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Make That Shot!
Students figure out basic percentages by shooting paper balls into a basket, recording results, and calculating individual and team percentages for ten shots.
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Mixing in the Kitchen
Students identify the different types of mixtures. They identify examples of solutions, suspensions, colloidal dispersions, and emulsions through a game and basic experiments.
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How To KidPix II
Students practice using KidPix to create illustrations. In this visual arts lesson, students define key vocabulary words, such as "palette" and "toolbar" to familiarize themselves with the KidPix program. Students create...
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ESL: Beginning Vocabulary Matching
Beginning English Learners match 10 line-drawn pictures of basic nouns with their names, such as kite, airplane, goat, and igloo. Indefinite articles are included, so this exercise also provides reinforcement for the a/an rule.
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Basic Operations with Decimals
Twelfth graders practice skills adding and dividing decimals. They examine the help wanted ads and compute the hourly and weekly wages. They discuss the real life value of understanding the importance of decimals.
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ESL: Basic Subordinating Conjunctions 2
In this ESL conjunction worksheet, students type the correct answer in a box, combining sentences using a subordinating conjunction. Students may click on "show a letter," "check" or "show answer" buttons.
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English Exercises: Basic Modals
In this online interactive English learning exercise, students respond to 24 fill in the blank questions that require them to use modals appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Worksheet: Azar: Basic English Grammar
In this ELL, grammar worksheet, learners work with a partner where they use past tense verbs to fill in missing parts of a conversation between two people.
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ESL: Basic Coordinating Conjunctions
In this ESL grammar instructional activity, learners select the correct coordinating conjunctions to complete sentences. Conjunctions used are: and, but, or, so.
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ESL: Basic Subordination Conjunctions
For this ESL subordinating conjunctions worksheet, students choose the best conjunctions to correctly complete a set of 8 sentences.
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ESL: Basic Possessives 1
In this ESL possessives worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions, selecting the correct possessive phrase to complete a sentence, 10 total. Students may check answers on-line.
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Basically Acids
Base your lesson plan on acids and bases on an informative resource. The first installment of a five-part module on the science behind Harry Potter has individuals investigate acid/base chemistry with the use of invisible inks. They also...
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Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools Program
First graders, in groups, discover which colors absorb heat and which colors best reflect heat. They do this using the scientific method.
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Train Skip Counting: Count by 2s
Skip counting builds number sense and prepares learners for multiplication. Intended for use with Autistic children, but appropriate for anyone, this worksheet provides a way to practice counting by 2s. There are 6 trains, the child...
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Observing the Changes: The Warming of the North
After reviewing the causes and effects of climate change, students become observers for "Plant Watch," a program to monitor the effects of climate change on plants. Students record blooming and leafing dates for selected local species...
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Implementing Reader's Workshop in the Primary Classroom
Basic guidelines and lesson ideas for introducing this reading strategy.
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What Every 4-H Leader Should Know
Designed as an overview of the benefits of a 4-H program, this presentation, created by faculty from Purdue University, would provide a terrific introduction. Those who are interested in starting a 4-H group or club could explore the...
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Student Workbook: Algebra and Functions
A smorgasbord of functions, this packet has the basics required for your learners to be successful in the land of early algebra. The packet includes solving equations, graphing, evaluating, simplifying and basically everything else...
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Dealing with the Great Depression
As part of their study of the Great Depression, young economists examine statistical data to determine the effectiveness of FDR's New Deal recovery programs.
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Class Birthday Graph
Students analyze the basics of an Excel spreadsheet. They highlight cells in a spreadsheet. They make a column graph. Students are introduced to X-axis and Y-axis. They play various address games on the spreadsheet.
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Student Workbook: Statistics and Probability
Statistically, practicing this packet completely helps young mathematicians do well on the test. The packet is adaptable to many grade levels as it includes basic probability and goes up to data analysis with mean, median, and...
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Animals Galore
A well-designed activity which covers the characteristics of the animals found in the six animal groups is here for your young biologists. In it, learners divide up into six groups; the amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, fish, and...
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Using Google Docs
This is a fantastic resource for teachers to have in their tool belts upon entering into the world of using Google Docs in the classroom! It is a reference sheet with step-by-step instructions and graphics for everything from basic...
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Media Awareness: the Basics of Advertising
Students explore marketing techniques. In this media awareness lesson, students watch instructor-selected advertising and identify the marketing techniques used in each of them. Students then create advertisements for products.