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Social Studies: Personal Chronology

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders draw ten significant events from their lives on index cards, shuffle them, and trade sets with other students. Their classmates try to place them in chronological order. Next, 4th graders tape their index cards next to...
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Worksheet 4.12, Induction

For Students 11th - 12th
In this math worksheet, students prove given propositions for all integer values of the variable. Students use induction to prove statements true.
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Be Kind

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students express feelings and learn about kindness. In this social skills lesson, students read Clifford Wants a Cookie and retell the story in sequence by using pictures. Students create a sweet treat for someone that has shown them...
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Time to Look at Me!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate timelines. In this sequencing instructional activity, 2nd graders create a timeline of events important to their lives and then write a description of the event describing why it is important to their life.
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The Little Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students discuss "The Little Hungry Caterpillar." In this reading comprehension lesson, students make sock caterpillars used in retelling the story so as sequence the events accurately.
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Sequence of Events

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the importance of putting events into the correct sequence. In groups, they put the order of events of different stories into the correct order while completing a worksheet. To end the lesson, they identify the...
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Review of Limits

For Students Higher Ed
For this limit worksheet, students review limits stated as an expression, analyze Euler's method applied to a rate equation, compute the terms of a given sequence, and identify a sequence as a convergence or divergence. this four-page...
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Writing Instructions

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this writing instructions worksheet, students rearrange 10 instructions for making tea, so they are in the correct sequence. Students choose a game or activity and write their own instructions to see if a friend can follow them.
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High School Examination: Algebra 2/Trigonometry

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this high school worksheet, students solve problems involving angles, functions, square roots, and sequences.  They read word problems, write equations, and then solve them.  This 28-page worksheet contains 39 problems. 
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Small Group A String Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the A string and the musical note related to it. They locate the note on the staff, the finger number, and identify the note by name. They perform different musical pieces while playing different fingering patterns.
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Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore free-motion machine quilting through three exercises. They enhance patterns, make their own patterns and stitch a realistic quilted drawing. Students create a color wheel and develop a variety of methods that enable them...
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Sorting words (four-block)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders each receive an index card with a word written on it. They look for spelling patterns such as "oi." Students sort the cards according to spelling pattern, and practice spelling words with the snap, clap, slap hand motions.
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Sunrise/Sunset

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students apply data from a weather-related website to predict patterns in the sunrise and sunset.
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Creating, Notating and Recording an Original Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are provided with a set of parameters, including theme, time signature, number of measures, and form. Working within these parameters, the class , step by step, goes through the process of creating, notating, and recording a...
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Valentine Heart Game

For Teachers 1st
First graders clap a rhythm pattern notated on a board, and then make up their own patterns on percussion instruments. They answer addition and subtraction problems.
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Lost Baby

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students simulate the steps involved in creating a DNA fingerprint by the RFLP technique. They analyze RFLP patterns to determine the parentage of a missing baby.
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Estimating Area

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, after being given a variety of word problems to solve, find patterns to solving 3 out of 4 times. They break it down into smaller parts 3 out of 4 times and tell the method of solving 3 out of 4 times. Students complete...
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Analagous Colors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students encounter how to mix analogous colors and use them in cane patterns. They select two colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. Students then knead the pieces for a couple of minutes and then roll each color into a...
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Earthquake Introduction

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars investigate basic principles and properties of earthquakes, including vocabulary, causes, and types of faults. They examine history of seismic activity in their home state, and complete "Locating Patterns of Distribution"...
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Making Tracks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the fossil footprints of two and four legged dinosaurs. Using this information, they try to determine how the dinosaurs lived their lives. They use their own walking pattern to compare it to the dinosaurs and...
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COOPERATION BLOCKS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars follow oral instructions in order to make a pattern with wooden blocks.
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Math Maven's Mysteries

For Students 4th - 5th
In these story problem worksheets, students read the story problem of 'The Case of the Mysterious Money Trail.' Students then use the information from the story to help them solve the problem. Students find a number pattern using...
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Mariner's Compass Quilts: New Directions

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students follow the steps of creating Mariner's Compass blocks using two different methods, freezer paper templates and paper foundations. Then they draft their own original full size block on freezer paper.
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Teaching the Dialog

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are introduced to and practice high-frequency patterns of language that will help them perform in real life situations. They enact in a role play situation with the teacher and then with partners.