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Great Gatsby's Jazz
As Nick wanders the grounds of Gatsby's mansion, he observes the behaviors of the rowdy guests and listens to the music pouring over the lawn. Bring the music of the jazz age into the classroom with Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues,"...
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Would Your Cat Eat This Stuff?
Processed foods use inorganic compounds for flavoring and preservation. This take-home laboratory challenges scholars to find 20 different compounds identified on the labels of foods to list on their data collection sheet. The activity...
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Prefixes and Suffixes in Biology Terms
Here is a challenging and cross-curricular worksheet, great for learners in biology or English class. They underline the prefix and/or suffix in each of 15 words and define them. Then, they use their prefix and suffix list to write the...
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The Chemical Building Blocks of Life
Amateur biologists examine the macromolecules that are foundational to life: proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates. This worksheet is composed of five pages of questions and plenty of space to write answers. Learners will explore...
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Looking to the Future
New Horizons set forth on a mission to Pluto in 2006. Ten years later, the spacecraft is still on its way. Here, enthusiastic scholars predict what they will be like—likes, dislikes, hobbies, etc.—when New Horizons arrives at its...
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Finding Factors
In this finding factors activity, students practice finding all the factors of 24 in twenty word equations and then find the prime factorization in ten equations.
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Simplifying Radicals
In this radical worksheet, students write given radical expressions in a square root form. Explanations and examples are provided at the beginning of the document. This two-page worksheet contains 24 problems. Answers are located at the...
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Retelling
Explore language arts by completing a story worksheet in class. Readers will identify the importance of plot, setting, and character while they write their own short story. They also retell their story to a classmate and participate in a...
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Lesson Plan for Chato's Kitchen
Through an exploration of Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto, learners practice sequencing skills, retelling a story, and Spanish vocabulary words. All of the necessary resources, worksheets, and other materials are provided in order to give...
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Fahrenheit 451 Anticipation Guide
Are anticipation guides effective? The first two pages of this instructional activity describe what an anticipation guide is and how to use it effectively. On the final page is the anticipation guide; use it to get your class talking...
Black History Month Report
Black History Month Report
As part of Black History Month, class members investigate in depth the life and work of an African American musician.
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Measurement and Variation
Examine the concept of variation through observation and measurement. Middle schoolers will study a peanut and record any distinguishing characteristics visible as well as sketch their peanuts and describe them in writing. Their peanut...
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Chemistry Practice
For this chemistry overview worksheet, students calculated the volume of different gases and liquids given in a word problem. Students had to calculate the molecular mass and write the empirical formula and the molecular formula.
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Multiplying and Dividing by 10
Your scholars will be glad to know there are helpful tricks when multiplying and dividing by 10; show them this concept through visual examples as they complete these word problems. Using sets of peas they fill in four multiplication...
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Writing and Literature
Students participate in a layered unit that includes activities like: Write a character study (minimum 250 words) of a character you are familiar with from a book or play. What is their personality like? Who would you compare them to (in...
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Matching Vocabulary Words With Definitions
In this matching vocabulary words with definitions worksheet, students enter the number of the definition to match the word; there are 10 words on a page, with 72 exercises total, answers can be checked online.
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Picture Sentences
Second graders create sentences using word wall or spelling words. In this literacy lesson, 2nd graders type their sentences and attach a clip art picture that coordinates with the word or sentence.
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ABC Book of Words
Students use the vocabulary words they have been learning and hearing as part of their study of China to make a book. They can create a dictionary or a book in any number of forms depending on the grade level.
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Express Yourself!
Fifth graders study different types of poetry, compose a poem and word process it.
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Algebra Age Problems
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders are presented with age word problems which are solved by writing an equation in one variable. The one page worksheet contains 2 worked examples and sixteen practice problems. Answers...
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Different Ways to Show Numbers homework 5.4
In this identifying numbers in different ways worksheet, students read a number, observe three choices of ways to express the number, and choose two correct ways to show the number, and then solve a word problem by writing or drawing the...
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Image: A Nation
Students use photographs as a basis for a creative writing piece that explores the characters, relationships, and settings revealed in the images.
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Problem Solving: Percent Problems
In this percent instructional activity, learners solve a set of 6 word problems; all problems relate to percent. Students are given "hints" to help solve problems 1 and 2.
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Types of Sentences and Punctuation
In this sentences and punctuation activity, students choose the correct words to complete the sentences, choose if something is a statement or question, select the subject, and more. Students complete 28 questions total.