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Compositional Techniques: Are There Similarities Between

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers recognize how chromatic scales create tension and pentatonic scales create relaxation as compositional techniques used to create tonality. Also, students aurally recognize the use of mixed or alternating meter as a means...
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Vocabulary Practice: Similar or Opposite?

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this similar or opposite vocabulary worksheet, students choose words from a word bank to complete a chart. Students write nine synonyms and antonyms.
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Sort Positive and Negative Words

For Students 5th - 6th
Your learners distinguish words with positive connotations from those with negative connotations. They mark 25 words on a list with "P" for positive or "N" for negative to signify connotation. To extend, have them brainstorm words with...
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Interactive
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Word Roots 5: NAT, TRACT, SEQU Advanced Puzzle 1, 2, & 3

For Students 9th - 12th
Break down the connection between word roots and words with similar meanings with this resource. Learners use a list of words, a brief definition of each word, and twelve word roots with blanks next to them to fill in. They then fill in...
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Experimental Probability

For Teachers 6th
While just a simple lesson, this activity on experimental probability could provide a way to connect this concept to real life. Learners begin by participating in a probability activity using a coin, and then move on to create their own...
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Can a Geometric Mean be Nice?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
In this Geometry instructional (work)sheet, students are instructed on how to find the geometric mean.  Students are then shown how the geometric mean is applied to proving similar triangles.
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THE MEAN INDEX CARD

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners cut an index card to create three similar right triangles and explore the congruencies and proportions that exist. They investigate the properties of lines and concepts of congruency, similarity, tangency and symmetry of...
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Similar or Not?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders define the meaning of similar and congruent using concrete objects. They make similar and congruent figures using geoboards. They draw their figures on dot paper, and color their designs.
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Perimeter and Area of Similar Figures

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the relationships between similar figures. For this relationships between similar figures lesson, students discuss relationships between perimeter, circumference, area, surface area, and volume of similar figures through...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Icky Bug Colors (Pallotta)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Get to know the bugs around us with emerging readers who use Jerry Pallotta's informative book Icky Bug Colors to learn vocabulary in context. Address terms before reading the text aloud, preparing kids to listen for them later. Here,...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Translation of Vectors and Slope: Identical Vectors

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Translate vectors to find equivalent ones. An interactive shows 10 randomly displayed vectors. Pupils grab the vectors and move them to group them with similar vectors in magnitude and direction. Scholars find the groups of vectors that...
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It's Opposite Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Celebrate Opposite Day by using a Visual Thesaurus to match words to their antonyms. They match a list of vocabulary words to their antonym counterparts using the Visual Thesaurus, and then they play Antonym Bingo with the words from...
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Mathematical Modeling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Study various types of mathematical models in this math lesson. Learners calculate the slope to determine the risk in a situation described. They respond to a number of questions and analyze their statistical data. Then, they determine...
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K12 Reader

Earthquakes: Movement of the Earth's Crust

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Readers use context to determine the meaning of words found in a short article about earthquakes and the movement of the earth's crust.
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Homophone Hunt

For Students 6th - 8th
What is a homophone? Review the definition with your class before sending them off for this independent activity. As they read the story, they search for any homophones used incorrectly. 
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Walden Woods Project

19th Century Lessons for 21st Century Lives

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
The words of Henry David Thoreau on Civil Disobedience seem particularly relevant today, as are his writings and those of other transcendental thinkers who ask what it mean to live deliberately and what are the responsibilities of...
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Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 6th Grade Math – Target J

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is the best measure of central tendency? Scholars explore mean, median, mode, range, and interquartile range to understand the similarities and differences. They display data in dot plots, histograms, box plots, and more as part of...
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The Pearl and the Concept of Wealth

For Teachers 8th - 11th
What is the true meaning of wealth? Guide your class through this question in a SMART board activity (provided), which addresses a concept development model. The lesson could be used before you begin The Pearl by John Steinbeck, or it...
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Vocabulary Practice: Complete the Sentence

For Students 4th - 5th
In this vocabulary practice instructional activity, students read ten sentences and analyze the word in italics. Students find a word in the word box that has a similar meaning as the italicized word.
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Worksheet 9: Which Word Belongs?

For Students 4th - 5th
In this categorizing words worksheet, students complete each group of words with a word or phrase from the word bank that has a similar meaning to the other words in the group. There are 10 questions.
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Worksheet 12. Which Word Belongs?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this vocabulary skills worksheet, students examine 6 words in the word bank and use them to fill in the blanks in 6 word sets. Each of the sets contain words that have similar meanings.
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this synonyms practice learning exercise, learners read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms for the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings 2

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this synonyms practice worksheet, students read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms for the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.
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Synonyms: Words with Similar Meanings 3

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this synonyms practice worksheet, students read 15 sentences and identify the words that are synonyms to the designated words in the sentences. A word bank is provided and answers should be written in complete sentences.

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