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Number: Decimals
Students explore the concept of decimals. In this decimals lesson, students examine number patterns as they complete a worksheet that requires them perform multiplication with decimal numbers.
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4.2: Exploring Rocks
Students collect and look at rocks and write down information about them in science notebooks. They make comparisons and sort the rocks according to their properties, and then discuss their findings with their classmates and put them on...
Virginia Department of Education
Side to Side
Congruent figures: two figures that want to be just like each other. Individuals learn to distinguish between figures that are congruent and those that are not. Measuring the lengths of line segments and angles helps in this endeavor.
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Safety and Sanitation
Your microbiologists explore the graphing of exponential growth functions using bacteria, like e. coli and salmonella, in a well-written, career and technology lesson.
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Knowledge Rating Scale Vocabulary Activity #2 Bud, Not Buddy
As your kids read chapters nine through eleven, present them with this vocabulary chart. Nine vocabulary words are shown, and pupils must decide if they know it well, have heard it, or have no clue what it means. Consider re-creating...
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"I Spy": Using Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases
Young scholars define adjectives and use adjectives and descriptive phrases to write a descriptive paragraph. They write a description of a sensory item, and read and discuss a five senses chart. Students then complete a chart using...
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Day 4
Class members have an opportunity to compare how a film and a play handle the same source material by viewing the opening chapters of George Lucas's Star Wars: A New Hope and acts I and II of Ian Doescher's play, William...
US Mint
Coin Connections
Help young mathematicians make cents out of the US currency system with this two-part math lesson. Children first learn the names and values for each type of coin, before learning to count and compare the values of coins using the...
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Data Analysis Challenge
In this data analysis worksheet, young scholars work with a partner to collect information for a survey. The information is then compiled into a graph. Students must indicate their survey question, the target audience, predict the...
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Learning Life Lessons through Fables
Explore a variety of fables to learn life's lessons through engaging stories. Add rigor to the learning process with activities that include matching a a fable to the story's moral, short answer exit slips, and a three-column graphic...
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Questions/Inferring
For this literature worksheet, students will analyze a story and prepare the chart by completing the two columns entitled "I wonder" and "I think" in accordance with a particular passage or piece of literature. Students will use...
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Teachers.Net Toy Parade (Elementary, Reading/Writing
Children bring in a toy, favorite or otherwise, and describe it using adjectives and adverbs. They fold a piece of paper into two columns, and list the adjectives on one side, and the adverbs on the other.
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Unit II: Worksheet 5 - Velocity and Motion Maps
A chart with eight rows makes up this handout. The columns are labeled with two graphs ("x vs. t" and "v vs. t"), a written description, and a motion map. One cell in each row is filled in, leaving the rest for your class to complete....
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Making Words
In this word building worksheet, children color in the consonants and cut out all of the given letters. They can then construct words by arranging the letters and writing them down on columns for two through seven-letter words. This...
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Proofs
In this geometric proof learning exercise, students compose 20 triangle congruency proofs. Students will decide if there is enough information in problems 1-6 to prove if any triangles are congruent. In problems 17 to 20, students use...
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K-W-L Chart
In this KWL chart activity, students complete the "What I Know" column and "What I'd Like to Know" column. Students complete the remaining column after they have conducted research. This blank KWL template includes an area to record the...
University of North Carolina
Figures and Charts
Sometimes words aren't the best way to get information across to the reader. The eighth handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series describes different type of figures and charts to display complex information in a paper....
Inside Mathematics
Suzi's Company
The mean might not always be the best representation of the average. The assessment task has individuals determine the measures of center for the salaries of a company. They determine which of the three would be the best representation...
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Rights vs. Responsibilities
Young scholars work in pairs to look up definitions of "rights" and "responsibilities." The class discusses the differences of the two terms and brainstorm lists of rights and responsibilities.
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Things Fall Apart: Graphic Organizer
Can two cultures live together successfully? After reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, have your class complete the graphic organizer included. They compare different cultures and brainstorm how different pairs could live...
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Project 1
Learners are given a coin to observe and make inferences about. Using a worksheet, they make two columns to list their observations and inferences in an organized manner. They develop a hypothesis based on one of the inferences and...
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More Rocket Science
Students observe two rocket science experiments, and create a graph to demonstrate the results. They draw a picture and write an explanation of the results of the experiments.
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Lesson One: Word Choice
In this word choice worksheet, young scholars complete information relating to "The Witches" by Roald Dahl. Students practice using different adjectives, verbs, adverbs and descriptive words through writing activities. Young scholars...
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Graphing with the Five Senses
Students collect data and record it on a bar graph. In this data graphing lesson, each small group of students is assigned to collect data on one of the five senses. They then practice a song that helps them remember the purpose of each...