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Feng Shui for the Budding Interior Decorator
Students examine the uses and beliefs associated with the Chinese art of Feng Shui. The class reads about the traditional uses of Feng Shui. Individually, each student creates a room makeover using Feng Shui principles.
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If We Knew Then What We Know Now -- Cuban Missile Crisis (Background)
High schoolers examine the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Using the foreign policy decision-making process, they simulate and elaborate the processe involved. They identify the causes of the misconceptions that plagued the...
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The Pocahontas Show
Eleventh graders complete background reading of Europeans and the Native American Indians. They work in groups and represent an area of European colonization and create a "character" to represent their colonists on a class talk show....
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Where Does the Water Around Our School Go?
Students in groups, map quadrants of the area around the school and make predictions about the direction of waterflow and zones of accumulation that will occur when it rains. Then when it does rain they check to see if their prediction...
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Space Shuttle Statistics
students are the opportunity to enhance their computation skills using real life statistics associated with the Space Shuttle. Skills emphasized include working with fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions, comparing units,...
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The Space Shuttle
Young scholars share what they comprehend about the space shuttle program. They are given information about the first space shuttle mission. Students work in groups to investigate the different shuttle missions from April 1981 through...
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Community Connections
Eighth graders with a number of disabilities visit people and places in their community while using digital cameras to record their visits. They take digital pictures which they include in books, posters, and other publications which...
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Relative Pronoun Gap Fill
In this ESL pronouns worksheet, students read and analyze a friendly letter that has missing words. Using the relative pronouns from a word bank, students fill in the spaces.
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Pronoun + Be + Noun Review
For this pronoun review worksheet, students read a story about a college student before answering 5 questions using am, is, and are. They circle all of the verbs in the story.
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Pronouns
While only 5 questions long, this pronoun review activity could be used to cement skills learned. If needed, a teacher could augment the activity by adding more questions.
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Pronouns Review
After a lesson on pronouns, this worksheet provides an opportunity for ESL or elementary students to practice what they have learned. The worksheet contains 5 sentences and students choose the correct pronoun from a list of four...
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Using Enough + Infinitive
In this infinities worksheet, learners complete 5 sentences using "enough" and a logical infinitive. They then write 5 sentences using "enough" plus the infinitive with the words in parenthesis.
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Spring is In the Air: Yes/No Questions
In this yes/no questions worksheet, students read the sentences about Spring. Students then write questions to correspond with the questions.
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The Fourth of July: "Do" and "Does" Review
In this "do" and "does" learning exercise, students read sentences and create questions using the words do and does. Sentences are all related to The Fourth of July.
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Excavating Your Recycling Bin as a Fossil Record
Learners explore how scientists examine the past and use rock layers with fossils to understand the past. For this excavation lesson students divide into groups and complete an activity.
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Avoiding Primer Language
In this avoiding primer language instructional activity, students combine four or five simple sentences into one effective sentence with only one independent clause.
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ESL: Their, Theirs, Them, They
In this ESL their, theirs, them, they worksheet, students choose the correct word from a drop down list that completes a given sentence.
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The Black Cat Vocabulary Quiz
In this vocabulary quiz worksheet, students use the given vocabulary words from the story 'The Black Cat' to complete the 15 sentences. Students also complete a matching definition activity.
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Addition and Subtraction of Integers
Sixth graders complete a pre-test of addition and subtraction of integers, then watch a powerpoint presentation on the concept. In this mathematics lesson, 6th graders draw number lines and chip boards to show the process. Students work...
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Mass & Velocity Effect
Students, after reading the explanation given below, use FoilSim to complete the activity to fulfill the specifications of a given airfoil and then plot and interpret graphs.
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Civil Rights Movement in America
Eleventh graders explore the Civil Rights movement as a culmination of history and cultural perspectives developed from the Slave Trade and Reconstruction. They identify leading persons and organizations and their personal philosophy to...
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Jungle Gym Drop
Students drop a variety of objects from a jungle gym to explore how different shapes, sizes, and masses relate to forces and motion.
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The Polymer Schoolhouse
Pupils investigate polymers by discovering and examining plastics and creating a diorama.
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Making Your Own Sampling Tools
Students begin a class recycling project. They create data sampling equipment using their own designs and test them in the field.