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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Making Predictions Worksheets and Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn more about making predictions in reading. Worksheets and a leson are provided to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding Patterns to Make Predictions

For Students 6th - 8th
Make predictions then explore the patterns found in everyday objects like stairs. This interactive exercise focuses on developing an equation to represent a mathematical rule and working with virtual manipulatives to visualize a concept,...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Predicting the Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a good way to get yourself on TV. This science fair project will help you learn how to predict the weather. So who knows, maybe you'll be more accurate than your local meteorologist.
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Other

Kiddie Matters: Best Guide for Teaching Kids the Decision Making Process Steps

For Teachers K - 1st
Kids have to make a wide range of decisions on a daily basis. It can get overwhelming if kids aren't armed with the right tools to make good decisions. When children learn the decision-making processing steps, they make more responsible...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Make a Weather Forecast

For Students 4th - 8th
Review these tips and learn to make predictions of the weather.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Lip Balm Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, young scholars will make three types of lip balm. They will then predict which lip balm they think will be preferred by testers and test that prediction by collecting data from testers who sample the lip balms. They...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Teaching Measurement: Literature and Manipulatives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The tradebook, Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen, is an excellent tool in teaching measurement. Students will engage in activities involving different types of measurement. In the story, five animal friends decide to take a boat ride....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Literary Elements in Jan Brett's the Mitten

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will analyze such literary elements as plot, cause-effect relationships, sequence, and prediction in Jan Brett's The Mitten. Students will enjoy predicting upcoming story events and retelling the story from a dialogue that shows...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: You Decide: Roanoke the Lost Colony

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Inspired by Roanoke The Lost Colony, An Unsolved Mystery From History, students will learn and discuss this mysterious part of American history. Doing their own detective work they will make predictions and come to a conclusion regarding...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What in the World Is Wrong With Sammy?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
This lesson provides students with the technology-based project researching Guinea Pigs. The trade book, Sammy, the Classroom Guinea Pig, will be used to make predictions.The students will use the facts from their research to create a...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Air Pollution: Will There Be Ozone Tomorrow?

For Students 9th - 10th
Collect and analyze real time ozone data to make determinations about the status of ozone in your local area. See if you can apply what you learn to make predictions about tomorrow's ozone levels.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do plants need? Students examine the effects of light and air on green plants, learning the processes of photosynthesis and transpiration. Student teams plant seeds, placing some in sunlight and others in darkness. They make...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Trees in a Diagnosis Game

For Students 9th - 10th
In this dynamic data science activity, students use data to build binary trees for decision-making and prediction. Prediction trees are the first steps towards linear regression, which plays an important role in machine learning for...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Beat Goes On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn about their heart rate and different ways it can be measured. Students construct a simple measurement device using clay and a toothpick, and then use this device to measure their heart rate under...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this lesson, learners are introduced to both potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. A hands-on activity demonstrates how potential energy can change into kinetic energy by swinging a pendulum, illustrating...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?

For Teachers K - 1st
Students test whether the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. Students will place an ice cube in a box made of colored paper (one box per color; white, yellow, red and black), which they will place in the sun. The...
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Pals [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Classroom teachers will learn about Peer Assisted Learning/Literacy Strategies (PALS) an engaging instructional strategy for students. Teachers will learn how to implement PALS, understand how to measure progress with PALS, and find...
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PBS

Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: The Arctic Our Global Thermostat

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists believe that the climate in the Arctic is an indicator of global climatic conditions. Learn what makes the Arctic so unique and how scientists use this information to predict global changes. Informative photos accompanied by...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Bar Ty

For Students 9th - 10th
Modeling traffic data is important for urban planning, creating transportation systems, and even predicting how much foot traffic a retail store can expect in a given day. This genre of dynamic data science activities could be classified...
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Read Works

Read Works: Fourth Grade: Three Lesson Unit: Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on In a Pickle and Other Funny Idioms by Marvin Terba, in which students learn how understand idioms and use them to explain the plot and to make predictions. With free login, users...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Correlation Coefficient Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will learn the meaning of the correlation coefficient, find the regression equation and use it to make predictions.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Investigating the Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson, young scholars will study, record, and predict weather. Students will work in groups to create a weather word wall, research and make a barometer, and create a video about weather. Young scholars will also use the...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The 'Ultimate' Science Fair Project: Flying Disk Aerodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Tossing a Frisbee with your friends is a great way to have fun in the sun. As you practice your throws and become more accurate, you're learning about the aerodynamics of Frisbee flight intuitively. You're learning the body mechanics...