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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Word Relationships

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Fifteen analogies for students to complete. Answers are available for students to check their work.
eBook
Quia

Quia: Simile, Metaphor, or Personification?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Twenty sentence analogies for students to complete by choosing the word that correctly shows the relationships. Correct answers are given for any missed, and the score is tallied throughout the exercise.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Mind Joggers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a mixture of mind joggers and analogies.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Endoplasmic Reticulum Analogy

For Students 9th - 10th
The endoplasmic reticulum is compared to a manufacturing plant with an assembly line to help students understand the functions of this important cell organelle.
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Compare and Contrast Ideas

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: I Have a Metaphor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary devices:...
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Other

Cal State Fullerton: Common Fallacies in Reasoning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page from California State University at Fullerton list twenty-three common fallacies in reasoning. Each includes an explanation and two examples. The list includes the following: faulty cause, sweeping generalization, hasty...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Mechanics of Standing Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 5-question quiz to help prepare for the MCAT. It uses the analogy between a standing patient and an inverted pendulum and the mechanics of standing balance.
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Curated OER

Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Analogies

For Students 3rd - 8th
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Analogies."
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: An Analogy: Biomass Pyramid vs. Energy Pyramid

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what biomass and energy pyramids are and provides a table highlighting their differences.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Have Fun: My Quia Activities and Quizzes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Have Fun is a collection of links to Quia games, activities, and quizzes covering a variety of language arts topics, such as analogies, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, sequencing, categorizing, compound words, grammar, sentences, and...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Other Supporting Materials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on other materials used to support your speech including analogies, definitions, and a variety of visual aids. SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
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Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City: Play Match It Sentences Games

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Complete ten analogy sentences by choosing the word that matches the relationship in each sentence.
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Other

Prezi: Finding the Main Idea in 2nd Grade

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
By watching this slideshow, students will learn how to find the main idea in a paragraph and the supporting details. It uses the analogy of the layers of a hamburger deluxe.
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Joyful Heart Ministries: Easter

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of short stories and brief articles about Easter. Great analogies to help you understand the Easter holiday as well as fun stories and bible studies.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Flashcards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive set of flashcards focuses on the definitions for types of supporting details such as statements of fact, expert testimony, first-hand accounts, personal experiences, statistics, analogies, etc.
eBook
Quia

Quia: Analogies (Set 1)

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource provides 12 multi-operation story problems for students to solve.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students apply the mechanical advantages and problem-solving capabilities of six types of simple machines (wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane, screw, pulley) as they discuss modern structures in the spirit of the engineers and...
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Cell City Analogy

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners determine which cell organelles have a similar function to different places in a city.
Interactive
Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: As Stubborn as a Mule

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This 10-question game requires students to select an animal to complete a saying. Students are directed to double click their answer which brings up the correct answer and an explanation of the saying.
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Reversible Reactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a reaction proceed over time. How does total energy affect a reaction rate? This model represents an analogy of chemical reactions.
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Ed Surge: A Guide for Bringing the Samr Model to I Pads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An explanation of the Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition Model (SAMR) Model. The author uses an analogy of making coffee at home as opposed to having one at Starbucks, and compares this to reading a book versus reading...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Mole Ratios

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will relate balanced chemical equations to everyday analogies, such as a recipe. They will also define stoichiometry and use mole...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Layer Cake Geology

For Teachers K - 1st
Using a cake analogy, this activity teaches concepts such as: geologic time, rock layers, fossils, Law of Superposition, and relative dating. Activity can be modified to grade level and appropriate content for students,

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