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Actions Exercises
In this verbs worksheet, learners fill in the sentences with verbs for activities they see in the pictures. Students complete 20 sentences total.
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Check This Out:Money Values and Checks
For this money worksheet, students fill out checks to match amounts of given sets of money. Answers included on page 2. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
College Board
Try This! Calculus Teaching Tips
It's important to spice up your lessons. An online article discusses teaching strategies for AP® Calculus. In-class activities include matching games, placemats, multiple choice questions, scripted discussion, involuntary discussion,...
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Washing Clothes: Beginning ESL Lesson
Your English learners will be the champions of the laundry room with this presentation about washing clothes. Phrases such as "fold the laundry" and "hang up the clothes," as well as vocabulary like laundromat and washing machine will...
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Environment: Water & Air
The introduction to the instructional activity mentions a sailor's limited capacity to store drinking water on his ship. Pupils then set up an overnight experiment to remove freshwater from salt water by distillation. There is a math and...
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Working With Environmental Issues
Pupils consider the source of disease and parasites in West Africa. In this environmental issues instructional activity, students read "Working with Environmental Issues," by Fred Koehler. Pupils participate in an activity that requires...
Smithsonian Institution
Women's Role in the War Effort
Did you know that many women were Confederate spies during the Civil War? The resource focuses particularly on the important role women played for both the Union and Confederacy. It uses exercises such as a discussion, video, analyzing...
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Clothes Cloze
In this Cloze activity worksheet, students fill in the blanks with the vocabulary words about clothes. Students write about winter clothes, summer clothes, footwear, clothes shopping, and laundry.
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Aging and Weight Gain
Sixth graders examine what happens to the body as they age. After discussing factors that contribute to loss of fitness as individuals age, they plan an active activity for their family. They also plan a healthy snack or lunch so they...
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Esperanza Rising: Lesson 8
Sixth graders complete activities with the book Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. In this literature lesson, 6th graders read Chapter 8 of the book and discuss the chapter. They practice putting events in sequence and record new...
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Commas With Conjunctions Worksheet
In this grammar worksheet, learners complete a variety of activities including identifying whether sentences are correct or have a comma splice, correct comma splices in sentences and insert a comma to combine two sentences or more for...
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National Hanging Out Day
In this National Hanging Out Day learning exercise, students complete activities including reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, correct word choosing, multiple choice, sequencing, unscramble the sentences, write...
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Life's Greatest Pleasures
Young scholars explore the meaning of what makes life pleasurable. In this social awareness lesson, students read an article that states things that people might enjoy doing for pleasure, then complete numerous activities to...
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Should vs. Would Rather Exercise
In this should vs. would worksheet, students look at the two listed activities and create a compound sentence stating what they should or what they would rather do.
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Chemical Changes
Fourth graders examine and identify chemical and physical changes in a variety of substances. They observe a vinegar and baking soda demonstration, and a water, laundry detergent, and Epsom salt mixture demonstration. They discuss the...
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Breaking News English: British Food
In this British food worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
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Coal Flowers
Let's make coal flowers! With this fun activity, young learners watch and learn as they grow crystals! With simple household materials and the instructions included in this lesson plan, your class can grow their own crystals. Learners...
Penguin Books
An Educator's Guide to Al Capone Does My Shirts
It's hard to imagine that life on Alcatraz could be dull. A series of intriguing lessons take readers through the novel Al Capone Does my Shirts. Pre-reading questions introduce the text and a range of suggestions, from comic strips to...
Perkins School for the Blind
Bagging Groceries
Bagging groceries is a skill that can help learners with visual impairments understand organizing, problem solving, and weight discrimination. In addition, it is also a wonderful job skill. Help learners as they determine how to bag...
Perkins School for the Blind
I'm Thinking Of...
Learning how to describe an object or a person is a great way to develop verbal and written expression. Learners with special needs improve their verbal expressive skills and concept development skills while playing a guessing game. The...
Perkins School for the Blind
Matching Like Objects
Same and different, sorting, and tactile discrimination are what's on the agenda for today. The class practices sorting objects and attempts to determine which objects are the same and different and why. The purpose is to increase...
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Sorting Solutions
It's okay to play with your food—just this once! Scholars design and create meshes and chutes to sort pasta by size and shape. They test their designs and make improvements as necessary.
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Oil + Water + Wildlife = A Real Mess
Middle schoolers conduct an experiment. In this environmental protection lesson, students explore how oil spills affect living organisms in an ecosystem. Middle schoolers work in groups to complete a lab activity and then discuss their...
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Animal Shelters - Sharing Our Knowledge
Young scholars arrange a service project for a local animal shelter. For this animal shelter lesson, students collect items to be given to a local shelter. They learn how to estimate the monetary value of the donated items. They can do...