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Anatomy of a Kick

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the muscle system operating in the kick of a ball. The order in which the six muscle groups contract is noted as the movement is produced by the contraction of opposing muscles required to move a limb in opposing...
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High Frequency Words—Red Words

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Words, words, words. Here's a must-have resource for primary grade teachers—a list of high frequency words for every letter in the alphabet, as well as words for days of the week, months of the year, color words, contractions, number...
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Moving Around

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Convey the structure and function of muscles to your class with this PowerPoint. It explains how muscles are composed of bundles of cells and fibers, that there are three muscle types, and that contraction is either voluntary or...
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Listening for Meaning: Same Sound

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students listen to a taped conversation to help them learn the meaning of the contraction "d" with the words "had" and "would".
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21st Century Medicine: Nerves of Steel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students model a sarcomere's action, they gain a kinesthetic and visual understanding of muscle contraction. They use this exercise stimulates the production of myosin and actin. Students use two colors of clay, make a "sandwich" of...
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High-Risk Areas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create concept maps exploring causes of drug abuse that, in Siberia and around the world, often lead to the contraction of H.I.V., and develop solutions papers.
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Apostrophes

For Students 4th - 5th
In these apostrophes worksheets, students complete 4 sets of activities for apostrophes. Students fill in the blanks with contractions, write sentences with contractions, find missing apostrophes, and add apostrophes to the paragraphs.
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Grammar Test: To, Name, 'm, 's, Hello

For Students 2nd
For this grammar test worksheet, 2nd graders practice using contractions and greetings by completing the sentence scramble activity and sentence completion activity. Students complete both activities with to, name, hello, I'm, or 's.
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Spanish Parts of Speech (Part 2)

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Zoom in on a few parts of speech to strengthen and deepen understanding. Pupils examine nouns, articles, adjectives, and conjunctions in closer detail, looking at more complex grammatical situations. In addition to the informational page...
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Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...
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Language Arts Worksheets

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Looking for some quick grammar warm-ups? What about handy spelling crossword puzzles? Find everything you need with a resource that contains practice worksheets for parts of speech, parts of a sentence, common grammatical errors, tricky...
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Essential Reading Strategies for the Struggling Reader

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Beneficial for beginning readers, struggling readers, and those in need of review, a set of language arts activities is a great addition to any foundational reading unit. Focusing on phonological awareness, fluency, instructional...
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Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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Avoiding Double Negatives

For Students 3rd - 5th
What double negatives are, and how to avoid using them, is the focus of this language arts learning exercise. After a review of what double negatives are, students address 15 problems that have to do with double negatives.
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Muscular System

For Students 9th - 12th
For this muscular system worksheet, students define related terms of the muscular system, they identify types of muscles, they order the events of muscle contraction and given a clue about structures and function of the muscular system...
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Configuration Station #5

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling and vocabulary activity, students examine 5 words in a word bank. Students alphabetize, complete word puzzles, find the opposites, and illustrate. In this activity 3 of the words studied are contractions.
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Using Apostrophes (1)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this using apostrophes instructional activity, students use words and a phrase to follow directions for changing them to contractions with apostrophes, for discovering patterns, and writing rules. Students write twenty-three answers.
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Apostrophe S ('s)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
For this recognizing appropriate uses of apostrophe and s worksheet, students add apostrophes to possessive nouns and contractions in sentences. Students add 17 apostrophe answers.
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Second Grade Jeopardy Game

For Teachers 2nd
This PowerPoint provides an effective review of second grade concepts. This "Jeopardy" style review game addresses topics such as addition, subtraction, contractions and punctuation.
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Apostrophes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Apostrophes as used in plurals, contractions, and possessives are the subject of a short PowerPoint that includes explanations as well as examples of correct and incorrect usage. Consider augmenting the presentation with practice...
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Spelling Connections Grade 4: Assessment and Review

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling activity worksheet, learners rewrite the spelling words on the blank lines. Students then create a crossword puzzle with the spelling words.
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Air Expansion and Contraction

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars observe that air exerts pressure, that heated air expands and that cooled air contracts. After the demonstration, students engage in a question and answer session about what they saw.
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A Model of Three Faults

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students investigate faults. In this science instructional activity, students explore the many stresses and strains in the earth's layers and research the types of faults in their state.
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Informal Writing 2

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore characteristics of informal writing. They read a class story. Students rewrite the story in an informal style. Students discover that contractions and exclamation marks are used in the informal style.

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