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Area of Shaded Region (rectangles and triangles)
For this online math worksheet, high schoolers determine the area of shaded regions within rectangles and triangles. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into...
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Technology Lesson Activity: Fractions
Fifth graders practice using the English measuring system by creating fractions. In this parts of a whole lesson, 5th graders combine math key bars to simulate small parts of a bigger item. Students combine the pieces to create...
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Surface Area and Volume
Accompanying the lesson at www.shodor.org, this worksheet present students with a series of questions about the volume and surface area of a rectangular prism and a triangular prism. Students predict how these values would change if the...
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ESL General Knowledge Quiz 1- Fill in the Table
For this ESL general knowledge quiz worksheet, students answer 20 questions. They answer questions about bird, capital cities, money, countries, oceans, math, and geography. They are able to score 20 points by getting each answer correct.
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Winter Waltz
Students pretend their room is an imaginary frozen pond. In this performing arts lesson, students create the illusion that they are skating on the pond by using wax paper on their feet. Finally, students get in the winter mood by...
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Part of it All
Students take a closer look at the organization of newspapers. In this journalism lesson plan, students take virtual tours of newspapers and complete a newspaper puzzle handout. Students then compare the layout of weekly rural newspapers...
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Concertina Crocs!
For this drawing worksheet, students make a crocodile that continues to grow to bigger by following the 5 steps listed in order to practice motor skills by drawing, cutting, and folding.
Read Works
Trading Pumpkins
Can you imagine a pumpkin patch without pumpkins? Learners read how Tammy's family solves their problem in a cooperative way, followed by a set of 10 reading comprehension questions.
Serendip
Is Yeast Alive?
Through two investigations, life science learners determine whether or not yeast is alive. They perform tests for metabolism by providing sugar and observing if gas is produced as a byproduct. They incubate some of the sample for at...
American Museum of Natural History
How Did the Universe Begin?
The Big Bang Theory is more than a television show. Pupils read how Edwin Hubble observed other galaxies and noticed that the galaxies are moving away from each other. Scholars learn about the idea of the big bang and what happened next...
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Decreasing and Increasing Fractions
Use this math lesson to help your fourth graders further their understanding of ordering fractions. After completing some whole-group activities together as a class, pairs of students play an online game which has them compare fractional...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Animal Action ABC
Explore the meanings of tier two vocabulary words. In small groups, young learners listen to a read-aloud story and evaluate new vocabulary words for their meaning.
PBS
Watercraft
Whatever floats your boat—with some additional weight. The first activity in a five-part series challenges pupils to design a boat to hold pennies. Using the design process, learners design, build, and test their boats, making sure they...
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Estimating Heat Changes during Reactions Using Bond Energies
For advanced chemists, this learning exercise examines heat change during chemcial reactions. Alkanes are examined first. Learners calculate the energy released or needed during a reaction.
K12 Reader
The Rock Cycle
This cross-curricular reading comprehension worksheet asks kids to read a passage of the rock cycle and then to use information in the article to respond to a series of questions.
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Follow That Sign! A Review in Using Appropriate Mathematical Symbols
Kids gain a deeper understanding of mathematical symbols, by playing an interactive game using flash cards. They complete an attached Missing Symbols Worksheet, flash card and an assessment are also included.
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Effects of Weathering
Here's a great geology lesson for 3rd graders on weathering and erosion of soil. After a class discussion on how nature can "move a mountain," learners take a look at how a modern phenoma called acid rain can also cause weathering and...
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The Periodic Table
A huge collection of slides introduces chemistry learners to the periodic table of elements, electron configuration, and electronegativity. It opens with the history of today's periodic table, and then details the arrangement. After...
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Bug Work
Young scholars explore the life cycles of insects and how they interact with each other in the prairie to create a healthy ecosystem and viable food chain. They list animals or insects in their own community that are similar to the...
Pennington Publishing
Vocabulary Worksheet #1 & #2
These two worksheets cover several grammatical topics. Pupils work on words with multiple meanings, Greek and Latin word parts, word connotations, academic language, and more. The result is seven quick exercises that could be used...
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Exponential Functions
In this exponential functions worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 23 various types of problems. First, they simplify each expression. Then, students evaluate the function at different values of x and plot the ordered pairs. in...
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Electricity
In this electricity worksheet, high schoolers answer 17 questions about charges on atoms, their number of protons and electrons, the attraction of atoms or objects when charged, the electricity between two objects, grounding and insulating.
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Breaking News English: The British Museum
In this British Museum learning exercise, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Plant Life Cycle
In this exploring the processes from seed to reproduction of a plant online interactive worksheet, learners read a passage explaining the plant life cycle and answer multiple choice questions about what they read. Students choose 8 answers.