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Business Lessons from the Basket Weaver

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the basket weaving business and entrepreneurship in action. They discuss the basket weaving business and identify business concepts that apply to the creation and sell of baskets. Students identify factors that regulate...
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Great Migration 2002

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compose journal entries that relate to interview topics working in pairs interviewing each other. They create ten interview questions on their own as well as deliver presentations about their interviews of one another. Each...
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English Exercises: Do or Does

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 23 fill in the blank questions that require them to use "do" and "does" appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Order of Operations and Simplify

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate a lesson using the Order of Operations. The lesson has good instructions to carry out the lesson. The language is user-friendly for the average educator. They also use a Math writing journal to integrate...
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Spiders

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students come to the conclusion, from various clues given, that the mysterious creature is a spider, and discover spiders come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
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Add Me!

For Students 4th - 6th
In this present tense worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences and write the name of the tense that the sentence is in. Students complete 35 questions total.
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Science Lab Skills

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars develop problem solving, decision-making and inquiry skills by planning experiments. They conduct systematic observations, interpret and analyze data and draw conclusions then communicate their results.
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What Color is Your Colony?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students conduct an experiment to change the color of E. coli bacteria using genetic engineering. They work in small groups to add a plasmid containing a gene for red pigment to the bacteria and culture the bacteria to see if it ...
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Red Mangroves Of Southern Florida

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers engage in a unit plan to examine the ecological background for the Mangroves of southern Florida. They conduct research using print and computer technology sources. They use the information in a number of other extension...
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Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" by Franz Schubert

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars review vocabulary words and look at a piece of art work with one subject and play any or all of the familiar musical examples listed. They then identify the melody of each example and make a comparison between the art...
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Autumn Crossword

For Students 4th - 5th
In this literacy worksheet, students complete the crossword puzzle that is focused on the topic of autumn as part of the fall season.
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Learning to Alphabetize

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this worksheet on learning to alphabetize, students review the process, then alphabetize 4 simple words. Alphabet is given for reference. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
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A Year

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine an author's philosophical look at life through anecdotes he describes as a teacher in Uzbekistan. For this Uzbekistan lesson, students analyze a literary passage in order to identify, then practice using, similes,...
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English Exercises: Verb Tenses 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English skills worksheet, students respond to 30 fill in the blank questions about verb tenses. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Present Simple Tense

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this affirmative sentences instructional activity, students write the correct forms of the verbs in the sentences given. Students complete 4 activities.
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Patterns

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the concept of patterns and how they can occur with numbers and the lesson focuses on the occurrance wiht shapes. They complete an activity investigating patterns using a story to set the tone of fun.
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Order of Operations

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders perform the Order of Operations. Given various story problems, groups of students solve equations requiring division, multiplication, parenthesis, exponents and other mathematical processes. They discuss the order of...
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Lines and Angles

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore lines and angles. They create visual representations of lines, rays and angles by drawing them on paper and using a geoboard. On paper, 6th graders write a summary of the characteristics of their representations.
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Graphing Coordinates

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders practice graphing coordinates. In this geometry lesson plan, they use the x and y axis to locate points that must be connected in the right sequence to form a straight line.
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Translating Words to Algebraic Expressions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders translate word sentences to algebraic expressions. In groups of three, 7th graders determine the number of times their heart beats in fifteen seconds. Using this data, they calculate the heartbeats per minute, in five...
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Mini-Metric Olympics

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in the mini-metric Olympics. In this measurement instructional activity, 8th graders solve real-world problems that require them to calculate length, area, and volume in metric units.
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Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders do 5 different lab stations to explore rocks, minerals, and fossils.
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Readers' Theatre with African and Chinese Folktales

For Teachers 4th
Students investigate genre of folklore, specifically African and Chinese folktales, and script and perform folktales with examples from The Magic Brocade and Fire on the Mountain. Seven lessons on one page.
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Beginning Sentence Completion Exercise 10

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to compete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Students answers are...