Hand your incoming scientists a collection of helpful worksheets to introduce them to your chemistry class. The packet addresses exponents, scientific notation, metric conversion, and dimensional analysis.

What could that scary sound be? Join Bobby and his dad in a search for a screeching monster with a short reading passage. In addition, learners show their understanding with a series of comprehension questions and a lesson extension.

Serve up a slice of math for Pi Day! A combination of fun, hands-on lessons and helpful worksheets encourage learners to practice finding the radius, diameter, and circumference of different circles.

A packet full of old-fashioned short stories could be a review activity for a reading comprehension lesson. Learners read 14 stories before answering multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank sentences, and vocabulary exercises.

Pupils study angle measurements between different types of angles associated with parallel lines and transversals. The independent practice asks pupils to identify the types of angles in a diagram and to determine the measure of...

Slopes are not just for skiing. Instructors introduce class members to the concept of slope and teach them how to calculate the slope from a graph or from points. The lesson also includes the discussion of slopes of parallel and...

How to meet the needs of people around the globe—a question many ask. The fifth in a six-part series about human population and its effects on the globe, the eye-opening lesson includes discussion, a homework activity, and an in-class...

Ready to interpret the Declaration of Independence and understand its meaning? The resource divides scholars into pairs, where they work as a team to match translations with excerpts from the declaration. The class then engages in...

What happened in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland? The resource teaches the specifics of the case with a video and provided discussion questions covering issues such as precedent and the Supreme Court as an equal branch of...

A seven-step lesson introduces the emergence of computer sciences and the contributions women made to the profession after World War II. Several science experiments offer pupils a hands-on learning experience that showcases parabolas,...

A 67-page packet provides instructors with a complete course in the history of Jazz. Lessons look at the roots of jazz in early 20th century African American communities in the southern United States and continues to the New Orleans...

How dry is it? It's so dry, the river only runs twice a week! Through an analysis of maps and discussions, pairs learn about droughts across the United States in the ninth of 12 lessons. They then read about, answer questions, analyze...

Chapter 10 of Malcolm X's Autobiography introduces readers to Elijah Muhammad's teachings. Discussion questions focusing on syntax and diction draw attention to how Malcolm X's perspective on Mr. Muhammad changes.

As part of a study of narrative writing, class members analyze how Leslie Marmon Silko structures the beginning and orients and engages readers in her narrative, "Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit."

Young writers compose a gripping ending to their historical fiction narratives. Following the previous lesson plan, where learners wrote a bold beginning, class members examine exciting endings from a literary text. They then draft their...

Students pick out words that rhyme. For this lesson on rhyme, students listen to the teacher read the poem "My Robot Does My Homework" by Kenn Nesbitt and pick out words that rhyme.

In this positions worksheet, students read descriptions of where the ball is around a box and then draw pictures of where a cat is beside a chair. Students draw 8 pictures and answer 16 position questions.

This is a one-page worksheet in which a student fills in an outline with facts and figures found from their individual research about a corporation whose stock is sold publicly, e.g. Microsoft or Yahoo. Good for business or econ. classes.

In this circle formulas worksheet, students solve 20 fill in the blank problems. Students find the radius, diameter, circumference, area, arc length, and sector area of a circle.

In this parallel lines worksheet, students solve 13 short answer and fill in the blank problems. Students determine which lines are parallel given a statement such as if these angle measures are equal then which lines are parallel?...

In this geometry worksheet, students solve problems based on the triangle inequality theorem(s) in which determine if the given lengths can form a triangle, given two sides of a triangle determine the range of the third side, and order...

In this polygons learning exercise, students identify polygons that contain given parameters.  They write definitions of polygons.  Students find the measurement of exterior and interior angles of regular polygons.  This...

In this test for parallelograms worksheet, students solve 15 short answer problems. Students determine if a given sketch is a parallelogram given angle measures and/or side lengths. Students use knowledge of parallelograms to find...

In this geometric mean worksheet, students find the geometric mean of given data.  They examine right triangles.  This one--page worksheet contains 10 problems.