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Breaking News English: Outsourcing on the Increase
In this English worksheet, students read "Outsourcing on the Increase," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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How Did That Get in My Lunch?
Students view "The Danger Zone" to learn about food poisoning and the bacterial causes and prevention. Students look at slides, use a worksheet, "Microbial Bugs"and the internet to identify and learn about each bacterium.
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Q-Tip Painting
Students make their own paintings. In this art lesson, students paint with q-tips by dropping the paint, rolling the q-tip, or just use the q-tip as a brush.
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Breaking News English: China-EU Textile Talks Continue
In this English instructional activity, students read "China-EU Textile Talks Continue," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Is the Price Right?
Students explore the techniques used by advertisers to sell goods, increase their awareness of consumer habits, differentiate between information and selling, and become aware of what motivates them to buy products.
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Breaking News English: Phone Bills
In this phone bills instructional activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions,...
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Breaking News English: Bill Gates and Bono - Time's Persons of 2005
In this English worksheet, students read "Bill Gates and Bono - Time's Persons of 2005," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Movies Condone Drugs and Unsafe Sex
For this English worksheet, students read "Movies Condone Drugs and Unsafe Sex," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How to Visualize One Part Per Million
Parts per million is a scientific unit of measurement that counts the number of units of one substance per one million units of another. But because it's hard to conceptualize really large numbers, it can be difficult to wrap our brains...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le in the Billions and Linear Modeling
In this task, learners are shown a table of world population data and asked to explore whether linear functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.b.
Libre Text
Uc Davis Geo Wiki: Biogeochemical Evolution
Present evidence suggests that blue-green algae, and possibly other primitive microbial forms of life, were flourishing 3 billion years ago. This brackets the origin of life to within one billion years. Learn more here about...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Roots of Hinduism
Hinduism is one of the world's oldest religions. It has complex roots, and involves a vast array of practices and a host of deities. Its plethora of forms and beliefs reflects the tremendous diversity of India, where most of its one...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Under the Hood: The Chemistry of Cars
There are over one billion cars in the world right now, getting people from point A to point B. But cars aren't just a mode of transportation; they also teach an excellent lesson in chemistry. Cynthia Chubbuck navigates the intricate...
Other
Woa: Population & Sustainability Dynamics India
With India's population topping one billion, this page deals with both population growth and sustaining the current population in India.
Other
Kokogiak Media: The Mega Penny Project
What does one quintillion pennies look like? Would it cover the Earth or Mt. Everest? Use this site to visualize the value of money.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Find Center of Milky Way Galaxy Using Globular Star Clusters
The Milky Way is the edgewise view of our home galaxy, a disk made up of billions of stars. The Sun resides on one of the spiral arms of the disk, 30,000 light-years from the thick hub of the galaxy. The actual center, with a black hole...
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Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Cosmic Calendar [Pdf]
An activity where students create a timeline of the history of the Universe, beginning with the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, but compress it into one year. Younger students must be able to order events, while older students need...
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Ivan the Terrible
History for Kids article on Ivan the Terrible, Russian Czar in the 16th Century who is credited with expanding Russian territory to over one billion acres. Includes teacher resources.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Prayer Wheel
Prayer wheels are an example of Buddhist technology. This technology allowed the faithful to multiply the number of prayers they expressed by millions. This is because prayer wheels are filled with copies of mantras (sacred spells...
Other
Bom: Severe Thunderstorms in Australia
In less than one hour in South Wales, Australia a thunderstorm caused 1.5 billion dollars in damage. Read about it!
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Mystery of the Missing Carbon
This article discusses the mystery of the one to two billion metric tons of missing carbon from the global carbon budget. Scientists do not know where between fifteen and thirty percent of the carbon released each year disappears to, but...
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Woa: Population & Sustainability Dynamics India
With India's population topping one billion, this page deals with both population growth and sustaining the current population in India.
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Woa: Population & Sustainability Dynamics India
With India's population topping one billion, this page deals with both population growth and sustaining the current population in India.
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Www.imagesoftheworld.org
With India's population topping one billion, this page deals with both population growth and sustaining the current population in India.