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Going-to-the-Sun Road: A Model of Landscape Engineering (95)
Young thinkers identify the problems encountered in designing and building Going-to-the-Sun Road through Glacier National Park. They describe, introduce, and evaluate arguments for building roads to provide access to the park and other...
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Vocabulary Elementary School
In this vocabulary worksheet, students answer 30 questions on two pages with varied vocabulary building exercises. Included are: similes, idioms, collective nouns and meaning matching. Note: Some vocabulary here is only standard in the...
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Stressed to a Fault!
Eighth graders describe how stress builds up in the Earth's crust by the movement of tectonic plates. In groups, they relate the three types of stresses to the types of plate movements and explain how the stress causes faults to form. ...
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Our Neighborhood
Students inspect visual arts by analyzing their hometown. In this neighborhood lesson, students identify the different buildings, topography, landmarks and scenery near their home. Students utilize art products such as paints and...
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Word Bank; Theater
Students are given a word bank relating to theater. For this word bank lesson, students are introduced to a list of words and their definitions. Students then build their vocabulary regarding theatrical concepts.
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Stagecraft
The house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...
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Setting the Story: Techniques for Creating a Realistic Setting
“It was a dark and stormy night.” Thus begins the 1830's novel Paul Clifford and, of course, all of Snoopy’s novels! Encourage young writers to craft settings for their stories that go beyond Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s often-mocked phrase...
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Jerusalem
High schoolers review Jerusalem's long and vital history. They view the video Jerusalem: History of the Holy Land. Students are explained that to portray Jerusalem's compelling history as a site of crucial importance to Jews,...
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From Foreground to Background
Students examine the composition of landscape paintings with an emphasis on foreground, middle ground, and background. They view and analyze a painting by Poussin, and create an original imagined landscape.
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Revising For Parallel Structure Worksheet 3
In this grammar learning exercise, students read and rewrite the italicized part of twenty sentences to make each one parallel with the rest of the sentence.
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Revise for Parallel Structure
In this parallel structure instructional activity, students revise a set of 20 sentences for parallel structure. Page has links to additional resources.
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The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
Students are introduced to the time of the samurai warriors using the guided reading of "The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks". The teacher reads the story to the students and they make connections from the text about the history of the samurai.
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Identifying Unbalanced Parts of Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, students read ten unbalanced sentences, identify and underline the unbalanced part and then circle its letter.
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Using Adjectives and Adverbs
In this adjectives and adverbs activity, students read 10 sentences and choose words or phrases from the word bank to rewrite the sentences. Students plan a short presentation about a holiday destination they have visited.
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Primary History Ancient Greeks Extension Activity: Arts and Theatre
In this primary history worksheet, students sharpen their research skills as they study the arts and theatre of ancient Greeks. Students select 1, 2, 3, or 4 extension projects to complete
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Mistakes That English Native Speakers Make
In this common English mistakes worksheet, learners read 20 sentences and identify the mistakes in each. Students then categorize the mistakes as apostrophe, article, capital letter, clumsy style, comma, extra or missing words, or...
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NGA Kids Inside Scoop Summer 2006
Young scholars read passages and study paintings to learn about the artist Giovanni Antonio Canal and his subject of Venice. In this art history lesson, students read about Canaletto and explore Venice through his paintings. Young...
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Animals in the Landscape Mural
Students design animals and settings for the class mural they find on the visual journey to a farm through the cutting, tearing, pasting, and coloring of colored paper. Visualizing and designing constructed paper forms fosters Students'...
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ESL: Homonyms Quiz #21
In this homonym quiz worksheet, students complete a total of 20 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct homonym to fill in blanks in sentences.