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Facts and Opinions
In this fact and opinion worksheet, students decide if statements are facts or opinions, write facts and opinions, and more. Students complete 6 activities.
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Plate Tectonic - Volcanoes Lab
Second graders create analogs for lava and magma in experiments.
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Analyzing Data and Finding Bias
In this algebra worksheet, students identify bias as they analyze data. They solve word problems about sampling and surveys. There are 2 questions with an answer key.
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Business Questions First Lesson
Students provide oral responses to interview questions. In this business lesson, students work with a partner to ask and answer typical business interview questions orally. Questions are provided on a worksheet.
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Box O' Love
Students create a Valentines Day poem using an empty cereal box as their canvas. In this poetry instructional activity, students create their poems using rhyming words and create sentences.
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Hollow Form - Monsters - Beasties That Never Were
Students investigate Medieval art Gargoyles/Beasties and creatures used for animation films, design an original monster, and create a hollow clay form using hand building techniques.
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Literature Study Contracts
Learners complete activities with a leveled chapter book. In this literature lesson, students read a novel and complete several graphic organizers and activities as they read. They focus on characters, settings, vocabulary, and plot.
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Lines: Invisible Journeys
Learners create visual roadmaps and follow them with gesture to create lines. They draw lines with a white crayon on paper and then paint to create a crayon resist.
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Comprehension-Note Taking Skills to Supprt Opinions and Panel Discussion
Fifth graders examine note taking skills in order to support opinions. For this language arts lesson, 5th graders read several newpaper articles and discuss a current issue. Students explore how to paraphrase so as not to commit plagiarism.
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Brainstorming Solutions
Learners discuss common problems and interests with their classmates as a vehicle for problem solving. After sharing their problems, students work in groups to brainstorm possible solutions to their problems. This lesson is intended...
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Cultural Cups
Students create their own drinking vessel from papier-m??ch??. They experiment with different shapes for drinking vessels and different patterns for them.
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In Addition / Additionally / Plus / Moreover / Furthermore / …as well
In this writing transitions activity, students practice using transitions as they write 7 sentences using in addition, additionally, plus, moreover, furthermore, and as well.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Parts of a Newspaper
Students click through a lesson plan about the parts of a newspaper and answer questions about the types of articles found in each section, headlines, and captions that would go with photographs. Links to related videos are also provided.
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Tv411: Reading: Parts of a Newspaper: Activity 2 of 3
This newspaper activity requires students to read eight headlines and then select what each would be about from the options given. When answers are submitted, an explanation is also given.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Reading: Parts of a Newspaper: Activity 3 of 3
This newspaper activity is to look at the pictures provided, read what the stories are about, and select captions that would fit both the stories and the pictures.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Stars & Stripes: American Soldiers' Newspaper Ww I
A unique group of historical documents, a 71-week run of the newspaper printed for the American soldiers on the Western Front in World War I. These are digitized copies of the paper ordered by Pershing to give the troops a sense of unity...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Extra! Extra!
In this lesson students will learn about newspapers including the parts of a newspaper, purpose, and structure of articles. They will gather, record and present information from a variety of sources, using different technologies and...
Quia
Quia: Newsletter Parts
Match the part of the newsletter with its correct description in this interactive activity.
Vassar College
Vassar College: 1896: The Popularity of Bicycles
As part of the larger site about the year 1896, this article describes the bicycle craze at the end of the 19th century and includes newspaper articles and cartoons about this fad.
PBS
Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Raid on Harper's Ferry
PBS' four-part series, "Africans in America," highlights the antislavery movement, including a focus on John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Content includes a description of the event, as well as the after-effects including the news of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Camelot Times: Writing a Newspaper
As part of a unit on Arthurian literature and medieval culture, students imagine they are reporters living in the realm of King Arthur and create newsletters/newspapers based on their study and research.
BBC
Bbc News: Ten Years of Ceasefire in Nagorno Karabakh
A summary of press accounts from Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding areas such as Armenia and Azerbaijan on how the ceasefire is working. The newspaper writers wonder if there were ever be a final settlement. Nagorno-Karabakh wants to...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Subordinating Conjunctions
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers a standard definition and numerous examples of subordinating conjunctions, using journalistic (newspaper-like) examples. Provides list of...
Penn Museum
Penn Museum: Iraq's Ancient Past Ur's Royal Cemetery
A fascinating exhibition on early Mesopotamia which looks at the city of Ur located in Sumer, which is now part of Iraq. It discusses the history of Ur and its excavation. Most of the exhibition talks about the Royal Cemetery of Ur,...