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Good Health

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete a unit with cross-curricular activities to learn about a healthy body and maintaining their health. In this health lesson, students complete 8 lessons to learn about good health, a healthy diet, healthy foods, healthy...
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Translating Genetic Information

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the process of translation. They determine the correct sequencing and present their strands to the class. In addition, they compare normal red blood cells to sickle cells and complete discussion questions.
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Inequalities and Measures of Central Tendency

For Students 9th - 11th
In this inequality and measures of central tendency worksheet, students solve and graph linear inequalities. They organize given data to identify the mean, mode and range. Students interpret box-and-whisker plots. This three-page...
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Making Circle Graphs

For Students 6th
In this circle graphing learning exercise, 6th graders answer ten multiple choice questions based on their knowledge of circle graphs. This is an interactive learning exercise.
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Where Growth Meets Growth

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students discuss fire risk factors for a property located near a wildland area. In this science lesson plan, students identify, number, and provide reasons for areas of increased risk on a worksheet they think should be changed. Students...
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Alternative Energy and Energy Saving Game

For Students 6th - 8th
In this alternative energy and energy saving game instructional activity, students create a multimedia game to present facts and influence people's behaviors about alternative energy sources, with links to helpful web resources.
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Homophones Activities 1-5

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this language arts activity, students discover that homophones are words that sound alike. Students complete 5 activities with homophones: matching words to pictures, completing sentences, explaining differences between words and...
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The Universe Has Room for Change

For Students 7th - 9th
In this universe and change instructional activity, learners read about the demotion of Pluto as one of the 9 planets as well as other changes in science. Students summarize their reading and identify unfamiliar words in the...
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European Expansion in America

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore human settlement in America - from the 1500s to about the turn of the 20th Century. They follow the relationships and changes beginning in the east, then head west to witness the final battles of this era.
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Acid/Base Equilibrium

For Students Higher Ed
In this equilibrium instructional activity, students solve nine problems related to acids, bases, buffers, ionization and calculations of pH.
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WS 1.9 Review-Calculations

For Students 10th - 12th
For this calculations review worksheet, students convert from one metric unit to another, they identify significant figures in numbers, they find density of substances, and they solve problems using dimensional analysis.
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Estimating and Rounding

For Students 6th - 7th
In this estimation and rounding worksheet, students solve ten multiplication problems by using estimation and rounding skills. This is an interactive worksheet.
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Breaking News English: Four Dead in Indian "Diamond" Hunt

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students first read an article about rumors of diamonds being washed ashore in India. Students complete all or some of the 100 exercises and activities pertaining to the article. Included are vocabulary,...
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Measuring Temperature

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine how to determine temperature on a thermometer. They read and discuss an informational handout, discuss examples of Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, and complete a worksheet.
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Carbon Dioxide Increases

For Students 7th - 10th
In this atmospheric carbon dioxide worksheet, learners use a graph of the Keeling Curve showing the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since 1958 to solve 6 problems. They determine the rate of increase, the find the percentage of...
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Weathering Lab

For Students 8th - 10th
In this weathering worksheet, students use limestone chips and acidic solutions of pH 2 and 7 to determine if acidic solutions contribute to the weathering of rocks. Students determine which pH weathered the rocks the most.
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Creating A Bill Of Rights In Space

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students define rights, analyze and apply the U.S. Bill of Rights to hypothetical situations, and create an Intergalactic Bill of Rights.
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Everyday Mathematics: Counting Up

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this counting up worksheet, young scholars learn strategies to help them solve problems involving change. Students study a number grid and number line to help them count up to make change.
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Blasphemy: Salman Rushdie

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover the definition of blasphemy and examine examples of it in history. In this blasphemy lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture regarding details of blasphemy throughout history. Students respond to...
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How Many More on a Graph?

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify a number that is one more or one less than a number up to one hundred and identify a mystery number. They also create a class graph that illustrates how many children are in each family, and answer questions about...
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Temperature Effects on Solubility

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students determine the solubility of salt in water at three different temperatures and graph the results. They use the following skills: observing, inferring, and graphing.
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Mixture Problems

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore the concept of mixture problems. In this mixture problem lesson, 9th graders use beads to resemble liquids. Students mix different amounts of beads to create different percentages of mixtures.
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Mystery Numbers

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this mystery number worksheet, students begin with a 3 digit number and using the code key, find the sum or difference in each shape as a spiral puzzle is solved.
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Super Polymers

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Learners investigate polymers and compare the absorbency of a disposable diaper to cotton dish towels They determine the absorbency of sodium polyacrylate.