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Confectionary Bureau of Investigations: Case of the Cookie Mystery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform tests on different chemicals to determine their chemical properties. In this forensic science lesson, students identify an unknown sample using its physical and chemical properties. They solve a fictional crime using...
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Dribbling, Screening and Defense

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners are introduced to the techniques to dribble and defend themselves in a game of handball. In groups, they play a game and practice being on the offensive and defensive. To end the lesson, they participate in dribbling and...
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Phonics Blend

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy learning exercise, students practice reading words with different phonics blends. Each word has a picture to help with vocabulary acquisition.
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The Expenditure Sheet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Pupils differentiate between expenditure and income. In this algebra instructional activity, students create a spreadsheet labeling the date, item and amount as they track their expenses. They format the cells of the spreadsheet to do...
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Encyclopedia Introduction

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders demonstrate how to use reference materials. In this library media instructional activity, 2nd graders are introduced to the encyclopedia and are shown how to use the encyclopedia as a reference. Students use encyclopedias...
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New Deal Agencies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify examples of government intervention during crisis. In this New Deal lesson, students play a game to place descriptions and names to abbreviations of New Deal Agencies. Students interview a person who lived through the...
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Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes

For Teachers K - 12th
Students are given certain privileges or have freedoms taken away based on their eye color to demonstrate what it feels like to be singled out by uncontrollable factors. In this singled out lesson plan, students discuss how it feels to...
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Diversity Government

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore diversity through government. In this diversity instructional activity, students use types of government as a way to understand the importance of diversity. Students use "diversity beans" to facilitate discussion with...
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Regular Plural Nouns

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this plural nouns activity, learners write the plural forms of the nouns given to them. Students write the plural forms of 21 nouns.
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How Far Away is Your College?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice using atlases. In this geography skills activity, 8th graders select a college they would like to attend and use an atlas to respond to questions about the geography of the place.
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Airline Passenger

For Students 8th - 11th
In this distance, speed, and time learning exercise, students determine the effect of wind on the time of a flight.  The students answer five questions to help them come to a conclusion regarding the airplanes travel.
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Farm Census

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners disuss the work of a farmer. They recognize and name farm animals to represent the information in a pictogram.
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Teamwork at School

For Students 7th - 8th
In this social studies instructional activity, students learn that teamwork is a vital part of life at school. Students read the information and advice on this poster. Students list examples of teams or groups they have enjoyed and write...
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Here's an Instant Activity for November 5, 2007

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students improve their spelling skills by completing activities for homophones, antonyms, and synonyms. Students complete a spelling worksheet for 'ie' and 'ei' words. Students then identify 12 homophones, 12 antonyms, and 12 synonyms.
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Gene Control in Prokaryotes

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this gene control worksheet, students use the example of the lactose operon structure to describe what happens when this structure is absent or mutated. This worksheet has 21 fill in the blank statements.
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Variables and Slopes

For Students 7th - 10th
In this variable and slopes worksheet, students practice a warm-up activity involving variables V and X and using Euler's Method to solve a value problem.
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Get Reading Right

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this get reading right worksheet, students in teams combine as many letters together as they can to come up with as many English words as they can by only using the letters in the boxes shown.
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Home Spelling Practice: Grade 6: Vowels oo

For Students 6th - 7th
In this spelling worksheet, students learn to spell a list of 20 words. Some contain long or short vowel "oo" sound. Students write each word one time on the lines.
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Buying and Selling Horses Terms

For Students 4th - 7th
In this online quiz learning exercise, students answer a set of trivia questions about buying and selling horses terminology. Page has a link to submit answers for review.
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Boxcar Children Lesson 6- A Queer Noise in the Night

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this literature worksheet, students learn 45 new vocabulary words from the book Boxcar Children. On this page is a list of words organized by phonograms from the chapter called "A Queer Noise in the Night." There are no questions to...
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Flat Stanley Lesson 7 Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn 45 new vocabulary words from Chapter 7 of Flat Stanley. There are no questions to answer; this is a vocabulary list.
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How Do Words Feel? (Individually)

For Teachers 1st
First graders used textured print to discover how spoken words feel.
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Count Down

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to useing websites as a data source. Using bird population predictions, they test their predictions from various websites. They record, organize and graph the data and share their results with the class.
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Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the concept of an autobiography and use the teacher as an example of how one is developed. They ask the teacher questions and take notes while the answers are given. This activity can be carried over to student...