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Breaking News English: Adidas Agrees to Buy Rival Reebok

For Students 6th - 7th
In this ESL worksheet, students first read or listen to a text about the Adidas and Reebok companies. Students complete 8 pages of comprehension exercises. Included are vocabulary, questions, completing sentences, discussion, problem and...
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Transport: Problems, Consequences, And Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are presented with a variety of activities that are focused upon the problem of transportation in the community. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information that is found is used to create the...
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Chapter 12 - Objective 5.1 Formula Problems

For Students 11th - 12th
In this formula worksheet, students read short story problems and determine the correct formula. They compute compound interest, use the Richter equation to figure magnitude and find the pH of given solutions. This one-page worksheet...
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Texas State Energy Conservation Office

Investigation: Is Dilution the Solution?

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Systematically diluting a full-strength sample of food coloring is meant to help earth scientists understand concentration in parts per million. While they will enjoy the lab exercise, it might be a challenge to help them relate it to...
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Pay-to-play a costly solution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a news feature or editorial about students paying money to participate in high school athletics. Students interview members of the school community to find out the situation in their school.
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Division (No Remainders)

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Help young mathematicians build a solid understanding of division with this base ten block activity. With the help of these popular math manipulatives, children model different math problems in order to reinforce the...
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Alexander Used to Be Rich

For Teachers K - 2nd
Reading Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, launches this lesson appropriate for children who recognize coins and have been introduced to coin values. Using addition and subtraction skills, the class tracks Alexander’s spending...
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Casting a Wary Eye?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Help learners examine racial profiling of Arab-Americans and Middle Eastern Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. They will be asked to look at beliefs, actions, and behavior towards this group of people...
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Air Pollution in Mexico City

For Teachers 7th - 10th
A fantastic lesson on urban air pollution problems throughout the world is here for you. Learners understand that there are many factors involved in creating pollution, that there are many health effects brought on by air pollution, and...
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Making History....Literary

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Connect the Common Core ELA standards with history by employing a balanced literacy approach to reading.
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Agriculture: It Doesn't Just Happen

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After reading an informational text on the Agricultural Research Service, learners research the role of the ARS in Oklahoma. Using reputable online sources, they label a map of the state with relevant areas. Researchers focus on one of...
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Satisfaction Please! (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Understanding the US government's role proves very important in the American economy, especially for consumers. Scholars learn about how varying government agencies help them when facing an issue. The third and final resource in the...
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Extra Credit: It’s No Fairy Tale

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss their knowledge of payday loans and credit cards. In this Economics lesson, students complete a read an article and Q&A activity in groups, and play a vocabulary bingo game and a quiz game on payday loans. High...
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Fishing for Solutions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate the many ecological and economic issues related to over fishing the world's marine resources. Working in committees, students research the related topics of equipment and fishing techniques.
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Making Inferences

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discover how making inferences helps people solve problems. In this inference lesson, students read a story aloud and discuss problems as they occur in the story. Students work in small groups and use events in the text to infer...
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Step Five: All about Public Policy

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Public policy is important to understand because it affects everyone. The resource tells middle schoolers how the government uses policy to accomplish goals in the administration. It includes a reading, true or false worksheet, a...
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Sequencing / Story Events

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read a story and use sentence strips to order story events.  In this sequencing instructional activity, students learn new vocabulary words centered around the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, preview the story,...
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Oil Crisis: What Would You Do?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The dynamics between the economies and politics of the United States and the Middle East are here to study. Upper graders read and discuss scenarios relating to OPEC and the current oil crisis, then in small groups role-play members of...
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Student Handout 5B: Group Discussion

For Students 11th - 12th
A fantastic discussion awaits your class! They read position statements from both Taco Bell and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. They consider the statements fully. and then use three questions to engage in a class discussion on...
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the Little Red Riding Hood

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students respond to the story of Little Red Riding Hood. In this Red Riding Hood lesson, students retell and discuss story elements.  Students practice phonic sounds.  Students role play, make predictions, use picture...
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Finding the Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd
You can mix almost any subject with an arts curriculum. Find out how to use drama to find the main idea of a literary text. You'll read a story, and then learners will make tableaus showing what happened, or what they think will happen...
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"Three Cool Kids"

For Teachers 1st
First graders discuss literary elements: characters, setting, problem and solution, after reading Three Cool Kids by Rebecca Emberley. The teacher records what students say using Inspiration, making a web that shows the different...
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Nights of the Pufflings

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the story to identify the problem and solution that occurs in Night of the Pufflings. They identify problems within the story that are solved through the characters' responsible actions. Students describe in their...
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Character Traits

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify the story elements in stories. In this story element lesson, 1st graders read The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter and they identify the characters, character traits, setting, problem, and solution. They...

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