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Night Golf Classroom Guide

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read the story "Night Golf" and respond to questions that enhance their comprehension of the book's message.  In this reading lesson, students participate in a literature circle to explore reading passages. Students ...
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Lee & Low Books: Giving Thanks Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in reading comprehension activities associated from a teacher's guide. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, 4th graders read Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp and...
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Don Quixote Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Cervantes's Don Quixote. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Clauses, Verbs, and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read 23 sentences and mark the noun clause, adjective clause, or adverb clause. They read 20 sentences to find a noun phrase, verb phrase, or prepositional phrase. 
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Busting More Myths Using the Scientific Method

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Use the Mythbusters model to jazz up your scientific method lessons!
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Lesson 5: Untangling DNA

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students extract DNA from split peas. In this biology lesson, students research how chromatin form into chromosomes. They draw the stages and present their work in class.
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Gravity, Seasons, and Time

For Students 7th - 10th
In this Earth instructional activity, students read about Earth's gravity, the reason the Earth has seasons, and time zones. Then students complete 21 multiple choice, 2 true or false, and 1 short answer question.
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Explorit's Astronomy 2. Quiz

For Students 5th - 6th
In this astronomy worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about astronomy. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Eclipses

For Students 6th - 9th
In this eclipses instructional activity, learners read about solar and lunar eclipses to complete 8 short answer questions comparing the two types of eclipses.
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Ride the Tide

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners examine the cause-and-effect relationship between tides and the rocky coast ecosystem. They complete a worksheet that illustrates the intertidal zone.
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Space Weight, Gravity, and Distance

For Students 9th - 12th
In this planets in space worksheet, students calculate their weight on the 9 planets plus calculate the distance of the planets from the sun in astronomical units. This worksheet has 6 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
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Discover Magazine: The Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research ideas for NASA's space exploration. In this Space Science lesson plan, students will try to find a way to bring NASA back into the spot light. Students will presented their ideas to the class for review.
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Planetary Cereal Project

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders decorate an empty cereal box with information and games showing their comprehension of factual information about an assigned planet. This is a nice, creative lesson about the solar system.
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Central Tendency

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders compare and contrast different sets of data on the basis of measures of central tendency.
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Discovery, Ship to Shuttle

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners define the meaning of discovery, and view and discuss the images on the Florida Quarter. They read about Ponce de Leon and the space shuttle, and complete a chronological order activity.
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Legends and Fables

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify and discuss the differences between legends and fables. They define fable and legend, then as a class take turns reading our books. Students select two of the stories, and complete a Venn diagram, comparing one...
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Gravity In The Universe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students assess and explore gravity in the Universe via several short video lessons. They analyze why this science matters and the history of Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity. A variety of questions are asked within this lesson for each...
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"Bedtime"

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this "Bedtime" Mother Goose nursery rhyme coloring page worksheet, students review and discuss the rhyme and color the picture with vibrant colors.
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Compare and Order Integers: Practice

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this integer learning exercise, students compare, and then order integers from least to greatest. Students also answer 2 test prep questions. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Reading: Journals from Space by Astronaut Sunita Williams

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reading comprehension and verb tenses practice worksheet, students read a passage and respond to 10 true or false questions.
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A Mission-To-Mars Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
In this space exploration worksheet, students complete a 6 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise about the exploration of Mars.
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How Does a Satellite Stay in Orbit?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore placing a satellite into orbit, then about forces needed to keep an object in orbit. They examine how satellites orbit in elliptical paths and about properties of ellipses. They learn Kepler's 3rd Law of...
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Be A Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify the name, order and attributes of the planets. They role play the position of planets, and draw pictures of the planets as well.
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Charting Seasonal Changes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students research the Earth's patterns of rotation and revolution, create a chart and graph of these patterns and use them to explain the causes of night and day and summer and winter.