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Practice With Multiple-Meaning Words
Second graders work with multiple meaning words. They participate in a teacher led lesson about words with have more than one meaning. Everyone completes a skill building worksheet in which sentences using words with more than one...
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Bicycle Wheel Gyro
Using a bicycle wheel and a rotating stool, young physicists experiment with angular momentum. This is a simple, fun, and educational activity that demonstrates a foundational concept. If you can secure the materials, it is definitely...
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What Is Legal With Music On The Web?
Students research what is legal now as far as downloading music from the Internet. They also gather information now that some citizens have been charged with crimes. The research allows students to form informed opinions that are educated.
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Understanding and Explaining the Role of the Media in a Free and Democratic Society
Students select one from a list of possible research projects about the role of the media in a democratic society.
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Being an Educated Consumer of Statistics
Students examine kinds of data used to report statistics, and create their own statistical report based on any of the four sources of media information (Internet, newspaper, TV, magazine).
K12 Reader
Warm Up to Alliteration!
How can you tell if a sentence has alliteration? Use a short instructional activity to help kids identify examples of alliteration, complete sentences to create alliteration, and use nouns to write their own alliterative sentences.
K12 Reader
Waves and Currents
Waves, currents, crests, and troughs. Using information provided in an article about waves and currents, readers define terms used to describe how energy travels.
EngageNY
Designing Your Own Game
Your classes become video game designers for a day! They utilize their matrices, vectors, and transformation skills to create and design their own game images. The complex task requires learners to apply multiple concepts to create their...
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Print & Go ESL
Improve reading comprehension with a set of ESL worksheets. Kids read through various passages, note which facts are true or false, mark their opinion on two statements, and write a short reply based on a writing prompt.
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Volleyball - Lesson 1 - Setting up to Attack
The most important skill to learn in volleyball is passing and bumping. This skill should be practiced every day. The first lesson in this unit of twenty lessons is all about passing. Get a good foundation going and learn how to pass well.
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Volleyball - Lesson 2 - Setting up to Attack
The focus in instructional activity two of this 20 instructional activity volleyball unit is learning how to bump pass. The key to playing volleyball well is for everyone to be able to make good bump passes. It is the first skill used to...
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Volleyball - Lesson 7 - Setting up the Attack
Lesson seven out of this 20 lesson unit focuses on setting up to attack. There is a lot to consider and know with regard to attacking to score a point. This piece focuses on passing the ball to the setter, who then focuses on setting the...
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Volleyball - Lesson 12 - Attacking as a Team
Volleyball Lesson 12 focuses on team work and communication. Helping each other identify balls that are in play or if the ball is going out of play, by calling out loud - in, or, out. The more communication there is amongst team...
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Volleyball - Lesson 20 - Setting up the Attack
It's time to pull all those volleyball skills together in lesson 20! The focus of this lesson is running plays. The setter communicates with her team to set the ball to a certain player and in a specific way. That player will then spike...
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Volleyball - Lesson 4 - Setting Up to Attack
Volleyball - Lesson 4 covers the skill of chasing an errant volleyball pass and putting it back into the proper playing area. This is done by chasing down the ball and using a reverse forearm pass. This takes a lot of practice to get...
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Soccer - Lesson 19 - 2nd Round of World Cup
Lesson 19 out of 20 soccer lessons is round 2 of their class world cup tournament. There is no skill teaching here, but hopefully some assessment can be done during this tournament. All players are occupied, either playing or refereeing.
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Contra Dance
Contra dance was brought to America by French Soldiers after the Revolutionary War. Contra dancing is done in lines, but with partners facing each other. Some moves one partner is moving forward while the other moves backwards. Some...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 9 - Conditioning for Water Skiing
It takes muscle strength and muscle endurance to get up on a water ski or wake board, and to stay up. Lesson 9 out of this 22 lesson unit is about conditioning. A resource link at the bottom of the page allows you to view all the...
Baylor College
What Is a Neuron?
Your class won't get on your nerves while doing this modeling activity! After teaching the structure and function of a neuron using the included diagrams, give individuals some clay and chenille stems so that they can make their own...
New York City Department of Education
Grade 8 Science: Genetic Modification of Organisms
Genetic modification is a hot topic in the science and political world. A complete unit gives learners an opportunity to research genetic modification, play an interactive genetic engineering simulation, and interact with the information...
Baylor College
Pre-Assessment: The Brain
Break your class in to the general structure and function of the brain. Brainiacs discuss what they know about it and create personalized brain development timelines. They also take a true-false, pre-assessment quiz to get them thinking...
Baylor College
Neurotransmitters Contain Chemicals
Human body systems young scholars play a card game, "Locks & Keys" in order to learn that neurotransmitters carry a message from one neuron to another by fitting into a receptor site on the receiving nerve cell. While this activity...
Baylor College
Magnifying and Observing Cells
Though it isn't a novel activity to prepare onion cell and Elodea plant cell slides as examples of cells in a microbiology unit, this resource will leave you thoroughly prepared. As pupils examine the slides that they prepare, they draw...
Baylor College
Tools of Magnification
Life science learners need to be able to use a microscope. With this comprehensive resource, they first experience how lenses and magnification work, and then get familiar with using a compound microscope. Tremendous background...