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Illustrative Mathematics

Factors and Common Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This is an exercise in finding the greatest common factor of two whole numbers. Use in direct instruction or as part of your guided practice. Make up additional problems for home work. It also can be used as a mini-assessment or test...
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Shizuko’s Daughter: Discussion Web

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Is Yuki a selfish character? Analyze her motivation and behavior during a unit on Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori. Readers fill out two sides of a graphic organizer with reasons why or why not she is selfish, and then come up with...
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A Rain Garden Year

For Teachers K - 12th
Pupils become plants in an interpretive play that depicts what happens throughout the seasons in a rain garden. As you narrate, students bloom, flower, and go to seed accordingly. The instructional activity is first in a series of...
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Analyze Author’s Techniques, Including Figurative Language

For Students 8th
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "He Had His Dream" is the focus of a quick exercise. Pupils read the poem and answer four multiple choice questions and one short answer question about specific lines in the poem and the author's purpose....
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Spanish Prepositional Pronouns

For Teachers 8th - 12th
There are many different types of pronouns used in Spanish for various purposes. If your class has mastered subject pronouns, object pronouns, and reflexive pronouns, perhaps they are ready to learn about prepositional pronouns. You can...
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Color the Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In these color the trees and designated numbers of apples worksheets, students count, cut, and paste according to the directions. Students count apples 0-6 on ten worksheets
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Printing the Numbers 1-10

For Students K - 1st
In this printing numbers and number words worksheet set, students write the numbers 1-10, first by tracing the dotted lines and then independently. They trace the dotted lines to write the number words one through ten, and then write...
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Genetics - The Study of Inheritance

For Students 9th - 12th
In this genetics worksheet, students will compare four pea plants with different alleles that control flower color and complete 5 short answer questions. Then students will read 8 statements about genetic mutations and determine if the...
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Planning Pens for the Petting Zoo

For Students 3rd
In this planning pens for the petting zoo worksheet, 3rd graders follow directions to solve the logic puzzle about placing letters on a grid to represent animal pens.
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Direct and Inverse Variation

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in two data collection activities that involve direct and inverse variation. In the pre-assessment, 8th graders categorize numerical, graphical, and verbal representations as linear or nonlinear and determine...
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East Meets West: Effects of the Crusades

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate how the Crusades allowed for the spread of cultural practices, products and perspectives between Europe and the Middle East. This activity contains a brainstorming activity for the pre-assessment, a graphic...
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Four Sectors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the sectors of civil society. In this philanthropy lesson, students explore and categorize government, market, nonprofit, and household sectors.
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East Meets West: The Art of Simplicity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the influences of Japan on American life through this three activity unit. Feudal Japan with its traditional arts and culture is contrasted with current developments of the country.
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The Treasure Map

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders problem solve using drawings and map interpretations. They preview graphs and Cartesian geometry. They follow directions on a map using a grid and compass references while simulating they are reading a pirate map.
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Seasons of Trees

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how trees change over time. In this forestry lesson, students read the book The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree and choose three trees to observe over a period of time. Students record observations and seasonal changes in...
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Essay Outline: The Outsiders

For Students 7th - 10th
In this essay writing worksheet, students are given prompts to help them develop an outline for an essay. Students then use this outline to write a four paragraph essay on The Outsiders.