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Jump-Starting Research with Visual Thesaurus
Learners navigate the Visual Thesaurus to find keywords for research. In this keywords lesson, students use synonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms to find keywords. Learners understand why some searches are effective and some are ineffective.
Scholastic
Summarizing: Using Hand Motions for Key Words or Points
Learning to summarize texts takes practice. Jump into the training ring and guide your learners through a summarizing practice session. The classic direct instructional practice of "I do, you do, we do" is used to help them identify key...
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Locating Information Using Keywords
Students use keywords. In this keywords lesson students research information on how people lived in the past. They record their findings in their journals.
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Lesson Two: Discover a purpose for keywords
Second graders research a topic in nature. In this research lesson, 2nd graders pick a nature topic and discuss the keywords needed to find more information about that topic. They fill their information out on a organizer.
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Finding Captain Hook's Treasure
Young scholars use their map-reading skills to find Captain Hook's treasure. They see how the directions on a map correspond with "real-life" directions, and that symbols on a map represent real things.
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Internet Seek and Find
Ask your students to explain how to successfully find information on the Internet, focusing on how to select the keywords that lead to the best information on a topic and by navigating and evaluating a number of Internet search engines....
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Find the Baseball Words
In this baseball words worksheet, students locate, highlight and/or circle eight key words in a word search puzzle associated with baseball.
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Finding the Area Under A Curve with Random Probability
Students explore the concept of area under a curve. In this area under a curve lesson plan, students find the area under a curve using the Monte Carlo method using random points and probability. Students calculate the area under the same...
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Finding an Apartment
Young scholars practice appropriate etiquette and language when finding an apartment. In this finding an apartment lesson, students role-play examples of manners associated with the task of looking for a place to live. Young scholars...
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Key Words
In this key words worksheet, students read the sentences and select the word that best completes each sentence based on the key words in the sentence. Students complete 5 sentences.
American English
Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
NOAA
Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Keep Away
As of 2015, there are 53,481 oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Scholars determine how species diversity is impacted based on the ecosystem's distance from a drilling platform. It focuses on finding the mean of data sets and creating bar...
NOAA
Biological Oceanographic Investigations – I, Robot, Can Do That!
How do you decide the best person for each job? Would it be easier if you didn't have to consider their feelings? The lesson begins with a discussion of underwater robots. Then groups research one of these robots and present their...
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What is Poetry and Where Can You Find It?
Students examine different types of poetry in music, commercials and printed works. They identify themes of philanthropy in poetry as well. They finally share their findings with the class.
College Board
2009 AP® Calculus BC Free-Response Questions Form B
Let them eat cake. The free-response questions from an AP® Calculus BC exam cover several topics that include finding the area under a curve within the context of creating a birthday cake. Calculus concepts include finding rates of...
EngageNY
Building Background Knowledge About the Hero’s Journey, Part 2: Acts 2 and 3 Plus Focusing on Key Vocabulary in “The Hero’s Journey”
It's all in the details. Scholars read acts two and three of The Hero's Journey and collect important details from the text. They share their notes with their peers and listen for key words from the story. They then turn their attention...
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Scanning
Students examine how to scan textual material. They identify and circle key words, phrases, and synonyms in the table of contents and the index of a classroom text.
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Finding The Sum of an Infinite Series
Students examine finding the sum of an infinite series as the limit of partial sums. Through hands-on activities, students create their own sequence by finding the area of a square and then cutting it in half-sized pieces. They write...
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Finding the Area of Triangles
Twelfth graders apply the formula for finding the area of a triangle to various problems. They work real life problems for finding the area of a bathroom and the cost of tiling it. They play a game, Triangle Bingo, where they match...
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Find the Frog Words
In this terms associated with frogs activity, students define, discuss, locate and circle six key words associated with frogs in a word search puzzle.
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Key Words
In this key words worksheet, students read two illustrated sentences. In six sentences, students fill in the best word from 2 choices that tells the key idea.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #3
In this high frequency words worksheet, students locate and circle nine key words that are often used in the English language. Students complete a word search puzzle.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #6
In this high frequency words worksheet, students locate and circle in a word search puzzle ten key words used often in the English language.
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Find a Word--High Frequency Words--Worksheet #7
In this high frequency words worksheet, students locate and circle in a word search puzzle twelve key words used often in the English language.