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Indiana Applied Skills Assessment Sample
In this Applied Skills Assessment worksheet, 5th graders complete a sample state assessment for Language Arts and Mathematics for 5th graders. They read a writing prompt and complete a writing activity that follows, answer various types...
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Marijuana Awareness
February is Marijuana Awareness Month, and a set of interdisciplinary activities can make your class aware of the social, medical, legal, and psychological effects of marijuana. With writing prompts, research opportunities, and...
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Not Just the Facts
Encourage your learners to explore the differences between hard news and news analysis. They outline a complex news analysis about the upcoming presidential election, then endeavor to write an analysis of the same topic, using local...
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Microbes and Disease
Discuss how diseases have impacted human history. Divide your class into groups and assign each group one of the following: tuberculosis, malaria, plague, cholera, smallpox, and AIDS. They read up on, complete a concept map, and present...
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Applying KWL Guides to Sources with Elementary Students
What is a KWL chart? Here is a well thought-out lesson that has learners use KWL charts to gain historical perspective. Your class examines primary sources about historical events and identifies what they know, want to know, and,...
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Georgia CRCT Online: 8th Language Arts Quiz
Review word choice and grammar skills with this practice test for the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). Fifteen multiple-choice questions prompt eighth graders to recall writing strategies, grammar skills, and...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Charisma vs. Experience
Which is more important for a president: experience or charisma? Scholars consider this as they analyze 2 political cartoons in this analysis handout. Background information gives context through a quote from The Telegraph, and 3 talking...
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Cartoons for the Classroom: Why are Cartoonists Vital to Democracy
A thought-provoking activity doesn't prompt learners to analyze a political cartoon, but rather the importance of political cartoonists in general. They work together and discuss the role cartoonists play in the democratic system. Use...
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Energy for Life (Energy from Food)
Energy comes in many forms, but how do living things get the energy they need to survive and thrive? In a simple, controlled experiment with yeast, water, and sugar, groups make observations about how yeast reacts with water alone, then...
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Adding and Subtracting Integers
When should you use a number line to add and subtract integers, and when should you use absolute values? Complete a set of worksheets designed to reinforce adding and subtracting integers with both standard problems and word problems....
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Reading a Comparison-Contrast Essay
Turn your passive readers into active readers with an engaging lesson on reading informational text. Focused on compare and contrast structured essays, the activity prompts elementary learners to jot down questions and think-aloud...
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Analyzing a Model Informative Consumer Guide
What do consumers need to know about overfishing before buying fish? Scholars consider the question as they prepare for their performance task, which is to create a consumer guide for people about purchasing fish responsibly. After...
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Essay Outline: The Outsiders
In this essay writing worksheet, students are given prompts to help them develop an outline for an essay. Students then use this outline to write a four paragraph essay on The Outsiders.
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ESOL Telephone Communications
Students answer incoming telephone calls, take simple messages, and respond to voice mail prompts. They write a paragraph using correct spacing and legible cursive handwriting. They practice the sounds of past tense endings.
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SATP Basic Parts of an Informative Essay
Students identify the elements of an informative essay. Through a teacher led discussion, students explore the basic parts of a five paragraph essay and , using a hamburger as an analogy, students label the pieces. They discuss the...
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Beginning Question Response: Your Favorite Sport
In this writing prompt instructional activity, students are asked about their favorite sport. Students write a short paragraph stating reasons and examples to support their answer.
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Beginning Question Response: Lunch
In this writing prompt worksheet, students are asked about how they spend their lunch time. Students write a short paragraph stating reasons and examples to support their answer.
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Beginning Question Response: How You Relax
In this writing prompt worksheet, students are asked about how they relax. Students write a short paragraph stating reasons and examples to support their answer.
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Beginning Question Response: Your Favorite Music
For this writing prompt worksheet, students are asked about their favorite music. Students write a short paragraph stating reasons and examples to support their answer.
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Squiggle art
In this Language Arts learning exercise, learners read about Squiggle Art and answer three questions about the reading. Students choose from three writing prompts to create their own paragraph. Learners also combine eight sentences into...
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From Quotation to Interpretation in Informational Texts
How to ignite thoughtful written responses with the words of philosophers, artists, and current events.
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Tuck Everlasting
Clearly written as an assignment for a higher-level education class, this formal lesson plan contains some fun and well-researched strategies for teaching the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Among the best ideas...
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Written Response: Jewish immigration to Palestine
Examine Jewish and Arab sovereignty as it relates to the control of Palestine. Pupils read a passage explaining the history of the conflict, then write a 10-sentence paragraph describing what they would do if they were a member of the...
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Nov. 17, 1973 | Nixon Declares 'I Am Not a Crook'
Connect events of the past to events of today. Budding historians read an eight paragraph passage describing the Watergate scandal. They then connect the Nixon scandal to sex scandals of recent times. There are six critical thinking...