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This is a fun activity to help students analyze a classic short story and practice using logical evidence and reason in persuasive writing and sp...
A fun, interactive, ongoing simulation activity to keep students personally invested and engaged while you study The Hunger Games, Catching Fire,...
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Step by step tutorial on making beautiful paper water lilies. Enhance your bulletin boards or displays with this easy, inexpensive project. A...
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This highly interactive game gives students a hands-on, experiential understanding of the differences in between communism and capitalism. Studen...
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A great warm-up bellringer for use when teaching about the Great Depression. This fun and historically accurate quiz allows students to play the...
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Now updated with eight questions! A fun bellringer testing student's abilities as a cook on an Old West cattle drive. Students are asked multip...
In this lesson, students will be given the task to divide 9 small bags of M & M's in a series of negotiations or "rounds". Students are divided ...
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Students are placed in the shoes of President John F. Kennedy on October 16th of 1962. The students will be presented with information about the...
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This lab or activity is a hands-on and collaborative learning lesson that incorporates the following:
STEM
Earthquakes
Geology
Engineering
Design...
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A murder mystery I wrote and have used for over 20 years. So convoluted that even you won't know how it turns out! Contains 6 activities, with pr...
This engaging group activity helps students to grasp the myriad of difficulties that the colonists of Roanoke, Jamestown and Plymouth had to face...
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This is one of my favorite activities! The students really have a lot of fun with this lesson. After a brief talk about how the DNA in each of us...
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Simulation activity for lessons on the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. Simulates the economics of farming in the Midwest (Iowa) durin...
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Ever wondered what Barbie would look like if she were real? Now you can work with your students to find out!
Part 3
In order to save you and y...
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This mock trial about the America Revolutionary War, offers an alternative to war. What if the Patriots from the 13 Colonies were allowed to take...
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This lesson activity is an educational game that teaches:
1) How using the distance formula is important in a very real life situation and,
2) Ho...
In this pre-made mock trial, the poor people of the United States of America allege that the federal government has not done its job in providing...
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2 Weeks
This is a pre-made mock trial with 6 witnesses (each with a pre-made witness statement), a rubric for evaluation, and a list of common objections...
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Go Social Studies Go is a brand new way for students to interact with social studies. By combining original virtual books (with turnable pages) w...
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Lifelong Tool
This Enlightenment Salon Simulation uses contemporary subjects for students to discuss and write about. It can be adapted to use for an AP class ...
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The eternal battle of mitosis comprehension vs. meiosis comprehension hopefully becomes a whole lot easier. There are three lessons in this downl...
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In this hands on activity, students simulate bartering. They take on the roles of farmers, blacksmiths, ranchers etc., and trade their goods and ...
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Students will play the role of King Louis XVI - the leader of France as the French Revolution erupted. Through a series of questions, students wi...
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Ye Olde Shopping Trip: American Revolution Tax Simulation. This is a talk, write, investigate and learn simulation that allows students to learn...
A writing activity that provides students an opportunity to vicariously experience the pioneer journey west and the various hardships faced. Stu...
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This PowerPoint presentation uses animations to demontrate 3 types of tranformations: translations, rotations, and reflections. Students can ac...
Software that decodes the mRNA given by the user into the DNA sequence that originated it.
The program applies the rules of the genetic code and ...
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Need a great project to ensure students learn important information about the various absolute monarchs to connect Exploration to the Enlightenme...
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In this fun activity, students pose as characters in a novel, play, or short story to interact via the educational social networking site edmodo....
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In this fun and engaging simulation, the students will take control of one of seven nations and try to meet their citizen's needs. Each nation ha...
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This purchase is modification of a popular Black Death simulation activity. Using a designated itinerary, students move from city to city. At e...
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Put your students in JFK's shoes as he deliberated the Ex Com's recommendations during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This PowerPoint is designed to ...
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This lesson is included as part of the larger United States Constitution Unit Bundle, located here:
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This is a graduated cylinder object made in PowerPoint 2010.
This cylinder provides a simple but powerful example for your math or science cla...
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This original activity may be used as an introduction or review of
Symbiotic Relationships and Limiting Factors.
In this activity, students wi...
Gilgamesh and Enkidu. The oldest story known to man. In a teaching unit, performable play format, A Gilgamesh Play for Teen Readers tells the ess...
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This project is great for use in any principles of business, personal finance, or other business class. In this project students will work at the...
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Although there are similar activities all over the internet, this particular activity walks the student step-by-step through the rock cycle proce...
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This is one of the most interesting and engaging lessons I use every year dealing with personal finance. The students are always interested to f...
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The analysis of primary sources is an essential component of history and thinking like a historian. Martin Luther had a tremendous effect on the ...
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This is a pre-made, complete 21 page mock trial with 8 witnesses (each with a pre-made witness statement). There are 4 exhibits, a learning objec...
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This activity will take your students through two different websites that involve simulations of acid-base titrations. These titrations can be mo...
Complete with 10 witnesses and 7 exhibits. The poor people of America, along with people of color and women are finally getting a chance to put t...
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This activity will teach co-dominant inheritance using the ABO blood typing system. Students gain an understanding of the most common blood type...
Here is another reading comprehension test. There are 50 questions targeting fiction and non-fiction passages, with a focus on literary elements...
This is a group project outline and rubric for Spanish I students to perform a skit of their creation in a restaurant setting.
Historical debate allows for the free exchange of ideas to enhance knowledge of subject matter for a learning group and the skills of persuasion ...
Life Skills at its Best!
Comprehensive Activities to promote good citizenship, school spirit, responsibility, self-esteem, decision making, bala...
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Today I am going to walk in and get my students attention. That's what I always plan to do but this will be a little different. We are beginning ...
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This has been one of the most impactful lessons I have created, namely because I still periodically hear from former students about how this acti...
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