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Vocabulary Building

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Offer learners a step-by-step process for approaching unknown words with this PowerPoint presentation of vocabulary strategies, which details how to use context clues and word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes), as well as encourages...
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Nature of Roots

For Students 9th - 11th
In this nature of roots worksheet, students solve 10 different problems that include determining the sum and product in each one. First, they determining the sum of the roots in the given equation. Then, students determine the product of...
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Investigation 2: hat is the Root Word?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this identifying the base words worksheet, students read two columns of words and write their root words, use a dictionary to find new words that use the root words from the word list, and read common prefixes and create new words...
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Estimating Square Roots

For Students 9th
In this square roots worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 11 different problems that include estimating various square roots. First, they determine the value of each given square root to the nearest tenth. Then, students find the...
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Complex Roots Made Visible

For Students 11th
In this algebra worksheet, 11th graders solve quadratic functions using the quadratic formula. They identify the negative roots using complex roots. There is an answer key with this problem.
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Squares and Square Roots

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars find patterns relating the lengths of the sides of squares to their areas. In this squares and square roots instructional activity, students draw squares and find their areas. They estimate the sides of square when given...
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Root Words

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this language arts worksheet young scholars learn that root works are words from which other words are built. Students identify the root word in 6 words, then rearrange 6 scrambled words, putting the prefix, root word and suffix in...
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Latin Roots 3

For Students 8th
In this Latin roots worksheet, 8th graders complete a crossword puzzle involving eleven sentences with Latin roots going across and down.
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Higher Roots and Rational Exponents

For Students 9th
In this higher roots worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 40 various types of problems. First, they simplify each root by taking the number inside times another number. Then, students write out the root using rational exponents.
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Square Roots Worksheet

For Students 7th - 9th
In this square roots worksheet, learners calculate the value of a number squared.  They determine the square root of a number.  Students find the area of objects.  This five-page worksheet contains 10 problems. ...
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Square Roots

For Students 9th
In this square roots worksheet, 9th graders solve 10 different problems that include simplifying with negative numbers. First, they identify the negative number in each equation and pull out from under the radical sign as i. Then,...
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The Roots of Prohibition: Examining the Effort to Prohibit Alcohol in America

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Five segements from Ken Burns' documentary series Prohibition, easily accessed on the PBS website, are at the center of a terrific short unit on the roots of America's ambivalent relationship with alcohol. Engage your secondary...
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Go for the Gold!

For Teachers 5th - 12th
The options are vast with this Ancient Greece and Olympics research project! Using Scholastic online resources, historians have interactive and educational supports to guide them through researching and writing about the 2004 Olympics in...
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Root Words

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learnersstudy root words. In this word study instructional activity, they identify the root words from several compound words. There are examples listed in this lesson plan.
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Use Common Roots and Affixes When Attached to Known Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After a brief review of roots and affixes, partners are asked to choose a root, find words built on that root, and create a Christmas ornament decorated with these words. Beware the typos!
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Latin Roots: spir, viv/vit, vid, vis

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Young readers rewrite the Latin root words on the blank lines and then mark the roots spir, viv, vid, vit, and vis in the 20 word list.
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English Words from Greek and Roman Names of Gods

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Hydra/hygiene, Muse/music.  Many English words are built on roots derived from the names of Greek and Roman gods. After examining a list of Greek and Roman gods and the meaning of their names, class members find the root in a list...
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Root Caps and the Effect on Gravity Sensing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to determine how the absence of a root cap affects a plant's ability to sense gravity. They make comparisons between capped and decapped roots.
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Book Report: Children Return to Their Roots

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Based on the book Victoria Goes to Brazil (Children Return to their Roots) by Maria de Fatima Campos, this lesson will teach learners about family, geography, sports, music, and transportation. Learners read, summarize, and use the book...
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Home Spelling Practice: Latin Roots urb, public, reg, civ, doc, dom

For Students 7th - 8th
Use this spelling worksheet to help your learners master root words. All 20 words have a Latin root: "urb," "public," "reg," "civ," "doc," or "dom." Middle schoolers write each word one time. There are additional at-home activities...
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Home Spelling Practice: Latin Roots fic, fec, fac, fy

For Students 6th - 7th
Young writers learn to spell a list of twenty words. All words have the Latin roots "fic," "fec," "fac," or "fy." Middle schoolers write each word one time on the lines. There are additional at-home spelling activities listed. All...
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Mythological Word Origins

For Teachers 9th - 10th
No wonder the ship was called the Titanic. An investigation of Norse, Roman, and Greek Mythology provides insight into mythological characters and corresponding words in the English language. A close look at roots, prefixes, and suffixes...
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Roots and Shoots

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students analyze the root structures of plants. In this root structure lesson, students compare the roots of several different plants. Students discover variations in root systems on many plants of the same species.
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Organization and Simplifying Roots

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students simply roots and organize it. In this algebra lesson, students solve radicals by simplifying them. They solve for squares by taking the square root of both sides of the equation. They simplify and rationalize the denominator.

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