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Follow the Leader: Line in the Visual Arts
High schoolers identify line in the composition of a number of art works. They explain how the artist's compositional choices guide the viewer's eye to important components of the image. Students identify sight lines in several...
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Composition and Line
Students examine the use of composition and line as they create original drawings. In this composition and line instructional activity, students recognize the art vocabulary associated with line and composition. Students...
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Expression And Joy With Line, Shape And Color
Students create positive and negative art shapes and compose a piece of Expressionistic art using those shapes and the ideas of color, line, and shape in this 5th through 8th grade Art lesson. Options are available for individual or...
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Exploring Transformations: Translations and Reflections
Learners perform translation and reflection. They identify the coordinate points of the new graph and create a formula for the movement. They identify the pre-image the and after image.
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Adverbs Sentence Search
In this adverbs practice sentence search worksheet, students connect the words using horizontal and vertical lines to form sentences.
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Possessive Pronouns - Sentence Search
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders examine a grid that contains 70 words. They draw horizontal and vertical lines from word to word to form sentences.
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Adjectives - Sentence Search
In this grammar worksheet, learners examine a grid that contains 70 words. They connect the words using horizontal and vertical lines to form complete sentences that include adjectives.
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Prepositions - Sentence Search
In this grammar worksheet, 3rd graders examine a grid containing 35 words. They connect the words using horizontal and vertical lines to form sentences that contain prepositions.
PBS
Using Symmetry to Create Corporate Logos
Young mathematicians investigate the use of symmetry in graphic design. After first learning about reflection, translational, and rotational symmetry, children use this new knowledge to identify symmetry in letters of the...
K12 Reader
Absolute Location
Where in the world are we? As a reading comprehension exercise, kids read a short passage about navigation using latitude and longitude, and then respond to a series of questions based on the article.
PBS
Adding Integers
Your sixth and seventh graders deepen their understanding of a number line and adding integers in this concrete, hands-on activity. Learners play "Warehouse Puzzle" and then discuss their game strategies and the characteristics...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unit 4 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 6)
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flash cards. Forty-eight cards offer boldly printed words, and their corresponding definition alongside an example with labels. Terms include absolute value, inverse operations, slope, and more!
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Geometry and Measurement
Young geometers explore relationships between units of measure and objects. Three activities provide varied opportunities to practice. Learners calculate the volume of two cylinders made by rolling a piece of paper vertically and...
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Phonic Noughts and Crosses: s, m, c, t, g, p, a, o
Noughts and Crosses, the classic English game called tic-tac-toe in America, has an educational twist in a fundamental phonics matching activity. Emerging readers will take great pleasure in recognizing and reading nine simple CVC words...
Get Reading Right
Phonic Noughts and Crosses: v, w, y, z, j, n, k, e
Another version of noughts and crosses, the classic English game known as tic-tac-toe in American. This fundamental phonics matching activity uses the letters v,w,y,z,j,n,k,and e, in CVC words that are great words for...
BBC
Simple Addition and Subtraction
Here is a wonderful instructional activity designed for young mathematicians. In it, they employ simple addition and subtraction strategies in order to solve word problems. There are some excellent activity sheets embedded in the plan to...
Brooklyn Museum
"Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts
Just like a painting or the symbols on a flag, quilts can express ideas that reflect a cultural context, space, and time. The class discusses the history of quilt making throughout US history and what different types of quilts mean. They...
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Area, Arithmetic and Algebra
Explore the concept of this perfect square trinomial and difference of squares lesson. A hands-on activity that uses paper rectangles and squares to illustrate the perfect-square trinomial and difference of squares formulas.
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Study Buddies: Reading Line Graphs
In this math worksheet, young scholars will work with a coach to solve a problem by reading a line graph. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.
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Line Graphs
In this algebra worksheet, learners describe the relationship between a line graph and its data. They define the reasons line graphs are used and discuss increasing and decreasing lines. There is one involved questions, requiring several...
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Fractions and Ribbons
Sixth graders explore using inverse operations to solve decimal and fraction problems. In this decimal and fraction lesson, 6th graders prepare ribbon for a part and need to cut it in equal lengths. Students analyze the problem.
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Line of Best Fit
Learners calculate the equation of the line of best fit. In this statistics lesson, students create scatter plots and find the line of best fit going through their data. They make predictions and draw conclusions.
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Reflecting a Rectangle Over a Diagonal
Use the handout as guided or independent practice in drawing a reflection of a rectangle over a line. Three rectangles are provided for practice in addition to a critical thinking question.
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Projectile Motion
Young scholars determine the angle of launch that will give a projectile its greatest range. In this projectile motion lesson, students recognize that the motion of a projectile results from the combined horizontal and vertical...