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Hlf-Ball

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate Newton's Laws of Motion and the Law of Conservation of Energy. They examine how a ball and half-ball behave and relate these laws to what happens to the ball. Students produce a graph of the data collected and...
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Radioactive Decay

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students generate a radioactive decay table for an imaginary element, use their data to plot a decay graph, develop the concept of half-life, and use the graph to "age" several samples.
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Electrochemistry Problems

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this electrochemistry worksheet, students determine the voltage of a cell based on the reduction potentials. Students write a condensed cell diagram and the oxidation half reaction for the cell. This worksheet has 30 problems to solve.
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Proverb Matching

For Students 6th - 8th
For this proverb matching worksheet, learners match the first half of each of the 20 proverbs with the appropriate second half that completes them. Students discuss their answers.
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Methods of Mystery

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars utilize the scientific method to discover the age of an item.  In this historical dating instructional activity, students compare and contrast a 400 year old cabinet to one made within a few years by using carbon...
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Lines of Symmetry

For Students 2nd
In this line of symmetry worksheet, 2nd graders fold a paper in half and cut two parts of a picture to show the line of symmetry. They answer 4 questions in which they color a domino to make it symmetrical. 
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Number and Number Relations: Lesson 20

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders locate decimals on a number line. They use number sense and estimation skills with decimals. Students are introduced to percents. They look at fractions on a number line. Students fold a piece of paper to find halves,...
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M & M Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students receive 10 M & M's to study about fractions. As a class, they divide the ten M & M's into a half. They then take away two and use the eight M & M's to study about fourths. They also use nine to study about thirds.
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Who Needs It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explain the needs and wants of an Abenaki family or group and/or of a family or group in the first half of the 19th century and compare them to the needs and wants of Students' family or household today.
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ESOL: Time and Money

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students study the parts of an analog and digital clock. They create paper clocks to identify telling time to the hour, half-hour, and quarter past and quarter after. They practice tellng time in pairs.
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So! You Want to Start Your Own Political Party?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the emergence of third parties in American politics during the first half of the 19th century. Working in groups, they research a Third Party and determine why the party was founded as well as who were instrumental in...
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Electrochemistry Sample Problems 2

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this electrochemistry worksheet, students determine the half reaction and the standard cell potential. Students identify the species that is the strongest oxidizing agent. This worksheet has 11 problems to solve.
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Creating Your Own "Foil"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create their own foil of themselves. They list characteristics of themselves on a sheet of paper and write the opposite of those on the other half of the sheet. They use aluminum foil to create a person to represent their "foil".
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Rock Around the Clock

For Teachers 1st
First graders use a Judy Clock to learn time to the hour and half hour. They practice by ringing a bell and telling the time. They complete an activity sheet after practicing for several days.
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Egg-xactly Right

For Teachers K
Students match colors and sizes, and manipulate the plastic eggs to put them together. They stand along the perimeter of the gym with a partner. Students have an Easter basket as a pair. They are given a signal, the first person of each...
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Write a Space Poem

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write a variety of space travel poems that will be used to compile a class book and draw their own rocket and half fill it with words associated with space travel and add design and color.
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ECONOMIC SYSTEM

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify two American industrialists within the United States during the second half of the 19th century. They use specific examples, compare and contrast how these two industrialists were successful in their market. ...
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Dance is B.E.S.T.: Time

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students demonstrate dance activities and rhythm activities to whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes. They clap and move to notes individually and in 16 count metric phrases. As they create different 16 count metric phrases and...
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What Time is it? (B)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this telling time review worksheet, students examine 8 clocks and use their math skills to record the 8 time to the half-hour.
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Apple Star Prints

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this apple star prints worksheet, students create special paper or cards by cutting an apple in half, dipping it in tempera paint and making prints.
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Pepper Shamrock Prints

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students print paper using green paint. In this art lesson, students dip open halves of bell peppers in green paint and make prints that resemble shamrocks. Students use their imagination and decorate the paper for St. Patrick's Day.
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K
Students discover rhyming words. In this rhyming activity, students read A Giraffe and a Half. Students examine rhyming words from the story. Working in small groups, students create rhymes in response to a prompt from the teacher.
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Symmetry Project

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore the concept of symmetry by drawing an the other half of an object. They pick from a stack of magazine pictures and draw it on another piece of paper.
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Observation vs. Inference

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Student observe two cups, one slightly smaller and skinnier than the other, with one put inside the other. The cups are turned upside-down and the smaller one is caught as it falls out of the larger cup. The larger cup is filled up about...