TCI
What Are the Biggest April Fools Jokes of All Time?
After working in groups to analyze primary sources related to a historical hoax, learners will discuss how people managed to be fooled and work to identify one of the biggest April Fools jokes in history.
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Writing a Number Sentence
Third graders analyze word problems. In this number sentence lesson, 3rd graders evaluate word problems. Students create number sentences from word problems.
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Lesson 8: Summarizing Information
In this summarizing information worksheet, students read a featured article, summarize the article, identify the story's five W's and one H, and identify appropriate relevant facts.
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Sum It Up !!
Students practice various comprehension strategies to generate the main idea of the text. They encounter unfamiliar concepts and new vocabulary in their quest of the main idea in "Watson's Goes to Burmingham." The Five W's (What, Where,...
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Guess That Sequence!
Students explore number sense by completing problems in class. In this patterns instructional activity, students examine a group of numbers and identify what the pattern is and how it should correctly continue. Students practice...
Newseum
The Freedom to Make a Change
As part of a study of the First Amendment, young historians research instances when individuals or groups used the First Amendment to change the United State's laws or policies. Teams are each assigned a different case study. With the...
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WS 7.2 Kinetic Theory-Temperature and Volume
In this kinetic theory worksheet, students answer questions about kinetic energy, they calculate volumes of gases at STP, they answer questions about temperature and they convert from one unit of temperature to another.
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Question Words
Practice interrogative pronouns with your ESL class in this activity. Ten questions provide parts of interrogative sentences for students to complete with words like "what," "who," and "how." The worksheet would be a great class quiz or...
National Behaviour Support Service
Writing with Wow Words and Building Vocabulary
There are some words out there that just make you say, "Wow!" Encourage your class to find and use these words in their writing to make their work more interesting and complex. This packet goes through the writing process, beginning with...
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How is the Periodic Table Arranged?
In this periodic table worksheet, students fill in a portion of the periodic table with the atomic number of the element, the electron configuration of the element, the number of shells and the number of outer shell electrons. They...
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Give 'em a Hand
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students use the shape of the hand to find the who, what, where, when, and why for a text. Students write their answers in the fingers.
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Questions Words
In this question word worksheet, students choose the correct question word (who, what, where, when, and how) to complete a sentence. There are ten multiple choice questions.
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The 3 Bears Mystery (On-line Interactive)
In this question words worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz on question words. Students finish each question with the correct word. All sentences are pertaining to The Three Bears.
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Chinese Zodiac
Fifth graders identify the basic elements of a narrative story, such as the beginning, middle, and the end; to analyze the character traits in the story to write a summary using the 5 Ws and How chart included; through sample stories...
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Shaking Things Up In Summarization
Students practice several techniques and strategies to become better at summarizing a piece of writing. They emphasize the five "W's: who, what, where, when and why. A book of Earthquakes is read and then summarized by each of the students.
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Summarization
Students summarize a selected piece of text using the five Ws. After reviewing the correct way to read silently, students read a selected piece of nonfiction text. They write a summary paragraph using a process outlined by the instructor.
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It's Raining Meatballs
Students observe and demonstrate the process of summarization using the book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett. They silently read the story, and as a class discuss the five W's. Students then write a short summary of...
Media Smarts
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
A scavenger hunt introduces class groups to the different sections of newspapers and the different types of articles found in each section.
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WS 5.6 Graham's Law
In this gases instructional activity, students use the concepts of Graham's Law of diffusion to determine the velocity of gases and molecules. They describe kinetic energy and how it relates to the mass and velocity of objects.
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WS 1.9-Review Calculations
For this calculations worksheet, students find significant figures in numbers, they determine densities of substances and objects, they convert from one metric unit to another and they determine the appropriate unit of measurement for...
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WS 8.9 Review Worksheet-Solutions
In this solubility worksheet, students answer eighteen questions including reading a graph to indicate solubility of three different compounds at particular temperatures, calculating percent of solutes in a solution, determining molarity...
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WS 1.9 Review-Calculations
In this calculations review worksheet, students convert from one metric unit to another, they identify significant figures in numbers, they find density of substances, and they solve problems using dimensional analysis.
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Matisse and Picasso
Discover Modernism through the eyes of artists. Over the course of six well-thought-out lessons, learners examine works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse while completing a range of collaborative and hands-on activities. A great resource!
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Questioning
Practice making predictions by looking at the cover of a book. You can use The Hungry Thing, as suggested here, or any other book you may be reading in class. Use the predictions to talk about good reading strategies. A chart is included...