Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.

Explains what active and passive continental margins are and where they can be found.

This lesson focuses on active and passive voice including how to identify each, how to change passive to active voice, and when passive voice is appropriate.

Three page, PDF format handout that explains passive verbs, and when and how to avoid them. The third page contains some practice exercises. Colorful page with a good amount of information packed in to a fairly small space.

This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...

A helpful outline of verb structures, including active and passive voice. Imperative, indicative, and subjunctive moods are also included. A printable version is linked.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay for active voice and complex tenses.

Students investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. They learn how insulation, window placement, thermal mass, surface colors, and site orientation play important roles in passive solar heating. They use...

Learners investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating. Then they design and build their own model houses, and test them for thermal gains and losses during a simulated day and night.

A scholarly discussion of Gandhi's strategy of passive resistance for the people of South Africa in their struggle for equal rights.

This is an introduction to a Grammar and Writing unit. It focuses on a review of dependent and independent clauses, writing concise sentences, avoiding passive voice, formatting writing assignments, documenting sources using MLA...

Students participate in a simulation which shows the movement of molecules across a cell membrane so that they understand passive and active cell transport. Students also use computational thinking skills by developing systems based on...

Lists specific transport mechanisms occurring in different parts of the nephron, including active transport, osmosis, facilitated diffusion, and passive electrochemical gradients.

In the exploration of ways to use solar energy, students investigate the thermal energy storage capacities of different test materials to determine which to use in passive solar building design.

In this activity, students learn how engineers use solar energy to heat buildings by investigating the thermal storage properties of some common materials: sand, salt, water and shredded paper. Students then evaluate the usefulness of...

This slideshow lesson focuses on using concise language by eliminating wordy construction in writing. It explains why writing needs to be concise and ways to do so by eliminating unnecessary passive tense, wordy constructions, and words...

Resource provides an explanation of Cell Transport. Includes many practical examples, as well as pictures. Sections include Water and Solute Movement, The Cell Membrane. Cells and Diffusion, Active and Passive Transport, Carrier-assisted...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Tutorial defines passive transport, semipermeable, and diffusion. Students will learn the significance of a concentration gradient and be able to list the three main...

This is an excellent grammar lesson on the past participle for regular and irregular verbs, including a few compound verbs. It also explains how the participle can play the role of the passive voice and the adjective. The tutorial...

In this learning module, students learn how to talk about Hispanic culture and the impact it has had on them, their community, and the US. They will practice using the passive voice and different verb tenses. Includes games, exercises,...

This site has information on the active and passive verb voice. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.

Using a form of the verb SER and a past participle is one of three ways this grammar tutorial teaches the passive voice. In addition, the impersonal SE is used with examples, along with the impersonal SE plus an indirect pronoun plus a...

A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Passive and Active Voice."

This is a non-graded active and passive voice practice including identifying active and passive voice sentences, determining what the passive voice is doing in sentences, and changing passive to active voice.