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Melt in Your Mouth Subtraction
Students engage in a lesson which involves role-play and the use of manipulatives to solve subtraction problems. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain subtraction practice. They get to eat the...
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Circuit City
Fifth graders are introduced to the concept of circuits and how electricity works. In groups, they design their own subdivision with houses in which they have inside and outside light sources. To end the activity, they make the...
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Addition and Subtraction of Signed Numbers
Young scholars explore the concept of adding and subtracting using positive and negative numbers. For this addition and subtraction of signed numbers lesson, students use pennies to represent positive and negative numbers. Young scholars...
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Breaking News English: Stress and Dolphins
In this stress and dolphins worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Word Choice: Whose and Who's
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and select the correct option to complete the sentence from the words whose or who's.
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Verb Tenses
In this verb fill in the blank worksheet, students 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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The Acid Rain Test
Fourth graders engage in a research project to increase their ability to conduct experiments, interpret data and discuss results in a scientific paper. After doing a lab which simulates effects of acid rain, pairs of students write a...
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Patterns
Students make patterns. In this early sequencing lesson, students observe and state a pattern when they see one. The teacher begins be using students to demonstrate a pattern with half of the children standing and every other child sitting.
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Water Table
Students study the meaning of a water table and how it contributes to the existence of streams, swamps, and lakes in Nebraska. They conduct an experiment and complete a diagram of the hydrologic cycle.
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Recording Treasure
Students participate in a garage sale. They will weigh the items sold. They will calculate the total weight of items sold and donated to an agency.
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Approaching the Iraq War
Learners identify the justifications for the war in Iraq as seen from teh American and Middle Eastern perspectives. They research personal, primary and secondary sources to create a constructed poster board perspective. The poster board...
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Bridge Building
Bridge the gaps in your knowledge of bridges. Individuals learn about bridge types by building models. The activity introduces beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges, and suspension bridges.
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How Many Buttons
Help learners explore the concepts of more than, less than, and equal to. They participate in a button attribute activity, play a game using buttons and a die, draw the sets of buttons in their journal, and play button bingo.
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Suffix "teen"
Here is a suffix "teen" worksheet that has learners practice their spelling skills as they examine six numbers. They write the word numbers that feature the suffix "teen".
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Regular Plural Nouns
In this noun worksheet, students complete 12 questions in which they write singular nouns in plural form. The first 5 questions are sentences which contain an underlined noun that must be made plural. The next 7 questions are sentences...
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Subtraction-Oral Questions
In this subtraction learning exercise, students answer a set of 16 oral questions about subtraction. An answer key is included; a website reference for additional activities is given.
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Melting Ice
Students observe the melting of ice and explore the basic physical changes that occur. They gain information of how different substances change the rate of melting. Students discuss the properties of water and ice, the definition of...
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Calculations with Negative Numbers
For this algebra worksheet, students solve algebraic equations by addition with negative numbers. There are 3 questions with an answer key.
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Vocabulary: Addition Terminology
For this addition terminology worksheet, students complete many activities where they define and match addition terminology. Students complete 11 pages of activities.
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Elements Of Chemistry: When Carbon Combines
High schoolers create a polymer using Borax and Elmer's Glue. In this chemistry lesson, students identify monomers made of hydrocarbons and then brainstorm a list of polymers and their uses.
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Money Matters
Students play a game called Money Matters using cut out representatives of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
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There are Microbes in my Food!
Sixth graders produce yogurt in the classroom as an example of the use of microbes in food production, and record observations in science journals.
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Chemical Reactions
In this chemical reaction worksheet, students investigate the results of mixing calcium chloride with sodium bicarbonate. They observe the chemical and physical changes that occur, identify the properties of the chemical before and after...