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Grammar Worksheets: Who or Whom?
Who or whom? Do your young grammarians need extra practice using interrogative pronouns correctly? The seven sentences in this exercise will provide that opportunity; however, the worksheet does not provide definitions, examples, or an...
NWT Literacy Council
Readers Theatre Scripts
Engage and entertain young learners with this collection of readers theatre activities. With over 25 different scripts, a wide range of topics are covered from simple counting and rhyming exercises to adaptions of popular children's...
Macmillan Education
Understanding Poetry
William Wordsworth's "Daffodils" provides young poets with an opportunity to examine how a poet can use powerful images and poetic devices to create vivid pictures in the minds of readers.
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Far-out Astronomy in a Suitcase
Ninth graders engage in a web-based research activity. They use a teacher provided worksheet to guide their research through the website. This activity provide a excellent opportunity to showcase Canadians astronomy and space science...
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Interrogatives #1
What words indicate an interrogative sentence? After reviewing the words qué, quién, cómo, cuándo, por qué, cuánto, cuál, and dónde, provide your beginning Spanish speakers with this practice opportunity. There are 15 questions, and...
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Present Participle: Gerunds
How do you form a gerund in Spanish? After discussing this special type of verb that functions as a noun, give your class this practice opportunity. Use it as a bell-ringer the day after you introduce gerunds, or send it home for...
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Preterite vs. Imperfect #8
When do you use the preterite tense, and when do you use the imperfect? They're commonly confused, so give your class lots of practice opportunities to drill the difference into their memory! This short exercise would be a great...
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Direct Object Pronouns #1
After introducing direct object pronouns to your Spanish language speakers, provide them with this quick practice opportunity. This would make a great formative assessment before giving a unit test.
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Indirect Object Pronouns #1
Your intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers need to continually practice grammar along with immersing themselves in Spanish literature and culture. This short practice opportunity focuses on indirect object pronouns. There are 10...
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Subjunctive vs. Indicative (present only) #1
How do you use the subjunctive? Review the difficult tense with your intermediate Spanish language learners, and then give them this practice opportunity! There are only 10 fill in the blank questions, and your scholar inputs the correct...
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Subjunctive vs Indicative (Pres. and Imp.) #2
When do you use the subjunctive tense? When do you use the indicative? After reviewing these two tenses with your intermediate Spanish speakers, give them this practice opportunity. It's short, so consider opening up the day with this...
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The Puritans
Puritans, their origins, their beliefs, and values are the subject of a presentation that could be used to introduce viewers to early American history or literature. The PowerPoint could also serve as a model for group projects and would...
Appalachian State University
What Are Graphic Novels?
To do this engaging and pleasurable activity, your learners should have already read a graphic novel, and produced a piece of writing that can be reproduced into the format of a graphic novel. This exercise provides a script that...
Ballard & Tighe
Multiple Choice Masterpiece
What a fun way to mix up your traditional multiple-choice quiz on the Renaissance! After completing a instructional activity reviewing significant Renaissance artists and events, your learners will have the opportunity see if tiles that...
Teach Engineering
Service-Based Engineering Design Project
Do some good for the community while learning about engineering. Groups complete a service-based engineering design project over the course of five weeks. The resource provides guidance on how to conduct the project and help pupils get...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: All Eyes on the Iowa Caucus
Explore the primary elections through political cartoons. Three talking points guide deeper thinking as pupils analyze a cartoon, which depicts the 2008 campaigning in Iowa. Analysts identify caricatures, research why winning Iowa is...
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Finding the Main Idea: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
An excerpt from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea provides learners with an opportunity to practice their ability to identify the main idea and supporting details in a passage. The beautifully illustrated worksheet also has an...
DePaul University
Settlement
Early settlers in the American Midwest experienced constant struggle. This reading passage describes for young learners the hardships of homesteaders as they journeyed west and sought to start a new life. When finished, students identify...
Polk Bros Foundation
Picture the Main Idea
Invite your learners to represent the central idea of a text visually. Individuals note down the main idea and then have the opportunity to draw four pictures that show the idea. Consider working out the main idea together and then...
Polk Bros Foundation
History Dramatists
Bring the drama of history to life in your class and give your learners the opportunity to illustrate their understanding of a historical situation through the medium of a dialogue and/or play. Your young historians will consider a...
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Rebuild Your Community
Students explore the Gulf Coast disaster and what it took to rebuild the community surrounding it. In this economic development lesson, students watch a video from the Nightly Business Report and explore what all it takes to make up a...
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Financial Planning for Catastrophe
Young scholars examine the case of The Gulf Coast and relate it financial importance. In this financial planning lesson, students watch a video and then begin to analyze how to plan for the unexpected by reviewing the financial...
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The REAL Cost of College
Students explore the cost of college and how to plan and save. In this money management lesson students do research on the cost of college, learn about making financial choices, earning, spending, saving, investing and how they apply to...
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The Colonies: An Adertisement
Students explore the early colonies of American settlements. After researching important characteristics such as land, politics, economics, and educational opportunities, students create their own advertisement for one of the colonies.