This middle school discussion guide, from the Anti-Defamation League, recounts the war-time experiences of three child survivors. These survivors speak for their friends and siblings—the one-and-a-half million children who were murdered during the Holocaust.
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This lesson is designed to develop students' understanding of probability in real life situations. Students will also be introduced to running experiments, experimental probability, and theoretical probability. This lesson provides links to discussions and activities related to probability as well as suggested ways to integrate them into the lesson. Finally, the lesson provides links to follow-up lessons designed for use in succession with the current one.
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In this lesson, students analyze and discuss familiar superheroes and super-villains to expand their understanding of character types and conventions. Then students consider social issues that confront their everyday reality and respond by incorporating those issues into the creation of their own superheroes or super-villains as well as the settings the superheroes or super-villains operate in.
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Students practice using pedometers. Students will walk 264 feet, one-twentieth of a mile, while wearing a pedometer. They will investigate if there is a significant difference between the number of steps recorded by a Dollar Store pedometer and a pedometer App.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The hero's journey is an ancient story pattern that can be found in texts from thousands of years ago or in newly released Hollywood blockbusters. This interactive tool will provide students with background on the hero's journey and give them a chance to explore several of the journey's key elements. Students can use the tool to record examples from a hero's journey they have read or viewed or to plan out a hero's journey of their own.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
The students will assess their personal interests, abilities, and goals, create a resume and examine pay stubs.
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Students hear one or more versions of The Gingerbread Man fairy tale. Students will then use illustrations from the text or those provided to sequence and retell the story. By using different versions, students compare the adventures of characters in familiar stories.
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This article contains a collection of beautiful sketchbook pages to help students studying a range of high school Art qualifications, including GCSE, A Level and IB Visual Art. The collection includes sketchbooks completed by students as well as artist sketchbooks. Pages have been selected to demonstrate different sketchbook presentation techniques as well as to indicate the variety of layout styles possible. Descriptions underneath each image provide tips and guidance, outlining the successful aspects of each page.
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This is the first of two lessons about reproduction in plants. This lesson covers how most plants normally reproduce - sexually.
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This video helps students make sense of the American election process by learning how citizens decide who to vote for in the election, the importance of the electoral college, and how swing states affect the outcomes of an election.
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Students will read and discuss the differing views on voting procedures. Students are placed into six groups, pretending to be a subcommitte of the state legislature, and receive a voting policy to defend using arguments from information provided in the article.
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This presentation provides a summary of how Thanksgiving was celebrated in the past and how Thanksgiving is celebrated today.
Material Type: Presentation
This resource describes, compares, and contrasts prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It includes diagrams, a video, practice questions, a study guide, flash cards, and two interactive assessments.
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This is a digital anchor chart.
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A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.
Material Type: Unit of Study
This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: The vertices of eight polygons are given below. For each polygon: * Plot the points in the coordinate plane connect the points in the order that they a...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will write a letter to show either the beginning or ending sound of each picture. This resource also contains a game in which they say two words that start with a, then two words that start b, then c, and so on and so on until they reach the letter z.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Students will examine "serious" choral music written for children's choirs and the composers who write it.
The focus of this lesson is on the use of hieroglyphs as a form of communication, record keeping, and as a means for preserving and passing down history. Students will learn basic information about the alphabet, common Egyptian words, and how to read hieroglyphic messages. Students will also practice using hieroglyphs to create messages of their own.
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This is a supplemental poster that outlines 10 tips for making sure that your MyPlate is balanced and meets the dietary guidelines.
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