Calling all cars! It's time to solve some division problems! A chart of special police units and the number of officers in each provides the data for six word problems. Young recruits use their division skills to solve them. Note that...

Fifth graders investigate what a covenant was and how they relate to contemporary government ideals. In this comparing covenant lesson, 5th graders examine primary source documents that are examples of covenants from 18th century New...

In this geometric mean worksheet, students find the geometric mean of given data.  They examine right triangles.  This one--page worksheet contains 10 problems.

For this line plots and outliers worksheet, students analyze a table that shows the number of miles run by a girl over a period of days. Students determine if there is an outlier in the data and answer 3 questions.

Students examine the concept of scatter plots. They compare baseball statistics to locate the ones that correlate with winning, and identify the positive, negative, and no correlation in sets of data using MS Excel.

In this earth science activity, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to the ocean and living things found in the ocean. There are 27 ocean terms located in the word search.

In this foreign language worksheet, students find the words that are associated with the acquisition of foreign language and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.

In this foreign language worksheet, students locate 29 words they may have studied in the beginning levels of Spanish. Students may self correct their word searches by selecting the link at the end of the page.

In this foreign language worksheet, students locate 32 words on a word search. Each of the words is from the beginning of the second year of Spanish class.

In this foreign language review, students locate 25 words from the beginning of a second year Spanish class in a word search.

In this science vocabulary learning exercise, learners locate 25 earth science words in a word search. Each of the words is related to the study of ground water.

In this math worksheet, students find the words in the puzzle that are part of the vocabulary that is reviewed for the taught unit.

Answers worth an assigned number of points on a game board, similar to Jeopardy, are used to practice comprehension skills after reading the book "Romantic Myth." The questions provided are basic character identification and story...

Learners work with the strategy of breaking a problem into parts in order to solve it. They write an expression with parentheses for each of the first three problems, and solve the problem, and use information from a table to answer the...

Once your learners have a firm handle on the characters in Running Out of Time, invite them to write letters to chosen characters about the events of the novel. Pupils then share with others who wrote to the same character.

At over 450 pages, John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath can be a challenging choice for full-class, book circle, or independent reading. The activities in a 10-page sample The Grapes of Wrath...

This textbook takes the learner from the basic definition of slope through derivatives, integrals, and vector multivariable calculus. Each section is composed primarily of examples, with theoretical introductions and explanations in...

How did women use President Wilson's ideals and rhetoric in their bid for suffrage? To answer this essential question, class groups analyze primary written documents and visual images.

The informational textbook covers topics like supply, demand, price ceilings, and markets for goods and services. Scholars also review vocabulary and test their knowledge of the material with the assessments provided within the...

The Odyssey, Star Wars, The Hunger Games. Odysseus, Luke Skywalker, Katniss Everdeen. Add The Hobbit and Bilbo Baggins to these lists, and you have a unit examining classic and contemporary myths, legends, and folktales with hero and...

Are some resource books more confusing than helpful? The creator of Oregon Writes Open Writing Text thinks so. That is why the text remains a living document with input from teachers, librarians, and scholars. The eBook begins with...

To gain an understanding of how the Great Depression affected everyday citizens, class members examine letters written either to the president or to the governor of Alabama asking for assistance.

If you are implementing the 16 Habits of Mind into your class and curriculum, check out this set of posters that you can display in your room. Each poster highlights one Habit of Mind and includes a brief description of...

The past, the present, and the future ... there's so much to discover about the galaxy. Scholars learn about the creation of the universe, its current structure, and how it is changing. The PowerPoint presentation begins with a...