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Wonderful Words for Writing!

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Twenty slides make up a set of festive, May-themed writing prompts designed to grab scholars' attention and warm-up their writing skills. Prompts include story starters, holidays, research questions, the five senses, and more! 
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The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
There is more going on under the surface of Ernest Hemingway's work than one can glean in an initial reading. A literature resource compares the themes and structures of several of Hemingway's works before prompting class members to use...
Worksheet
K12 Reader

Conjunctions: Or

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Flower or tree? Rabbit or goat? Hamburger or hot dog? Young grammarians practice connecting nouns with conjunctions in a worksheet that focuses on using the word or.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Percent of a Number: Acid Solution

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Mathematicians answer five questions about percents, ratios, and proportions with help from an interactive graduated cylinder. Question types include multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and discussion. 
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NASA

Roving on the Moon

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Build a rover for pennies in a fun-filled activity! Young engineers design, build, test, and evaluate a lunar rover model. Using rubber bands, plastic straws, and cardboard, teams collaborate to make a rover model with spinning wheels....
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NASA

Exploring Exoplanets with Kepler

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Calculate the movement and properties of planets like professional astronomers! Scholars use Kepler's third law to find Mercury and Venus's distance from the sun. Using changes in brightness of distant stars and Kepler's third law,...
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Links in a Chain: Learning About Linking Verbs

For Students 4th - 5th
For this linking verbs worksheet, students fill in 10 fill in the blank answers about the notes they read and read and underline the linking verb in 10 sentences. Students use the verb look as a linking verb in a complete sentence.
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Utah's Own

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the effects of humans on the environment. In this Social Studies lesson, 4th graders analyze human changes to the environment. Students explore the actions and effects at a community level.
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Post-Secondary Checklist

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders answer the question what is next for them and identify how life is going to be different after high school. As a class, they share their life experiences in elementary and middle school and then predict how it might be...
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Periodic Table Puzzle

For Students 10th - 11th
In this chemistry instructional activity, students use the clues given at the bottom of the sheet to solve the crossword puzzle on the Periodic Table. They describe the number of protons and electrons some elements posses, as well as...
Worksheet
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Identity and Equality Properties

For Students 9th
In this identify and equality properties worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 14 different problems. First, they solve each equation for the given variable. Then, students name the property or properties illustrated by each...
Lesson Plan
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Land Associations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers identify and explore life forms of various biomes, define transitional regions, examine effects of abiotic and biotic interactions, research a biome, and produce newspaper that features environmental information. Lessons...
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Safety First

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students create a PowerPoint presentation on school safety. They are required to have illustrations and transitions in their slideshow. They develop a safety test for their classmates.
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Dysfunctional Adolescent Behavior

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list the means of transition, some signs and symptoms, the treatment and prevention of 4 types of sexually transmitted diseases. They act out skits on various aspects of STDs (the skits will be recorded and played back for...
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A Course in Basic Skills

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders complete a course in basic skills in order to meet the standards for sophomore year. Using one of their classmates papers, they identify the main idea, topic sentence and theme. They also identify the transitional words...
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The Importance of Buffalo Culture to Blackfeet Indians

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners examine importance of buffalo in culture of Blackfeet Indians, and explore types of technology used by Indians to kill large numbers of buffalo. Students research transition of Blackfeet from subsistence economy to capitalist...
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Adult ESOL: Obtaining Employment

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students consider setting goals as a part of a job search. They discuss values and skills to help establish employment goals and what working conditions are important to them. They discuss the goals they have and sentences using...
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Analysis of Grooming Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students engage in a lab that focuses on animal behavior in an open ended inquiry based laboratory experience. They build an ethogram, display a transition matrix and analyze a Markov Chain. They remove wings from the drosophila and...
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Fantastic Facts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to expository texts. They dwell to formulate the comprehension and gain the main ideas. Students encounter explicit comprehension strategies to help them transition into this new type of text.
Organizer
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Printable Poem Starter: Write a Limerick for St. Patrick's Day

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
This shamrock-shaped graphic organizer helps students set up a limerick based on a few sample lines. Students are prompted on which lines should rhyme, and how many syllables each line should have. Once they are finished, the shamrocks...
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Printable Poem Starter: Write a Limerick for St. Patrick's Day

For Students 2nd - 3rd
This shamrock-shaped graphic organizer helps students set up a limerick based on a few sample lines. Students are prompted on which lines should rhyme, and how many syllables each line should have. Once they are finished, the shamrocks...
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Gases Around Us

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners investigate gases and liquids. For this states of matter online lesson, students examine how evaporation plays a part in the transition of liquids into gases as they watch a kettle of water boil and then work in small groups on...
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Rock and Poetry: A Thematic Project

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore poetry. In this literature instructional activity, students examine music and lyrics by Natalie Merchant in order to make the transition to analyzing poetry by Keats and Wordsworth.
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The Russian Revolution

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete a matching game based on geographic features of Russia and label a map with these features. In this geography and politics lesson, students identify resources and populations in Russia and complete a T-Chart on a video...

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