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Word Roots 6: PLIC, FAC-FIC, COGN/NOT Advanced Puzzle 1, 2, & 3
Guide your class in learning and applying Latin roots with this online activity. Learners use definitions and word roots to fill in the given blanks. This web page has features three different word roots to practice: PLIC, FAC-FIC, and...
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Lightbot Jr 4 Coding Puzzles
Learning how to write computer code has never been so much fun! Given control of their very own robots, children create simple programs in order to solve a series of challenges and develop their problem solving skills.
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Games
In this games learning exercise, students identify and discuss eighteen different types of games and then circle each one in a word search puzzle.
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The Six-Digit Number Problem
In this math puzzle worksheet, students determine the six digit number that reverses its digits when multiplied by four.
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Uncovering Underground Veggies
Add a word puzzle to your underground vegetable lesson plan. Learners unscramble vegetable names and discover a hidden message using corresponding numbers and letters.
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The Victorians Pack
What was life like during the Victorian era? Images of crowded factories and lavish palaces may come to mind—and both would be accurate. Learn more about Britain during the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria with a series of informational...
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Creation of An Educational Toy, Game, or Story
Seventh graders create a toy, game or story suitable for a young child. They research magazines, catalogs, and child development texts for ideas. Students consider the age and development of the child.
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Word Roots 6: PLIC, FAC, COGN Beginner Level Synonym or Antonym Word Puzzle
Do you need a vocabulary exercise for your class? Consider this one! This activity provides a word bank that could be used as your class vocabulary list as well as an activity in which learners choose an antonym and a synonym for six...
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Nim With Cards
In this math worksheet, students solve word problems by playing a card game. The first person to reach 31 wins the game.
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Math Stars: a Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 7
Put on your thinking caps because middle school math has never been more interesting in this huge resource full of thought provoking questions. Written as a newsletter, the resource has 10 two-page newsletters with a variety of...
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Engaging Young Scientists with Inquiry: Part One
Building inquiry into your science lessons will make science concepts more concrete for your class.
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Nine Men's Morris
In this worksheet, students play the game of Nine Me's Morris which is similar to tic-tac-toe and checkers. Students are presented with a diagram of the playing board and instructions for play.
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Birth Month Number Game
In this number game, learners use algebra to prove why when starting with the number of birth month, followed by some calculations, one can correctly calculate the year you were born and your age.
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Favorite Number Game Using Age and Change in Your Pocket
In this number game, students use algebra to prove this age and change in your pocket number guessing game. Students end with a number where the first two digits are their age and the last two digits are the change in their pockets.
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Factors Game
In this factors game worksheet, teams of students identify factors. They find proper factors of a given number This one-page worksheet cotnains approximately 40 problems.
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Abraham Lincoln and the Five-Dollar Note
Students study Presidential history by researching Abraham Lincoln. For this U.S. history lesson, students discuss the changes in the 5 dollar bill and create a timeline of Abraham Lincoln's life. Students complete a puzzle...
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Guess the Four-Digit Integer Game
In this game worksheet, students explore the instruction on how to play a guess the integer game. The leader picks a four-digit number, and the students try to guess it after given feedback.
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Math Game: Secret Trail
In this math game worksheet, students find the trail from one designated number to another to arrive at the answer to a subtraction problem. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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Secret Trail Math Game
In this math game worksheet, students add numbers, starting at a given one and ending with a given sum. A website reference is given for additional activities.
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Secret Trail Math Square Game
For this math game worksheet, students find the path that leads from a first number to a last, adding as they go to find that sum. A website reference is given for additional resources.
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Naming Esters
Do your chemistry scholars know their esters? Introduce the class to the nomenclature and structural formulas of common esters through thought-provoking games. Individuals or pairs of pupils match the name with the formula before using...
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Number Block 1
In this number puzzle activity, 4th graders try to fill in the missing numbers in the number block game. The missing numbers are integers between two and six. The numbers in each row have totals on the right, with the numbers in each...
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You Can Count on Spelling
Here is a cross-curricular activity that is suitable for virtually any grade level! Learners calculate the mathematical value of their spelling words using the letter tiles from a Scrabble game and identify the spelling word with the...
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Thanksgiving Word Search
Scholars search through a crossword puzzle to locate a variety of words related to Thanksgiving. Either online or on paper, players highlight or circle their findings. Words disappear from a list after they've been located.