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Romeo and Juliet...Unfinished Business?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students act as characters from Romeo and Juliet to carry on a cross-fire type discussion using contemporary language.
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Clues From the Past: Daily Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover the ways different cultures gathered and made food. In groups, they read excerpts from primary sources about the food people in Mesopotamia liked to eat. They work together to make a batch of goat stew and a...
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How to Speed Up a Slow Grandfather- The Pendulum

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students explore the concept of periodic motion in relation to its function in a Grandfather type clock. In this periodic motion instructional activity, students use problem-solving skills and understanding of periodic motion to...
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A Fictional History of Place Value

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Your class can explore standard and expanded notation, as well as computation with regrouping. They listen to a make-believe story about cavemen and the origin of numerals and place value. Then apply what they learned about renaming and...
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Animal Behavior

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate stimulus-response behavior, learned behavior in animals and innate behavior in animals. In this animal behavior lesson plan, students answer questions about their reactions to a toy cap gun that is fired off in...
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Maquilapolis: Examining Incentives in a Market Economy

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the factors that influenced them to purchase a particular item. They work together to read and identify incentives of a character. They view a video on the topic as well.
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Al Otro Lado

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video about the border between the United States and Mexico. They discuss the forces that influence human migration. They write a paper from the point of view of the main character in the film.
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A - specific: referring to one in particular

For Students 4th - 8th
In this specific or unspecific worksheet, students read the sentences and decide if the sentence is describing something specific or unspecific. Students complete 7 problems.
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The Marvels of the Molecule

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experiment with common substances to observe molecular behavior. For this molecular properties lesson, students move through four stations as they try to inflate a balloon inside a bottle, pour water from a jar, and observe how...
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Conditional Exercise 9

For Students 5th - 10th
For this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of conditionals. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Relationships: Pressure, Volume and Temperature

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the relationships of pressure and volume and pressure and temperature of gases. In this gases lesson plan, 10th graders use an inflated balloon to show the relationship between volume and temperature of the air...
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Combustion In a Test Tube

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate a combustion reaction. In this combustion lesson plan, students mix dry yeast with hydrogen peroxide in a test tube. They place a glowing splint in the test tube and observe the combustion reaction as the...
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Polymers-Greaaaaaat Biiiiiig Molecuuuuuules

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore polymer properties. In this lesson about polymers, students perform an experiment to understand polymers, their properties, and that they are formed from small molecules. Students role play pretending they are polymer...
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Projectile Motion (or You Bet Your Grade)

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students experiment with the velocity of a spring. In this velocity lesson plan, students conduct trials in order to determine the initial velocity of a spring. They stretch the spring different amounts and fire it both horizontally and...
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Asylum Talk Show

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the case of a German ship containing Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. They conduct Internet research, watch a video, and role-play passengers from the St. Louis on a simulated...
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Confronting Genocide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners discover what the term genocide means and are assigned to groups to reasearch an act of genocide in order to answer each question from their worksheet. They then compare their results making special notes of patterns they observe.
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Air: Demonstrating Its Presence and Effects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of air. In this gravity lesson, students perform various experiments that deal with gravity, air resistance, and air pressure.
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Momentum

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore the concept of momentum. In this physics lesson, students observe and compare two "carts" being released to move in various situations, and draw conclusions as to why the carts moved or didn't move.
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Synthesizing Pigment and Dyeing Cloth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a synthetic dye and oxidize the dye and record the effects.
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Must/Must Have = 90% Guess

For Students 5th - 7th
In this grammar worksheet, students learn when to use "must" and when to use "must have" in sentence writing. They then make guesses about the following 10 sentences using "must".
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Newton's Third Law of Motion

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are introduced to Newton's Third Law of Motion.  In this physics lesson students examine the concept of thrust as one of the forces acting on aircraft. 
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Ancient Recipes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how foods and their preparation differ over time and from culture to culture. An ancient recipe for the preparation of goat, found by archaeologists, is examined and discussed by the students.
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Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video about Nelson Mandela and apartheid. They discover what it was like for people living in South Africa during apartheid. They work together to discuss strategies that could be used for people to better communicate...
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Light in August by William Faulkner

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Faulkner's Light in August. Students may submit their answers to be scored.