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Bears' House Vandalized, Witnesses Say Blonde Girl Spotted Fleeing from the Scene

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore journalism. In this expository writing lesson, students read several newspaper articles and note common features. After reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jan Brett, students work with a partner to write a news...
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Newspaper Report

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Discuss the way to write a newspaper article using this presentation. With a series of slides detailing an accident involving a car at a gasoline station, learners are prompted to answer who, what, when, where, and why questions. Use...
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Candy Math Fun

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Few things can motivate children to learn like the promise of a sweet and tasty treat. Given a bag of M&M®s, Skittles®, or other colorful candy, students first predict the contents of the bag before counting the pieces,...
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
The four worksheets here are provided to introduce your learners to new vocabulary on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Each list contains seven vocabulary words focused on a specfic vowel pair. First the learner hears the word,...
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Vocabulary Building Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
Four weeks of vocabulary words are provided here! Each week has between six and seven vocabulary words for your young learners to master. First they hear each word, and then they get a short definition for each word. The second activity...
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Bears' House Vandalized, Witnesses say Blonde Girl Spotted Fleeing from the Scene!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students approach a familiar story (Goldilocks and the Three Bears) from the perspective of a newspaper reporter. They apply the 5 W's + 1 H (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How).
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Proper Nouns

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Learners read the 19 nouns on the elephant and then circle each noun that is a proper noun. They write 10 additional proper nouns on the lines provided on the second elephant.
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Conservation During Chemical Reactions

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemical reaction instructional activity, students are given the details of an experiment where sodium chloride and silver nitrate are mixed in a chemical reaction. Students answer nine questions about the chemical reaction, they...
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Second Graders Create Their Own Social Studies Book (Part I, The 5Ws of the Constitution)

For Teachers 3rd
Students study the United States Constitution and create a year-long cumulative activity for social studies. In this social studies lesson, students complete activities throughout the year to learn the 5Ws for the United States...
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Middle School Masters of the Web- Video Newsletter

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students develop a school newscast. In this school newscast instructional activity, students practice interviewing skills, use of video and podcasting equipment, and editing skills. They work in groups to develop a school newscast using...
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It's Raining Meatballs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarization using the book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett. They silently read the story, and as a class discuss the five W's. Students then write a short summary of...
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Numeral Analysis: Rate of Convergence

For Students 11th - 12th
In this rate of convergence worksheet, students use three different methods to compute an order of convergence of a function. This four-page worksheet contains approximately 10 problems, with examples.
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Linear Systems: Graphical Interpretation of Vectors and Linear Systems

For Students Higher Ed
In this interpretation of vectors and linear systems worksheet, students describe the geometric appearance of two vectors. They add the two vectors and sketch the sum as well as the vectors to determine the commutativity of vector...
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Numerical Analysis: Machine Representation of Numbers

For Students 9th - 12th
In this machine representation of a number worksheet, students explore definitions such as floating-point, round-off error, binary representation of a number, mantissa, and sign bit. They identify significant digits and determine how...
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Numerical Analysis: Rates of Convergence

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this rates of convergence worksheet, students explore examples of linear, superlinear and quadratic convergence of sequences. They solve six problems involving sequence converges. This two-page worksheet contains examples and six...
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WS 7.1.1 Molecular Compounds

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this molecular compounds worksheet, students write the prefixes for the numbers one through ten. They name thirty compounds given their formulas. They write the formulas for twenty six compounds given their names.
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Who, What, Where, When, Why?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this creating information questions and answers activity, students write who, what, where, when, and why questions write answers in complete sentences, and complete a dialogue. Students write 19 short sentences.
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Linear Equations

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students determine the equation of a line given the slope and the coordinates of one point on the line.  The one page worksheet contains ten free response questions.  Answers are...
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Writing Formulas by Crossing Over

For Students 10th - 11th
In this formulas learning exercise, students use the cross-over rule to determine the formula for compounds of the elements and polyatomic ions given. Students complete 15 problems.
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Lesson Plan on the Mayflower, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write journal entries and a story based on the Mayflower era. They identify the roles of both the Pilgrims and Wampanoags in their writings.
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Total English Starter: Wh- Questions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this wh- questions worksheet, students practice using the present simple we or they and wh- questions to rearrange 5 groups of words to make questions, write 6 questions for 6 different answers and write 5 sentences using the 5 verbs...
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Linear Systems: Graphical Interpretation of Vectors

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this graphical interpretation of vectors learning exercise, students execute operations of addition and multiplication by a scalar. They sketch results and determine the commutativity of vector addition. This three-page learning...
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Using Question Words Quiz 2A

For Students 5th - 6th
In this questions worksheet, students read 10 answers and write the questions that would correspond. Students use the question words: where, when, what time, or why.
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Question Review

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this writing questions instructional activity, students read the answers and then write the question for each answer. Students write 8 questions.