Washington Township Public Schools
Using Paired Text
Paired reading passages frequently appear on standardized exams, but finding text sets to use in the classroom is sometimes a challenge. A lesson plan on using paired texts includes a selection of passages and a graphic organizer for...
Literacy Design Collaborative
Building Ideas and Making Connections: "Monkey See, Monkey Do"
Reading a scientific article about cross-species synchronization may sound like a yawner. But "Monkey See, Monkey Do" is a fascinating tale that just happens to be about yawning, within and across species. After a close reading, class...
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Water Quality
Learners examine water quality and how to improve it, how to measure it and how it relates to human activities. In this water quality lesson plan students sample water from different sources, and test the samples.
English Enhanced Scope and Sequence
Research Project Embedded with Media Literacy
Here is a phenomenal language arts lesson on media literacy for your middle and high schoolers. In it, learners produce a research product in the form of a public service announcement (PSA). First, they view examples of these PSA's to...
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Vocabulary 19 Practice Quiz
After you've introduced your class to these vocabulary words, give them this practice opportunity. Oddly enough, the 10 words are alphabetical (two of them begin with the letter i, two with j, one with k, and the rest begin with l)....
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Test Your Grammar Skills: Using Determiners 4
In this grammar skills worksheet, students will read phrases using determiners (all, his, this, which, those). Students will put a check mark next to each correct phrase and cross it out if it is incorrect.
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Crossing the Asymptote
Students investigate graphs and their asymptotes. In this precalculus instructional activity, students examine the numerator and denominator of their rational functions. This helps them identify where and when the graph will cross its...
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Diagnostic Test: Angles & Parallel Lines
In this diagnostic test worksheet, students solve problems involving angles, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines. They identify alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles, and corresponding angles. Students find the...
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Rational Expressions Test with a Calculator
In this rational expression worksheet, students graph rational equations, evaluate limits, state intercepts, asymptotes, and roots and factor. This worksheet is designed as a test to be completed with a calculator.
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Seventeen Multiple Choice Calculator AP Calculus BC Practice Test
In this AP Calculus BC learning exercise, students answer seventeen multiple choice questions with the use of a calculator. The questions are a fifty minutes times practice test for the AP exam.
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New York State English Language Arts Sample Test
In this English, Language Arts Sample Test worksheet, learners answer sample questions on reading comprehension. Students read several passages and answer reading comprehension questions.
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TOEFL Practice Test- Vocabulary #1
In this language arts worksheet, students practice for the TOEFL test by answering 5 questions. Kids read the sentence that has one word surrounded by apostrophes. Students choose the word closest in meaning to this word. Students circle...
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Spaghetti Bridges: Student Worksheet
In this math worksheet, students will create a "bridge" out of spaghetti and test it's strength with pennies. Students will record their results on a table and then graph the results.
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Safe or Sorry (SOS) Pre and Post Test
For this health worksheet, students download the print version of the quiz presented. They respond to 12 questions related to foodborne illness and how to properly prepare food to prevent contamination.
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Test Your Speaking & Listening Skills: Class Survey Template
This blank template is the perfect tool for your English language learners conducting short surveys. They record the name of each individual surveyed, and they come up with their own survey topics (which are recorded in the first row)....
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Diffusion across a Selectively Permeable Membrane
Lab groups fill a section of dialysis tubing with glucose and starch solutions and suspend it in a water bath. They use iodine as a starch indicator and a glucose test strip to find out if either of the materials crossed the selectively...
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Wright Again: 100 Years of Flight
Aspiring aeronautical engineers demonstrate different forces as they construct and test paper airplanes. This lesson plan links you to a website that models the most effective paper airplane design, an animation describing the forces...
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ISTEP + Grade 6 Item Sampler
In this cross-curricular sampler of worksheets, students determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words, describe and connect the essential ideas, arguments, and...
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Fossil Fuels (Part II), The Geology of Oil
More of a mini-unit than a lesson, these activities lead inquisitors through a survey of oil deposits. In the first part, they read about and view diagrams of sedimentary rock layers that trap oil. Next, they test porosity and...
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Displacement Reactions
Five metal samples are tested for their reactivity with different solutions. From the results they discover the order of reactivity for copper, iron, lead, magnesium, and zinc. Have your aspiring chemists perform this laborabory exercise...
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Fall 2004 Midterm Exam #2 - Electricity and Magnetism
Written for a college physics course, this midterm examination deals with electric and magnetic fields. When taking this test, learners answer multiple choice questions, solve problems, and analyze a variety of attractive diagrams....
Channel Islands Film
Dark Water: Lesson Plan 1 - Grades 3-4
As part of their study of the history of the Channel Islands, class members craft an informational article to post on a bulletin board that features the Chumash ancestral tradition of tomol paddling.
Mathematics Assessment Project
Comparing Strategies for Proportion Problems
Having problems with proportions? Then solve these proportion problems with an exercise that asks learners to first individually solve a set of problems involving ratios and proportional reasoning. Groups then discuss provided sample...