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Native Americans in Georgia History
Let your learners find out firsthand what hunting and gathering was really like, with a role-play activity they will remember for years. The class researches how indigenous people used plants and animals to survive while respecting and...
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Living Things/ Nonliving Things
How can you tell if something is living or nonliving? Introduce a set of criteria which can be used to determine which things are alive and which are not. The class discusses the basic needs of all living organisms, checks out an...
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Analytic Geometry Study Guide
Are you looking for a comprehensive review that addresses the Common Core standards for geometry? This is it! Instruction and practice problems built specifically for standards are included. The material includes geometry topics from...
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Math Class
Young analysts use real (provided) data from a class's test scores to practice using statistical tools. Not only do learners calculate measures of center and spread (including mean, median, deviation, and IQ range), but also use this...
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Exploring Poetry and Poets
Combine the study of poetry and non-fiction texts with this complete and ready-to-use six-week unit. After reading numerous poems from local writers and compiling a personal anthology, high schoolers find and read a memoir or biography...
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The Basketball Star
Have learners use math to prove they are sports stars! Assess a pupil's ability to create and analyze data using a variety of graphs. The class will be motivated by the association of math and basketball data.
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Creating Suspense
Fifth graders practice creating suspense in writing. In this narrative lesson, 5th graders read stories that create suspense through the use of cliff- hangers. They use cliff-hangers in their own writing.
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Ga Virtual Learning: "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant [Pdf]
This is a PDF of a 10-question worksheet for "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant.
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Ga Virtual Learning: "The Necklace" by Guy De Maupassant [Pdf]
This is a six page PDF of the short story "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant. Read to find out what happened to the borrowed diamond necklace.
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Ga Virtual Learning: The Tempest by William Shakespeare [Pdf]
This is a three-page PDF providing background about the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Nonfiction Forms and Traits [Pdf]
This is a chart showing the types of nonfiction, the traits of each, and the author's purpose.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: Creating and Using Outlines [Pdf]
This is the three-page PDF The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines." It explains and provides examples of what to do before starting the outline, working thesis, defining purpose, the types of outlines, creating the...
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Ga Virtual Learning:"distinguishing Fact, Opinon, & Reasoned Judgement" [Pdf]
This is a PDF entitled "Distinguishing between Matters of Fact, Matters of Opinion, and Matters of Reasoned Judgement," which focuses on how to separate fact from opinion, provides examples, and offers a practice activity.
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Ga Virtual Learning: "Top Twenty Figures of Speech" [Pdf]
This is a two-page PDF of the "Top Twenty Figures of Speech" which provides 20 literary techniques with their definitions from GrammarAbout.com.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Poe's Poetry Handout: "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" [Pdf]
This is a 5-page PDF entitled "Poe's Poetry Handout" which provides the text for Poe's poems "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee."
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Ga Virtual Learning: Emily Dickinson Poems [Pdf]
This is a five-page PDF of poems by Emily Dickinson. It includes seven poems and a link to the audio of one of them.
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Ga Virtual Learning: "Compare/contrast Essay Help Sheet" [Pdf]
This is the 2-page PDF "Compare/Contrast Essay Help Sheet" which features an explanation of the three methods of comparison and contrast and a list of transition words that compare/contrast.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Verb Tense Handout [Pdf]
This is a four-page "Verb Tense" handout from Nesbitt - Johnston Writing Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, which focuses on the proper tenses to use when writing about literature and when writing about science. I explains present,...
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Ga Virtual Learning: Scholastic: Nonfiction [Pdf]
This is a PDF chart of the types, traits, and purposes of nonfiction provided by Scholastic.
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Ga Virtual Learning: True Everest: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer [Pdf]
This 29-page PDF article "True Everest: Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer published in September 1996 in Outside Magazine focuses on his experience in climbing Mount Everest and the impact on him after the deaths of his fellow climbers.
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Ga Virtual Learning: The Sword in the Stone by Alfred, Lord Tennyson [Pdf]
This is a 17-page excerpt from The Sword in the Stone by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; this is The Legend of Arthur and Excalibur.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Excerpts: Idylls of the King, Alfred, Lord Tennyson [Pdf]
This is a 44-page PDF of excerpts from Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Le Morte D'arthur by Sir Thomas Malory [Pdf]
This is a 700-page PDF of the complete novel Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, the Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions, 2004.
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Ga Virtual Learning: Glossary for Vol 1 of Le Morte Darthur: Thomas Malory [Pdf]
This is a 16-page PDF Glossary for Volume One of Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory from The Pennsylvania State University.