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Using Addition to Learn Multiplication Facts #4
For this using addition to learn multiplication facts #4 worksheet, 3rd graders use pictures of an addition problem to write a multiplication problem online using the times sign, then check their answer.
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Using Addition to Learn Multiplication #8
In this using addition to learn multiplication facts #8 learning exercise, students use pictures of an addition problem to write a multiplication problem online using the times sign, then check their answer.
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Using Addition to Learn Multiplication #12
In this using addition to learn multiplication #12 worksheet, students count the shirts in the addition problem and enter the numbers, interactively, to write a multiplication sentence, then check their answer.
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Reading to Learn
Pupils participate in a lesson plan that reinforces reading skills. Specifically, this lesson plan focuses on the skill of summarization. This strategy teaches students how to better comprehend written text.
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The Groups and Electron Dot Diagrams
It's all in the family with this presentation! The halogen, alkali metal, and noble gas families are introduced to young chemists along with characteristic properties and colorful diagrams of electron shells. Viewers are then taught how...
Maine Content Literacy Project
Understanding Theme
The ninth in a fourteen-instructional activity series, this plan marks a sort of midpoint in a unit devoted to the study of short stories. Pupils learn about theme and work on their short story projects by adding to their blogs, checking...
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My Antonia: Magic Squares (Vocabulary Strategy)
Help your pupils discover the power of context clues by teaching the this vocabulary strategy. Designed to go with words from Willa Cather's My Antonia, this exercise focuses on having individuals use their own words to define new...
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MINTS: A Capitalization Trick
Create a poster with the acronym MINTS to help youngsters to remember when to capitalize in sentences. In this capitalizing lesson plan, students reinforce the rules of capitalization with this acronym during their writing activities. A...
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Cliches, Paradoxes
Clichés, paradoxes, and equivocations are detailed in a short, animated video that defines and illustrates these writing traps. The resource also includes a quiz and the transcript for the video. Users can register to access free course...
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Problem Solving
This problem-solving PowerPoint includes detailed steps to follow when solving a math story problem. Each slide describes and gives an example of what a student should ask himself and/or what particular strategy would work in order to...
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Reality Check
Students evaluate different types of reality television programming in "focus groups" and then submit their opinions on this type of programming to a television network.
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Writing Equations Mixed Review
Students write equations based on a pattern. In this algebra lesson, students calculate the arithmetic and geometric mean of a sequence. They rewrite word problems as a linear equation and solve real life scenario based on the given data.
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How Fast Is Fast?
Learners make sensible estimates and check the reasonableness of the answers. Students write and solve problems involving decimal multiplication and division. Learners perform calculations with time.
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Reading to Learn: How Do We Sum That Up?
Young scholars explore the topic of summarizing. They read the book, Dolphins at Daybreak, to practice summarizing. They determine what information is important and choose sentences to summarize the passages they read. They write a...
Nazareth College
Creative Writing
Students discuss creative writing—what makes something creative writing? Each learner starts writing a story and after 15 minutes, they pass their story to another who adds to it. After another 15 minutes of writing, the story is passed...
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Write a Recipe
In this Language Arts worksheet, students write a recipe. Students include ingredients and any special equipment needed for the recipe.
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Revision of the Four Rules (Whole Numbers)
In this whole numbers worksheet, students read through an explanation of how to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers. Then, students answer 60 questions in which they will do one of these operations with whole numbers....
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Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963Patricia Wachholz
Students research the 1960s to prepare for reading the book, The Watsons Go To Birmingham, by Christopher Paul Curtis. They watch a documentary, create a timeline, and listen to music from the 1960s.
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Taming of the Shrew: Updated, Translated, and Performed
Make The Taming of the Shrew modern and relevant with this outline. Small groups can choose from a list of suggested scenes and update with modern language and settings before acting them out. Great questions refine writing and...
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Fast Fact-Finding
Ever wonder why the sky changes color so often? Readers examine an informational excerpt from John Farndon's How the Earth Works. They underline key points as they read and then answer five response questions. Prompts review main...
Fun Music Company
The C Major Scale
Your young musicians will take note of this worksheet that asks them to mark the half steps in a C major scale and then write the scale in both treble and bass clef.
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Compound Sentences
Do your pupils need a little variety in their writing? Help them build compound and complex sentences with sentence frames. They first combine two independent clauses to form a compound sentence, then add a third clause to make a complex...
CK-12 Foundation
Direct Variation: Value of a Painting
Help your pupils find a pattern of direct variation. Young scholars use input-output pairs to find a constant of variation and then write the equation. As they build their equations, the interactive lesson provides feedback.
PBS
What Are the Primaries and Caucuses?
What are the essential differences between primaries and caucuses? As part of a study of the process by which Americans select their candidates for US president, class members examine the nominating process, the changes that have...