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Paper Mache Masks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a mask made out of paper mache.
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Studying and Working: The Busy Lives of Students With Paid Employment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the effect of paid employment on academic performance. They examine how to construct a survey on time use.
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

For Teachers 10th
Students read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". They apply what they discovered about plot summary to the beginning of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". They draw a plot summary sketch and label the introduction and rising...
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Planning Your Essay

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners discover how to organize essays effectively. In this writing lesson, students construct a spider map to develop their ideas for an essay.
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Dividing Expressions

For Teachers 8th - 12th
In this algebra worksheet, students divide expressions and utilize exponent rules. There are 7 questions with multiple parts.
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Understanding Equivalent Fractions

For Teachers 5th
In this understanding equivalent fractions worksheet, 5th graders use a computer program for instruction, then answer 15 questions about equivalent fractions.
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Ratios and Proportions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this ratios and proportions worksheet, students complete a series of short answer questions based on different charts and word problems dealing with ratios and proportions. Students complete 9 problems.
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Solve the Case!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover the habits of panthers by solving fictitious crime mysteries.  In this animal life lesson, students utilize their research from previous lessons to solve mysteries in a panther activity.  Students answer...
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Twig Picture Frame

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create a twig picture frame. In this visual arts lesson plan, students use cardboard, twigs, and glue to construct a twig photo frame. Students add flowers or nuts as a decoration.
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Airline Passenger

For Students 8th - 11th
In this distance, speed, and time worksheet, students determine the effect of wind on the time of a flight.  The students answer five questions to help them come to a conclusion regarding the airplanes travel.
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Family Law - Domestic Violence

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students take a closer look at domestic violence. In this family law lesson, students participate in a classroom simulation that requires them to define domestic violence and students then discuss teen dating violence. Students make note...
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Mushroom

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students identify the different types of mushrooms. In this biology lesson, students explore different mushroom experiments they can do at home. They discuss ways to extend sliced mushrooms' shelf life.
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Pi Day (March 14)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine the value of ? by measuring the circumference and diameter of circular objects such as soup cans, Oreo cookies, etc..
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Group Research and Reports on STDs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify and list diseases that people can contract through sexual activity. They conduct Internet research on a chosen STD, write a one-page report, and create a visual aide to present to the class.
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What's Hiding in Your Home Cabinets?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars analyze a variety of products found in their own homes to determine their toxic content. They identify words such as caution, warning or danger and relate them to their relative toxicity levels.
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Sources of Finance

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Young scholars determine the difference between internal and external sources of finance. They justify their judgment decisions and how they sources their businesses.
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Past and Present New York Through A Comparative Study of Photography and Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study New York in three time periods, 1890-1930, 1930's, and 1950's-60's. They discuss themes that are important in each time block. They describe a brief historical picture of each time period before they approach works of...
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Insect Curation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to curate insects that they collected in previous lessons. They are told that specimen curation is a way to preserve field collected specimens to catalogue what species exist in a certain area or to have reference...
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Lets Read Faster with Junie

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils practice a variety of techniques and strategies to assist them in becoming fluent readers. They practice reading with expressiveness and fluency with Junie B. Jones and some "Sneaky Peeky Spying," by Barbara Park. A checklist is...
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Endangered Species and Extinction

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders determine the difference between extinction and endangered species. Using the internet, they research one endangered species, identify its common and specific name, where it lives and what it eats. To end the lesson...
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Simulation of Irradiation

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
For this irradiation worksheet, students simulate the effects of irradiation on bacteria growth by using UV light. Then students complete 6 short answer questions.
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Linear Regression on TI-83

For Students 11th - 12th
In this linear regression worksheet, students use TI-83 calculators to graph linear regressions. Instructions for using the calculator are provided. This two-page worksheet contains six problems.
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Fungi Crossword

For Students 6th - 10th
In this biology worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle with 28 questions about fungi. They identify the different parts of a fungus.
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Measure Up!

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine parallax and angular measurements.  In this investigative lesson plan students calculate distances of objects and map their results.