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Science: When Autumn Leaves Fall

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students conduct Internet research to discover the reason why leaves change color in autumn. On a nature walk around school grounds, they collect leaves of various colors and shapes over a three-week period. finally, students select...
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Corridor of Time Fieldtrip Worksheet and Explorers Heritage Center History Hunt

For Students 5th - 12th
In this Corridor of Time and Explorers Heritage Center worksheet, students respond to 29 short answer and fill in the blank questions regarding information presented in the North Dakota Heritage Center.
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Fifth Grade English/Language Arts Test

For Students 5th
In this language worksheet, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about punctuation, sentence structure, word order, and more. Students complete 30 questions.
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Acting Out or "as the School Turns"

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students learn the idea of drama in their own lives; and then transfer that idea to the works of others in this series of lessons. They discuss the question of identity.
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What Can You Learn About Dinosaurs by Watching an Ostrich?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students often find dinosaurs interesting. However, it is doubtful that they have actually thought about the process by which scientists (and film animators) develop working models of dinosaurs. Reproducible worksheets provide...
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Atlas Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover what type of information in an atlas by participating in a scavenger hunt. With a partner, they try to find the answers to many questions as possible. They exchange their papers with another partner group and check...
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Worksheet for Analysis of Sheet Music

For Students 6th - 12th
In this primary source analysis worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions that require them to analyze sheet music of their choice.
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Football Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd
For this football facts worksheet, 3rd graders will read a passage about American football and answer eight multiple choice questions about the sport.
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Workplace Change and Class Formation

For Students Higher Ed
In this Workplace worksheet, students write about the main provisions of five acts which made modifications to the workplace, then answer several questions in short answer form.
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The Birth of the American Empire as Seen Through Political Cartoons (1896-1905)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of political cartoons. In this political cartoons lesson, students examine political cartoons from different time periods in American history and respond to questions regarding them.
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Soil Testing and Measurement

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners prepare their garden plot. In this gardening instructional activity, students use the Internet or book on plants to make sure the plants they have selected will be able to grow in their garden. The learners assess and mark out...
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Gender Equity: I Said, She Said

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect and analyze data on classroom participation.  In this gender equity lesson, students use tally marks to collect data on the sex and numbers of students who participate in classroom discussions.  Students...
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Naturalist's Notebook

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and record the behavior of a San Diego wetland animal and the characteristics of its environment. The amount of time that each animal spends resting, grooming, eating, flying, and social or individual play becomes the...
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Which Kind of Sentence?

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this types of sentences worksheet, students read the sentences and write the correct punctuation mark at the end to illustrate the correct type of sentence. Students review the definitions for a declarative and interrogative sentence.
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Finding Errors

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore editing, proofreading and correcting their writing. They discuss the various editing marks. Students practice proofreading, editing and correcting sentences they have written.
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Dictionary Skills

For Students 2nd - 4th
Now this is a cool dictionary focused resource. There are 6 worksheets you can make into a homework packet for the entire week. Learners choose 10 words (these should be spelling words) they draw an image for each word, put the words in...
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Sanctus--Frank Martin

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders complete a music listening log and then work in small groups to complete essays that answer a given set of questions about the music.
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Taking an Animal Census Grades 3-8

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students comprehend the competitive, interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in an environment. They conduct an animal census in a designated research area over a six-month period to determine what types of species are present,...
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Functions and Graphs -- Pattern Detection #1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the job of an archaeologist by determining how people have used their environment. Using a graph, they analyze the patterns and functions of Native Americans in Arizona using maize. They work together to answer...
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Estimating the Live Mass of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate the volume of scale model dinosaurs using a water displacement method. They use formulas to calculate the live mass each of the species of dinosaur. Then they complete and discuss a series of questions.
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Find the Way

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, after discussing different places to visit and being given a map of Indiana, draw the route to his/her destination within Indiana. They tell the directions in their own words and formulate pertinent questions to ask along...
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Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students read a copy of Truman's press release regarding the atomic bomb. They answer a series of factual questions regarding the press release. They discuss the press release and then follow up with answering more in depth questions...
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Hip To Be Square

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore performing arts by reading a children's book in class. In this body movement lesson, students read the book Dance and create their own artistic impressions based on dancing images from the book. Students share their...
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Reading Text with Appropriate Phrasing and Proper Expression

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Practice reading with expression and appropriate phrasing with a scaffolded instructional activity. There is a detailed script here for you, but you could easily use it simply as an outline. Begin by modeling effective reading by...