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Ways to Reinforce Learning with Meaningful Activities

For Teachers 5th - 9th
There are many ways to reinforce learning with student-designed or creative assignments.
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Kitchen Math - Levels I & II

For Teachers All
Identify appropriate abbreviations, food-measurement terminology, techniques, equivalents, and calculate recipe-size adjustments and demonstrate proper measuring techniques. Identify abbreviations Compute equivalents Identify measuring...
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Experimenting with Magnets

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete four different experiments in classroom stations to investigate how magnets attract and repel.
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Five Paragraph Essays

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students can learn important writing skills, such as how to complete a five paragraph essay, with these lessons.
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Similes, Metaphors, and Figurative Language

For Teachers 9th - 12th
There are creative ways to make similie and metaphor lessons and activities motivating for students.
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Anonymous Poetry

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Anonymous poetry can be a way for students to express emotion and ideas without trepidation.
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Animal Farm

For Teachers 9th - 12th
An exploration of "Animal Farm" can be a way to get students thinking about politics, history, and literature.
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Fire Starters

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students participate in an activity to create a fire starter.  In this creating fire lesson students use products to create a fun fire-starter. 
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Thermal Energy Transfer - Conduction

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine how heat passes through a pane glass window.  In this energy transfer lesson students complete a lab activity.
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Weightlessness Demonstration

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate gravity.  In this weightless instructional activity students complete a lab activity about how a free fall might effect how one perceives gravity.
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3D Houses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students construct 3-dimensional structures from 2-dimensional paper. They design and compile their structures to resemble a neighborhood community.
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Helen Keller

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students describe several obstacles overcome by Helen Keller and identify adversity in their own lives and think about their views of dealing with it and ways of overcoming it.
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Repairing Sentence Fragments

For Students 7th - 9th
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students answer 2 short answer questions regarding sentence fragments. Students may submit their answers to be scored
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Vectors

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students use both magnitude and direction to locate a place. They use locating techniques to make a temperature field of their classroom.
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Create a Cavern

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students make a classroom cave using chairs, desks, and sheets to create a meandering path. They explore safety steps for spelunking exploration.
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Inventions, Puppets, and Commercials

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in groups, invent a product to sell, create a commercial for it using a stick puppet they make.
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Reading Comprehension: Pliny Describes Elephants

For Students 4th - 5th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage titled Pliny Describes Elephants, then answer 7 multiple choice comprehension questions.
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The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an online study guide/notes for the non-fiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The book retraces the steps of...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Into the Wild

For Students 9th - 10th
A six-part learning module with links to images, a video, a website, and a quiz to use while reading John Krakauer's Into the Wild.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Wild World of Carnivorous Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
What exactly are carnivorous plants and how do they trap their prey? Kenny Coogan dives into the world of flesh-eating tricksters.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Wild Kratts: Graphic Organizers (English)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Channel your inner 'Creature Power' while watching Wild Kratts! Dig deep into the video clips using these learning resources.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Wkshop 8: Teaching the Power of Revision

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Workshop 8 takes viewers into the classrooms of three language arts teachers-Velvet McReynolds, Mary Cathryn Ricker, and Jack Wilde-as their students tackle the ongoing task of revision. Throughout the workshop, we hear reflections on...
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Other

The Marine Mammal Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out the research and current topics sections for ways that this rehabilitation center for marine mammals is using tracking methods to keep tabs on some of the patients they have released back into the wild.
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Field Trip Earth: Ghosts of the Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
Enjoy the information presented by Field Trip Earth on the Mexican Wolf. Read about the 1998 release of these wolves back into the wild. Learn about this project, the species, and its habitat.

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