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How Do You Feel About Wind Energy?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Tell me what you really think. The class reviews articles related to wind energy to see how the author uses words, phrases, and images to sway the reader. Through a class discussion, individuals share their feelings from the media...
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Make a Windmill

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore Earth science by conducting an energy experiment in class. In this windmill lesson, students identify how wind has been used to pump water throughout history and the latest developments wind energy has produced. Students...
Worksheet
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Wind Turbine Kit

For Students 6th - 9th
In this physics worksheet, learners set up a wind turbine kit to identify what happens when it is assembled. They describe how energy is transferred within the circuit created and how many blades give the highest voltage.
Activity
Smarter Balanced

Renewable Energy

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Renewable and non-renewable energy sources are the focus of a series of activities that prepare learners for a performance task assessment on energy. Groups identify the various sources of energy and classify these sources as either...
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President Theodore Roosevelt: Foreign Policy Statesman or Bully?

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Can a negative perception of a president's foreign policy harm his or her historical legacy? A project that winds the clock back to the date of Theodore Roosevelt's death puts students at the editorial desk of a fictional newspaper....
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The Higher Power of Lucky

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students complete activities using the book The Higher Power of Lucky. In this literature lesson, students read the story and identify the parts of the story. They create a wind chime like that found in the book. 
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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Heroes

For Parents 2nd - 3rd Standards
Three creative activities follow reading a fiction and nonfiction book about heroes. Scholars build hero action figures out of clay for make-believe play, explain in written form how they show bravery, kindness, patience, thoughtfulness,...
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Greenewables

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
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Power In The Wind

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students experiment designing graphs of selected readings from the Nebraska sites from the Power in the Wind study. They choose whether or not to put their data in a spreadsheet program to make a computer-generated graph or to complete...
PPT
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Compound Words

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Enhance your lesson on compound words with this colorful PowerPoint. This presentation defines a compound word, lists various examples, as well as includes a class activity and assignment. Note: During the reading activity, have students...
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Climate Chaos Week

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils research the pros and cons of wind farm technology as an alternative source of energy. The class is divided into two groups that should formulate a debate on each side of the argument. Groups use a debate guide to help develop...
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Synonyms

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine synonyms from their reading. For this synonyms lesson, students use vocabulary from their reading to create a chart and illustrate the words. Students complete online activities from the story.
Interactive
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Breaking News English: One Hundred Dollar Laptop Computer

For Students 5th - 10th
In this one hundred dollar laptop computer worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
Interactive
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Breaking News English: Green Invitation

For Students 5th - 10th
In this cardboard box solar cooker worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
Interactive
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Youth and Old Age

For Students 4th - 5th
For this generation reading activity worksheet, students read the dialogues in pairs as an activity about youth and old age. Students may complete related activities for the worksheet.
Worksheet
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Cool It! Comprehension: Chart 4

For Students 7th - 8th
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students read chart 4 about fixing global warming and then complete several activities that help them understand the things that can be done to reduce the amount of energy wasted.
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Room 13

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this Room 13 worksheet, students complete nine activities related to each chapter in the book. Students do an activity to practice using the vocabulary in the book and practice letter writing with writing to a character in the story....
Interactive
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 34

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student answers are...
Interactive
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"The Face in the Trees" Lesson

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this illusion worksheet, students look at the picture and read the poem about the face in the trees, answer multiple choice questions about it, and complete a word search. Students complete 3 activities.
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Generators: Three Mile Island vs. Hoover Dam

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students are given a history of electricity and its development into the modern age lifeline upon which we so depend. The methods of power generation are introduced, and further discussion of each technology's pros and cons follows. ...
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Energy Crossword Puzzle

For Students 7th - 8th
In this energy crossword learning exercise, students read 36 clues pertaining to energy conservation. Students fit their answers in a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank.
Handout
Montgomery County Public Schools

Summer Journal Ideas

For Students 2nd - 12th
Twenty prompts, fifteen starters, and ten situations. What more could you ask for from a list of journal ideas?
Worksheet
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Total English Advanced: Academic English

For Students 8th - 10th
Advanced English language learners use the vocabulary bank at the top of the page to complete several sentences. Word choices include emphasise, notably, more, yet, regard, etc. Although the worksheet guide (page two) suggests it will...
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Changes and the Individual

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students evaluate the social effects of inventions and other developments on the lives of ordinary individuals. They create a profile of an individual who might have lived at that time and whose life would have been affected by those...