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Collateral Damage? Researching a Connection Between Video Games and Violence
Hook your class into an exploration of and discussion about violence in video games with a cute animal clip and a video game trailer. After a quick discussion about how media can affect mood, class members read a related article and...
Jessica Winston
Tacky and the Winter Games
Helen Lester's wonderfully wacky, Tacky and the Winter Games, is the core text featured in a resource packet that includes a prediction exercise, an activity menu, vocabulary flash cards, and book review worksheet. A great way to cheer...
Reed Novel Studies
The Hobbit: Novel Study
All it takes is a little adventure to interrupt a quiet, simple life. A study guide for The Hobbit explores the adventures that disrupt Bilbo Baggins' quiet life. Questions discuss key events found within J.R.R....
Curated OER
Nonfiction Genre Mini-Unit: Persuasive Writing
Should primary graders have their own computers? Should animals be kept in captivity? Young writers learn how to develop and support a claim in this short unit on persuasive writing.
PBS
Think Like a Historian: A Viewing Guide
Calling all junior detectives! Scholars use the tools of investigation to determine the causes and impacts of the American Civil War. Using viewing guides, videos, group research, and written resources, they discover what it takes to...
K12 Reader
Working with Adverbs
Encourage critical thinking with a grammar exercise that focuses on adverbs and adverbial phrases. Kids read the first parts of 16 sentences, then decide which question to answer (how, how much, where, or when) based on the context, and...
Virginia Department of Education
Factoring
Uncover the relationship between factoring quadratics and higher degree polynomials. Learners develop their factoring skills through repetition. A comprehensive activity begins with quadratics and shows how to use the same patterns to...
Spanish-4-You
Coloring Book for Kids in Spanish Lesson 1: Greetings
Introduce your class to basic salutations in Spanish and English with a group of activities and exercises. The materials, which can be put together as a packet, include coloring pages, a matching activity, a fill-in-the-blank exercise,...
Curated OER
English Exercises: Present Simple Tenses
In this online interactive English learning exercise, students respond to 29 fill in the blank questions that require them to use forms of "to be" appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Contacting Outer Space
Students read a newspaper article about a compilation of information on human life that is to be projected into outer space from a pyramid in Mexico. They define vocabulary, complete comprehension worksheets, analyze the use of 'to' plus...
Curated OER
Past Events
For this recognizing past events worksheet, students change present tense verbs to the past simple of regular verbs, write a simple narrative of past events, and turn interrogative sentences into past tense statements Students write...
Curated OER
Talking About the Past
Students explore communications by discussing deceased individuals. In this past tense lesson, students analyze which verbs to use when speaking of a person who is no longer living. Students read a story about the race car driver Michael...
Curated OER
Weekly Grammar Test: Lesson 25
For this verbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs, change verbs to past tense, choose the correct verbs, and identify present or past tense verbs. Students complete 18 questions.
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Present Perfect Progressive Tense-#4
In this present perfect progressive tense activity, students use words and phrases given to form questions in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
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Present Perfect Tense
In this verb tense worksheet, students use words given in questions to make sentences in the present perfect tense. A reference website for additional resources is given.
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Misused Verbs: Lie/Lay
In this misused verbs worksheet, students insert the words lie or lay into the sentences. Students complete 10 sentences total on this worksheet.
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ESL: Non-Progressive Verbs
In this ESL non-progressive verbs worksheet, students read examples, then complete multiple choice questions, selecting correct sentences and determining correct simple and present progressive tense activities.
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Past Perfect Progressive-Questions
In this past perfect progressive tense worksheet, students use words and phrases given to form questions in the tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.
Curated OER
The Passive/Active Form
In this passive and active voice worksheet, students rewrite 18 sentences changing the verb in each one from an active voice verb to a passive voice verb.
Internet Archive
Introduction to Latin Language
Begin teaching your learners—and yourself—some basics about the Latin language with the inquiries available in this resource. Although the questions are linked to a textbook of unknown origin, they offer a good beginning on where to...
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Are Fun to Teach to My Friends
Fifth graders will practice the six parts of speech. They will also create a storyboard about one part of speech. The project will create ownership of the knowledge because of the freedom to do one's own assignment.
Curated OER
Past Progressive / Past Tense Practice
In this past progressive verb worksheet, students change 10 verbs in parentheses to past tense to fit the sentences. Students then change 4 verbs of being to past tense to form questions.
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Present (Be + -ing)
In this present tense instructional activity, 7th graders review and discuss how to change verbs to present tense verbs and decide the correct verb to put into six sentences.
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Conjugating Verbs
In this verbs worksheet, students analyze 8 pictures. Students read the sentence next to each picture and from 2 choices, select the correct verb to complete each sentence.