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Unit VII: Worksheet 5 - Energy and Power

For Students 9th - 12th
The intent of this worksheet is to provide physics scholars with practice solving power problems. Seven different word problems are presented. Learners use formulas for energy and power to determine what it takes for boxes to be lifted,...
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K12 Reader

Adverbial Phrases

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
What is the purpose of adverbial phrases? Find out what questions adverbial phrases answer with a worksheet that focuses on grammar. As kids work through 16 sentences, they underline the phrases and use the space provided to mark what...
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American Museum of Natural History

They Glow!

For Students 6th - 12th
Would you believe marine animals can make their own light? An online resource describes the process of bioluminescence and how animals in the ocean use it to survive. The lesson features a catchy tune that describes the behavior of ocean...
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Chandler Unified School District

Active and Passive Voice Practice

For Students 5th - 9th
Active or passive? Young grammarians identify the voice in a series of sentences and then rewrite those in passive voice.
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How to Sing and Play Happy Birthday

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Here is a clever, and simple, lesson on how play the guitar while singing the Happy Birthday Song. There is media content embedded in the plan that allows learners to see a video of it being played, and to print out tabulature which...
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Personification Lesson Plans and Resources

For Teachers 4th - 10th
This resource on personification provides three different approaches aimed at different levels. The first, appropriate for upper elementary, provides examples of personification, followed by an exercise that requires replacing a word in...
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The Role of the Opera Orchestra

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to and examine a recording of the opera Don Pasquale and study the various musical instruments in an orchestra. They discuss the difference between a symphony orchestra and an opera orchestra. Finally they play the music...
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"Mambo" from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students encounter and study "Mambo" from "West Side Story," by Leonard Bernstein. They practice utilizing musical elements (instrumentation, tempo, and dynamics) to create a certain mood for a scene with music. Each student interprets...
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Revising Comma Splices, Fragments, and Run-on Sentences

For Students 7th - 8th
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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Music Education, Playing the Blues

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
This lesson plan enables students to gain a broader awareness of the basic blues scale and the harmonic structure of the standard blues progression. Students will be given introductory exercises on blues improvisation and will also...
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Jazz and Math: Improvisation Permutations

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the various rhythmic combinations in jazz and blues music. They watch a video segment, apply a mathematical formula to calculate the number of possible rhythmic combinations, and perform a combination of notes and...
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Committing Crime or Just Having Fun?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students breakdown different types of youth crime/gangs. Students evaluate the power of peer pressure. Students identify and offer advice for dealing with peer pressure. Students encounter the theory of phenomena.
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Energy is Everywhere

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students differentiate between renewable and non-renewable resources and identify the different forms of energy and list the advantages or disadvantages of different forms of energy. They also determine the benefits as well as the...
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Overture to 'William Tell' by Gioacchino Rossini

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an awareness of how music creates a setting in a story or legend. They identify the instrumentation, dynamics and tempo used to create various settings for a musical story. They perform rhythmic patterns from listening...
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Numbers Idioms and Proverbs

For Students 7th - 11th
In this writing worksheet, students try to guess the missing numbers from twelve proverbs, explain the meaning of eight underlined idioms and answer the number meanings in fifteen sentences with idioms.
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Physics 210 - Frequency

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this frequency worksheet, students use the speed of sound to determine the frequency in which sounds are heard in 5 different word problems.
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Create a Composition

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners select an instrument and create a musical composition. In this musical composition instructional activity, students invent an original piece of music that is 16 measures long. Learners hum and record their pieces.
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Sense of Place: No River Too Wide-Bridges

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the history of their hometown Des Moines River.  In this U.S. Geography lesson students speak with Iowans that tell stories of the settlers and early villages near the Des Moines River.  Students document...
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Respecting the Differences of Others

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the importance of respecting the differences of people around the world in different situations in order to avoid conflict and promote peace. Students compare the sounds of a symphony and the instruments creating...
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Echo Me! - A Melodic Dictation and Tonal Memory Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students demonstrate five-finger hand positions (C, G, D, etc.) by playing short melodic phrases using only those notes in the given position and creating short melodies. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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Lesson Plan for Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the music of Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They compare the sounds individual instruments make. They listen to and study the story of "Scheherazade" and compare it to other pieces that also portray a story or...
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Do You Want Another? -- Full Color Copy

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this reading worksheet, students create a small book by stapling together 12 pages. Students read the story. The story depicts workers with their hands full of luggage, boxes, furniture, and cooking pots. On the last page, there is a...
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Adjective Clauses and Adjective Phrases

For Students 6th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students circle the correct answer to the 6 multiple choice questions pertaining to adjective clauses and adjective phrases.
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Intervals!

For Students 4th - 8th
In this music intervals worksheet, students write fourths and name the two notes with their correct alphabetical order. Students name fourteen notes.