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Open Your Eyes Wide-Shut

For Teachers Pre-K
Students improve their language skills through 11 activities. In this language skills lesson, students listen to picture books, answer questions about elements of a story, enhance their vocabulary and grammar skills, use 5 W questions,...
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Investigating Median, Mode, and Mean

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop strategies to organize data while following teacher demonstration. They calculate the mean, median and mode of a data set while determining the relationships between the numbers. They analyze data from tables and double...
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Adding in the Garden

For Students Pre-K - K
In this adding with picture clues instructional activity, students write the missing number in each of 8 number sentences. All numbers will be below 5.
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Approximating Pi

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students approximate Pi using the lower and upper bound for the constant. In this algebra lesson, students work in groups of two to graph a circle and approximate Pi using the circumference. They repeat their estimation until they come...
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Rain, Rain, Go Away

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners conduct a number of experiments involving evaporation and condensation. They view and discuss a video about the water cycle and then design posters about the rain based on the book "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs".
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1st and 3rd Person

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders listen as the teacher describes the difference between the 1st and 3rd person. They then search through their literature books to find a story written from a 3rd person perspective and discuss why the story is in third...
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Teaching Rhythm and Pitch Reading

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils practice correct rhythms and pitches during this short lesson for the middle school instrumental class. Objectives vary depending on music used for the lesson. Students assessed through group playing in class.
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Testing the Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils develop and test a hypotheses through collecting and recording water quality data. They perform their tests outdoors in a location with a safe stream and easy access for students. Their various experiments involve the entire...
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Kakuro Puzzle

For Students 1st - 12th
In this math worksheet, students solve the number puzzle looking for the missing values. The sheet is intended to be a teacher's guide.
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Planets

For Students 6th - 10th
In this planets worksheet, students read about Mercury, Venus, and Earth and then complete 21 multiple choice, 2 true or false, and 1 short answer question.
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Time to Rhyme

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners use phonograms to create pairs of rhyming words. After a discussion of nursery rhymes, students listen to an oral reading of "The Cat In The Hat." Through matching activities, they identify rhyming pairs and create their own...
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Getting Ready for Graduation

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students create a presentation about their life. For this technology lesson, students are assigned a graduate and compile information about the person through interviews.  Students then find photographs of the person and create a...
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Interstate Highways

For Students 4th - 6th
In this reading comprehension activity, students read a passage about interstate highways. They then answer the 10 questions on the page.
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Idioms Beginning with F

For Students 5th - 10th
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding idioms with numbers. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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students rotate through four workstations that reinforce the concept of symmetry

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in pairs, use arrays to explore the relationship between multiplication and division.
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Acute Toxicity: LD50 by the Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students observe brine shrimp as they are affected by household cleaners, develop observation scale, collect and analyze data, and discuss how household products and pesticides negatively impact environment.
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Illustrate Inequalities

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders participate in a lesson that involves the concept of inequalities. They translate the words of problems and put them into a visual illustration. The illustration should include a number line for assessment.
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Metric Measurement

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students use, read and write with metric units. They practice converting from larger to smaller units. Afterwards, they construct a scale drawing of a bridge. In addition, they construct these two designs, using the same scale of 1cm to...
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How Many Thousandths Are in Your Box?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify the different place values. In this algebra lesson, students represent decimal place values with manipulatives. They identify the correct place value using commas and mathematical reasoning.
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MS Math Dividing Fractions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice dividing fractions. As a class, 7th graders review multiplication problems and then use a model for dividing whole numbers to discover how to divide fractions. After exploration, the teacher demonstrates the...
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Addition Trail Puzzles

For Students 3rd
In this addition puzzle worksheet, 3rd graders find the trail of numbers in each puzzle. They start with the number in the start position, and work their way by adding horizontally and vertically through the puzzle to reach the end sum.
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Lattice Method of Multiplication Variances

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the lattice method of mulitplication variances through the game "Multiplication Wrestling." They view a model of how to play the game and play three rounds, recording their patterns and discussing the strategies used to...
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Graphs, Equations and Inequalities

For Students 6th
For this inequalities worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 30 various types of problems. First, they calculate and write down a whole number for each equation. Then, students determine the gradient of a line with a given equation....
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Estimation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of estimation. In this estimation lesson, students discuss making estimates through teacher led discussion. Students use the Internet to complete an activity where they must estimate the length of lines.