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Health Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students test their knowledge on a previously taught health chapter. A jeopardy board is drawn on the chalk or dry erase board. Each column on the board can represent a topic from the health chapter being reviewed.
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U.S. President: Facts

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students gather information from a chart. They become familiar with the names of the presidents of the United States. They complete a worksheet imbedded in this plan on the many facts associated with the Presidents.
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Differentiated Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students select a method of presenting on a given topic by rolling paper dice which have various presentation methods on them. They produce the activity and share it with the class.
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The Raid on Raters

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and discuss the article "Hollywood Rethinks its Rating Process." They discuss their views on the rating system. Students work in small groups to role play a "headhunting" company to find applicants for a new and improved...
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The Teen Scene

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the methods used by teen magazines to attract a variety of teenagers. They evaluate existing magazines and in small groups, students create their own magazine that is geared toward specific teen demographics.
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Gluskap Story Skits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read and analyze a Gluskap (Algonquin legend) story. Together, they discuss the morals and values these stories demonstrate and in groups, create and perform an imaginative skit based on one of them. They perform their skits for...
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Rules of Conduct: Media Violence, Dating and Teenage Behavior

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discuss the role of media in their lives and making decisions. In groups, they define violence and identify how it is represented in the type of entertainment they are accustomed to viewing. They compare and contrast behaviors...
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Nothing But the Truth

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students write a response to: As a teenager, have you ever told the truth about something important and adults didn't believe you? How did you feel? Describe and explain a specific time where you told the truth to adults and weren't...
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Conjunctions

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this conjunctions worksheet, students choose the best conjunction out of three that fits each of ten sentences to make each one grammatically correct.
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Moral Dilemmas

For Students 6th - 8th
In this moral dilemmas worksheet, students will cut apart 16 question cards. Then they will take turns reading scenarios about situations involving using one's morals and discuss how they would handle these situations.
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Punctuating Adverb Clauses

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar instructional activity, students review and discuss the general rules for punctuating adverb clauses. Students then place a comma where one is needed in ten sentences with adverb clauses.
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Singular and Plural Subjects

For Students 8th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students circle the subjects in twenty-five sentences and then write an S in the blank provided if the subject is singular and a P if the subject is plural.
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Helping/Linking Verbs

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students choose the correct verb or expression in parentheses that makes twenty sentences grammatically correct.
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Football Word Search

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this football word search worksheet, students will find and circle 17 football related words on a puzzle that is in the shape of a football.
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Sentence Fragments Worksheet 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students identify which sentences are fragments and then rewrite each fragment they find into a complete sentence below the fragment.
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Born on Halloween

For Students 6th - 8th
In this research skills worksheet, students use an encyclopedia, almanac, web search, or other resources to answer the 5 questions about people who have birthdays on Halloween.
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Reduction of Adverb Clauses: Worksheet #3

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students reduce the adverb clauses to phrases when possible. If they cannot, then they write "NP". There are 10 sentences for students to reduce.
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Worksheet 1, page 1. Reading: Interview with Justine Henin

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Justine Henin interview learning exercise, students read the passage titled Interview with Justine Henin. They then answer the 8 true/false questions about the interview.
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We Are the Government

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students read primary documents to find the motivations of the founding fathers of the United States. In this primary documents lesson, students discuss the meaning of the Preamble to the Constitution, read parts of the Constitution...
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Participial Adjectives

For Students 7th - 9th
In this participial adjectives worksheet, students respond to 10 questions that require them to fill in the blanks in the sentences with present of past participial forms of the verbs in parentheses.
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Taking Pills Isn't the Answer

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore performance-related drug use. In this health journalism instructional activity, students read the USA Today article titled "Taking Pills Isn't the Answer", respond to discussion questions regarding the article,...
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Baseball's Steroid Test Program: Fair or Foul?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the issue of performance enhancing drugs. In this health journalism lesson, students read the USA Today article titled "Baseball's Steroid Test Program: Fair or Foul?", respond to discussion questions regarding the...
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Vocabulary Building

For Students 5th - 8th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students answer definition and fill in the blank questions about various vocabulary words. Students complete this for 4 pages with 6 words each and 18 questions each.
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Eating on the Job

For Students 8th - 12th
In this word puzzle learning exercise, learners match each occupation with a food choice. Food choices are plays on words. An example is a jockey's condiment is horseradish. There are 26 occupations and food choices to match up.