University of Colorado
Space Travel Guide
Neptune takes 164.8 Earth years to travel around the sun. In the fifth of 22 lessons, young scientists create a travel guide to a planet in our solar system. They provide tips for others on what to bring, what they see, and their...
Law for Kids
General Election Activity Booklet
It's never too early to practice smart voting! Gain practice voting in a general election using a booklet compiled of an assortment of activities including a word search, maze, graphing, and more!
College Board
AP® Psychology: Teaching Statistics and Research Methodology
Psychologists use statistics? Scholars investigate the research behind the methodology of statistical analysis. Using hands-on practice, case-studies, and scatterplots, they complete various tasks to understand the very roots of high...
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The Orphan of Ellis Island
Everyone comes from somewhere. An interdisciplinary lesson on Elvira Woodruff's The Orphan of Ellis Island includes discussion starter and writing prompts for the novel, as well as a graphic organizer to help learners begin their...
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Using Connectors: Too and Either
In this using connectors: too and either learning exercise, students read the explanations and examples of the two words, then interactively complete 20 sentences with immediate online feedback.
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Story Opening Two
In this proofreading a story beginning and writing the ending of the story worksheet, students read and proofread the beginning paragraphs of a story, study questions about predicting events and the characters, and write the story...
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Coordinating Conjunctions
In this coordinating conjunctions worksheet, students identify independent clauses and determine usage as showing agreement, disagreement, or reason. In this multiple choice, fill in the blank, and short answer worksheet, students write...
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And so/too: shortening a repeated verb in a joined clause
In this and so, and too, and but worksheet, students complete sentences with phrases beginning with and so, and too, and but. Students complete 20 sentences total.
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Too Much or Too Little Information
In this giving information worksheet, 3rd graders read and analyze two informational scenarios and then answer 4 multiple choice questions related to the information stated in each scenario.
Starfall
Not too Little to Help
In this language arts activity, students write two short paragraphs: one about how they could help someone bigger than themselves and one about how someone littler could help them. A picture of a lion and mouse is on the page; this could...
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Patterns in Nature
In this patterns in nature worksheet, students read about the Fibonacci Spiral, then follow the directions to plot one on the graph paper and draw the spiral, with links to more information.
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Add One-Digit Numbers to Two-Digit Numbers
In this addition word problems worksheet, students solve 4 story problems in which two digit numbers are added to single digits.
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Weekly Reading Test
In this reading test instructional activity, students are tested on how well they read these 2 letter words. Students read 8 two letter words, 1 three letter words, and 1 5 letter word.
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Using Short Stories to Teach Vocabulary and Literary Terms
Students apply vocabulary activities to two short stories in order to increase their comprehension skills. They complete three lessons in which they examine irony, examine how it is used in text, and design an ironic skit. Also, the look...
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ABC's Of Figuring Interest
Students participate in a lesson of figuring interest. This is done in order to strengthen number calculation skills while computing the interest when buying different things. This done in conjunction with using credit to make purchases...
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Making Sandstone & Conglomerate - An Introduction to Sedimentary Rocks
Students review the three types of rocks and the rock cycle. They participate in an experiment in which they discover the lithification process of sedimentary rocks. They record and share their observations.
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Imus: How much free speech is too much?
High schoolers read background about Don Imus and his comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. They explore current interpretation of the First Amendment, including that of commercial speech. Students present the findings to...
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Take the One-Tonne Challenge!
Learners investigate the One-Tonne challenge, and work out how they could reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by one tonne, through individual actions and by influencing other people.
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The Tongue Untied: A Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Style
Is/are? Who/that? Young grammarians must select the correct form of the verb to agree with the subject in a series of sentences. The resource can be used for as an in-class activity or as homework for extra practice.
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Variance and Covariance: How much to do baseball players really make?
Is baseball really the road to riches? Here, statisticians look at salary data from baseball players and use variance to measure the spread of the data to more accurately answer that question. Note: The salary data provided is from 1994,...
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Using to, two, and too
Students analyze the relationship and usage of the homophones to, two, and too. In this homophone PowerPoint the correct usage of to, two, and too is described with corresponding examples. On the last slide of the PowerPoint...
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Homophones 3
In this homophones learning exercise, students complete 10 sentences where they fill in the blanks with the word to, two, or too. Answers are not provided.
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The Wampanoag Tribe: Reading Comprehension
In this Wampanoag Tribe comprehension worksheet students will read a two page essay and answer five questions. Students will also have a chance to show comprehension through a short answer and a short essay.
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Reading Practice: Boris the Brainiest Baby
Boris is the smartest baby around! Beginning readers can use this short story excerpt to practice reading comprehension and fiction elements. They read the story and then discuss what they think he will do next. Scholars create an...