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Assessment
New York State Education Department

Comprehensive English Examination: January 2016

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Poetry and prose often have more in common than it initially appears. A sample comprehensive English exam has test-takers compare and contrast two passages to answer short response questions. The exam, which is part of a larger set of...
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Interactive
Physics Classroom

Newton's Second Law

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Physics formulas provide more interest than simple math equations thanks to an informative installment from the series on Newton's laws of motion. The formulas guide pupils' thinking about how varying a quantity affects the rest of the...
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Lesson Plan
C-SPAN

Landmark Supreme Court Case: Roe v Wade

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Perhaps no issue is as controversial than abortion in the American landscape. Go beyond the rhetoric by examining the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States. A guided note-taking activity unpacks the arguments...
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Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

Wherefore Art Thou, Albedo?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
In the sixth lesson in a series of 21, scholars use NASA data to graph and interpret albedo seasonally and over the course of multiple years. This allows learners to compare albedo trends to changes in sea ice with connections to the...
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Website
University of North Carolina

Curricula Vitae (CVs) versus Resumes

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
The term curricula vitae might sound more sophisticated than the term resumes, but that doesn't mean it's the preferred document to send to potential employers. As explained in a handout on curricula vitae (CV) versus resumes, part of a...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Rather Than

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, students use gerunds and infinitives. Students insert to or rather than to complete sentences. The students indicate whether gerunds, infinitives, bare infinitives, or nouns are being used in sentences.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

There's More To Sex Education Than AIDS Prevention

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are introduced to the views on sexuality in the United States. In groups, they research data from five countries and compare them with the United States. Using the information, they develop reasons why the teenage pregnancy...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fancy Foot- Estimating Whether a Line is Longer or Shorter Than a Foot

For Students 1st
In this fancy foot estimation and measurement worksheet, 1st graders examine 3 curved lines and estimate whether they are longer or shorter than a foot. They use a foot-long string to check each answer.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparison Practice 1: -er than/the -est, Comparison Practice 2: as...as

For Students 4th - Higher Ed
In the ESL grammar worksheet, students write comparison statements using -er than/the -est or as...as statements. There are 12 sentences for students to write.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

ESL: Than, As, That

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences, choosing either "than," "as," or "that" from a drop down list. 
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Estimation Station: Why Estimating is Better than Guessing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Youngsters discover the difference between estimating and guessing. They estimate how many items are contained in a jar as they read a story. After the story, pupils discover the differences between estimating and guessing and create a...
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PPT
Curated OER

Punctuation 2: Other than Commas

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Thoroughly cover the nuances of apostrophes, quotation marks, dashes, hyphens, colons, and semi-colons. Intended for higher-level English classes, the examples given pertain to tricky rules and formal language. There are no animations or...
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Lesson Plan
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Tech Museum of Innovation

Lighter than Air

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Scholars participate in two design challenges concerning flight in the second instructional activity of the series. They design balloon crafts that have neutral buoyancy and forward motion.
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Unit Plan
Radford University

Are You Faster than Bacteria?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Just how fast does bacteria grow? Over the course of three lessons, pupils investigate exponential growth with the use of bacteria growth. During the lesson, bacteria from a cell phone is grown to make a connection to real life. Using...
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Flipped Math

Calculus AB/BC - Rates of Change in Applied Contexts Other Than Motion

For Students 10th - 12th
Stay a while—and learn about rates of change. Scholars learn about rates of change not related to motion by watching an informative video. They see how to interpret derivatives in different contexts, paying particular attention to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

For Students 4th - 6th
In this comparative and superlative adjectives worksheet, students observe pictures and write comparatives using "than" and superlatives using "the" in complete sentences. Students write answers to twenty-two sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Color Me Large or Small Worksheet

For Students 1st - 3rd
Before handing out this number-value worksheet make sure you explain all directions clearly, as they may throw some students for a loop! Using starting numbers in a table, they first shade in all boxes with numbers smaller than that...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Division: Divisors Larger than Dividend

For Students 6th - 10th
In this division activity, students calculate 20 division problems where the divisors are bigger than the dividends. 
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Larger Than Life Figures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes six lessons about larger than life figures from the American Literature series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fewer Than

For Students K
In this fewer than worksheet, students study two sets of shapes for each problem. Students complete 6 problems circling the set of shapes in each that represents "fewer."
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Lesson Plan
Digital History

The Boston Massacre

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What better way to get your class interested in history than to embody important historical characters and make events come to life? Stage a realistic mock trial of the British soldiers accused of murdering five Bostonians after the...
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Lesson Plan
3C Skills Collaborative

Skill Twenty: Sell Successfully

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
"Selling is important in all professions because it involves synthesizing information and persuading people." Rather than using this as a lesson on how to sell a product, this resource might best be used as an inquiry into what goes into...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Say Hi to Haibun Fun

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
What is a haibun? With this interesting lesson, writers will experience the Japanese writing form haibun, identify elements important to Japanese writing styles, analyze a haibun, and compose their own. Different from the typical journal...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taking the Measure of the Universe

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Four fabulous activities immerse amateur astronomers into measuring objects that we cannot handle. The experiences are applied to NASA's Space Interferometry Mission, which will take measurements of planets around stars other than our...

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