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English Exercises: Cloze Exercise
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 29 fill in the blank questions where they complete a cloze activity. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Marketing a Bad Idea: Why So Many People Joined the Klan in the 1920s
How did the Klu Klux Klan manage to gain so many members during the 1920s? Class members examine Klan documents and promotional materials to gain an understanding of the propaganda techniques used to attract members.
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Frank Oo Berry Mush
Students practice writing, incorporating reasons to support ideas, and responding constructively to other's comments.
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Clifford Goes to School and So Do We!
Pupils create a Clifford headband and make a sign in the shape of a large bone that includes four rules on it as included in the instructional activity. They follow step-by-step directions, identify the four classroom rules, and respond...
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"Fast and Slow"
Pupils find a partner, they think about their favorite TV sport that they might like to perform in an unusual dance. They practice their chosen sport and students see if they can make a litter repeating pattern of three or four parts...
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Sweet or Sour, Like or Different
Young scholars watch a video on comparisons and discuss ways in which objects can be sorted. They play an identification game with a lemon and discuss identification characteristics.
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Geo Jammin By Design: Coordinated
Students watch the teacher draw on the chalkboard and try to determine the form being drawn. They use questions to determine Quadrant #1 of a coordinate plane.
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Internet Pen Pals
Students write letters to e-mail pals and respond to letters received. Students describe the geography of their community to their pals.
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Reaching the Clouds for Equality
Students listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. They create their own cloud and write a dream they have for the world inside. They write journal entries on how to treat others fairly.
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Volcano
Middle schoolers research major volcanic eruptions. In this Earth science lesson, students take on the role of vulcanologist writing reports to the President of the United States on how to respond to a volcanic disaster. This lesson...
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Sow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During World War I
High schoolers engage in a class analysis of posters, responding to each of the worksheet questions. They identify the similarities and differences between the posters.
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Community Evolution: Putting the Puzzle Together
Pupils, working in groups, to study on aspect of their community history. They put their research together in one story about their community.
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Parts of Speech
In this grammar worksheet, students focus on the various parts of speech. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions in this online interactive worksheet.
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It's Alive! Or is it?
Students differentiate the characteristics of living and nonliving things. In this life science lesson, students compare and contrast robots and living things. Given an object, they decide whether it's is living or not and defend...
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Let it Grow, Let it Grow, Let it Grow
Students investigate, through a hands-on activity, in which type of soil a bean seed grows best. They create a bar graph representing each plant's growth in different soils.
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In the Kitchen
Students practice speaking and using vocabulary associated with the kitchen. In this speaking and vocabulary lesson, students answer teacher questions about the kitchen and the items in the kitchen. Teacher evaluates student answers.
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Identifying Forces
Students identify, describe and indicate direction and relative magnitude of forces. In this motion instructional activity students work in groups to identify the force that is described to them.
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Habari Gani: What is the News?
Display creative works of art after learning about Kwanzaa. Kindergartners hear stories about the history of Kwanzaa and its celebrations. They then create artwork, practice African dances and listen to African music.
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Science: 4 X 4
Students generate four statements and four questions based on their current level of understanding of the article from the engage lesson. They
evaluate the statements and questions that they have generated and those of their classmates...
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Defining moments: Framing the Problem
Students create a problem framing chart to examine the issues surrounding the decision to inter Japanese Americans during World War II. They respond to a set of questions using perspectives from different parties involved in the decision...
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Conversations
Eighth graders explore the art of conversation. For this giving instructions lesson, 8th graders discuss and respond to rules, play a game, and practice giving instructions to one another. Students are preparing for communicating in...
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Coaching, Conferencing, and Correcting
Students, after revising their writing and identifying their strengths and weaknesses, edit their writing incorporating teacher feedback and examples from class exercises. In addition, they continue working on individual writing...
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Watery World
Students brainstorm to develop resource/reference charts for later use. they are introduced to Microsoft Word and to an internet movie site. They use prepared chart headings, to respond to questions posed on each chart such as: Where do...
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Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
Pupils describe the music in terms related to basic elements such as melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, form, style, etc. They identify timbres heard in "Pavane" by movement and respond by movement to timbre.