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If You Meet a Dinosaur Book

For Teachers K
Students utilize the facts presented in the story, " If You Meet a Dragon," by Joy Cowley to make a dinosaur following the features of a template, track the text of the story, and dramatize its main idea.
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"What Is Depression?"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the topic of depression and how it relates to their own lives. They watch and discuss a video, complete a worksheet about their own experiences, and in small groups design and display a poster.
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Creative Dancing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners dance a Cossack dance.  In this dance lesson, students learn to keep the beat and follow a movement sequence to dance a Cossack Dance. 
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Tooning into the Candidates: Michael Bloomberg

For Students 8th - 12th
In this current events worksheet, students analyze a political cartoon about Michael Bloomberg and respond to 3 talking point questions.
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Word Family Memory Match

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this word families matching worksheet, students cut out 24 word cards. Students place beginning sound cards face down in one group and word family ending sound cards face down in a separate group. Students turn over cards to make...
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Logical Relationship of Postulates & Theorems

For Students 10th - 12th
In this postulates and theorems instructional activity, students explore a concept map containing information about angles and sides, alternate interior angles, and diagonals of a parallelogram.  They use the concept map to prove...
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Fire Safety Spelling / Vocabulary Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this fire safety worksheet, students read the fire safety paragraphs and then practice writing spelling and vocabulary words from the paragraphs. Students write 5 words 4 times.
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Scales Problems

For Students 4th - 8th
In this scales worksheet, learners find the weight of the shapes on the scale by comparing it to the other side, and make up their own problems. Students complete 5 sets of problems.
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Dinosaurs are for the Birds

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners use the Internet to see photographs of fossils from dinosaurs. They read articles about dinosaurs and birds and what they had in common. They also examine a dinorama site in which they discover why some dinosaurs needed feathers.
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The Periodic Table Introduction Question Exercise

For Students 10th - 12th
In this chemistry worksheet, students are introduced to the periodic table of elements. They find the answers to 13 questions about the periodic table.
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Vowels Short And Long: Farmer Pete

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study short and long vowel sounds. They hear each word or picture by clicking on it to hear each rhyme. There is also the option of letting some students type their own rhyming sentence in this program. They complete a...
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Bacteria and Viruses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, learners use basic scientific concepts to complete the series of puzzles that are intended to increase science literacy based upon bacteria and viruses.
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Linear Equations 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this linear equations worksheet, students study and analyze how to solve simple equations online. Students solve forty-four simple equations and check their answers on line as they go.
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How Big was that Quake?

For Students 6th - 10th
In this earthquake activity, students determine the magnitude of an earthquake based on the seismogram reading. This activity has 5 problems to solve.
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Giving Oral Directions

For Teachers 2nd
Student practice giving directions. In this giving oral directions lesson, 2nd graders play Simon Says, identify differences between clear and unclear directions, and practice giving someone else directions in the room. Students use a...
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Introducing the Concept: Ordered Pairs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students review ordered pairs. In this graphing lesson, students review ordered pairs with the teacher. This lesson includes a brief teacher script to help guide the students in understanding.
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Draft-o-Meter

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to measure the location and amount of air drafts present in their homes. They discuss the effects of drafts on healing and cooling efficiency in their homes.
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Intermediate Matching - Parts of a House

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this vocabulary instructional activity, students match the 8 terms in the left-hand column to the 8 appropriate definitions in the right-hand column. All of the words and definitions pertain to parts of a house.
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Rules of Sign Change

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students manipulate negative and positive numbers. In this integers lesson, students move through three activities exploring negative and positive whole numbers. A number line, cardboard function representation, and solving expressions...
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The Recorder - B

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Make some beautiful music with a lesson about playing the recorder! After learning some of the basic fingering positions and notes, have kids practice their skills with two easy songs.
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Common Homonym Errors Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
If you're unsure of your homonyms, then this worksheet is for you. So much better than some, there are two columns of exercises, and they're fun too.
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Body Words

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners use their bodies to form the letters to spell each of the five words that they were given. They must spell the word correctly and the teacher must be able to read the word from left and right on their "baseline." The teacher...
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Adding and Subtracting With Negative Numbers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders access prior knowledge of calculating using a number line. In this adding and subtracting with negative numbers instructional activity, 5th graders use a number line to solve math problems.
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Shortest Distance Problem

For Students 9th - 11th
For this algebra worksheet, students solve 1 shortest distance problem. This is a challenging problem that requires students to apply knowledge and use their critical thinking skills. A fully explained solution is included.