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Phone Button Boggle
For this phone button boggle worksheet, students identify the number of math words they can find on a phone keypad according to given directions. This one-page worksheet contains one problem. Answers are provided.
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Meter Reading Using Place Value
Fourth graders watch a video about reading a gas meter and discuss what they saw in the clip. In this place value lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet where they fill in the missing dials on the meters.
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Channel Catfish
Students study the life and biology of the Channel Catfish. In this aquatic biology lesson, students will examine the external and internal features of the catfish along with their breeding habits and environment. This lesson includes...
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The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean
Learners are introduced to "The Magic School Bus Explores the Ocean". They should have been studying the ocean. They have heard and read many books on the topic. This software will bring the ocean to life and provide information to...
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Birth Defects: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Students identify the causes, characteristics, and the treatment or prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome. They prepare presentations on birth defects, and listen to a guest speaker discuss birth defects.
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Applications, Proportions and Problem Solving
In this problem solving worksheet, students read short statements, gather necessary information and translate them to equations. There are 11 problems on this two-page worksheet.
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Keyboarding Technique
Learners use correct keyboarding technique to improve speed and accuracy. They respond to verbal comments, such as "Be sure you are keeping your fingers on home row." They choose one technique component to work on and fill it in on...
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Subtraction
First graders write and illustrate a story for a subtraction problem subtracting from the number ten. Students explore subtraction situations by using counters to represent a familiar number- based literature selection. Students role...
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Getting Around - Transportation Photographs
Learners locate historical photographs of different types of transportation on a given website. They choose three to analyze and write about. If there is no information with the photo, students will need to research their chosen types of...
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Weather Maps and Prediction
Second graders point out symbols for high and low pressure that would be found on weather maps. They break into small groups and use a copy of the weather maps file to make observations about the maps and come up with an explanation of...
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The Panama Canal, The World's Most Important Shortcut
Young scholars, through teacher lecture and online activities, study the Panama Canal. They discuss how it was made and the hardships the workers encountered while building it. Through the eyes of one of these workers, they write a short...
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Applications, Proportions, and Problem Solving
In this math worksheet, students find the solutions to the problems involving proportions. They also compare the similar triangles.
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Using Cytochrome-C to Explore Evolutionary Relationships
Students analyze protein sequences. In this lesson on determining evolutionary relationships, students use the Internet tools BLAST and Biology Workbench to look at protein sequences. Students will compose an essay that includes their...
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Fractions: Addition and Subtraction
Seventh graders add and subtract fractions with like and unlike denominators. After discussing the use of fractions in the real world, 7th graders work problems and draw models representing each problem. They observe subtracting...
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Taste the Rainbow
Students practice estimating and graphing by utilizing Skittles. For this statistics lesson, students complete worksheets based on the likelihood of a certain color of skittle coming out of the bag. Students create a graph based on the...
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Dumptown Game
Pupils engage in an interactive play scenario. They are the new managers of a fictional city and live in a place where nothing is recycled. Students are faced with various problems that need to be solved. They work together to propose...
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Native Americans - People of the Plains
Students explore Plains Indians and practice computer skills by reading creation and migration stories on People of the Plains CD-ROM, and watching Plains video. Students examine village life of Plains Indians, and view different...
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All About Me
Students in a computer class use their student identification number and password to log into their computers. Using Microsoft Word, they complete an autobiographical worksheet/template and save the information on their own personal...
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Sketchpad
Students investigate the use of Geometer's Sketchpad when studying geometric terms. They use the visualization tools to complete worksheet and design a picture to print and share with the class.
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Civil War Letter Web
Students use the internet to gather information on a specific Civil War battle of interest to them. Using the information they gather, they organize it into a web to be used later when writing a letter. They use the web to write their...
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Taxonomic Keys
Seventh graders create their own dichotomous key. In this biology lesson, 7th graders classify animals based on their observable features. They explain how to use their dichotomous key.
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What Personal Journals Tell Us
Pupils read primary source journals from the Nebraska Western Trails Project. They work in groups to analyze the journal entries and complete a worksheet. Students then write an individual essay on the experience and consider what kind...
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Traveling Around Nebraska
Young scholars analyze a current or historical photograph from their textbook and as a class complete a worksheet of the analysis. Using the Photographic Analysis Form, they locate and analyze two transportation photographs and use the...
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Code Crackers
Learners work in teams creating and posing math rules and trying to guess them using a formula controlled worksheet they create with Excel. Student pairs take turns to see who can crack the other's code the fastest.