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Family Activity: Adding and Subtracting Decimals

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students work at home with a family member to add and subtract decimals in a sample check register. Students add deposits, subtract withdrawals and determine the balance of the account.
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Family Activity: Bar Graphs and Line Graphs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math learning exercise, students work at home with a family member on a graphing activity. Students count the number of cans, glass jars, boxes and bags in the pantry. Students make a bar and a line graph to represent the data.
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Graphing Activity

For Students 7th - 8th
In this probability and statistics worksheet, students work with a family member to construct graphs based on real life data. The two page worksheet contains three questions. Answers are not included.
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Family Letter and Algebra

For Students 7th - 9th
In this algebra worksheet, students receive a parent informational letter. The letter discusses what will be covered in algebra that school year and has an ordering integers activity.
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Inequalities are Everywhere

For Students 9th
For this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders work with a family member to graph inequalities on a number line. The two page worksheet contains five questions. Answers are included.
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The First Humans: Prehistory-3500 B.C. "Lucy"

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore prehistoric times by completing web activities in class. In this human ancestry lesson, students identify the archaeological discovery of the "Lucy" skeleton and what it meant for science. Students investigate the Leakey...
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American Thanksgiving Through Time

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore five web sites in order to identify the various ways Thanksgiving has been celebrated in the past and how it is celebrated today. They consider the diversity of United States and this affects celebrations of the day.
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Growth and Development

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students read the folktale, "The Magical Stone", and discuss questions imbedded in the instructional activity.
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Identifying an Author's Purpose

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students read, "Research Shows TV PSAs Effective In Reducing Teen Marijuana Use", discuss the article with questions imbedded in the lesson and write their own PSA.
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"My Friend's Got This Problem, Mr. Chandler," by Mel Glenn

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students read, "My Friend's Got This Problem, Mr. Chandler," discuss it and write a response to one of the poems.
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Drawing Conclusions

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore why some teenagers take unnecessary risks. In this decision making lesson, 10th graders read an article on risk taking and draw important conclusions on the topic.
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The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the resilience of the human spirit as it pertains to The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson. They also explore how people with disabilities can overcome great obstacles.
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Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections by Angela Shelf Medearis

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore how adolescents attempt to tain peer acceptance.
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Recognizing Propaganda - Unreliable Testimony

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars investigate how product endorsements can be a form of propaganda. They analyze various shampoo ads, discuss celebrity endorsements and unreliable testimony, and create a written non-propaganda ad for or against a celebrity...
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The Lure and Lore of Weight Lifting

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine the importance of physical activity and positive reasons for weight training. They analyze and discuss a famous ad, read and summarize an article, and identify the benefits of resistance training.
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Using Word Parts to Infer Meaning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the importance of physical activities and use word parts to infer meaning to a story. They discuss agility, baseball, and ballet dancing, read an article, and observe a demonstration on breaking down words and examining...
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Recognizing a Message's Point of View

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study the physical, mental, and social health benefits of regular exercise while attempting to recognize the point of view of media messages. They read an article and discern ways in which they can make regular exercise a part...
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Identifying a Message's Purpose

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars examine the character trait of perseverance and identify a message's purpose. They read a biography of Jackie Joyner Kersee, discuss the main message, and develop an action plan with goals and a message.
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Recognizing Propaganda-Loaded Language

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study a print ad for an abdominal toning device after discussing what strategies are necessary for healthy weight loss and muscle tone. They practice the skill of recognizing propaganda in print advertising.
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"Study Finds Soft Drink Consumption Up, Health Down"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars compare the nutrients in soda with those in milk after reading an online article. They identify micronutrients that are important in the teen years and those that help stave off disease.
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Feeling Sleepy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read the article "Feeling Sleepy?" students compare the article to a sleep survey they do in their class, describe problems that can arise from not getting enough sleep and identify strategies for getting adequate sleep.
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Handwriting: Group Upper and Lower Case Letters

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize and practice characteristics of upper and lower case letters. They assess how to write letters in a straight line, a slanted line and in a curve and then write the letters covered on their individual dry erase board or...
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Cell Growth and Division

For Students 9th
In this biology activity, 9th graders label the diagrams with the appropriate phase of mitosis illustrated. Then they explain why skin cell undergo mitosis continuously. Students also explain why mitosis is a form of asexual reproduction.
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Genetics Since Mendel

For Students 9th
In this biology worksheet, 9th graders describe how two alleles can produce three phenotypes. Then they create a Punnett square showing the possible offspring of red and white cattle. Students also determine the genotypes and phenotype...

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