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Commonly Confused Words - Quiz 27
In this confused words worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct confusing word. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Botanical Illustration with Watercolor Activity
Young scholars examine anatomy of flowers as depicted in watercolor drawings, and create their own artwork.
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Learning the ABC
In this alphabet worksheet, students make groups of letters, choose the correct letters, write words with certain sounds, and more. Students complete 4 activities total.
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Words In the News Anne Bancroft Dies
Students complete vocabulary building and word work exercises prior to reading an online article. They complete worksheets and an online quiz. They examine the use of homophones. They compare articles about famous people and write...
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The Mission of the Red Cross
High schoolers explore and discus the mission aims of the International Committee of the Red Cross. They draft a letter about the work of the ICRC to the US Secretary of Defense which includes personal opinions on:
the mission of the...
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School-Home Links: Name Letters by the Sounds they Make
In this letter sounds worksheet, learners say the sound that each letter makes and then name the letter the matches the sound. Students then write their names and say the names of the letters.
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Verb Tenses
In this verb fill in the blank worksheet, young scholars complete a paragraph by adding 18 verbs in the proper form. They write the present perfect or past simple verb in 12 more examples.
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Picture Dictionary - Quiz 3
In this picture dictionary activity, students test their vocabulary skills in a picture dictionary vocabulary activity. Students answer 20 exercises.
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Vocabulary Building Activity
In these vocabulary building worksheets, learners complete several vocabulary activities that help them learn to identify, spell, and use the vocabulary words. Students use definition clues, word scrambles, sentence writing, and a timed...
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Achieve More: The GED Test
By 2018, 63% of US jobs will require a college degree or professional certificate. This is just one of the many great informational points you'll find on this handout, which you can use to inform your student body with the necessary...
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Measuring a Mummy Case
Students calculate the size of a mummy case and its contents using ancient Egyptian measurements.
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Mineral Mania
In this mineral activity, students use an on line source to answer questions about minerals, about resources and their uses, about fireworks and about birthstones.
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Check Out Lights and Shields with Beads
Students explore Ultraviolet detecting beads and conduct several investigations with them. In this investigative lesson students participate in an experiment to see the harmful effects of UV light and discuss their findings.
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Mineral Mania
In this mineral instructional activity, students visit http://sciencespot.net and answer 90 questions about mineral uses, mineral groups, fireworks, and minerals found around the home.
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Frogs, Fabulous Frogs
Students have the opportunity to both interpret and replicate the different shapes and textures observed in the life cycle of a frog. When students apply the watercolor wash to the crayon texture rubbings the designs take on a...
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Texture Towns
Students explore different kinds of communities as well as identifying and discussing the attributes of their own neighborhood. They make choices about what kinds of shapes best create the look of the type of community they wish to...
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Skates
Students gain understanding of structure, characteristics, and basic needs of living things and their role in world, identify parts of skate, observe details of skate's body and skate egg case, and identify unique characteristics of skates.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Norval Morrisseau (Lesson Plan)
A wonderful educational art site from KinderArt that includes creating a work of art in a style similar to that of Morrisseau. Includes a short biography, art vocabulary, and information on Ojibwa culture.
British Library
British Library: Bodies of Knowledge
Series of illustrated essays on the different ways that the human body has been represented in art and science across history considers medieval astrology, the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, Vitruvius's notion of body symmetry,...
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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Ancient Egypt: Explore Real Egyptian Mummies
Identify three images and x-rays of Egyptian mummies. Additionally, find links for activities, artifacts, and a timeline to enhance study of the early civilization.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Restoring a Masterwork
Go behind the scences and get a close look at how an artwork is restored. You can choose to view Castiglione's "The Immaculate Conception" or Guercino's "Erminia and the Shepherds."
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Web Exhibits: Investigating Bellini's "Feast of the Gods"
This site provided for by WebExhibits.org describes, Giovanni Bellini's canvas of "Feast of the Gods." Technical innovations in conservation science over the last 50 years have enabled specialists to obtain X-ray, infrared and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wilhelm Rontgen
(1845-1923) German scientist she produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today knob as X-rays or Rontgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.