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Home S-s-sweet Home The Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the eastern massasauga rattlesnake's habitat. They examine how the habitat allows the snake to survive by completing a variety of activities.
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Community Art Project

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils and community members plan and take part in a community art project designed to celebrate salmon and steelhead fish and their connection to the local community.
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Carousel on Democracy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the municipal, provincial, federal levels of government. They study the process of making a presentation to a level of government.
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The Story Behind the Horse

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view and interpret Dan Howard's artwork entitled, Soliloquium:IV. They write a story of what they think is behind the painting and then paint their own soliloquy.
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Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest: Science, 4th Grade

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate weather patterns in their home state of Utah. After creating KWL charts, they research weather and geographical data to locate the state's extremes. As an extension, 4th graders write and illustrate books about...
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Oswego City School District: Working With Related Conditionals

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are given a conitional statement and are to determine which choice is the converse of the statement.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Special Right Triangles 45, 45, 90

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep tutorial shows two special formulas that are used to determined the measures of the legs of a 45-45-90 triangles. If you can't remember the formula, the tutorial gives you tips on other...
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Indirect Euclidean Proofs

For Students 9th - 10th
This Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep site shows you how to proof something by showing that it is false. This look at indirect proofs includes a practice and a teacher resource page, which features a warm-up activity.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Working With Sets and Venn Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th
This Oswego City School District site gives an explanation of Venn diagrams, then uses a word problem to show how Venn diagrams can be applied to solve algebraic equations.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Triangle Information

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This Oswego City School District site from the Regents Exam Prep Center provides an explanation of the classifications of triangles both by sides and by angles. Pictures are also included.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Simplifying (Or Reducing) Fractions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At this site from the Oswego City School District, you can learn how to simplify fraction (rational expression) that contain monomials or higher degree polynomials. Reducing fractions is made easier with help from this page.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Properties of Real Numbers

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart gives the definition of each Real Number Property with an example excellent for reference or review. Site by Oswego City School District.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Fractional Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Oswego City School District provides the rules for working with fractional (rational) exponents.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Dilations

For Students 9th - 10th
Oswego City School District provides a three link tutorial on dilations. By clicking on each of these links, you will find the definition of a dilation, examples of dilations, and a quiz to test your skills.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Factoring Trinomials (A=1)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Oswego City School District shows students how to factor trinomials when the leading coefficient is equal to 1. The example walks students through the process so they can learn to do it on their own. Includes link to...
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Eugene School District: The Renaissance Begins [Pdf]

For Students 7th - 9th
Chapter 28 of a middle school textbook on world history (7 pages). It explains how the Renaissance began in Italy, and the differences between classical, medieval, and Renaissance art. It discusses the expanding world of trade and...
Article
Oswego City School District

Oswego City School District: The Commercial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Read here about the time in European history leading into the Renaissance. It is known as the Commercial Revolution, or the emergence of trade, capitalism and working class parties, and unions.
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Kent School District: Webquest Puget Sound Cities

For Students 3rd - 5th
An educational WebQuest focused on the Puget Sound Cities. Your task is to convince the Sega Corporation that your city is the best place for their new operating facility.
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Kent School District: Webquest Puget Sound Cities

For Students 3rd - 5th
An educational WebQuest focused on the Puget Sound Cities. Your task is to convince the Sega Corporation that your city is the best place for their new operating facility.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Positive, Negative, and Zero Exponents

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At this site from Oswego City School District, students are shown the basic laws which govern simplifying positive, negative, and zero exponents. Examples are provided during the explanations, and then practice problems (and their...
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Illinois Institute of Technology

Oyez: Summary of Zelman v. Simmons Harris

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great summary of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris where the Supreme Court upheld school vouchers. Gives the dates the case was heard and decided, facts of the case, legal question presented, the courts decision, and how each justice...
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Oswego City School District: Trimmed Mean

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents a histogram showing data used to find the trimmed mean.
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World Wide School

World Wide School: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Chapter Vii: The Attacks

For Students 9th - 10th
This page describes the destruction of the cities after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The information comes from Chapter 7 of the book The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District, published...
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New York Public Library: Early New York [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A teacher package explaining how to use the included primary resources with students. Questions and writing prompts accompany original images of early New York, Henry Hudson's experiences, colonial leaders, and people who lived in New...