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Trading Faces

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
The game of "Trading Faces" is the focus of this clever math lesson. Your mathematicians use addition to determine the values of different coin combinations by playing the game. Everything you need to implement the game, and the lesson,...
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George's Place

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that uses money as a learning tool. This one is especially clever! During the lesson, pupils pretend they are eating at "George's Place" diner. Small groups are given one bag of play...
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Unit II: Worksheet 5 - Velocity and Motion Maps

For Students 9th - 12th
A chart with eight rows makes up this handout. The columns are labeled with two graphs ("x vs. t" and "v vs. t"), a written description, and a motion map. One cell in each row is filled in, leaving the rest for your class to complete....
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Synthesis Reactions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Two examples are displayed in graphic form, demonstrating to your young chemists how synthesis reactions work. This is not a full presentation, but rather just a couple of slides. Don't let its brevity cause you to disregard its value,...
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Types of Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This PowerPoint presentation is sure to support your lesson on chemical reactions. Colorful diagrams and pictures, solubility tables and rules, clever animations and diagrams make teaching these concepts a cinch! Your chemistry...
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Stoichiometry Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A cookie recipe is displayed as an example of proportional relationships, a clever way to introduce your chemists to stoichiometry! The steps of stoichiometry are listed, molar volume is explained, and then several stoichiometry problems...
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Bats

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use Stellaluna by Janell Canon to discuss bats and other types of animals. Learners identify the differences between bats and birds, list the traits of mammals, create a Bat Facts game, and go on a written scavenger hunt. Fun, clever ideas!
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Who Wants to Win Millions: Estimation and Rounding

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Rounding numbers can be fun using this game. Learners estimate and round numbers to the tens, hundreds, and thousands using this presentation. What a clever way to review this concept.
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A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale quiz

For Students 7th - 10th
Check students' understanding of A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, the clever spin-off that borrows characters and ideas from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Plenty of detailed questions keep scholars on their toes. Answers...
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Today, we are going to find out about Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
A package of Smarties is cleverly-used to illustrate the basics of fractions in this math PowerPoint. The basics of determining the numerator, denominator, along with exercises in calculating simplest form and equivalency are also...
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Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a short, but effective, four-slide presentation on the sequence of events in the story, Little Red Riding Hood. The elements of the story (setting, characters, plot, etc.) are present, then a slide which puts the story in order...
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Electricity and Magnetism

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The standard basics of electricity are detailed in this clear-cut collection of slides. Straightforward explanations are offered for static electricity, series and parallel circuits, conductors, insulators, and resistance. Some animation...
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How To Make a Science Concept Map

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a clever way to get your pupils thinking about a science topic they'd like to research for a report, or a project they'd like to do for a science fair. The three-step process is easy to follow, and it really should help your...
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Present Passive

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Are you plagued by the present simple passive? The color-coded graphics in this clever presentation make it clear when using the passive is appropriate. 
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Ordinal Numbers Worksheet

For Students K - 2nd
“Circle the third dog in the row.” The four cleverly illustrated worksheets in this packet give your mathematicians practice with ordinal numbers. Younger learners might need assistance reading the prompts.  An answer sheet is provided.
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Personification

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Introduce your young scholars to personification. The literary device is clearly defined and illustrated with clever examples. Opportunities for guided and independent practice using poems by Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes are also...
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Short, Shorter, Shortest, Part 2

For Students Pre-K - K
Can your kindergartners draw a shorter tree? What about a shorter kite string? Reinforce relative size and comparing with a clever worksheet. It prompts young learners to study a picture and draw a shorter version, and to choose the...
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The Word Factory

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Here is a clever way to help your 3rd and 4th graders add -ing to verbs. A list of 10 action verbs is given, and learners must adjust the spelling of each verb to accept the -ing ending. This would be an excellent choice for a homework...
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Be Kind to Mother Nature!

For Students 3rd - 4th
A clever worksheet on identifying things that harm the environment is here for you. Elementary schoolers read a short paragraph describing the harm that can come to the environment due to human activities. Then, they must circle five...
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Recognizing Formal and Informal Language

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
When do you need to use formal language, and when is it cool to speak informally? Read these sentences and use a grid to help decide. This clever tool is followed by ten sample sentences to identify as formal or informal, perfect for...
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Shakespeare in American Life

Tom Hanks and Caliban: Survivor Superstars

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Here’s a clever way to combine language arts and social studies. Shakespeare’s The Tempest is believed to have been inspired by the wreck of the Sea Venture on Bermuda in 1609. The class views a brief scene from Castaway in which Tom...
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Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet

For Students 8th - 10th
Shakespeare was such a talented writer, but why? It must be his use of figurative language, blended with his clever, twisting plots. This worksheet focuses on his use of metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron, and hyperbole within...
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Los números

For Students 7th - 9th
A clever way to review numbers in Spanish! First, learners write their phone numbers in Spanish. Then, after writing a series of numbers in Spanish (ranging from 9-1492), they write a group of math problems in Spanish. For example,...
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What’s a Square Foot Anyway? Laying Out the Design Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Clever! Participants don square-foot cardboard shoes to mark out the rain garden plot that they have spent the last few weeks designing. In this way, they are practicing scale modeling as well! Note that this lesson is part of a unit,...

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