Polk Bros Foundation
Punctuation Signals
Choose any passage that uses punctuation effectively and analyze it with your class. Learners read the passage out loud once, ignoring the punctuation. Then they read it again, but this time paying attention to all of the punctuation....
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INTUITION
Young scholars explore the concepts of intuition, insight, imagination and the reasons not to ignore it, but to enhance it in one's lifestyle. In doing this, one increases the ability to draw deeper meaning from art, poetry and...
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Children and Family Law
Students examine children's rights and how laws can affect their education and daily life. Through the investigation of various cases, they assess how the best interests of children are either upheld or ignored and how the Constitution...
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Decimal Multiplication
In this decimal multiplication worksheet, students solve 20 different problems that include multiplying various decimals by each other. They multiply the numbers together ignoring the decimal points. Then, students add the number of...
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How Do You Choose Snacks and Other Foods?
Students discuss peer pressure pertaining to healthy eating decisions. Â In this personal health activity, students identify reasons why they make poor eating decisions and how to ignore food temptations. Â Students complete the "Rate That...
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Ignoring Friction - Not This Time!
Students discover the factors affect friction. Students, working in lab pairs, complete various experiments in order to discover what factors effect the amount of frictional force a block has as it is pulled across different surfaces.
National First Ladies' Library
Will Rogers
Learners explore the concepts of irony and humor. They discuss Will Rogers' history and determine that he was a humorist who many viewed as very wise. They read quotes of Will Rogers and determine that everybody is ignorant, only on...
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The Global Warming Cover-Up
Students explore the basic background on the causes of global climate disruption and governmental and economic reasons for downplaying its causes. Key reasons why US citizens have largely ignored the issues are examined in this lesson.
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Migrants and Immigration Jigsaw
Students examine facts and recognize that racism, prejudice and discrimination can result from ignorance. They brainstorm for common myths based on stereotyping. Students share their findings with their classmates.
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Media Coverage
Students research news coverage to examine how a local issue does not receive fair attention in the news. In this new coverage lesson, students discuss where they get their information and why some issues are ignored. Students research a...
Humanities Texas
Primary Source Worksheet: Text of “Prouder, Stronger, Better"
Political ads as primary source documents? But of course. Viewers analyze the strategies involved in the Republican Party's 1984 advertisement in support of Ronald Reagan's reelection.Â
K12 Reader
Adventures with Alliteration! - Verbs
Work with wonderful words within a well-written activity! Kids match alliterative verbs to fifteen names in order to get alliterative phrases. Â
Star Date
Modeling the Night Sky
Dramatize the stars and planets as they become a visual representation of the solar system in this activity. Young astronomers track and simulate various constellations as they orbit the Earth to learn the position and motion of objects...
New York State Education Department
US History and Government Examination: January 2012
What led to the United States Civil War? Interested historians consider a variety of political, social, and economic factors using primary sources and an essay prompt in an authentic high-stakes test. Primary sources include political...
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Spirituals
Fourth graders realize the significance in the Negro spirituals concerning the Underground Railroad. They choose a position, either for helping slaves or ignoring the slaves. They describe, in a paragraph, their position.
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Remainder Reasoning
For this remainders in division worksheet, students solve 5 problems in which the remainder is ignored or used to round up to the next whole number. Students tell how they would solve each problem and what they would do with the remainder.
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All Men Are Created Equal
Students discuss the statement "All Men Are Created Equal". Using the internet, they research events in history in which this statement has been ignored and supported by the government. They use this information to write an essay about...
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Personal Learning Profile
Students are given an overview of their legal rights according to IDEA, each student describes in their own words why it is important that they exercise their rights within the transition planning process. They are asked, "What can...
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Litter Recognition
Students identify litter, and discuss what to do with it. They analyze people's response to litter. Some people may ignore it, while others may pick it up. They observe student behavior as part of an experiment.
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Learners explore the causes of the Johnstown flood and the reasons that people ignored the potential for disasters such as the flood. The humanitarian responses to such disasters are examined. Local disasters that have occurred in the...
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What's Your Sign?
Students practice recognition of common street and safety signs and discuss what happens if these signs are ignored.
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Litter and recycling
Pupils read and discuss as a group the story, " Litter bugs Ignoring new laws." They discuss the story and then fill out a questionnaire and discuss ways of improvement and recycling ideas.
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A World of Feathered Friends
students will learn to
respect the nature around them. This respect is vital because ignorance of surrounding
nature can lead to carelessness when curiosity goes awry. A perfect example of this
wayward curiosity took place at our school...
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Loose Lips
Have your middle and high schoolers analyze instances of celebrities using racial slurs or making prejudiced comments in public. After reading an article, they consider the roots and effects of prejudice and bias. As a class, they...