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Our Forests Need Fires?
Learners consider how forest fires are both damaging and beneficial to forests. For this earth science lesson, students are read the book Fire! In Yellowstone by Robert Ekey and watch "Fire Ecology" and "Two Sides of Fire" before...
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The California Recall Election
Students identify facts about the structure of the California recall election. They research the history of recall elections throughout the United States. They analyze the positives and negatives of a governor recall election.
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Arithmetic: Fractions
In this fractions instructional activity, students add positive and negative fractions with unlike denominators. They compute a fractional part of a number. This six-page instructional activity contains approximately 20 problems....
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Adding Integers
In this integer learning exercise, learners solve 12 problems, adding integers. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Adding Integers II
In this adding integers worksheet, students solve 10 problems, adding integers. Students may click on hint or check answer buttons. Page has links to additional resources.
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Negative Numbers
In this negative numbers activity, students draw an arrow from the numbers to their correct positions on the number line. Students complete 4 problems, and both positive and negative numbers are included.
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Negative Numbers
In this negative number activity, 6th graders focus on greater than and less than. Students complete 43 problems deciding if the statements are true or false.
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Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
National Energy Education Development Project
Introduction to Solar Energy
People have been using solar energy for many generations to dry crops, heat homes, and for light. This presentation explains how now it is possible to capture the solar energy and store it for future use, details how and where...
Charleston School District
Negative Exponents Operations
Are exponent rules different if the exponents are negative? Using the definition of negative exponents and the rules of exponents, the resource shows that the rules of exponents hold independent of the sign of the exponent. Practice...
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Adding Integers with Two Colour Counters
Students use the zero principle to add integers. In this algebra lesson, students add positive and negative integers verifying the zero principle. They use manipulatives to help them see how opposites can cancel each other out.
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Missing Number Problem
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students identify the ten positive numbers less than 1000 that cannot be written as the sum of consecutive natural numbers. The one page worksheet contains one problem with the...
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Number Line Relay
Students investigate the placements of numbers on a number line. In this algebra lesson, students visualise addition and subtraction on a number line.
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Venn Diagrams & Word Problems
Students explore the concept of Venn Diagrams through word problems. In this Venn Diagram lesson, students solve word problems about groups of people using Venn Diagrams. Students use survey results about MySpace and Facebook in a Venn...
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Introduction to the Number Line
Learners explore addition and subtraction of positive and negative numbers using a number line. In this number line instructional activity, students observe the teacher moving a magnet on a magnetic number line according to the operation...
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Hazardous Waste Cleanup Methods
High schoolers examine how hazardous wastes are cleaned up. They work together to identify the positives and negatives of cleaning up certain hazardous wastes. They answer questions as part of the activity.
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Who Gets to Invent and How Do Inventors Change Our Lives?
Students examine the way various inventions have changed their lives. As a class, they create a timeline of the most important inventions during their lifetime and another timeline of how old they were when it was invented. ...
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Multicultural Issues and the Law: Gender and Race Based Schooling
Middle schoolers examine the problems associated with gender based and race based education. In groups, they research the history of education and the laws that have changed education and impacted lives. They brainstorm a list of the...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Four-Quadrant Grid
This is a nifty tool to keep on hand, especially when addressing CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.6 standards. It is, simply, a Cartesian coordinate plane with all four quadrants. Give individuals one each, and then call out or write ordered pairs...
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Graphs of Quadratic Functions
In this quadratic function worksheet, students solve and graph quadratic functions. Functions contain both positive and negative integers, fractions, and perfect squares. Graph paper is located below each equation. There are 36...
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Balancing and Solving Equations
Students apply a traditional method when solving and balancing equations. For this algebra lesson, students organize their work showing each step they used to solve one and two steps equations. They solve equations with fractional...
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English in Mind Unit 6: Grammar Practice
In this grammar worksheet, young scholars practice using has/has got, change positive sentences into the negative form, write questions, and identify the correct form of the verb in a sentence. Students answer thirty short answer and...
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Math Bingo: Multiplication
In this multiplication worksheet, students solve multiplication problems on a bingo card containing 1-digit positive and negative numbers.
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Transforming Negatives to Positives
Pupils create double-exposed photographs, poetry, and multimedia presentations to celebrate their Open Court "City Wildlife" unit.