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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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A quick, engaging and fun activity elicits students' critical thinking skills to practice making claims, using data and establishing warrants to ...
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Life Skills at its Best!
Comprehensive Activities to promote good citizenship, school spirit, responsibility, self-esteem, decision making, bala...
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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 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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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 activity will teach co-dominant inheritance using the ABO blood typing system. Students gain an understanding of the most common blood type...
This is a real world project that can be used in social studies, economics, business, or any practical living classroom. I use this project in m...
This is a highly interactive PowerPoint to be used in conjunction with a Smart Board, and your notes, and as many social studies teachers do, a s...
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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...
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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This is an excellent Powerpoint to review the Gilded Age Unit. Concepts illustrated include--
The Amassing of Gilded Age Wealth (which compares ...
This is a group project outline and rubric for Spanish I students to perform a skit of their creation in a restaurant setting.
Here is another reading comprehension test. There are 50 questions targeting fiction and non-fiction passages, with a focus on literary elements...
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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Historical debate allows for the free exchange of ideas to enhance knowledge of subject matter for a learning group and the skills of persuasion ...
A fun, Common-Core-tied project perfect for a culminating activity after reading ENDER'S GAME by Orson Scott Card.
This novel is a modern classi...
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Using the Finance Application on the TI 83 and TI 84 Graphing Calculator is a worksheet which introduces the Finance Applications to students and...
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Brian Packham
Optical Illusions to show how your eyes do not always see what they think they see.
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Interactive simulation for middle school or high school.
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100% COMPLETE UNIT ON ANCIENT ROME!!
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• Teacher’s guide with pacing suggestions
• Essential questions that guide instru...
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This model can be made with paper and pencil or if you have the kit from KD Biographics obtained from various Biological Supply companies, you ca...
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This is the beginning of a project for students studying the prehistoric era. Students will use this as a guide and write down their ideas for w...
Have your students role play their speaking for ten different city visual situations that are part of a city story. Your students, in pairs, be...
It is the height of the Civil War. Thousands have died. There seems no end in sight. Opposition to the war is growing in the north. And Abrah...
This power point goes through each step of the fish dissection




