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Open Cities: Migration
In this open cities: migration worksheet, 10th graders identify European cities on a map and from photographs, answer 13 questions about the cities, complete 5 sentences and write 7 examples of urban growth.
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Communicating With Health Professionals
Students role play a visit to the doctor's office to practice communicating their symptoms to a health professional. They view an internet example of a patient discussing a medical issue with a doctor and then pair up to share...
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Using Numbers in Everyday Situations
Students exercise the basic use of numbers in their everyday lives. For this numerical exercise, students discover the many ways numbers are used in everyday life. The students draw pictures showing examples of a time they have used...
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Cuisenaire Chefs
Students study the fractional values of Cuisenaire rods while working with favorite family recipes.
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Love Birds
Students create birds using construction paper, pencils, scissors, glue, and heart shapes in this Art activity for the elementary classroom. The activity could be used for a Valentine's Day activity or for a special art project during...
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The Commonwealth - people and places
Students study the commonwealth as an example of a global community. The study what the Commonwealth is, its values, and its function and they reflect upon personal connections with the Commonwealth. After they investigate their own...
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Math: Divide and Conquer - Equivalent Fractions
Students engage in hands-on activities and observe videos to develop fraction skills. In one activity, they create "paper pizzas" complete with original toppings. By swapping pieces, students display whole and unique-looking pizzas.
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Simple Machines
Students investigate simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students explore how tools increase productivity and make life easier. Students experiment with simple tools and discover the parts of each tool.
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Erosion
Fifth graders study what erosion is, what causes it, and ways to slow its progress. They complete an experiment that depicts soil moving down a slope as water is poured on it to show how moving water erodes land. Next, they observe...
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Left and Right Brains
Students research the part of the brain known as the corpus callosum. The part of the brain that connects the left and right brain, students investigate its functions and how data passes from one side to another.
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Intro To Probability
Middle schoolers investigate the concepts related to the practice of using probability. They review the use of mean, median, and mode within the context of previous instruction. Students predict outcomes and calculate them in small...
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What Time Is It?
In this telling time in words activity, students examine 4 clocks and match them to words that describe them best. The choices are: o'clock, half past, quarter past and "a clock." Note: The last choice is confusing; there should possibly...
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Create, Design, and Invent with Plastic
Students explore creative ways to reuse materials. For this ecology/art lesson, students create artwork using trash. Students view examples of folk art from around the world that used waste products as a main component.
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Find the sequence and the nth term
In this fractions worksheet, students look at the fraction pattern and given the expression for the nth term. Students complete 10 problems.
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Division of Monomials
Students relate the division of monomials to multiplication. For this division of monomials lesson, students divide monomials by factoring and dividing common factors from the originals. They check their answers by multiplication. As...
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The Hobbit: Writing Assignment
As a culminating assignment for a unit study of heroes that uses The Hobbit as the core text, class members engage in a multi-genre writing project.
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Factor Samurai
Master composite and prime numbers with this fast-moving game. Using your sword, slice those composite numbers and watch them break up into factors. Slice again if those factors are composite. However, watch out for prime numbers,...
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Plural of Noun Formation Practice #1
In this plural nouns practice worksheet, young scholars read an informative lesson about plural nouns. Students then respond to 20 questions that require them to make the shown nouns plural.
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"My Animal"
Students determine which animal best represents them write reasons why. This is a nice culminating lesson for students who have been working on descriptive writing.
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Math 121 - Mixture Problems
In this mixture problem worksheet, learners read story problems, identify necessary information, and solve mixture problems using the mixture formula. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems. Answers are provided at the bottom of...
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Internet Field Trip on Fractions and Geometry
Learners take an Internet field trip to research fractions. ESOL strategies include using pattern block manipulatives and pairing ESOL and non-ESOL students on computers.
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Dating Popcorn
Students simulate the dating process with popcorn. In this geology lesson, students discuss how geologist find the age of rocks by gauging the amount of decay of radioactive elements. They have 6 bags of popcorn and each group microwaves...
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What's My Ratio?
Students investigate ratios of various objects. In this ratios of various objects instructional activity, students draw pictures on graph paper and then dilate or shrink the image. Students determine the ratio of their...
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Johnny Appleseed
Students meet and delve into the life of the American Folk Hero, Johnny Appleseed through the activities of the eight lessons of this unit. Math and language activities offering whole and small group encounters.