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Writing - Story Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write their story in first person as a non-fiction story, or they can write the story in third person as a fictional story and use different characters. They can choose an idea from one of the story starters provided.
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Using the Amnesty Interactive CD-ROM

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students view the Amnesty Interactive CD-ROM and investigate different aspects of human rights around the world. They identify people who have contributed to human rights, documents from ancient to modern times that have contributed to...
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Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

For Students 3rd - 4th
In these prepositional phrases worksheets, students review the definitions and examples for prepositional phrases, prepositions, and object of prepositions. Students then complete three pages of activities for prepositions.
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Order of Operations 2 - More Practice!

For Students 5th - 7th
Your learners will get plenty of practice calculating expressions remembering to use order of operations in this worksheet.
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Zipping Through Our Solar System and Beyond

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Launch your class on an exploration of the solar system. Learners construct solar system models to scale and get a better understanding of our place in the vast void of space. This is a great way for them to cement their understanding of...
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The Solar System

For Students 4th - 5th
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students read the 20 clues about the solar system. Students then complete the puzzle with 20 words related to the solar system.
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Unveiling the Secrets of Saturn

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students read and study an article then answer questions on Saturn.  In this investigative lesson students identify ways space exploration has helped humanity and then they search the Internet for space pictures and sketch a drawing...
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Gravity Gets You Down

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the force of gravity and how it effects different objects that are put into acceleration when applied the experiment of free falling. They drop different objects that have a variety of masses and some that cause air...
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Asteroids!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how to visually identify asteroids in SDSS images. They are able to explain that stars are so far away that they do not appear to move, even over the course of a human lifespan. Students identify the location of most...
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Extraterrestrials

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners discuss the possibility of intelligent life in space. In this space science lesson plan, students decipher a radio message electronically transmitted in space. They create their own extraterrestrial welcome greeting.
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Conversation Completions

For Students 4th - 6th
For this conversation completions worksheet, learners determine phrases that logically complete conversational sentences. Students choose eight phrases.
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It's Alive! Or is it...?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students apply their knowledge of the characteristics of living things to unknown creatures to determine whether they can be considered "alive." They watch a Star Trek episode, then describe the characteristics of life.
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Light Problems

For Students 9th - 12th
For this light worksheet, high schoolers describe the electromagnetic spectrum based on wavelength and frequency. Students determine the wavelength, frequency, and energy for given point on the spectrum. This worksheet has 10 problems to...
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The Solar System Cloze Activity

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this cloze activity worksheet, students use their reading comprehension skills to fill in 22 blanks in a 1-page reading selection regarding the solar system. A word bank is provided.
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Space Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this space vocabulary worksheet, students draw lines to match 14 vocabulary words pertaining to space with their definitions.
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Knowledge Quiz: The Universe

For Students 6th - 8th
In this universe quiz worksheet, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions that cover a variety of concepts about the universe: constellations, black holes, the solar system, etc.
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Observations From the Past

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore direct and indirect evidence. For this astronomy lesson, 9th graders investigate the contribution of early astronomers to their field. They create a model of the solar system.
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Space, the Final Frontier...

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study a common theory on how the solar system was formed and examine the relative scale of the size and distances among the bodies of the Solar System.
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Conversation Completions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this conversation completions instructional activity, students fill in the blank with the letter of the phrase that logically completes each conversation about world travel.
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Measuring Where We Sit In The Universe

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils investigate scientific measurement. They use a variety of scales to do the job and communicate the results correctly. The teacher uses socratic questioning throughout the lesson plan checking for comprehension. Students measure...
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Putting Our Solar System in Order

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create models of the solar system.
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Birds

For Students 6th - 10th
In this birds worksheet, students read a 2 page informational excerpt about birds and the study of birds, ornithology. They then use the information the learned to answer the 10 questions in the packet. The answers are located on the...
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George Washington Carver and the Sweet Potato

For Teachers 1st
Learn about George Washington Carver's important contributions to agriculture by studying the sweet potato. First graders read about the inventor's observations and prepare sweet potato slips for the class garden. Additionally, they...
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Operations with Numbers in Scientific Notation

For Teachers 8th Standards
Demonstrate the use of scientific notation within word problems. The lesson presents problems with large numbers best represented with scientific notation. Pupils use these numbers to solve the problems in the 11th installment in a...