Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Bucket List Poetry
Using the song "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw from the soundtrack for The Bucket List as a model, students will take a look at their values and the things they would like to accomplish in their lives before they run out of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Guess and Check, Work Backward
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Solve word problems using the guess, check, and revise strategy.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton
This workshop helps students increase their skills in descriptive writing by following tips and suggestions from writer Virginia Hamilton. After reading about Hamilton, students write their descriptive pieces and publish them online. A...
Other
Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Writing Persuasive Essays
This site focuses on the student learning how to write strong persuasive essays. Strategies are provided to help the student complete a persuasive writing assignment.
Towson University
Towson University: Active / Passive Voice
Learn the difference between active and passive voice as well as several way to change passive sentences into active voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the active voice sentences into passive voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1
Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Input Devices, Processing and Output Devices
Review the definitions and images of computer input and output devices. You can quiz yourself on page three by taking the Test Bite.
BBC
Bbc Gcse Bitesize: Data Storage
Learn about your computer's data storage, which includes understanding what ROM and RAM are. You may quiz yourself on page nine by taking the Test Bite.
BBC
Bbc Gcse Bitesize: Word Processing and Desktop Publishing
Review and take a quiz on word processing (WP) and desktop publishing (DP). Both of these applications are types of software.
BBC
Bbc: Pythagoras' Theorem
You can pick up some valuable pointers on how to apply the Pythagorean Theorem here. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.
BBC
Bbc: Percentages
You can pick up some valuable percentage pointers on how to work with them. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an on-line "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
BBC
Bbc: Angles
You can pick up some valuable pointers on angles and lines here. When you finish working your way through the pages you can take an on-line "Test Bite," and check your understanding.
BBC
Bbc: Manipulation of Aglebraic Expressions
Pick up some valuable pointers on how to simplify and factor algebraic expressions. When you finish working your way through the pages, you can take an online "Test Bite" and check your understanding.
BBC
Bbc: Standard Deviation
A demonstration of how to find the standard deviation of a set of data. Several examples and a practice test are offered.