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Reading Comprehension 1
Bring this non-fiction text into your eleventh and twelfth grade classrooms. Your high schoolers will read the long passage provided, and use the information to complete eight multiple-choice questions. The answer sheet details where one...
Baylor College
Water: Post-Assessment
Very simply, the science class will discuss what they have learned during The Science of Water unit and take a multiple-choice post-assessment quiz. A few other closing activities are suggested for you to choose from, such as having...
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Candidate Evaluation
How can we decide between candidates on election day? After contemplating various issues and qualities, your learners will go through a step-by-step process of researching and evaluating sample candidates and determining their...
Teaching Tolerance
Journalism for Justice
Roll the presses! Or at least have your class members participate in the time-honored tradition of the student press by creating their own newspapers or journalist pieces on a social problem. After conducting research and collaborating...
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A Community Decision!
Students investigate waste management through a simulated role-playing activity. They use a decision chart to organize their presentatioins and justify their decisions.
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Budgeting - The Basics, Part 1
Students investigate personal budgets and discuss how to make monetary decisions. They work in small groups to make money decisions for their classrooms or a playground, and present their decisions to the whole class.
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To Be or Not To Be - Career Choice
Fifth graders conduct an interview and research information associated with the career of their choice.
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Five Paragraph Essay
Eighth graders are introduced to the mechanics of writing a standard-form essay. They draft, edit and polish a five-paragraph essay about spending the day as an animal of their choice.
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Typing, Reproducing and Distributing the Job Pamphlet
Students use a word processing program to make a job pamphlet that is suitable for reproduction. This lesson help students write for a purpose. They use the skills of organizing, pre-writing, and revising with a word processing program.
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I Knew Him When....
Students examine different techniques of research to gather information and facts. They discover how to use multimedia computer application HyperStudio. They improve writing and word processing skills.
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Effective Letter Writing
Students explore letter writing. In this persuasive writing lesson, students write a letter to a local organization based on a topic of their choice. Students employ the correct letter writing procedure as outlined in the...
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Working With Writing
Fifth graders research a topic of their choice using the internet, magazines, and books. In this research lesson plan, 5th graders are graded on their research and delivery skills of their presentation.
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Job Applications and Specifications
Students can navigate job choices, understand the application process, and find characteristics of a company they many be interested in. Students research the Family Dollar Company and find out about the coporation, types of jobs...
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Abstraction-Critique of Art
Learners apply a four step critique process as they observe and make personal decisions about abstract artworks.
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45 Vocabulary Words
In this vocabulary worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions on what the vocabulary words mean. Students complete 45 questions total.
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Food For Keeps
Young scholars investigate the concept of food preservation. They use the internet to conduct research, specifically the methods of processing the students' favorite foods. They are introduced to the project using realia like beef jerky...
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Word Choice in Writing
Sixth graders explore language arts by writing dialogue. In this vocabulary choice lesson, 6th graders identify synonyms and the importance of using a thesaurus while writing dialogue in their own original work. Students revise and edit...
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The Voting Game
Young scholars examine and discuss the Canadian electoral process. They conduct a simulation of the electoral process, with students running as candidates, holding a convention, campaigning, and voting for Prime Minister of the Day.
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Advanced Sentence Completion: 15
In this sentence completion activity, students complete multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences with one word. Students complete 10 sentences.
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Past Passives
In this past passives worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences with past passives. Students complete 20 sentences.
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I Want To Know More...
In this animal research worksheet, students choose an animal they want to learn more about and then research the answers to twelve questions about the animal of their choice.
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H Mix
In this sentence completion worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to sentences with words that begin with the letter h. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.
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Making Decisions: Packaging and the Environment
Students work in small groups to redesign the packaging of several common items. They attempt to reach the goal of 25% reduction in packaging materials currently used and explore the impact of various materials and designs in landfills...
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb The Decision That Defined a Presidency.
High schoolers examine historical evidence regarding the atomic bomb. In this Truman presidency lesson, students research images and documents about the use of the bomb in Japan. High schoolers write position papers that identify their...