This slideshow lesson focuses on misplaced modifiers; it defines them and explains the difference between misplaced and dangling modifiers. It then provides a list of sentences for students to practice identifying misplaced and dangling...

This slideshow lesson focuses on identifying unnecessary modifiers and removing them from your writing. Rule of thumb: if the adjective does not tell the reader something the noun absolutely cannot, eliminate it. It provides student...

Learn about placing modifiers correctly in a sentence and practice with misplaced modifier questions that could be found on standardized tests.

This lesson introduces dangling modifiers and explains how to identify them in context. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Dangling Modifiers."

This lesson introduces dangling modifiers and explains how to identify them in context. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Dangling Modifiers."

Ways that Texans have altered the environment in order to improve their living conditions are presented, for example, through forest clearing, irrigation, and dams.

This presentation is designed to teach your students about common sentence clarity problems, including misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, and passive voice, as well as strategies for combining sentences together. The twenty-nine...

Scientists inserted daffodil genes and other genetic material into ordinary rice to make this golden rice. The result is a strain of rice that provides vitamin A, a nutrient missing from the diets of many people who depend on rice as a...

Working with students on identifying problem and solution in their reading? Here is a simple concept, with a printable chart, for teaching and reinforcing this concept. Applicable for any subject area, could be used (modified) at any level.

This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...

This slideshow lesson focuses on appositives by defining them, showing they can have modifiers, explaining when to use/not use commas, and how to use dashes, parenthesis, and colons with appositives.

Explore heat, temperature, and the conduction of thermal energy through different materials.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This writing assignment provides a blank template for students to use when writing a leaflet. The template can easily be modified to the requirements of the assignment.

This military history essay describes the landing of the United States Army during the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944.

In an continuing overview of color and color theory, this site focuses on the color palette. The activity generated at this site allows for the user to choose from a variety of hues to create a color palette which can be modified through...

A full and complete discussion of the simple machine called the screw, a modified inclined plane. Many examples and drawings and applications.

A full and complete discussion of the simple machine called the screw, a modified inclined plane. Many examples and drawings and applications.

Due to similarities with both the bear and raccoon family, the classification of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has caused continued controversy since it was first described in 1825. Today it is placed with the raccoons, but in its own...

A map from 1898 showing the heat belts in North America. The map gives the boundary isotherms of the hot belt as a mean temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit and the cold belt as a mean temperature of 30 degrees Fahrenheit, indicating the...

This is a site for getting students looking at their world - and teaching optics at the same time. Students build a modified kaleidoscope that will provide 3-dimensional images. Fun site.

This is a site for getting students looking at their world - and teaching optics at the same time. Students build a modified kaleidoscope that will provide 3-dimensional images. Fun site.

A great lesson plan in an unusual art technique. The idea is to color puzzle pieces separately and then reconstruct the puzzle for a finished work of art. Some experimentation may be needed, but the idea is great and can be modified for...

A great lesson plan in an unusual art technique. The idea is to color puzzle pieces separately and then reconstruct the puzzle for a finished work of art. Some experimentation may be needed, but the idea is great and can be modified for...

Nine superior quality Powerpoint game templates are available for free downloading. Instruction for playing and modifying each game are included. Games for both individual student use and whole class review are included.