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Verb Review
In this verb review worksheet, students determine correct verb tense usage in sentences. Students fill in the blanks writing eighteen answers.
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Farmers Use Falcons to Protect Berries
Students share information about falcons, then read about how farmers are using falcons. In this falcon instructional activity, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and vocabulary activity, then students read the news...
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Idioms - Mouth and Teeth
In this online/interactive idiom worksheet, students choose idioms about the mouth and teeth to replace the expressions in parenthesis in the sentences.
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Academic Raceway 500: Vocabulary Using Context Clues
This vocabulary skills PowerPoint presents a game to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within a sentence. The game is based on the theme of a car race. The goal of the PowerPoint game is to finish the race...
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Cooking Kansas City
Students investigate the history of Kansas City and then create recipes from the area, including Kansas City Barbecue Sauce, and Kansas City Corn.
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Vocabulary; Idioms/Phrasal Verbs-Parts of the Body-Part 1
In this foreign language worksheet, students are given 10 sentences that use a body part in an idiomatic phrase. They select the word that best completes the idiom.
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Narrative Tenses
Eighth graders review narrative tenses. In this narrative tenses lesson, 8th graders read a story, answer comprehension questions, and complete a worksheet. This lesson is designed for students who are learning English as a second...
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Emotive language
Students examine emotion-based language. Students read a news story to discover examples of emotive words. They develop a class list of examples of emotive language. As a class project, students select a news story and change it into...
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Verb Review 1 and 2
In this sentence completion worksheet, students fill in the 10 blanks with the correct verb tense of the word in parentheses. The verb could be present or past tense.
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Verb Review 4
In this verb review worksheet, students fill in the 19 blanks using forms of the verbs in parentheses. Students review past tense, present tense, and future tense verbs.
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Verb Review 1
In this verb review activity, learners fill in the 18 blanks using forms of the verbs in parenthesis. Students review past tense, present tense, and future tense verbs.
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Verb Review 2
In this verb review worksheet, students fill in the 18 blanks using forms of the verbs in parenthesis. Students review past tense, present tense, and future tense verbs.
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Test on Simple Past Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students write the past tense forms of irregular verbs, complete tables and sentences in simple past and fill in blanks using 'was' or 'were.' Answers may be submitted online. ESL appropriate but not...
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Past Perfect Simple Sentences
In this past perfect simple tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Rob a Train, 1899
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are legendary outlaws of the American West who robbed banks and trains. This is an account of their 1899 train robbery as reported in the June 8, 1899 issue of the Buffalo Bulletin.
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Osage "Reign of Terror" Murder Trials
The "Reign of Terror" that overtook the Osage Reservation in 1921 is just one chapter in the long story of mistreatment of Native Americans by whites, but is one of the most horrifying. Before the chapter ends, untold dozens of Osage...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Should You Trust Unanimous Decisions?
Imagine a police lineup where ten witnesses are asked to identify a bank robber they glimpsed fleeing the scene. If six of them pick the same person, there's a good chance that's the culprit. And if all ten do, you might think the case...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can You Solve the Jail Break Riddle?
Your timing made you and your partner infamous bank robbers. Now, you need to use that timing to break out of jail. Your partner is about to flash you a signal, and exactly 45 seconds later the electric fence circuit will short out. Then...
A&E Television
History.com: Was the Escape From Alcatraz Successful?
A 2013 letter to the FBI, if real, suggests the Anglin brothers and Frank Morris survived one of the most daring and dangerous prison breaks of all time. It was one of the most ingenious prison breaks of all time -- if it worked. In...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Public Enemy #1
Companion website for the PBS documentary on the crime spree of John Dillinger, an infamous gangster. Included are a transcript of the film, biographies of people in the film, pictures of gangsters of the era, and a teacher's guide for...
Oklahoma Historical Society
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: Barker Gang
An account of the criminal activities of the Barker Gang in the 1920s and 1930s, and of the capture or killing of members of the gang by the FBI.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Butch Cassidy
This resource features an article on the life and exploits of the outlaw Butch Cassidy.
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Eyewitness to History: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Rob a Train, 1899
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are legendary outlaws, of the American West, who robbed banks and trains. This is an account of their 1899 train robbery as reported in the June 8, 1899 issue of the Buffalo Bulletin.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan was not business tycoon who made his money from manufacturing. Read about how he accumulated wealth, how he helped the government through some economic panics, and why the government took him to court.