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Test Your Spelling Skills-- Months of the Year
In this language arts worksheet, students locate the names of all 12 months in a word search puzzle. There is a word bank provided.
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Current Health Checkup Crossword
For this health crossword puzzle worksheet, students read 10 clues and place their answers in a crossword. Note: The directions tell students that the words are from a magazine not provided here.
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The "Wright" Puzzle
In this airplane learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the answers to 12 questions about the flying machines created by the Wright Brothers.
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Which Comes First?
In this Hanukkah activity worksheet, students read the words that relate to Hanukkah. Students write the words that comes first on the line for the 15 words.
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Around Derby Museum and Art Gallery 2
In this Derby museum and Art Gallery worksheet, learners answer several questions about the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Students answer 15 questions.
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Japanese Internment Camps in the USA
In this worksheet about Japanese Internment camps, students read a 9 paragraph passage about the camps, locations, and a personal account. Link to additional activities included.
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Christmas Square Dance
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students solve a riddle in which dancing partners are assigned numbers such that the sum of each couples numbers is a perfect square. The one page worksheet contains one problem with the...
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Fiddling with Fours
For this algebra worksheet, 11th graders are solving word problem, where they are given only symbols and asked to find the answers. They get some clues to help them arrive at the answer. There is an answer key.
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Measurement and Problem Solving
Students solve problems using a calendar. In this calendar lesson, students complete a worksheet of math story problems. Example problems are provided.
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Breaking News English: 2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual
In this English learning exercise, students read "2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Swaziland King Buys Wives BMWs
In this English worksheet, students read "Swaziland King Buys Wives BMWs," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: World's Oldest Man Dies
In this English worksheet, students read "World's Oldest Man Dies," and then respond to 20 fill in the blank, 15 short answer, 8 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Spelling List 15: Sight Words, Plural Changes, and Academic Vocabulary
For this spelling worksheet, students copy a set of words twice. Words focus on sight words, plural changes and academic vocabulary. A reference web site is given.
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Evaluating Music
Learners identify an object by drawing something that reminds them of how they feel when they are calm or at peace. In this music lesson, students depict a musical instrument making peaceful music, and then an instrument making loud...
University of South Florida
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: German Declaration of War With the Us
The text of the German declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941, following the US declaration of war on Japan.
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma College of Law: Us Declaration of War Against Germany
Content includes the full text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress on December 11, 1941, declaring war against Germany.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Severo Ochoa Nobel Lecture
At this site download and read Severo Ochoa's Nobel Lecture entitled "Enzymatic synthesis of ribonucleic acid," which was originally given December 11, 1959. Lecture is available in pdf format.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Francis Crick Nobel Lecture: On the Genetic Code
Read Francis Harry Compton Crick's Nobel Lecture entitled "On the Genetic Code," which was originally given by Crick December 11, 1962.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: James D. Watson Nobel Lecture [Pdf]
Read James Dewey Watson's Nobel Lecture "The involvement of RNA in the synthesis of proteins." This lecture, originally given December 11, 1962, is provided in PDF format.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: Maurice Wilkins Nobel Lecture
Download and read Maurice Wilkins Nobel Lecture "The molecular configuration of nucleic acids." This lecture, originally given December 11, 1961, is available in pdf format.
BBC
Bbc News: Investigating Al Qaeda
Use this coverage of 9/11 to investigate terrorist activities. Students will find information on Al-Qaeda and the battle against terrorism. Last update 4 December 2009.
US National Archives
Our Documents:president Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
On December 6, 1830, President Jackson spoke to Congress about his position on relocating Indians in order to make way for settlers in the west. This paved the way for government policy in dealing with native peoples even after his...
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians
Here, read the text to President Jackson's "First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1830," in which Jackson argues for the removal of Native Americans.
Other
Le Moyne College: Carriers of Negative Electricity
A transcript of J.J. Thomson's Nobel Lecture in Physics, December 11, 1906 on the electron.