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Able Sports
Students work together to design a new sport for disabled persons. They share their new sport with the class. They discover how mechanical and biomedical engineers use information to test prosthetics.
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Subset Sum
Students explore the concept of exponential growth. In this exponential growth lesson, students solve a problem about ensuring fairness in a Tug-of-War. Students determine which students should be on a team to ensure that each team has...
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Total English Intermediate: Suffix or Prefix?
In this intermediate suffix or prefix worksheet, learners examine the words in italics in 8 sentences and choose the appropriate suffix or prefix. Students also use prefixes and suffixes to form words.
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Check Subtraction
In this subtraction word problems worksheet, students use subtraction to solve the six word problems. Students then check the problems with addition.
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Reading: Home on the Range
Learners read a verse from the song, "Home on the Range," and determine if 7 statements about the verse are true or false. An interesting activity using this classic song.
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Worksheet 9: Vocabulary Review
Learners read 10 sentences and fill in each blank in each sentence with an appropriate vocabulary word from the word pool. This language arts worksheet provides good practice for students to use words in their proper context.
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Reasonable Answers
In this reasonable answers instructional activity, students solve 6 word problems in which estimation is used. Students circle the most reasonable answer from 3 choices.
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Reading Comprehension Volume 5 Number 10: Simple Math
In this missing words in a text learning exercise, students read an article about the new millennium and the Gregorian calendar. Using a word bank of 4 possible choices for each blank space, students complete the article, filling in ten...
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Problem Solving: Write an Expression
When practicing problem-solving skills students have to hone their critical thinking. In this worksheet on problem solving, 5th graders have to determine which operation and what strategy to use when answering the word problem. This...
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Using Context - Synonyms
In this synonyms worksheet, students read the paragraphs on the page and then answer the questions for each reading. There are 6 synonym questions to answer.
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State Your Position
Middle schoolers practice using a global positioning system. They discuss the use of celestial objects as navigation points and its problems. They list the advantages and disadvantages of GPS as well.
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Autobiography: Storytelling
Students investigate using computers to write an autobiography over an extended period of time. They use the Kidpix computer software to practice the writing process. As an extension to the lesson students can take digital pictures to be...
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Noun and Verb Twins
For this worksheet, students must identify a word that is used as both a noun and a verb in the sentence. The student completes this assignment by underlining the same word two times in the sentence.
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Vocabulary Review Activity
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students complete sentences, filling in blanks using words from a word pool at the top of the instructional activity.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Who would you love to see at your table? Groups research a decade, ranging from the 1840s to the 1960s, read a short story associated with that decade, and plan a dinner party, complete with table set-up and menu. After researching...
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GDP: Does It Measure Up?
Here is resource that offers a very clear explanation for how economists measure economic growth by comparing real GDP over time. There is also an additional worksheet that details the expenditure method and four components for...
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House Vocabulary
You've just introduced your beginning French speakers to rooms of the house. Build their understanding by providing this two-page instructional activity. Kids review rooms, large furniture pieces, and actions that one might do in each...
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Technology and the Great Depression
Students examine how technology affected the Great Depression era. They view a video, conduct Internet research, and write articles for a class technology magazine.
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French Grammar Worksheet: futur simple
Help your Francophiles master the futur simple tense. There are five exercises provided here that require the writer to conjugate words in the target tense and create sentences in the future.
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I Served in the American Civil War
Students research soldier's lives in the American Civil War. They create a video about a soldier's life
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Why Scarce Resources Are Sometimes Unemployed
Why do markets operate inefficiently when the world's resources are so limited? Review the various types of unemployment that exist and why some resources, especially human resources, go unused.
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The Lemonade War: Novel Study
Sibling rivalry or all-out war? The Lemonade War tells the story of a brother and sister who begin a competition selling lemonade. Scholars read to find out who will win. The resource includes vocabulary words, comprehension questions,...
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Trait Tracker
Help mice beat the odds with an exciting activity about traits. Biologists discover the role of diet and other factors on animal traits by participating in a simulation activity. Teams collect and evaluate data to understand how certain...
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Culinary Culture Quiz
The French bake some of the most delectable treats in the world. After you've discussed the French food culture and French recipes with your class, give them this quiz to assess their understanding. After they read the cooking directions...