New York State Education Department
US History and Government Examination: June 2017
Ready for a test that uses primary sources as a tool to assess comprehension? Learners answer multiple choice, essay, and short answer questions to demonstrate their understanding of American history.
University of Missouri
Money Math
Young mathematicians put their skills to the test in the real world during this four-lesson consumer math unit. Whether they are learning how compound interest can make them millionaires, calculating the cost of remodeling...
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Online Esl Quizzes- Apostrophes - 1
In this apostrophes worksheet, students choose the sentence that shows the correct use of an apostrophe in possessives in 5 examples. They complete the quiz online.
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Pronouns
In this pronoun worksheet, students master the various forms of pronouns. Students complete 10 fill in the blanks completing the chart of nominative, objective, and possessive pronouns.
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Family Sells House to Help the Hungry
Students compare their wants and needs, then read a news article about a family that downsized their home to help African villagers. In this current events and poverty in Africa lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a...
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Consumer Confusion: Wants versus Needs and Gandhi's Wisdom
Fourth graders create graphs to illustrate consumer consumption throughout the world. In this consumer lesson plan, 4th graders also discuss wants and needs around the world, and consider Gandhi's opinion on material possessions as they...
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Millennium Superheroes
Students develop an understanding of the qualities that "superheroes," or people who have favorably influenced society, possess. They create a database with questions that pertain to what they want to find out about a hero of the...
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The Wolf, the Goat, and the Head of Cabbage
In this problem solving learning exercise, learners solve 1 word problem about crossing a stream. Students must carry 3 items over a stream while following certain requirements.
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Don't Settle for a Byte... Get the Megabyte on Technology
Students use word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software. In this multi-day computer software usage lesson plan, students complete a research project that requires the use of a word processor, Excel, FrontPage, and PowerPoint...
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Road Safety- Alert Communications and Emergency Response
Students examine the effectiveness of road safety organizations. In this road safety lesson, students identify three road safety watch agencies that aid truck drivers to keep them safe. They look at the skills that truck drivers gain...
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Ecology Vocabulary Exercise: Wetlands
In this ecology vocabulary exercise: wetlands instructional activity, learners read the definitions of 8 words, then categorize a species found in a wetland in their region. This page has numerous links to helpful web resources.
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Lord of the Flies: Fun Trivia Quiz
Assess your class on Lord of the Flies with this basic comprehension quiz. This online quiz is composed of ten multiple choice and true/false questions about the characters and plot of the novel. Learners receive immediate feedback when...
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Hispanic, Latino - What's the Right Word? an Examination of the Language Used To Categorize People
Students define "Hispanic" and "Latino," analyze where these terms come from, and develop an awareness of racial labels.
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To Whom It May Concern
Fourth graders produce and peer edit typed rough drafts of the business letters following the guidelines illustrated in the Eight Essential Parts of a business letter and save to disks. They complete the Where's the Math? scavenger hunt...
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Comparison of Economic Systems
Here is a worksheet in which learners identify and compare economic systems (market, command, mixed, etc.) with 18 fill-in-the-blank questions and a graphic organizer.
Describing Egypt
Ptah-Hotep and Akhet-Hotep Mastaba
Did you know that mastaba means bench in Arabic? Learn why a mastaba was so important to ancient Egyptian architecture. Middle and high schoolers alike stay entertained while reading a passage that describes the virtual tour of...
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Who's vs. Whose
In this English grammar worksheet, students understand the differences between the usage of the words "who's" and "whose." Students read the definition of each and the given examples before taking the online interactive exam.
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Noun and Pronoun Review
In this noun and pronoun worksheet, students define related words, replace words with specific nouns, identify common and proper nouns, classify pronouns and fill in blanks to complete sentences.
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Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Students identify slang words that they would use in a conversation. They practice expressing their likes and dislikes in speech and written form. They complete worksheets and discuss them to end the lesson plan.
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Landforms Acrostic Poetry
Fourth graders apply scientific information about various landforms. They use the information to write and word process acrostic poems which they illustrate with clip art or pictures from magazines.
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Capitalization 2
In this capitalization instructional activity, students choose the letter of the words that need capitalizing in different sentences. Students complete 7 activities.
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Whose Voice Do I Hear?
Fifth graders examine the power of voice in writing by completing a story using words following a particular voice. They take simple nursery rhymes, then attempt to put their own voice to a revised version. An interesting lesson on writing!
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Database Lesson Plan
Students add themselves in to a story. In this literature instructional activity, students listen to the story Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall. They pull out certain words in the story and add their own to...
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Mad About Parts of Speech
Eighth graders review and use the different parts of speech using Mad Libs or Web Libs. They also utilize creative writing skills by providing the most interesting word(s) for the story line. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan.