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Clauses and Sentences
In this clause and sentence review worksheet, students cut out 20 cards that contain adjectival clauses and sentences. Students play a game to match the appropriate adjectival clause cards to the appropriate sentence cards.
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Capitalization Pretest
For this capitalization worksheet, students determine whether or not each sentence contains errors in capitalization.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Desalination: Turning Salt Water into Fresh Water
How does San Francisco supply its citizens with enough water, even during a drought? Learn about reservoirs and why desalination could be a good solution with a reading passage about water conservation. After kids finish the...
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Titanic First Class Passengers Crossword
In this Titanic instructional activity, students fill in a crossword that contains questions about the first class passengers on the ship. Students fill in 7 answers to the crossword.
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Mission: Project Rescue
Third graders explore animals and their habitats. Using the Internet, they gather information and determine which animal goes into which habitat. Students design travel containers to provide proper food, water and comforts for the animal.
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Modular Packaging
Students. in groups of two or three, design a box that contain a product. They must utilize design skills, spatial relationships, measurement skills and problem solving in order to design the most economically advantageous packaging.
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Shhh!
Students practice identifying and spelling words containing the /sh/ digraph. They listen as the teacher says different words, and identify those with the /sh/. They then complete a worksheet with pictures and write the words under the...
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Fish Wish
Learners identify the digraph /sh/ in written and spoken language. After a reading of a decodable story containing the digraph, students practice identifying the initial and final placement of the new digraph /sh/ in words using a...
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History Today
Students use the newspaper to determine how history is being made in your community, region or country.They identify the different components that comprise a newspaper. This lesson contains adaptations from elementary to high school.
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Compare and Contrast
Students write a paragraph. In this writing lesson, students review what a paragraph is and how it contains a beginning, middle and end. Students also learn how to write comparison and contrast paragraphs.
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Quiet Time
First graders practice making the /sh/ sound walking around the room, pretending to be in the library. They then try to say a tongue twister containing the phoneme and practice writing the letters s and h and identify the /sh/ sound in...
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'Ai' Crossword
In this vowel sound crossword worksheet, students use the clues to help them complete the crossword puzzle for words that contain the vowel sound 'ai.'
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Dig Magazine Archeology Quiz #27
In this Dig Magazine archeology quiz, students answer 4 multiple choice questions about a variety of topics. Page contains answer and additional resources link.
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Organic Vessels
Students review the life and work of Andy Goldsworthy. Using this information, they gather organic objects to create their own sailing vessel. They reflect on their artwork and determine what problem their artwork solves.
American Museum of Natural History
Take the Climate Quiz
Climate and weather are often confused. Pupils answer questions online to review concepts related to climate and weather changes. They get immediate feedback and additional facts with each question. The lesson is appropriate as a remote...
NOAA
Come on Down!
What do we do when a dive is too dangerous for humans to accomplish? Send in the robots! Middle school scientists get acquainted with several different models of submersible robots in the second lesson of six from NOAA. Lab groups then...
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Lesson Plan #3 ~ Ocean Currents
Sixth graders experiment to understand the ocean's currents. In this ocean current lesson, 6th graders complete an experiment with two bottles of water and an index card to discover information about the ocean current. ...
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MEASURING THE DENSITY OF WATER
Young scholars perform an experiment to measure the density of tap water vs. salt water.
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Foil Boats
How many pennies can an aluminum foil boat hold? That is the challenge in a collaborative activity designed to explore the concept of buoyancy. Learners use aluminum foil to build makeshift boats and test the weight they hold before...
NOAA
What Killed the Seeds?
Can a coral cure cancer? Take seventh and eighth grade science sleuths to the underwater drugstore for an investigation into emerging pharmaceutical research. The fifth installment in a series of six has classmates research the wealth of...
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Wildlife
First, biology pupils research land and marine habitats along the route of skipper Rich Wilson's Great American II. Then, using colored paper clips scattered across a colored paper background, they play the predator-prey game to...
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Victime de son imagination-une histoire bizarre
Read this bizarre story with your French class! The story is about a half-page in length, but the word choice and sentence structures are geared towards intermediate and advanced Francophones. Activities focus on vocabulary development,...
NOAA
Build Your Own Ocean Ecosystem
Hold the sea in the palm of your hand! Amateur oceanographers work together to create models of an ocean ecosystem in the sixth and final installment in a series. Raise awareness of global ocean health issues through guided research,...
Cornell University
Predicting Chemical Reactions
Prove the Law of Conservation of Mass through a lab investigation. A well-designed activity asks groups to combine materials and monitor indicators for chemical reactions. Measuring the mass of the reactants and products allows...