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Dietary Guidelines/Food Pyramid Test
Students review Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid. They take a quiz listing recommended dietary guidelines and explain their function and implementation.
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Helping Verb Test
In this online interactive grammar skills worksheet, students answer 20 multiple choice questions regarding helping verbs. Students may check their answers immediately.
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Study Habits
Young scholars investigate their own good and poor study habits. They write a plan to improve their weaknesses.
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My Test Book: Time Problems
In this online interactive math skills worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding time. Students may view the correct answers.
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What Did I Just Read
Fourth graders write a summary for each chapter as they read a novel. They summarize the author's purpose and point of view after completing the novel. They also describe about how the author's point of view affected the novel.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test--Grade 8 (2009)
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read passages and write an essay responding to the selection. Students use a graphic organizer to plan their essay.
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New York State Sample Test English Language Arts
In this English Language Arts Sample test worksheet, learners read a passage and answer reading comprehension questions. Students also write about the texts.
Virginia Department of Education
Creating Thesis Sentences
Growing writers explore what it takes to develop and support a thesis statement with pre-fabricated ideas provided by the Virginia Department of Education. Learners take notes on what makes a thesis statement and a topic sentence, and...
K12 Reader
Self Reflection
After reading a short passage about self reflection, individuals are asked to restate the main ideas in the article in their own words.
Virginia Department of Education
Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a lesson highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and trees during...
Virginia Department of Education
Identifying Audience and Purpose
Use a fun and creative activity to introduce junior high learners to how writing changes for different audiences and purposes. The activity begins with a reading by the instructor where teens visualize a food fight in the cafeteria. In...
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Word Reference Materials
A class discussion on reference materials opens up a lesson plan on how to use these important resources. They discover that dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses are called word reference resources, and they practice using them. The...
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Psychology: Blotting It from My Mind
Students research Rorschach and other personality assessment tests in order to determine if they feel these tests are used appropriately in our society today.
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Hands-On Investigation!
Learners read, analyze, and solve a mystery using problem-solving skills. They explore the History Detective website, discuss the difference between clues and red herrings, complete a dot-to-dot sheet, take notes in a detective...
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Vision Of The Future
Students investigate ways in which new vision tests and technologies can be used to help detect and correct vision problems. They begin by reading the Times article, Software May Replace the Eye Chart on the Wall. They stage a medical...
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Spelling - Compacting (Grades 3-5)
Students use compacting when learning spelling words. In this spelling activity, students take a pre-test on their weekly spelling words. Students who score 100% are exempt from spelling and those who miss 0-2 words compact their...
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Miss Nelson Is Missing
Young scholars practice identifying story elements and using vocabulary words from newly read books. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read the book Miss Nelson is Missing, and complete several worksheets and a story...
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A Christmas Carol Exploration
Seventh graders explore the history of Christmas by researching classic literature. In this holiday activity, 7th graders read the story A Christmas Carol and discuss the tone of Charles Dickens' classic literary work. Students answer...
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A New Red Menace?
Students research and analyze the current political situation of North Korea. They read and discuss an article, conduct research, participate in a simulation of an international round table, and write a response essay.
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Fun Trivia Quiz
Test basic plot comprehension of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with this online interactive quiz. Class members answer 15multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about the plot, characters, setting, and quotes from the play....
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English Exercises: Test for Primary2/Grade 2
In this integrated English interactive worksheet, students complete 10 sentences using words from a word bank at the top of the page. They insert opposite words as they compare two students, and complete a friendly letter by inserting...
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Things Fall Apart Reading Guide
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart can present challenges even for experienced readers. Here’s a schedule and corresponding guide that will help readers focus on and record important events. The packet includes fact-based, interpretative,...
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"Conducting a Watershed Snapshot of Blockhouse Creek"
Young scholars examine specific skills in assessing water quality from a holistic approach. They assess the health of a local watershed and identify problems in the local watershed and suggest remediation.
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Socratic Seminar for Cold Sassy Tree
Tired of giving the same old multiple-choice tests, and have the urge for a new assessment? Then bring the precision of a Socratic seminar into your classroom. Even if you did not read Cold Sassy Tree the organization and explanation on...