look like their parents and debate whether or not they can do anything about it? They...
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Getting Percentible
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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Investigating Tropical Birds
Students investigate tropical birds. They write letters for rain forest preservation to protect tropical birds. They interview a bird professional from a local bird store or a zoo and discuss how to take care of a parrot. They use Kid...
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Presenting the Geologic Timescale
Students model the geologic timescale using distance as a metaphor for time. They write a summary of a major event or fossil organism. and station themselves and their summaries along a path within a gymnasium, and present their...
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Question Formation Exercise
In this question formation activity, learners fill in the 19 most appropriate question words (How, How much, Who, When, or Where) to complete the 19 sentences correctly.
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Farmworkers and the Union: A Lesson from Viva La Causa
Students examine the role of labor unions. In this labor union lesson, students watch "Viva la Causa" and discuss the working conditions that led farm workers to strike. Students also read a handout regarding labor unions and share their...
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Sharing Our Legacy of Giving
Students explore the concept of philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students research or interview a local philanthropist. Students write a biography about the philanthropist and share it with others.
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Math Lesson Study Plan
Second graders find missing addends by solving math word problems. In this missing addend lesson, 2nd graders work in a whole group setting to find the missing addends in word problems before using the strategies to work independently....
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Act it Out
Students discuss racial stereotypes. In this racial stereotypes instructional activity, students develop a character from information given to them on an index card. Students give their character a race different from their own and...
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems 2
In this math review activity, students solve 22 questions that require them to use their addition and subtraction skills to solve word problems.
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
In this word problem worksheet, students solve 7 addition, 7 subtraction and 6 mixed word problems. Links to addition resources are given and examples are completed for students.
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Addition Word Problems and Place Value Problems
In this math worksheet, students complete addition word problems with short answers and multiple choice place value problems. Students complete 42 problems total.
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Grade 3 Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
In this grade 3 addition and subtraction word problems worksheet, 3rd graders read the examples, then solve 7 addition problems, 7 subtraction problems and 7 mixed problems.
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
In this math review activity, students solve 22 questions that require them to use their addition and subtraction skills to solve word problems.
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Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
For this addition and subtraction word problems worksheet, students solve 22 word problems that require them to subtract using 2, 3, and 4-digit numbers.
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It All Adds Up
Students brainstorm reasons for politicians to expand recycling programs and find statistics to support recycling programs. They design posters, displaying a compelling statistic about recycling, to convince students at their school to...
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An Introduction to Area and Perimeter
Students form rectangles by using tiles, measure area and perimeter by counting. They discover and apply rules for measuring perimeter.
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Going, Going, Gone
Students investigate how online auctions work and rate the assurances offered by specific auction sites and sellers. They, in groups, evaluate various auction sites, focusing on the site's and seller's predicted reliability; create...