Fuel the Brain
Fractions
Using problem stories that are meant for St. Patrick's day, your class will determine what fraction of shamrocks had four leaves and what fraction of pistachio pudding remains after people have been served.
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Snowman Family Coloring Page
In this seasons worksheet, students color in a winter scene. The illustration includes a snowman family of four. Each snowman wears a hat and scarf.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Alaska, the 49th State
For this editing activity, students read and edit a short passage entitled, "Alaska, the 49th State." Students look for 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.
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Wintry Warmers
In this season worksheet, students read facts about winter and find 20 homophones. Students also correct the errors in the sentences.
Teacher's Corner
Hey Batter, Wake Up!
Does jet lag affect a baseball team's performance in games? Read about how a baseball team's chance of winning a game can be affected by traveling over one, two, and three time zones. Readers then respond to five short answer questions...
Curriculum Corner
Holidays Around the World
Let's focus on a holiday from around the world! Young researchers choose a holiday from somewhere around the world, and conduct research to answer questions about the holiday. It can be used anytime during the year!
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Exploring "Our Lakes"
In this lakes learning exercise, students access a website to explore the geology and anatomy of a lake. This learning exercise has 9 short answer questions.
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What Do You Like To Make Out of Snow?
In this seasonal learning exercise, students have a title page and four pictures depicting different snow activities. Students color the four pictures showing the various snow activities.
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Countdown Challenge: Complimentary/Supplementary Angles
In this complementary/supplementary angle worksheet, students explore the definition of complementary and supplementary angles. They demonstrate models of a complementary and a supplementary angle. This is a one-page worksheet.
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Music From China
In this music worksheet, students learn how Chinese people use music in their festivals. Students read a paragraph explaining why Chinese music uses the pentatonic scale. Students locate 16 words pertaining to Chinese music in a word...
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Jonas Salk: He Led the Battle Against Polio
Do you know who Jonas Salk is? Print these pages and have your middle and high schoolers read his biography in Time magazine. The reading itself is short, and it is followed with a key date chart, three reading questions, two connection...
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Reading Bar Graphs
Working on bar graphs in your math class? Use a thorough worksheet to reinforce graphing and problem solving skills with your third graders. After reviewing two bar graphs, young learners answer ten questions about the data represented...
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WNBA Standings
In this decimals worksheet, students fill out a chart with scores from the Women's National Basketball Association. Students convert fractions to percents and decimals.
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Winning "The Voice": Cloze Exercise
This New York Times Learning Network exercise provides a cloze exercise along with a word bank that readers can use to complete the passage about the television show, "The Voice" and Jermaine Paul, a recent winner. Another option is to...
Cambridge English
Words Related to Weather: Vocabulary Activities
Study all things weather with a packet of weather vocabulary activities. The 12-page packet includes three crosswords varying in difficulty, a mixed letter sort, a sentence sort, weather word search, and fill-in-the-blank sentences with...
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What's on Your Playlist?
Upper graders respond to a series of opinions posted about the music played at last year's Fashion Week in New York City. They describe the music on their personal playlists, why they like it, and what moods they try to evoke through...
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Lizard Lab
In this detailed and comprehensive multi-day activity, budding evolutionary biologists use real data from lizard populations in the Canary Islands to examine evolution and natural selection.
Read Works
First Thanksgiving Meal
Cranberries, oysters, lobster, deer, and cabbage were just a few of the foods found on the table at the First Thanksgiving. After reading a two-page passage about the historic meal, class members respond to 10 reading response questions.
Messenger Education
Give Me a Boost—How Gravity Assists Aid Space Exploration
The propellant needed for space explorations runs in the thousands, while paying to get the craft into orbit costs millions! In the second installment of three, two activities explore laws of conservation of energy and momentum. Using...
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Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt #25
In this Internet research worksheet, students use the Fact Monster search engine to find the answers to two multiple choice and eight short answer questions.
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Minnesota Vocabulary
In this vocabulary activity activity, students read the statements about Minnesota. Students complete the 10 statements with words from the word bank.
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Minnesota Crossword
In this Minnesota worksheet, students answer questions in a crossword about Minnesota's history. Students answer 9 questions in the crossword.
Teach-nology
The Skating Moose
What would you do if you saw an ice-skating moose? Kids read a short, entertaining passage and use a word bank to fill in the blanks using context clues.
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All In the Family
In this algebra worksheet, learners rewrite word problems into algebraic expressions and solve the equation. They examine sport coaches and decide which ones have experience in ranking, school, and length of service.