Science Matters
Formative Assessment #2
Learners work collaboratively to predict what life would be like as an Arctic Hare. Teams go on a hunt where scholars role play an owl, white hares, and gray hares. Independently, pupils record their findings and reflect on their...
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Measuring Rate of Water Uptake by a Plant Shoot Using a Potometer
How quickly does a plant transpire? Learners explore this question through measuring water uptake with a potometer. They time the movement of a bubble a set distance to understand the motion and rate of speed.
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Teams-Games-Tournaments
Students draw cards from a pile and the student that draws the number card gets the first opportunity to answer the question. For example, if a student selects twenty-two from the pile and question twenty-two is, "why is government...
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Classroom Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Unfamiliar with the Lincoln-Douglas Debate format? Check out this resource that details the procedures of the debate, the roles and responsibilities of each participant, and the timing of each round.
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Youth Activism and Child Labor: Ethics, Work, World Cultures
Students research websites related to Youth Activism (sites are taken from a provided resource list). In different roles, students discuss, summarize and report their findings.
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Tower Building Challenge- Budgeting
In this tower building and budgeting activity, students attempt to meet the goal of building the tallest free standing structure on the smallest budget. They build the structures with straw, paper clips, and masking tape which all have a...
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Teams-Games-Tournaments
In this lesson, high schoolers play a game in order to understand and review the Delaware civic standards. Student take turns picking cards and the student to pick the first card gets to answer the question. Students are expected to...
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Freedom's Children
Learners role play a story from from Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. In this segregation activity, students work in a literary circle to create a role play to present to the class. Each student in...
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Acting Out Adjectives
In this adjective game worksheet, students play a game where an adjective card is drawn and acted out while other players guess the adjective. The player who guesses correctly then draws a card and proceeds.
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Roll With the Punches: It's Not in Black and White
Young scholars examine history textbooks as to how minorities are depicted when historical events are reported.
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The Name Game
In this grammar worksheet, students write acrostic poems using the first 5 letters of their first and last names and provide adverbs and propositions for each letter. Then they write sentences for each word.
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You Name It!
In this proper nouns worksheet, students are timed to write as many movies, songs, books, cities, and countries as they can. Students get points for the correct words they write.
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Sentence Scramble
In this grammar worksheet, students use cards with words on them to arrange correctly to make complete sentences. Students do this in teams and are timed to get points.
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Pass Poem
Twelfth graders explore theme and how to create a pass poem. They explore how collaborative creation is important towards a shared goal and encouraging mutual respect.
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Gluskap Story Skits
Students read and analyze a Gluskap (Algonquin legend) story. Together, they discuss the morals and values these stories demonstrate and in groups, create and perform an imaginative skit based on one of them. They perform their skits for...
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Name That Noun
In this nouns instructional activity, students use noun cards to identify types of nouns and write lists of nouns while they are being timed. Teams compete against each other.
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Freedom Is
Students explore various ideas of freedom by comparing the profiles of seven Mainers from the early 19th century. They discuss freedom and what they think it means to be free. Students complete a Freedom Matrix to explore how seven...
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Where Are The Verbs?
In this grammar worksheet, students search for action verbs in a word search and write them on the lines provided. Students are timed for 3 minutes to do this.
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Sentence Puzzles
In this sentences worksheet, students write 2 complete sentences in a puzzle where they create one to be up and down, one to be across, and both share one word.
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There Is No Place Like Home! U. S. Immigration in the 1800's.
Learners explore immigration in the late 1800's. They identify and describe the settlement patterns of European immigrants to the U.S. Students work in groups to research immigration from specified countries.
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Astronomer Research
Learners discover the contributions of early astronomers and scientists. In this research skills instructional activity, students research electronic and print sources about Galileo Galilei, Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Claudius Ptolemy,...
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FREE STANDING STRUCTURE
Students demonstrate basic construction skills by building a free standing structure. They compute the cost of the structure.
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Electricity - Lesson Plan
Tenth graders should explain some basic properties of electricity and know how electricity is produced. They should also explain the electrical components that make up electric circuits.
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Breaking News English: 2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual
In this English learning exercise, students read "2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.