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Complete Subjects and Predicates
In this subject and predicate instructional activity, students draw a line between the complete subject and the complete predicate in 14 sentences.
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Leaf Collection
Students examine the tree species in Pennsylvania. In this Pennsylvania tree lesson students use field guides to assist them in identifying tree species.
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Identifying Wyoming Trees
Students identify trees based from their leaves. For this leaf lesson plan, students use The Rocky Mountain Tree Finder by Tom Watts in order to identify tree leaves. They look for leaf shapes, veins, and structure.
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Regular and Irregular Plurals
In this regular and irregular plurals worksheet, students watch a video about plurals, add correct endings to words to form plurals and choose correct forms of plurals.
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Fearsome Creatures 2
In this fearsome creatures instructional activity, students choose the correct words to fill in the blanks to sentences about dangerous animals. Students complete this for 10 animals.
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Cliff Notes for The Canterbury Tales: Quiz
In this Canterbury Tales quiz interactive worksheet, 9th graders answer 12 multiple choice questions about the tales with immediate online feedback.
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison: Quiz
In this Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison learning exercise, students answer fifteen multiple choice questions about plot, characters, and theme as well as identify quotations.
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Whales
Middle schoolers compare and contrast the two types of whales. In this biology lesson, students research the characteristics of their assigned whale. They compile their findings in a folder.
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Geology
Fourth graders devise a workable inch-to-inch scale for a geologic timeline sequencing the eras covered in the unit. They hypothesize from descriptions of dinosaur fossil evidence.
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Whales
Write factual accounts, reports and express personal viewpoints about whales. They eill also write on a variety of topics related to whales, shaping ideas and making choices in language and form.
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Scientific Advances Could Bring Back the Dodo & Mammoth
Students reflect on the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life. For this ESL lesson, students debate the pros and cons of extinction reversal then complete several activities centered around the topic.
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What Have You Learned about the Mouth?
Students sequence the steps in a normal day that can lead to tooth decay and describe how to maintain a healthy mouth.
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Things to Remember
Learners read the poem "For the Record in Memory Of" and then discuss the historical events in it.
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Explorit's Foodplant Quiz
In this plants worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about plants grown for food.
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About Sheep
Students study sheep ranching practices and wool gathering. In this agriculture lesson, students discuss sheep ranching and construct a sheep book of information and pictures. Students color diagrams and fill in 3 blanks.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Sabre Toothed Tiger (Smilodon Populator)
Provides images and a fact card about the sabre-toothed tiger, a prehistoric animal. Discusses where they lived, when and how they likely became extinct, what we know about its physical characteristics, diet, and reproduction.
MarineBio Conservation Society
Marine Bio: Rough Toothed Dolphins
Illustrated reference guide features useful information on the rough-toothed dolphins with facts on physical characteristics, behavior, range, habitat, diet, and conservation status.
MarineBio Conservation Society
Marine Bio: Ginko Toothed Beaked Whales
Illustrated reference guide features useful information on Ginko-toothed beaked whales with facts on physical characteristics, behavior, range, habitat, diet, and conservation status.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life: Sabre Toothed Tigers
Learn about the saber-toothed tiger and discover details about this prehistoric cat's behaviors, habitat, classification, and body structure through short videos and reading.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Ginkgo Toothed Beaked Whale
Almost nothing is known of the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale. Nothing about its behavior or feeding habits has been reported, and its geographical distribution is estimated from a very small sample. Learn more about the Mesoplodon...
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National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Chisel Toothed Kangaroo Rat
The Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat has chisel-shaped lower incisors, with which it strips the epidermis from the leaves of desert shadscale or saltbush, thereby reaching the palatable and water-rich interior of the leaf. This Kangaroo Rat...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Rough Toothed Dolphin
Rough-toothed dolphins are usually seen swimming in schools of 10-20 individuals, although groups of 50 or more have been reported. They are sometimes seen cruising along at high speed, with their beaks at the surface and their dorsal...
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Illinois State Museum: The Midwestern United States 16,000 Years Ago
What did Northern America look like 16,000 years ago? Were the plants the same? What happened to the mastodons and the saber-toothed cats? Here's a short website that is easy-to-understand and supplies at least some of the answers.
PBS
Nova: America's Stone Age Explorers: End of the Big Beasts
Three opposing views about the disappearance of the "megafauna" in North America. What really happened to the wooly mammoth, mastadon, saber-toothed tiger, among other animals?