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Fire Safety
Learners discuss how to behave if there is a fire. In this fire prevention and awareness lesson, students review fire safety, review the procedures for leaving a house or building on fire and make rescue dogs.
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Four Corner Fun: A Review Game
Twelfth graders practice academic skills by answering multiple choice questions. They role-play as fibbers or players and respond to questions accordingly, going to the A,B,C, or D corners of the classsroom. Fibbers can go to any corner.
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Crimes from Mother Goose
Students use Nursery rhymes in a discussion of crimes and criminals in order to study how criminal law has developed and changed to maintain an organized society. They decide on the identity of criminals, the crime, and the name of the...
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TOEFLesque Quiz: Big News Events from the 1990s
In this online interactive grammar skills lesson, students examine 10 sentences and identify the part of each sentence that is grammatically incorrect.
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Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
For this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders solve and graph the solutions to absolute value equations and inequalities. The two page worksheet provides explanation and examples in addition to sixteen practice questions. Answers are...
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Math: Finding Surface Area
Eighth graders engage in hands-on activities to determine the surface areas of various objects. Using boxes, they cut them so they can lay flat and measure all the various shapes, which can be calculated and added together to equal the...
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U.S. Gay Marriage Victory
In this Gay Rights instructional activity, learners read an article about gay marriage rights and answer 9 true or false questions, 9 vocabulary matching questions, and a cloze activity based on the article.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The New Family [Pdf]
"The New Family" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a family who moved into a new neighborhood. The boys were playing ball in the street, breaking rules they didn't know about. It is followed by questions which require...
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Childnet: Online Safety: How to Make a Report
Reporting advice for adults and young people. Most services have rules about what kind of content is allowed on the site. Often if something is harassing an individual, pornographic or violent it breaks the rules. You can report this...