Cmassengale
Photosynthesis Diagrams Worksheet
Help young botanists get to the root of photosynthesis with this series of worksheets. By completing these diagrams, students demonstrate their understanding of the biological structures and chemical reactions that make this...
Curated OER
Hess's Law
Pupils solve chemical equations. In this chemistry lesson, they balance chemical equations after completing a lab. They can use a TI for this assignment.
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Energy Content of Foods
Learners collect data, organize and analyze the data and compare it to real life scenarios. This assignment requires two class periods.
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Keep it Bottled Up: Linear Rates of Pressure Increase
Pupils explore linear functions in this lesson when they collect and analyze data as a chemical reaction proceeds. Learners record pressure versus time data and model the data as a linear function. They also examine the concept of slope...
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Falling Objects
High schoolers examine the velocities of two different falling objects. They produce distance vs. time and velocity vs. time graphs using a Motion Detector and a CBL 2 to collect experimental data. Learners analyze and interpret the...
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When the Snow is as High as an Elephant
High schoolers study the concept of mean values using a data plot. Learners enter the given data in the activity to create their data table. They use the data table to calculate the mean of the snowfall percentage provided in the...
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Corn-Crop is a Bin-Buster
Learners calculate percent change and create lists of data. They enter the corresponding bushels of corn measured in billions to their list and display, then convert the acres into scientific notation and use the value on the home screen...
Curated OER
Angling for Distance
Explore the concept of projectile distance through determining the angle that will provide the maximum distance of a launched projectile. Students launch baseballs on a football field and video tape the path of the ball.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Interpreting Line Graphs
This site is a lesson on creating and interpreting a line graph. It explains how a line graph is created and then asks questions about what is learned from the data. Students type in open responses, and answers and feedback follow.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Vocabulary Charts
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides two reproducible charts for vocabulary acquisition. Students can complete these charts as they encounter new vocabulary words or as a means of reviewing before a vocabulary quiz or test.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Predicting the Future
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an informational text about the predictions of a futurist and answer questions on comprehension, text support, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Using a Before Reading Organizer With Informational Text
This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking: Concept Maps and Flow Charts
This slideshow lesson focuses on note taking using concept maps and flow charts; it provides background information, 6 types of concept maps or flow charts with best uses, uses in the classroom, uses while reading or researching, and how...
Other
Center for Assessment: Tools for Examining Text Complexity [Pdf]
Learn how to use several tools to determine text complexity and readability of text for your students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Synthesize Information in Charts and Graphs (English Ii Reading)
Synthesize information that you find in charts and graphs.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text
You will learn how to evaluate graphics for their clarity in communicating meaning and achieving a specific purpose.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Propaganda: Battling for the Mind" by Shelby Ostergaard
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Clarity of Objectives of a Procedural Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze writing in software, warranty, and consumer manuals or publications.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Interpreting Media
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When people talk about media literacy, they are talking about learning to understand what these messages really mean. This lesson will help you take a closer look at a few...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate a Text for Its Graphics and Visual Appeal
Authors add visuals to get your attention, set the tone, or make a point. Sometimes they are successful; sometimes not. This lesson will teach you how to evaluate texts for the clarity of their graphics and for their visual appeal....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluating Data in Tables, Graphs and Charts
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students look at examples of graphics, tables, charts, and graphs, and learn how to interpret their data. They will be able to use this skill to enhance their...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to evaluate the clarity and visual appeal of images and other graphic elements included in a reading text. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Translating Qualitative & Quantitative Details a New Galaxy
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to read for and differentiate between qualitative and quantitative information.