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Grammar Games and Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Thirty pages of grammar activities? Your young grammarians will be well versed in the parts of speech, basic verb tenses, and much more after completing even a handful of these exercises. 
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The Road Not Taken

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
"The Road Not Taken," is the focus of an exercise that asks readers to identify the figurative meaning of Robert Frost's poem.
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Shakespeare's Language: What's the Meaning?

For Students 8th Standards
You needn't be an actor to stage this exercise in reading comprehension. Kids examine Jacques's "All the World's a Stage" speech from Act II, scene ii, of As You Like It, and explain the literal meaning of the figurative...
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Character Analysis in the Red Badge of Courage

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
As part of a comprehension exercise, readers analyze the character of Henry Fielding and consider how his romantic view of himself, and of war, changes.
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K12 Reader

Setting the Scene: Great Expectations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Expect great things from this reading comprehension exercise that asks readers to cite evidence from the provided passages of Great Expectations to support the inference that Charles Dickens' Miss Havisham, and her room, are indeed strange.
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Choose the Pronoun

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
Make sure those pronouns and antecedents match up! For this exercise, learners complete eight sentences by selecting the correct pronouns.
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Comma Catastrophe Worksheet

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Get some comma practice in with a straightforward exercise. Learners rewrite each sentence to include the missing commas.
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Mixed Practice with Fractions

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Help young mathematicians see how fractions are used every day in the world around them with a series of problem solving exercises. Offering eight different word problems, this worksheet challenges children to apply their...
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Breathing Rates and Exercise

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners work in groups to predict which condition produces more breaths per minute. Groups record their breathing rates during rest periods and periods of activity. They graph their results and make comparisons to their predictions.
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Decimals Worksheets

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Make sure your students' understanding of fractions is on-point using this series of skills practice worksheets. Covering a variety of topics from basic place value and fraction/decimal conversion, to performing all four operations...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 9 - Conditioning for Water Skiing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
It takes muscle strength and muscle endurance to get up on a water ski or wake board, and to stay up. Lesson 9 out of this 22 lesson unit is about conditioning. A resource link at the bottom of the page allows you to view all the...
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The Value of Exercise: I've Got Muscles!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Exercise and building of muscles are the focus of this health worksheet. Students read a passage which describes voluntary vs. involuntary muscles, then complete a word search which has many types of exercise words hidden in it. An...
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Team Building Exercises

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students develop a sense of team and team cooperation. They do four different team building exercises in four days. The Ball Throw, The Swamp, The Web and Gilligan's Island are the four team building exercises that the group do.
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Exercise in Perspective

For Teachers 5th - 12th
For this exercise in perspectives, young scholars are required to analyze a topic by completing six different activities. Students can work in groups, pairs or independently to complete the activity.
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Aquatic Exercise - Object Retrieval

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to a variety of exercises to do in the water. In groups, they swim in the deep part of the pool to retrieve objects at the bottom. To end the instructional activity, they practice techniques to help them breathe...
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 1

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Build unity in the dojo or the gym with an activity that not only teaches the importance of stretching and flexibility but also offers class members an opportunity to get to know one another. After warming up and engaging in a Medicine...
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Spelling Rules: "ei" or "ie"

For Students 4th - 8th
Use this basic exercise to accompany spelling instruction about "i before e." Learners read 12 example sentences and select the correct spelling (from two choices of the same word with ei or ie). From the Purdue Online Writing Lab, the...
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Writing Exercises: Science and Technology II

For Teachers 10th - 11th
All revolutions in science and technology have both pros and cons. Kids examine the advent of the green revolution, nuclear growth, use, and the countries that are considered nuclear powers. They'll construct three responses to each of...
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Math Online Exercises

For Students 4th - 6th
Upper graders complete a wide range of assignments. They solve one word problem, six measurement problems, eight addition problems and find five numbers on a number line. They check their answers online as they go.
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All in the Family

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine activities they can do with their family to encourage exercising as a family. They listen to and discuss the book Mama Zooms, and watch a video clip from the PBS show Zoboomafoo. They create a "Things I Like To Do With...
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Fighting Obesity in Adolescence

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners understand the physical and cultural reasons for the growing rate of obesity in kids. They learn new ways to maintain and promote personal health through exercise and healthy eating.
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Deal or No Deal

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a P.E. game based on television show "Deal Or No Deal." Students are offered deals by the teacher to do a set amount of sit-ups, push-ups, jogging laps, or jumping jacks, and they either select the offer or the...
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Smart Snacking Ideas

For Teachers Higher Ed
Educate parents on obesity prevention using these discussion points, specifically geared toward families of preschoolers. You will need to add to this, as it is mostly an outline of topics and objectives.  Concepts include healthy...
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Heart Smart in a Heart Beat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
As an introductory activity, young statisticians measure their heart rate at rest and after exercise and compute the mean and median, and create a box & whisker plot.  This is followed by watching a video (that no longer seems...