Humanities Texas
A President's Vision: Theodore Roosevelt
Through an engaging, interactive experience analyzing primary sources, invite your young historians to take a closer look at the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Jay-Z: Famous People, ELL Assignment
This lengthy assignment was designed for English language learners. It includes a 1-page reading on the rapper, Jay-Z, and 10 activities/exercises that focus on listening and reading comprehension, speaking, vocabulary acquisition,...
Core Knowledge Foundation
The Victorian Age
The length of Queen Victoria's reign, surpassed only by Queen Elizabeth II in the modern era, stretched through much of the 19th century and into the 20th century. Explore the many social, industrial, and political shifts that occurred...
Mascil Project
Pottery
Don't cry over broken pottery. A cross-curricular lesson challenges pupils to consider how to restore ancient pottery. Using a computer program and their knowledge of transformations, they come up with a way to recreate the original...
American Museum of Natural History
Optical Illusions and How They Work
Illusions are what your mind makes them. Learners view several optical illusions. After each illusion the resource describes what is seen and the potential connection to evolution of the brain. Illusions include seeing different objects...
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Ratio Problem Worksheet 2
Here is a ratio word problem worksheet in which learners solve a set of eight problems. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site for additional resources is given.
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Online Math Learning: Solving Word Problems Using Algebra
Learners solve eight short answer algebra word problems. They write and solve systems of equations in two or three variables given a word problem about integers, perimeter, consecutive numbers, etc.
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Height versus Shoe Size
Students find a correlation between a person's height and his/her shoe size. They have access to entering data into lists on a graphing calculator and can complete scatter plots. Students read and interpret a scatter plot and use the...
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Grocery Store Choices: Vocabulary in Conversation
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills instructional activity, students answer 10 fill in the blank questions regarding grocery-related terms. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Assembling a Geologic History
Students combine information from several field labs to construct an overall geologic history of the local region. They are able to use published reports of the geologic history as they compile their own version.
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"You Can't Catch Me!"-Introducing Young Children to the School Setting
Students use photography to create art projects.
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Health-Nervous System Review
In this nervous system learning exercise, students are given seventeen clues about structures of the nervous system and they put their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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World Mental Health Day
In this World Mental Health Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the...
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World Music Day
In this World Music Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Father's Day
In this Father's Day instructional activity, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions,...
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Ratio Problems
In this ratio worksheet, students solve a set of 5 ratio word problems. Answers and hints are available on-line; a reference web site is given.
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Past Simple Tense
In this simple past tense worksheet, students choose the correct word, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more. Students complete 26 questions.
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Fixing an Economy: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Worksheet
For this economics worksheet, students respond to 29 short answer questions regarding fiscal and monetary policy. Several notes and explanations are also included.
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Future Forms - Total English
In this ELL grammar activity, students fill in the blanks in 8 sentences by choosing will, going to, or the present continuous form of the verbs that are given in brackets. They read a letter of complaint, decide what the problem was,...
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Bob Dylan
In this Bob Dylan activity, students read about the life of the performer, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
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Noam Chomsky
In this famous people worksheet, students read a selection about Noam Chomsky and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to a synonym match, spelling, writing and sequencing activities.
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Zhang Ziyi
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Zhang Ziyi and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
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Motivating and Speaking Activities
Young scholars participate in various activities to encourage speaking. They design a board game using the questions, dice and counters. Students are given partial information about a topic. They exchange information with their...
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Understand the Present Perfect Verb Tense
In this present perfect verb tense worksheet, students respond to 41 fill in the blank and short answer questions applying their knowledge of the present perfect verb tense.