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Using Comic Strips to Teach the Use of Quotation Marks
Students identify when and why quotations are used. Using comic strips and speech bubbles, they read and discuss examples of quotation marks, and in pairs write text for a cartoon on a piece of paper using quotation marks around the...
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Japanese Scientists Photograph Giant Squid
Students read and discuss a news article about scientists capturing first-ever photos of a giant squid in its habitat. They answer comprehension questions, write a journal entry from the scientists point of view, and analyze a giant...
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Literature Focus Unit: Civil War
Fourth graders complete a two-week unit on the U.S. Civil War and the Underground Railroad. They read the books "Follow the Drinking Gourd" and "Pink and Say," complete story maps, and dramatize a scene from "Follow the Drinking Gourd."...
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Safe Food Supplies
Students answer the question how are food supplies maintained safely for human consumption? They are able to answer the following questions: what personal and pulic decisions must be made regarding the safe handling of food?, What are...
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Revising Comma Splices, Fragments, and Run-on Sentences
In this grammar worksheet, students correct comma splices, fragments and run-on mistakes in twenty-five sentences to help make each one grammatically correct.
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Scrambled Sentences
For this grammar worksheet, students unscramble 14 sentences and questions. Then, students underline the verbs in each sentence or question.
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Students Slide to School on Air-Powered Sled
Students locate the Great Lakes on a US map, then read a news article about a sled being used as a wintertime school bus in Wisconsin. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a map and vocabulary activity,...
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Archaeology and Erosion
Sixth graders study how erosion affects archaeology sites. In this investigative lesson, 6th graders construct a model of a pyramid using sugar cubes. They will investigate in groups how water, wind, and sunlight affects their model...
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The Dollars and Cents of Research
In this cost o research worksheet, students calculate the costs to pay professors to do research, they determine the costs for equipment needed for research and they calculate the amount of money needed to support research through...
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New Jersey
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a passage about the early history of the state of New Jersey and answer true and false questions. Students write 10 answers.
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Colorful Idioms
In this recognizing meanings of idioms in sentences online/interactive worksheet, students use context clues to determine the correct color words to complete the sentences. Students choose 11 multiple choice answers.
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Handprint Rainbow
Students find differences in handprints in a cooperative effort to make a rainbow. In a rainbow painting activity, students use their hands to create the different levels of the rainbow. Students may choose their colors.
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Rural-Urban Migration in the 1990's
Students consider the reasons why people relocate from one area to another. For this relocation lesson, students read an article that includes research and statistics on which age, education level, etc., of the population moves the...
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Capturing Wind Energy
Students investigate technology and make a correlation between technology and the weather. In this science lesson, students experiment with the weather and climate using technology to help them understand forces and motion. They identify...
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Bookmark Babies
Students make bookmarks by cutting cardboard into strips about 5 inches long by 1 1/2-2 inces wide. In this art lesson, students then glue their pictures on the strip.
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Adam Bede Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Adam Bede's George Eliot. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, learners respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Aeneid by Virgil: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Virgil's The Aeneid. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Agamemnon by Aeschylus: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Aeschylus's Agamemnon. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature learning exercise, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Age of Innocence Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 7 short answer and essay questions about Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. Students may check some of their answers online.
