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What Makes Time Tick, or Has the Industrial Revolution Really Made Clocks Go Faster?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of time both historically and in their own lives. Students count the number of times they refer to a clock and the number of scheduled and unscheduled activities in their lives. Learners discuss how the...
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Time for All Ages

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discover time keeping by analyzing technological advances in history.  In this time lesson, 4th graders create and complete a KWL chart based on their research of a famous timekeeping invention, such as a sundial....
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Classroom Lincoln-Douglas Debate

For Teachers 9th - 12th
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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You Name It!

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this proper nouns worksheet, learners 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

For Students 2nd - 4th
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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Name That Noun

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this nouns worksheet, 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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Where Are The Verbs?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
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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Listen and Guess Vocabulary Game

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Teach vocabulary in this quick game to vocabulary skills game. Divide the class into two groups, give them clues to a particular word, each team has sixty seconds to identify the vocabulary word. Words can be arranges to include...
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Conflict and Debate

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners take a medical issue and explore it, debate it, and convince others of their point of view. They improve research skills and writing skills. Students are able to define a problem, debate it, and identify which is the best...
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The Name Game

For Students 3rd - 6th
For 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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Pass Poem

For Teachers 12th
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

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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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Freedom's Children

For Teachers 9th - 11th
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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Roll With the Punches: What Do You Know?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students activate prior knowledge about life in the South during the Great Depression in preparation for reading the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
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Sentence Puzzles

For Students 2nd - 4th
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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Acting Out Adjectives

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this adjective game instructional activity, 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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Adjective Art

For Students 1st - 4th
In this grammar instructional activity, students cut out pictures write sentences containing as many adjectives as they can to describe the pictures.
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Pronoun Grid

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this grammar worksheet, learners fill in the blanks to make complete sentences with multiple pronouns missing. Six sentences are given with multiple blanks in each.
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Breaking News English: 2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual

For Students 5th - 10th
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.