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How Do Conflicts Escalate?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine, evaluate and understand the concept of conflict, conflict escalation and colflict resolution through a variety of creative interactions.
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Generations: An Exploration of our Families Through Literature

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete a unit of lessons on families. They read and analyze various stories, label a map, assemble sentences, write letters to grandparents, analyze character traits, and write and illustrate a sheet for a class book.
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Sharks: Scavenging Stomachs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the role played by sharks in the marine food chain. They conduct a scavenger hunt collecting items that have actually been removed from the stomachs of sharks, and create a display that includes the items and newspaper...
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Animals In Winter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners read story Animals in Winter, and explore similarities and differences in how humans and other animals prepare for survival in winter. Students create class book that compares and illustrates different ways humans and animals...
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Plant and Animal Changes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen as the book, "What Do Animals Do In Winter?" is read to the class. They discuss that during the winter, some animals migrate, hibernate, hide, change color, and some make changes in their bodies like growing extra...
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Flory's Gulp

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, learners read a story about a girl who gulps her milk at the table. Students complete a variety of 30 comprehension questions.
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How Ecosystems Change

For Students 4th - 8th
In this ecosystems worksheet, students will look at 4 diagrams and determine if either primary or secondary succession would occur after that particular event happened. Then students will determine the limiting factor for 4 different...
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What Do I Know About Islands

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this island research worksheet, students fill in a graphic organizer about the island of their choice. Students fill in two tables with advantages and disadvantages of living on the Rathlin Island and Hallig Oland. They write a...
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Antarctica

For Students 4th - 6th
In this online Antarctica worksheet, students click on eighteen different links to find the answers to eighteen questions associated with Antarctica.
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Which Words Belong?

For Students 5th - 6th
In this word grouping worksheet, students choose a word from the word pool that completes the group of words shown. The worksheet has 8 groups of words to practice the skill.
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Sand & Water: Arctic in the Sun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students chill out on a hot day with this outdoor activity. In this early childhood physical education lesson, students have fun experimenting through play with ice and toy animals in water.
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Which Word Belongs in the Group?

For Students 4th - 5th
For this categorizing words worksheet, learners read a group of three words and determine what they have in common. From a word bank, students choose the word that belongs with the others. There are 10 questions.
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Water Studies Word Problems

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this water learning exercise, students read mini articles and solve math word problems having to do with water. Students complete 16 word problems.
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Breaking News English: Noise Pollution in the Oceans

For Students 5th - 10th
In this noise pollution in the oceans worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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The Handmaid's Tale - Essay Questions

For Students 10th - 12th
For this literature worksheet, students respond to 15 short answer and essay questions about Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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Sunken Millions Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This PowerPoint includes a game with ocean graphics in which two teams answer increasingly difficult questions about animals. Topics covered include plant and animal cells, animal adaptation, and similarities and differences between...
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Plankton / Phytoplankton

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the importance of plankton in the ocean ecosystem. For this biology lesson, students identify the different types plankton by observing them under the microscope. They explain how plankton population affect global climate.
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Student Dichotomous Key for Insects

For Students 7th - 9th
In this student dichotomous key worksheet, students work in groups to create genus and species names for a list of insects assigned to them. Students then create a key for the new names given to their assigned list of insects.
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Concern over Assam Rhinos

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the illegal hunting of wild animals (rhinos) in India. They read a short news report, review related vocabulary, and complete a vocabulary matching exercise.
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The Animal Kingdom

For Students 4th - 6th
For this animal kingdom worksheet, students read for information and determine comprehension. In this matching and fill in the blanks worksheet, students answer twelve questions.
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Pronoun Reference exercise 1

For Students 4th - 6th
In this pronoun usage worksheet, students read sentences to determine whether the they contain pronoun reference errors and fix any mistakes they find. Students read twenty sentences.
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Steller Sea Lions

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Steller sea lions worksheet, learners read information and do activities on four pages. Students put life cycle events in chronological order.
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Proofreading Sentences

For Students 4th - 6th
In this proofreading activity, students write "SENT" in front of complete sentences and correct sentences with errors, 19 total. 
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Ocean Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the fossil remains of ancient sea creatures. They create casts of fossils and identify how sea fossils are formed and consider what type of information fossils can give to scientists.