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The Good Earth Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, high schoolers respond to 14 multiple choice questions about Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Final Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
High schoolers will review a semesters worth of material on this final chemistry review. Information ranges from naming isotopes to pH and molarity.
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Settling Down in a New Country

For Students 3rd
In this immigration instructional activity, 3rd graders discuss factors of moving to a new place. Students read quotes, view pictures with descriptions and pretend to interview a migrant.
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The Rock and Fossil Record-Science Puzzlers, Twisters & Teasers

For Students 5th - 8th
In this earth science instructional activity, students complete 12 questions about rocks and fossils in the form of anagrams, riddles, sequences, and brain teasers.
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International Festival: Greece

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students celebrate the culture of Greece. In this multicultural lesson, students participate in several activities which examine the culture of Greece. Students study the Greek alphabet, identify the country on a world map, and make...
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Newton's Second Law

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Newton's Second Law worksheet, students answer 13 questions about force, mass and acceleration. They calculate weight, force, masses and acceleration of objects.
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Simple Machines

For Students 9th - 12th
In this simple machines worksheet, students identify the 6 simple machines. They answer 21 questions about the types of simple machines, the output force of simple machines, the input force and the work involved in using a simple machine.
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The Periodic Table

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read and interpret the Periodic Table. They also make decisions on how to group and arrange different kinds of matter and draw the structure of atoms of pure elements. Finally, 8th graders contrast and compare basic...
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Founding Myths, Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a scavenger hunt using their textbooks to find information about historical events, people and places in US history during the Revolutionary Era. After creating their list of important people, students create...
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Naming Compounds

For Students 9th - 12th
In this compounds worksheet, high schoolers use a flowchart to determine what a compound is made of and how to name the compound. Students complete 6 matching and 60 fill in the blank questions.
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Naming Compounds

For Students 9th - 12th
In this naming compounds worksheet, students are given a chart to determine if the compound they are naming is ionic, covalent or polyatomic. Students practice identifying and naming ionic, covalent and polyatomic compounds. They define...
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Route 66

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners research the Internet to locate information about the Route 66 Festival. They focus on the history of the route in Illinois and create a web page of information.
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Lifting a Load

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students experiments with levers to determine if the amount of force needed to lift a load is always the same. In this physics lesson, students use Lab-Pro data collector as they experiment with the fulcrum placement to measure the work...
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Magnificent Microscopes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use a microscope in a series of activities that are designed to help them explore the "invisible world" and make meaningful microscopic discoveries and learn the importance of the microscope as a tool in science and research.
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Family Letter - Order of Operations and Sequences

For Students 6th - 8th
For this order of operations and sequences worksheet, students solve 16 short answer problems. Students create an arithmetic sequence by adding seven to a number. Students perform operations on numbers in various order to see the...
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What are Fractals?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers identify and analyze fractals and research information using the Internet to locate information about them. They look at fractals in relation to nature and other real world situations. Pupils create several...
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Contributions of Chinese Dynasties

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize the contributions that major Chinese Dynasties have made that we still use today. They replicate and create their own timeline using the major dynasties.
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Properties of Matter

For Students 9th - 12th
In this properties of matter learning exercise, students answer 11 questions about the various properties of matter such as density, elasticity, malleability, and how hard or brittle a substance is.
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Making A Felt Pouch

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Learners are engaged in the making of a felt pouch. They complete the project with the aid of the teacher because the lesson is meant for the Special Education population. Students answer the following focus question to set the context,...
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Prairie Field Trip

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students study prairie conservation and the plant and animal life within.  In this prairie life lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab activity. 
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Be the Change You Wish to See

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students review the lessons from the whole unit before devising a plan of action for a volunteer effort. They work in teams using a worksheet to determine a social cause that they develop an effective idea to promote. They design an...
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Do Human Practices Affect Water Quality?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars determine if human practices have any noticeable effects on the quality of stream life as measured by the presence of certain macroinvertebrates. They collect, preserve and identify macroinvertibrate samples and quantify...
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Jell-O-Shakin

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design a tower made of jell-o. In this science lesson, students investigate what it takes to build a jell-o building that will not fall when shaken. They discuss what causes earthquakes and how it is controlled.
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Word Lists

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students read 5 different word lists. The word lists are divided by sounds. For example, one word list contains the sh, ch, th, and ng sounds.