Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pendulum Time
Take your time with this lesson. Junior engineers read about different types of clocks and then work together to build a pendulum time-keeper. There are no hints as to how they might go about accomplishing this complex task, so you may...
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Telling Time Timeline
Use the Internet and library resources to compose a telling time timeline -- a visual history of time. Students will develop research skills and gain perspective about telling time by discovering the history of clocks and time.
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Keep Track of time by watching the clock
Young scholars answer questions about the clock. In this time lesson plan, students answer questions using intervals of five minutes. Young scholars solve problems about how long to the next activity, how much longer, and whether...
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How Clocks Work
Students discover time pieces and complete telling time activities. In this time lesson, students complete a worksheet about what make a clock keep time. Students watch a video about time and clocks as well as a video about an Egyptian...
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Timekeeping by the Sun
Students measure shadows to learn about the Sun-Earth relationship. In this astronomy lesson, students create a shadow stick of a Pokemon character and record measurements of its shadow in a data chart. Follow-up discussions guide...
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How Many in a Minute
Young scholars estimate what they can accomplish in a minute. For this estimation lesson, students guess how many jumping jacks or stars they can draw in a minute. They get timed and see how close they are to their prediction.
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Knowing North: Understanding the Relationship Between Time and The Sun
Students determine how to find North using a watch and their shadow. In this finding North activity, students go outside on a sunny day and work with their shadow and a wrist watch to find out which direction that North is. They examine...
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You Name It!
In this proper nouns worksheet, students are timed to write as many movies, songs, books, cities, and countries as they can. Students get points for the correct words they write.
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Sentence Scramble
In this grammar worksheet, students use cards with words on them to arrange correctly to make complete sentences. Students do this in teams and are timed to get points.
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Name That Noun
In this nouns learning exercise, students use noun cards to identify types of nouns and write lists of nouns while they are being timed. Teams compete against each other.
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Where Are The Verbs?
In this grammar worksheet, students search for action verbs in a word search and write them on the lines provided. Students are timed for 3 minutes to do this.
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"The Soil Around Us" Project
Young geographers collect samples of different kinds of soil to match to the soil terms in Barry Rudner's rhyming book Filet of Soil: dirt, mud, dust, soot, etc. They start a glossary for the project on index cards or large sheets...
Science Matters
Formative Assessment #2
Learners work collaboratively to predict what life would be like as an Arctic Hare. Teams go on a hunt where scholars role play an owl, white hares, and gray hares. Independently, pupils record their findings and reflect on their...
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Agenda/Minutes for Instructional Planning Meeting
When it comes to the education of children with special needs, it's vital for there to be regular and open communication between all parties involved. This agenda nicely outlines key topics to discuss in weekly meetings...
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Listen and Guess Vocabulary Game
Teach vocabulary in this quick game to vocabulary skills game. Divide the class into two groups, give them clues to a particular word, each team has sixty seconds to identify the vocabulary word. Words can be arranges to include...
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The Name Game
In this grammar worksheet, learners write acrostic poems using the first 5 letters of their first and last names and provide adverbs and propositions for each letter. Then they write sentences for each word.
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Sentence Puzzles
In this sentences learning exercise, students write 2 complete sentences in a puzzle where they create one to be up and down, one to be across, and both share one word.
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Acting Out Adjectives
In this adjective game worksheet, students play a game where an adjective card is drawn and acted out while other players guess the adjective. The player who guesses correctly then draws a card and proceeds.
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Adjective Art
In this grammar worksheet, students cut out pictures write sentences containing as many adjectives as they can to describe the pictures.
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Pronoun Grid
In this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blanks to make complete sentences with multiple pronouns missing. Six sentences are given with multiple blanks in each.
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Teams-Games-Tournaments
Students review civics standards by playing a game. Each person has a specific role that they are responsible for. They answer questions on topics of leaders, authority, officials, and others.
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Science Buddies: A Matter of Time
Do you wake up at the crack of dawn, or do you need an alarm clock to wake you up each morning? It may surprise you that the two are not always in synch. Nowadays, we use Standard Time to set our watches instead of Solar Time. Which...
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Pbs Learning Media: A World Tour of Clocks
In this video segment from Cyberchase, learn about the workings of a variety of timekeepers.
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Pbs Learning Media: An Egyptian Clock
The CyberSquad must construct a clock of sorts in order to keep track of the amount of time they have to rescue Dr. Marbles in this video segment from Cyberchase.