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Does Order Really Matter?
Investigate the order of operations! Learners participate in interactive multi-media activities to examine and solve multi-step equations, inequalities. They evaluate formulas and simplify monomials and polynomials.
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Globalization and Foreign Investment and Latin America
Consider the impact of foreign investment in Latin America. Young economists read the provided handouts about foreign investment in Latin America and then solve the investment scenarios and case studies.
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Hall of Fame Lesson Module — Financial Football
Kick off an engaging review on personal finance with an online football game. Financial Football incorporates both football strategies and economic knowledge in an interactive format, allowing future CFOs to answer a variety of...
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Adoption Stories
Although originally designed for young film makers who wanted to enter their videos in a contest, the step-by-step instructions included here would serve as a guide for any video project. Classes with no access to video editing software...
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Happy Birthday to Them!
Third graders use a search engine to search the Internet and find the birthdates of the singers listed on the Popular Singers Worksheet. They provide the URL address from which they obtain their information for each singer.
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"Pass the Potatoes" (But, where did they come from?)
Eighth graders explore various cultures around the world. In this cultural instructional activity, 8th graders prepare foods that belong to different cultures. Students examine the climate in the places of origin of their...
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Opinion Articles
Students investigate current events. They conduct research on a selected current event, read and analyze opinion pages from different newspapers, and write an article in a newspaper-style column format.
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When I Grow Up - All By Myself
Students listen to the book, All By Myself, then write sentences describing themselves now and when they are grown up. They create self-portraits of their current selves and what they be like in the future.
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Individual Responsibility and Resistance During the Holocaust
Students examine the role of resistance during the Holocaut. Identifying misconceptions, they discuss them as a way to gather the truth about this time in history. They explore the roles of various groups of resistance and share this...
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Verb Tenses
For this grammar worksheet, students fill in the blanks with a form of the verb in parenthesis. They can use any appropriate verb tense. There are 14 blanks to fill in.
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Verb Tenses
This interesting verbs worksheet, has students read a paragraph, and fill in 14 blanks with the appropriate form of the verb tense that is shown parentheses. Very good practice in using the correct verb tense.
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Fill in the Blank Verbs
In this past tense verb review worksheet, students fill in the 14 blanks in a paragraph with the appropriate forms of the verbs listed in parentheses.
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Fill in the Blank: Verb Tense
In this fill in the blank verb tense worksheet, students are given a sentence and a verb. Students choose the correct form of the verb to complete the sentence.
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Planning a Garden
Seventh graders research the World Wide Web to research and plan a garden for their school. They draw a scale model of the garden, determine the cost, and create a presentation to promote their garden plan.
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Conversions: Metrics Made Easy
Students convert standard units of measurement to metric units using tape measures, meter sticks, rulers, and online conversion calculators.
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Adopt a Manatee
First graders engage in a writing activity about manatees and use e-mail to contact representatives about important issues. This would be a very exciting, and meaningful lesson for a first grade writer!
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What's so Special about SFX?
Students work individually or in small groups to design a series of special effects images. They use image editing software to explore how visual information is interpreted and manipulated digitally. Students create new, blank image...
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Alphabet Cards: Centipedes
In this alphabet cards worksheet, students cut apart 52 cards that feature an upper or lower case alphabet letter in a cartoon centipede shape. This is Zaner-Bloser style; one upper or lower case letter per card.
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What Would it Cost You Today?
Learners explore inflation and the role played by advertising and marketing over the years. In this financial literacy lesson, students complete worksheets, do Internet research, and create an excel spreadsheet comparing prices from...
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Make Your own Word Search
Young scholars use the internet to create their own word search. Following the directions, they use a puzzle making site to create their word search with words related to school. They practice navigating through various websites and...
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Preparing a Business Plan to "Be Your Own Boss"
Do your scholars strive to work for themselves some day? Help young entrepreneurs create a business plan for an original idea and present it to a "board of directors." They complete online research (some links provided) and put...
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Edit Essays with Word Tables
Students examine how to identify grammar and spelling errors in an essay using the features of Word after the teacher uses the highlight feature. They correct the errors using Word's table feature by making a table that shows the error...
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Anatomy of a Wave
Pair physical science learners up, and have one describe a transverse wave while the other blindly attempts to draw it. Then reveal an actual diagram and explain the different parts of the wave: crest, trough, wavelength. Though most of...
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Exploring Muscle Action in the Human Body
Students collect and graph data and use the internet to research the skeletal muscles.