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Be An Incredible Songwriter
Learners write songs about something incredible they have experienced or know about. They consider topics of events, dreams, ideas, feelings, or animals. They accompany themselves with small musical instruments while performing the songs...
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Incredible Edibles
This activity can stimulate your students' interest in cooking, surprising them with the ease and fun of preparing tasty dishes with incredible names.
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Incredible Encouragers
Students observe and demonstrate how to use and give positive encouragement to their teammates and opponents. They read and discuss a list of positive sayings, then during a P.E. game, students earn Incredible Encourager stars when they...
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Incredible Equations - Math Calendar Activity
Students review math facts and create their own math problems using the numbers in the current date. They demonstrate the problems using various manipulatives.
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Incredible Edible Bridges
Students create a bridge using engineering and geometric concepts. For this geometry lesson, students identify the missing measures of polygons sides and angles. They work together to solve real life situation using problem solving...
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Incredible Seeds
Second graders are given a group of seeds and put in small groups. They classify their seeds based on their observations with 90% accuracy. Students draw a picture of each seed showing at least 2 characteristics of each. They write 1...
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Homer's Odyssey:The Original Incredible Journey
Students study Greek culture, particularly as it relates to Homer's Odyssey. They examine how human activities shape the earth's surface and identify forces that influence a culture's beliefs and traditions. They determine that...
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Lady of the Tomahawk: Your Story to Tell
Students put themselves in the role of a historical person and have to write a short story of dramatic dialogue about an event or person that has NOT been depicted in a work of historical fiction yet. This person is Hannah Dustin. A...
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Total English Upper Intermediate: Matters of the Mind
In this key vocabulary crossword puzzle instructional activity, students practice key vocabulary as they read the 9 clues to correctly fill in the word puzzle. Students also respond to 4 short answer questions.
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Total English Advanced: Getting the Right Conjunction
In this conjunctions worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they examine 8 sentences and check the proper use of conjunctions. Students then complete 4 sentence starters using appropriate conjunctions.
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Reading Comprehension: "CW the Robot"
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage titled, "CW The Robot," then complete 12 short answer comprehension questions.
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Finding the Good Stuff in What We Read
Students work to develop comprehension strategies. They focus on three rules for summarizing: getting rid of extra information, organizing, and finding the main idea. Through modeling and then guided practice, they apply these rules ...
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Our Eye in the Sky: The TIROS Weather Satellite
High schoolers investigate the political context of the creation of a weather satellite. In this technology and society lesson, students explore the historical, technological, and political context of the TIROS weather satellite. They...
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The Football Field Problem
For this secondary mathematics worksheet, learners solve a problem in which a rope is stretched tightly the length of a football field from goal post to goal post. When one foot is added to the rope, students determine how high it...
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Saving the Bay
Students investigate water pollution prevention. In this ecology wastewater lesson, students activate prior knowledge about sewage, then view a video explaining the waste water sewage system used in the San Francisco Bay area. Students...
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Vegas and the Mob
Students identify with and interpret the role of organized crime in the development of one of America's most vibrant cities. Then they look into the city's establishment and development, follow the role of organized crime in its...
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What is the "Tone"?
In this English worksheet, students choose a word to fit the tone. Students choose a word from multiple choices that describe the tone of the writer of a short passage.
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Proofreading Activity: "The Twentieth Century"
For this proofreading worksheet, students mark infinitives, prepositional phrases, subjects and verbs in a paragraph titled "The Twentieth Century,"then edit for missing commas.
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Incredible Journey Quiz
In this "Incredible Journey" worksheet, students will respond to the questions pertaining to the film. Students will read 8 multiple choice questions and study the pictures about what they have watched.
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Susan B. Anthony
An interactive reading practice focuses on Susan B. Anthony. Scholars read an informational text, then answer 10 questions.
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One Survivor Remembers: Anti-Semitism
Students analyze and discuss how propaganda influenced anti-Semitism and it's role in World War II. In this propaganda lesson, students define the terms involved in this assignment. Then they will discuss their reactions to a film and...
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Scientific Inquiry
Sixth graders research the theories on the extinction of the dinosaurs. In this dinosaur extinction instructional activity, 6th graders view a video clip about scientific inquiry. They work in groups to research the two theories on...
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Breaking News English: Nuclear Weapons
In this nuclear weapons worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write,...
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Third from the Sun
Students examine images from space. In this third from the Sun lesson, students examine images from, Landsat, the satellite launched by NASA in 1972.