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Drinkable Snow
Students explore snow. In this forms of water instructional activity, students read a story about snow, identify the types of snow found in Alaska, and learn Inuit words for snow. The instructional activity calls for an Intuit Elder to...
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Ice Age Challenge Game
Students use a website to do various projects about the ice age and discover the route taken by the first arrivals are unknown and are the subject of a great deal of debate and research.
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Arthropod Key
Young scholars identify the types of pests and categorize them. They identify their food chain and create a poster showing the food chain for the pests.
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Beginning Persuasive Writing
Learners identify elements of persuasive writing. Students discuss writing strategies and topics. They participate in pair and share activities. Learners write a persuasive letter.
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Fears Asylum Boat Headed for New Zealand Has Sunk
In this ESL editing worksheet, students will focus on error correction and editing. Students will read a short passage correcting any spelling mistakes or omissions from the article.
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Texas, Our Texas
Students explore U.S. geography by completing a coloring activity in class. In this Texas history lesson, students utilize the web to locate Texas on a map of the U.S. Students view a PowerPoint presentation which showcases the state...
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Dandelion Facts- Reading and Writing Worksheet Packet
In this set of worksheets about dandelions, students read the definition and 10 pages of facts about the common weed. They look at pictures that are related to the facts.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 1--Grade 7 (2006)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read several passages and two poems and answer reading comprehension questions. Students then write an essay response to one of the passages.
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What Does Advertising Say About Smoking?
Students analyze the decision to smoke and how it is influenced by peer pressure. The discuss ways to say no to tobacco use.
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A Musical Trip Across New Hampshire
Students plan a driving route that includes directions, route number, and landmarks. They present their directions to a simple well-know tune such as; Jingle Bells, Baa-Baa Black sheep, etc.
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Shape Walk
Students take a field trip to a local park or beach to collect objects. They practice counting the objects and put them into categories according to type of shape like a cone, cylinder, etc... As an extension to the lesson students could...
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Introduction to Law I
Students identify four basic values (economic, social, moral, and political) protected by law, examine different definitions of values, and correlate laws to values they aim to protect.
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Music Time
Learners explore several different music-related jobs by role playing activities that portray each job. In this music careers lesson plan, students plan a performance where all of them have a specific music related job.
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Color Your Summer
Students explore different artistic media and techniques used to capture, express, and share summer memories. They research art history and view video clips online to create a piece of online art.
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The Nobel Prize
Pupils investigate the Nobel Prize winners for 2001. They complete a Webquest, explore various websites, watch a video, answer discussion questions, and identify and read newspaper articles about Nobel Prize categories.
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Fold and Cut 2
Second graders make, name, and describe, using their own language and the language of geometry, everyday shapes and objects. They create and discuss geometric patterns which repeat (show translation), or which have rotational or...
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Trekking to Timbuktu: Mansa Musa Takes a Trip - Student Version
Eleventh graders identify Mansa Musa and discuss his pilgrimage, explain how he related to leaders in the East, and describe decisions he made about his homeland. They discuss changes brought about in Mali as a result of his pilgrimage.
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Aqualung , the New Age Garden
Students examine how underwater landscape could be used for food production in the future. They discuss underwater landforms, draw a picture of an underwater landscape and a type of technology to use underwater, and write a description...
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Environment: A Day Around the Bay
Young scholars examine various scenarios about pollution around bays and discuss their reactions to them. Among the situations they investigate are construction site soil washing into a tributary, oil from motor boats leaking into...
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Reach Out Usa: Fighting With Your Sibling
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses why siblings may not get along and offers suggestions for handling conflict with a sibling.
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Meningitis Foundation of America
The Meningitis Foundation of America (MUSA) explains the symptoms and treatment of meningitis along with how to prevent this disease at its website.
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Just France: Cannes
Cannes is a city along the southern coast of France. Get acquainted with the culture, richness, and people of this region.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Tip Calculator
Calculate a tip or gratuity and get the total amount to pay. Enter your meal or dinner cost along with the tip percentage. If you are splitting the cost at a restaurant among several people you can divide by the number of people to get...