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Total English Advanced: A Question of Passives!
In this passives practice worksheet, students sharpen their grammar skills as they examine 8 sentences and choose the correct words from the word bank to complete each sentence. Students also respond to 2 short writing prompts.
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Family Fitness
Students visit sites that contain information about a variety of health and fitness activities. They analyze the activities according to several criteria, and describe how their particular activity choices can contribute to a healthy...
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Senufo Painting
Pupils create a Senufo painting in the same style as the Fakaha tribespeople from West Africa. They listen to a teacher-led lecture on Senufo painting, develop a sketch of an animal and masked figures, and draw their figures on burlap.
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A Hero Biography Project
Fourth graders study historical significant people born in January and February and note their accomplishments. Using given websites, 4th graders collect biographical information and participate in activities about a specified hero. ...
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Water Filtering
Students investigate how polluted water is filtered so people can use this recycled resource. They conduct an experiment in which they put "polluted" water through a filtering system. They investigate what happens at a water treatment...
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Geography Made Fun with Technology
Young scholars incorporate knowledge box into their classroom activities. For this technology integration lesson, students fill out a graphic organizer using Glossopedia to analyze a new subject.
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Lesser Known Influences of the Pacific Northwest
Young scholars engage in research about the development of the Pacific Northwest using specific individuals to emphasize different racial and gender influences in the 1800's. The research method that is used is inquiry based.
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Environmental Education/Water Pollution
Fifth graders play a game in which they list as many environmental issues or terms in alphabetical order. They brainstorm ways they can save the environment and create a mural that displayed research found from the internet and Encarta.
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W.A.R. (Wars Are Real)
Eighth graders research America's involvement in wars and conflicts throughout its history. They are assigned a specific war or conflict and then research basic facts and what society was like in the era of their research. They present...
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Polymer Physics on the Playground
Learners investigate what materials allow them to slide down a slide the fastest. They set up test procedures and carry out an experiment.
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Taxonomy
Learners work together to identify groups of endangered animals. Using a pamphlet, they group the pictures according to specific criteria and cut the pictures out and color them. They place the animals in the correct habitat and share...
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Whale of a Web Site
Students research the characteristics of toothed/baleen whales in books and on the internet. The students participate in whale projects, quizzes, and activities on the internet sites provided.
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Investigating the Mammoth Mystery
Fourth graders go on a virtual dig to find out where the mammoth bones found in a rural U.S. county came from. They determine whether the bones were created by humans or were they the actual remains of mammoths who walked the area during...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Elementary School Teacher's Place
The Math Forum provides lesson plan collections for elementary school teachers. Search the collection of lesson plans by scrolling down to the bottom of the page.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Math Rti for Elementary and Middle Schools
This PDF Practice Guide, released by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) in April 2009, aims to help educators develop and implement Response to Intervention (RTI) to assist students struggling in math. The focus is building an...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Geometer's Sketch Pad Lessons
This site contains lessons using Geometer's Sketch Pad for elementary and middle school aged students.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Measurement: An Elementary Resource List
University of Regina senior education mathematics students compiled this this in-depth resource list for elementary and middle school grades. The resources are categorized according to: supporting program materials, print resources,...
Other
After School Excellence: Word Problems Grades 1 3
This is a resource for elementary word problems. It links to interactive and hands-on sites with videos and strategies.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Problem of the Week
Math Forum has a site for problem of the week for Elementary, Middle, and High School. Subject areas include Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry, and Pre-Calculus. Go through the archives of past problems dating back to 2001.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Word Problems
The online activities are action-packed for elementary and middle school students. The interactive games have students practice problem-solving skills. The variety of math activities help students learn about multistep word problems.
Maths Challenge
Maths challenge.net: Problem Solving Database
Need some challenging problem-solving work for your students in the following areas: Discrete, Geometry, Numbers, and Code Breaking? This is the place for an enormous database of problems aimed at high school age students. They are...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Manipulatives for the Upper Elementary (Gr. 4 6)
Many teachers find it more challenging to incorporate the use of manipulatives into their mathematics programs at the upper elementary or middle school grades. Activities using manipulatives are provided for grades four, five, and six...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Baseball Math
Learn more about baseball and math when you check out this resource. It provides a lesson plan for upper elementary to middle school students where they will use their skills in percentages, decimals and combinations.
US Department of Education
Response to Intervention and Multi Tier Intervention in the Primary Grades
An in-depth discussion of need for Response to Intervention systems to be set up within elementary schools, as well as a guide to doing so. The paper makes five recommendations for setting up an RtI system and gives practical directions...