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Interactive
Dominic Szablewski

Z-Type Concepts: Typing, Basic Computer Skills, Keyboarding

For Students K - 8th
Your students will be typing faster than you in no time with the help of this fun game. Similar to the classic Atari game Space Invaders, students must type words to prevent space ships from attacking as they move from the top of the...
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Teaching Tolerance

The Power of Words: Normative Sexuality

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers collect newspaper articles which discuss societies who enforce heterosexuality. They brainstorm how heterosexuality is enforced in their community. They answer questions to end the instructional activity.
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Curated OER

The Power Of Words

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students respond, in writing and in discussions, to statements of various world leaders about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. They keep quotation scrapbooks, responding to various quotations about the...
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Curated OER

Spreading the Word

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze the use of propaganda in the war against terrorism, focusing specifically on the attacks in Afghanistan, exploring the distinction between ideas spread to benefit a cause and those spread to damage an opposing cause.
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Curated OER

More Than Words: Racism, Identity And the Power of Words

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how words can be powerful instruments of racism, and discuss ways to combat racism, prejudice and discrimination in their own lives.
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Curated OER

A Day of Infamy:Analyzing FDR’s Pearl Harbor Address

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In 1941 FDR spoke out on the events at Pearl Harbor. The class will get to analyze word choice,  word meaning, author's craft and structure by analyzing an actual draft of this speech. They will look critically at the words used,...
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Worksheet
Prestwick House

Me Before You

For Students 9th - 12th
Often readers have trouble keeping track of key events in novels. A thorough crossword puzzle refreshes readers' memories regarding key details in the novel Me Before You. Creative clues encourage further review of the text.
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Curated OER

Give My Regards to Broadway

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate aspects of Broadway shows. They apply word attack skills to decide what the titles of actual Broadway shows mean. They discuss the history of Broadway shows and why they become successful before completing the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bomb Attacks: What Do They Achieve?

For Students 7th - 10th
In this bomb attacks and what do they achieve worksheet, students, with a partner, examine, analyze, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with bombs and the effects of them worldwide.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Breaking News: International Coalition Attacks Libya (March 20th, 2011)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore current events by completing a list of worksheet activities. For this Libyan history lesson, students read a news article discussing the problems with Gaddafi in Libya and the effect it is having in the Middle East....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

We Love Words

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary activity, students examine the 6 words that are missing letters, read the definition clues, and fill in the blanks to complete 6 words.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Search: Cluster 'ck'

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this word search activity, students read the words that contain a 'ck' cluster. Students then find the words in the word search and circle them. Students find the following words: luck, trick, chick, sock, duck, deck, wreck, attack,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Modifying Words

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read a piece of text and practice modifying fourteen words to grammatically complete the paragraphs correctly.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Idiom Quizzes- Leg/Foot

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this interactive word meanings worksheet, students explore idiomatic expressions. Students choose the correct expression to complete each of the eleven sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Yale University

Airplane Mathematics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The history of aerodynamics is rich with experimentation and international collaboration. Author Joyce Bryant relays this dynamic past and provides math word problems using the formula of lift, the force that makes airplanes fly. She...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

SeaWorld Word Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this SeaWorld word puzzle, students search for words related to SeaWorld in San Antonio, Texas. They identify types of shark and whales, as well as specific locations in the park. A list of 24 words is available with the puzzle. ...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Choice: Whose and Who's

For Students 6th - 7th
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and complete each sentence with one of the choices of whose or who's.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Night: Vocabulary Activity, Magic Square

For Students 9th - 12th
As part of a study of vocabulary found in Elie Wiesel's Night, readers complete a magic square using the provided words and their definitions.
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Worksheet
Prestwick House

Fahrenheit 451

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Readers will be burning to attack a crossword puzzle based on Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic, Fahrenheit 451. They must fill in the missing words in passages drawn from the novel and identify characters.
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

We All Fall Down: Novel Study

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Where were you when the world stopped turning that September day? Will, a ninth grade student in We All Fall Down, was at work with his father in the World Trade Center. Scholars read Will's story of the accounts told in first...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Connecting Ideas in Primary and Secondary Sources: What Led to the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

For Teachers 8th Standards
Let's make some sense of those thoughts! Scholars continue thinking about the different perspectives on Pearl Harbor. They analyze quotes from War in the Pacific, Day of Infamy, and Fourteen-Part Message. Readers tape each quote to chart...
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EngageNY

End of Unit Assessment: Fishbowl Discussion, Part 1: Comparing Conflicting Accounts of the Pearl Harbor Attack

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars continue discussing Unbroken by using a fishbowl activity. Some readers share thoughts about the Day of Infamy, while others sit and observe the conversation. After the activity, pupils share what they learned.
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EngageNY

Studying Conflicting Information: Varying Perspectives on the Pearl Harbor Attack, Part 2

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars take another look at Japan's Fourteen-Part Message. They then take turns adding ideas to sentence starters to create ideas about the different perspectives of government. To finish, groups mix and mingle to share their sentences...
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Curated OER

Sharks ~ Taking a Bite Out of the Myth

For Teachers 4th - 8th
The first thing to know about this instructional activity is that the commercial fisheries data for the activity no longer seems to be available. That being said, there are fascinating links to other websites, some about the comparative...

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