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Illustrative Mathematics

Election Poll, Variation 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Your class will learn what it means to take a random sample of a population and to draw inferences from the information gained. In part a, of the exercise, you discuss with your class how middle schoolers during a class election can be...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sentences That Describe Pictures - 3

For Students K - 2nd
A simple multiple choice learning exercise, this resource deals with identifying emotions from body language and facial expressions. Learners are given three drawings of cartoon characters and they must decide whether each one is feeling...
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Curated OER

Easter Egg Surprise

For Teachers K
Young readers describe objects by using describing words. After reviewing the five senses, they use their senses to gain information about an object. Then as homework, they write three descriptive words about a mystery object and place...
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Curated OER

Dream Kitchen

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Advanced ESL students can engage in this lesson designed to practice compiling lists, adding costs, and describing why they chose a particular item. They will choose items from a magazine that they'd like in their dream kitchen. Next,...
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Curated OER

Describe That State

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students broaden knowledge about all the 50 states. They combine their knowledge about states with their knowledge about parts of speech to create grammatically correct sentences that describe the characteristics of the states.
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Curated OER

Describing Physical Appearance

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this ESL worksheet, young scholars match adjectives that describe physical appearance to the appropriate body part. The second part of the worksheet requires students to complete sentence A based on the answer provided in sentence B.
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Curated OER

Describing Range and Measures of Central Tendency in Shoe Sizes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students describe the range and various measures of central tendency using shoe sizes from a video. In this range and measures of central tendency lesson, students use the same data set to identify the concepts of range, mode, median,...
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Curated OER

Describer-Drawer Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
What's life with out a little fun and games now and then? This game helps kids practice many different skill sets. Child one takes a card then attempts to dictate how to draw the object to child two. Child two draws an object based on...
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Curated OER

Lesson: Mad Lib Leigh!

For Teachers K - 5th
A fun and quirky painting is analyzed for details in an art/literacy lesson. Youngsters look for colors, shadows, and details and then describe them using vivid language. They use the words from discussion to complete a fun Mad Lib-style...
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Curated OER

Coordinates Counting Game

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this coordinates activity, students play a game where they call out the coordinates and have to describe the picture in the coordinate box. Students complete 16 problems.
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EngageNY

Describing Variability Using the Interquartile Range (IQR)

For Teachers 6th Standards
The 13th lesson in a unit of 22 introduces the concept of the interquartile range (IQR). Class members learn to determine the interquartile range, interpret within the context of the data, and finish by finding the IQR using an exclusive...
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Writing
K12 Reader

Describe It with Adjectives

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Put children's descriptive writing skills to the test with these fun collaborative writing activities. Presented with the picture of an object, young writers are are tasked with creating a description that provides enough detail for one...
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EngageNY

Describing Distributions Using the Mean and MAD II

For Teachers 6th Standards
The 11th instructional activity in the series of 22 is similar to the preceding instructional activity, but requires scholars to compare distributions using the mean and mean absolute deviation. Pupils use the information to make a...
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Worksheet
Project Shine

ESL Health Unit: Describing Pain and Symptoms

For Students 7th - 12th
Designed for advanced beginning English language learners, this 21-page packet includes listening, speaking, and writing practice exercises related to the theme of visits to the doctor's office.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Finding Systems of Inequalities That Describe Triangular and Rectangular Regions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How do you build a polygon from an inequality? An engaging instructional activity challenges pupils to do just that. Building from the previous instructional activity in this series, learners write systems of inequalities to model...
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EngageNY

Summarizing a Data Distribution by Describing Center, Variability, and Shape

For Teachers 6th Standards
Put those numbers to work by completing a statistical study! Pupils finish the last two steps in a statistical study by summarizing data with displays and numerical summaries. Individuals use the summaries to answer the statistical...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Make Your Own Puzzle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Puzzling over what geometry lesson to teach next? Look no further. This simple activity teaches young mathematicians how shapes can be decomposed into smaller figures, and how smaller figures can be assembled into larger shapes. To learn...
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Lesson Plan
Ware County Schools

Simple Directions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
When teaching someone how to do something, it's important to give clear directions. Your youngsters can practice their skills by completing these worksheets meant to help learners describe the steps in a process. It's not just any...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Describing the Center of a Distribution Using the Median

For Teachers 6th Standards
Find the point that splits the data. The lesson presents to scholars the definition of the median through a teacher-led discussion. The pupils use data lists and dot plots to determine the median in sets with even and odd number of data...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Describing a Distribution Displayed in a Histogram

For Teachers 6th Standards
The shape of the histogram is also relative. Learners calculate relative frequencies from frequency tables and create relative frequency histograms. The scholars compare the histograms made from frequencies to those made from relative...
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Worksheet
K12 Reader

Adjectives Describe

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Vivid writers all start out the same way: learning in elementary school how to use a variety of adjectives! Young grammarians add adjectives to eight fill-in-the-blank sentences.
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Activity
Leading Learner

Using Music to Tell a Story or Describe a Scene

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Young composers demonstrate their understanding of the stylistic features of descriptive music, including pitch, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, and timbre, by developing a melody and countermelody for a main character in a story. As part of...
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Worksheet
World Wildlife Fund

Arctic Shapes

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
In a two-part worksheet, young geometers examine 3-D shapes and describe their attributes in a table. They will be able to draw the shape and name the number of vertices, faces, and edges. In the second part, individuals explore nets of...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Sum of Angles in a Polygon

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
How can learners use algebra to solve a geometry problem? Help learners create an equation that shows the relationship between the number of sides of a polygon and the sum of the interior angles. Students are asked to divide the...

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