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Play Ball!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
This PowerPoint provides an overview of how to construct and complete analogies. The slides give examples of how analogies work and have illustrations to match. This PowerPoint also provides students with a chance to fill-in the given...
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It's Your Opinion

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Everyone has a different opinion about the characters they read about in books. Have your class explore forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it as they read and discuss what they think about a particular character. They...
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History of Physics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this history worksheet, young scholars use the questions to discover meaningful science and history connections. The worksheet is meant to be viewed online to access individual answers.
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Geologic Time Scale Analogy

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine geologic time to scale. In this geologic time lesson, students create a time-scale metaphor that shows some of the Earth's important events. Students present their metaphor to the class.
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Deer Valley Unified School District

Close Reading: Analyzing Mood and Tone

For Students 9th - 12th
The AP Literature and Composition exam is all about close reading. Test takers are presented with a passage and asked to analyze how an author uses literary devices to create a desired effect. Prepare your students for the exam with a...
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Better Your Vocabulary Instruction

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Use the magic squares activity to develop vocabulary and make reviewing target words fun!
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The Nature of Haiku Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students brainstorm elements of nature art prints and photos. They identify the syllable count of Haiku and take a nature walk. They write Haiku poems while practicing the use of simile, alliteration, metaphor, and analogy to describe...
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Ionic bonding

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners explore ionic bonding. They draw examples of ionic bonding and explain the activities of the electrons of the elements. Students use paper plates and candy to draw electron configurations of given atoms.
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode 3 - Harmony

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students complete a unit on musical harmony. They listen to examples of three part harmonies, watch a video, complete a data sheet, prepare a report on the history of harmony, and complete a multimedia report on music for the movies.
Handout
Charleston School District

Increasing, Decreasing, Max, and Min

For Students 8th Standards
Roller coaster cars traveling along a graph create quite a story! The lesson analyzes both linear and non-linear graphs. Learners determine the intervals that a graph is increasing and/or decreasing and to locate maximum and/or...
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California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc

Poetic Devices

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Have everything you need to know about the elements of poetry with a nine-page handout. Split into four categories—word sounds, meanings, arrangement, and imagery—budding poets may reference terms, read definitions, descriptions, and...
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Analogies with Synonyms and Antonyms

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this synonym and antonym worksheet, learners read the synonym and antonym for each word in the box below. Students then complete the analogies with the synonyms or antonyms.
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Beginning Analogies 10

For Students 4th - 5th
In this analogies worksheet, students read the pairs of words and select the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 examples.
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Beginning Analogies

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this analogies worksheet, students read the pairs of words and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair. Students complete 12 examples.
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Polynomial, Rational, and Radical Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This assessment pair goes way beyond simple graphing, factoring and solving polynomial equations, really forcing learners to investigate the math ideas behind the calculations. Short and to-the-point questions build on one another,...
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Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Simile and Metaphor (English III Reading)

For Students 11th Standards
The key idea in this interactive exercise designed for high schoolers is that figurative language, especially similes, and metaphors, add layers of meaning to a text. Users examine examples from speeches, ads, movie dialogue, and poems,...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Auroras

For Students 9th - 12th
Learn the science behind one of the most beautiful acts of nature. A comprehensive lesson explores the causes and characteristics of auroras. The instruction also explains the differences among auroras and what the differences indicate...
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Journalism Ethics

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
As a journalist, would you publish everything you heard or saw? Discuss the ethics of journalism with a lesson from PBS. Young reporters imagine themselves to be the editor of their school's newspaper, and as they read five scenarios,...
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Analogies

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use analogies to test their understanding of relationships between words or ideas. They practice analogies to improve vocabulary and thinking skills. Students write sentences that use analogies.
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Business and Advertising

For Teachers Higher Ed
Historical and humorous examples pepper this through presentation, which addresses logical infelicities and humor in business, advertising, and even politics. Though designed for a business and advertising class, this lecture could also...
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How is a Hot Dog Like a Shoe?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students create and explain analogies that reveal the depth of their understanding of new concepts.
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Vocabulary Practice

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students complete analogies and fill in the blanks to sentences with vocabulary words given. Students complete 18 problems.
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Out of the Dust 1

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students review figurative languages terms and examples. They read the first entry in the book, Out of the Dust, and discuss the images created by the author. Then they create an autobiographical poem using figurative language.
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Cell 5 Diffusion and Osmosis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners distinguish between active and passive transport. Students identify key words associated with active and passive transport. They draw and explain the structure f the cellular membrane. They are able to define phospholipid...

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