Maryland Department of Education
The Concept of Diversity in World Literature Lesson 1: Unit Introduction
To launch a unit study of the concept of diversity in World Literature, class members compare Chinua Achebe's essay, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" and Richard Rodriguez's essay, "The Chinese in All of...
Safe Drinking Water Foundation
To Filter or Not to Filter
Drinking clean water can be taken for granted. Explore the process and high cost of filtering water with a water pollution and filtration activity. Young scientist build a filtration system to filter polluted water, examine the economics...
Kenan Fellows
Half-Life
Scholars shake their way to understanding half-life with the help of candy. They observe and record which side candy lands on to graph the exponential decay in the fifth lesson of seven integrating chemistry and algebra. Combining...
Kenan Fellows
What Element Would You Be?
Primo Levi wrote a collection of short stories comparing his life from Italy to Auschwitz to elements in the periodic table. Pupils read an excerpt from his book and research the characteristics of various elements. Then, they make a...
PBS
Reading Adventure Pack: Cooking
A Reading Adventure Pack focuses on cooking. Scholars participate in three hands-on activities after reading the fiction book Easy as Pie by Cari Best and the nonfiction book How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth....
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Listening Spots
Young scholars learn their personal space in order to listen to the teacher.
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Functions
In this functions worksheet, students distinguish 9 relations as being a function. Students also complete 6 function problems by substituting given information.
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Adding and Subtracting Integers
For this integers worksheet, students find the sum or difference of 30 problems. Students evaluate 6 expressions and substitute values for variables in 3 problems.
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Expressions and Operations
In this expressions and operations worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 7 different problems that include variable expressions and applying the order of operations. First, they determine the value of expressions given the integers...
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Rational Numbers
In this rational numbers worksheet, learners solve and complete 33 different problems that include adding and subtracting various types of rational numbers. First, they determine the sum or difference of each problems. Then, students...
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Order of Operations
In this order of operations activity, 9th graders solve and complete 20 different problems that include using the order of operations. First, they use the order of operations to help them simplify each expression. Then, students...
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Solving Equations and Formulas
In this equations and formulas worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 10 different problems. First, they solve for each stated variable using the properties of equality to isolate the specified variable on one side of the equation....
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Polynomial Functions
In this polynomial functions worksheet, 11th graders solve and complete 12 different problems. First, they write the polynomial part in standard form and set it equal to zero if it is not already and substitute the given information when...
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Marketing Occupations
Students identify and explain the variables effecting supply and demand in the marketing industry. Then they define the terms supply and demand and graph supply and demand curves on a standard grid. Students also formulate what happens...
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Making Healthy Food and Activity Choices: Putting the Pyramid Together
Students work with the Food Guide Pyramid. In this Food Guide Pyramid lesson, students draw a large rendering of the food pyramid on a piece of butcher paper. They cut out pictures of foods and place them on the food pyramid, they play a...
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Creative Writing
While the idea presented in this resource, using emotions as a way to write creative descriptions, is a great suggestion, the example employed is troublesome. It focuses on describing fear. However, a teacher could substitute another...
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Kitchen Introduction Unit Test
Students complete a test demonstrating their knowledge of kitchen safety, sanitation, equipment, measuring, cooking terms, abbreviations, substitutions, equivalents, reading and parts of a recipe, and the microwave oven.
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Telephone Communication
Learners role-play telephone conversations. They view a video of a telephone conversation and discuss the vocabulary used during the conversation. They practice conversations and substitute responses.
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Making an Edible Coral Polyp
Students study anatomy. In this coral reef instructional activity, students recreate the anatomy of a coral polyp using edible materials. They work in pairs following step-by-step instructions given by the teacher. This instructional...
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Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke; The Letter F
Students listen to the story of the four famished foxes and practice writing the letter F. In this letter F lesson, students work with their teacher to find F words in the story and make a list on the board. Students then draw...
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Algebra: Linear Equations
Middle schoolers investigate the mathematical concept of linear equations. They use codes to lead the discussion. The teacher makes clarification as necessary during the class discussion. The lesson includes dialogue to be used by the...
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Vocational: Basic Sewing
Students discover how to use sewing machines, ironing boards, and steam irons. Using diagrams, they label all the parts of a sewing machine and solve crossword puzzles in groups. Following a teacher demonstration, students sew their...
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Direct and Indirect Pronouns
In this pronoun worksheet, students use both direct and indirect pronouns. Students complete 26 fill in the blank statements substituting a pronoun for the given words in each sentence.
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Graphing System of Equations
Pupils solve system of equation. In this algebra lesson, students graph, substitute and eliminate to solve system of equation. They identify the point of intersection and how many solution each system will have.