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Chemical Compounds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Your young chemists will find these slides very informative. Groups and periods of the periodic table are labeled and described according to the charge. Comprehensive explanations of physical and chemical properties and how they relate...
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Childhood Through the Looking-Glass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Junior high learners discuss Lewis Carroll's classic story, Alice in Wonderland. They observe the image of childhood in his photographs and compare them to present-day images. There is a plethora of ideas and links for discussions...
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Describing Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice using describing words. In this descriptive word lesson, 1st graders read the story The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs and match the pig descriptions to their names. They play a game where they describe an object...
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Properties of Real Numbers

For Students 8th - 10th
In this Algebra II worksheet, students classify numbers by naming the subset or subsets of the real numbers to which it belongs. The two page worksheet provides explanation and examples in addition to ten practice problems. Solutions are...
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Packing Nouns

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Play a noun game with your class. Put a suitcase in the middle of the room and have each class member, in turn, name a noun that begins with a specified letter of the alphabet. To ramp up the challenge, assign concrete, abstract, proper,...
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A Geography Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Fewer and fewer people have a strong grasp of world geography, but this activity helps high schoolers understand geopolitics by creating their own original historical map. The activity requires selecting a country from the list provided,...
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Court Cases Testing the Establishment of Religion

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Although the PowerPoint this lesson plan calls for is unavailable, you could easily create a presentation to fulfill its purpose. Learners listen to a presentation and keep track of the information with a graphic organizer that looks at...
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Human Skeleton

For Students 5th - 7th
Promote reading comprehension and practice naming parts of the human skeleton with this online interactive learning exercise! Scholars read about the functions of the human skeletal system, then work online to label a diagram by filling...
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Addition with Counters

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The first of four worksheets, these twelve equations call for students to find the answers by additing single-digit numbers together. There are colorful blocks included for assistance.
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Measurement: The Size is Right

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Specific learning goals are grouped for different grade levels spanning pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. After preparing the questions and materials, you call a learner to come in front of the class and play the game. Young learners...
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Book Jacket Match: Practice with the Dewey Decimal Classification System

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
As a follow-up activity to being introduced to the Dewey Decimal Classification System, 3rd graders listen to poems from Jackie Mims Hopkins' book The Shelf Elf Helps Out and sort book jackets by category and call number.
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Renaissance Art: Flash Cards

For Students 7th - 9th
Flash cards are a great way to study new concepts, especially those with specific dates and names. Hand out this stack of ten cards to your class and give them a chance to study Renaissance art. Van Dyke, Ruben, Dante, Durer, Velasquez,...
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The Human Body: Bones

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Here is an interactive PowerPoint about the skeletal system. The first slide shows the entire skeleton and allows learners to try to name each major bone structure before clicking to show the answer. The following slides provide more...
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Extreme Fitness

For Students 7th - 10th
The title of this article from the New York Times is "The Cult of Physicality". So are you wondering what this article might be refering to? Well, then read on and find out more about what some call extreme fitness. There is a...
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CCC: Credible sources, Creative Commons Images, and Citing Your Sources

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As part of a unit devoted to the study of autobiographies, this one-day library session focuses on developing research skills. Class members locate and properly cite a sketch of a Creative Commons image, as well as record the call...
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Moon Phase Flip Books

For Teachers 5th - 8th
What better way to study the moon phases than to see them in action? The directions on the handout only have kids cut out and tape on the moon phases to make the flipbook, but it would be even more powerful to include the name of each...
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World History Timeline Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Using and online tool called TimeRime, class members create timelines that include what they consider to be the top 10 most important events from the first semester of world history. The first few pages of the assignment focus on how to...
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The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students view a graphic of the Athens of 2004 Olympic medal. They discuss the symbols on the medal. Students view the "Greek Alphabet animation" and name the letters in the two Greek words on the medal, They transcribe Greek text by...
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All About Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a digital camera to take pictures of various faces. They then sort pictures according to eye color and create a graph. Students draw pictures of themselves on the screen using specified tools and colors. They choose hair...
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Prepositions of Place Exercise

For Students 5th - 10th
Can you name prepositions of place? Using the words in, at, on, or to, learners complete 17 sentences. They also write a few sentences of their own. An answer key is included. 
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Add and Subtract within 1000 - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Three-digit numbers are the name of the game here! Scholars convert 456 to expanded form, then complete one addition and one subtraction problem. The equations are written vertically, and the addends produce a four-digit number. There is...
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How 'bout them bones!

For Students 5th
After a lesson on the human skeleton, hand out a learning exercise that requires learners to identify the pelvis, rib cage, skill, spine, and thigh bones. They draw a line from the name of the bone to its location on the skeleton. Tip:...
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The Digestive System

For Teachers 5th Standards
Discover how the human body's digestive system works with a brain and stomach friendly activity. Scholars taste test a variety of foods to find out how they behave once in the mouth. Class members then play a game called Move That...
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British Surnames Derived from Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a guiding question in order to provide a context for future research. They develop an understanding of British surnames derived from locations and learn some of the more common names still prevalent today.

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