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Simulations for Microsoft Word and for staff
1950s Television Advertisement Project
After learning about the post-WW2 "boom", students engage in a group project where they create a television advertisement using the styles and themes of the time period.
Students are given a list of topics to choose from, such as helping re-elect Dwight Eisenhower, showing off one of the new automobiles, or creating a trailer for the newest James Dean movie.
Included in this document are the project requirements and a timeline as well. Students are required to create 'storyboards' of their
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Constellations Lab
I was about to lecture on constellations this year and realized that perhaps the students could teach themselves by using Stellarium-web.org, where they can move and manipulate the sky. I created this worksheet/guide for them to follow! It worked great and they enjoyed it. I had to give them some verbal help, but overall it was much more effective than a lecture. You will need computer access for your students, although you could do it as a demo on a smartboard but that would be less effecti
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Space Scavenger Hunt Bundle - Digital Science Activities
Space - A Digital, Device-Based Collection. These resources will get your kids out of their seats, engaged, utilizing technology, and collaborating to solve real problems and test their knowledge. This collection includes 6 hunts and are geared towards middle and high school students across curriculums. Buyer Comment: These activities are the coolest thing I've created and your kids are going to love it, mine do. Think of a scavenger hunt, then add devices (Smartphones, Chromebooks, Laptops, or
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7th - 11th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Reconstruction Activity - Rebuilding the South
This quick and engaging activity demonstrates the difficulties of Reconstruction in the South following the Civil War.
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1st - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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AP Physics Electromagnetism Online Lab
Looking for a fun way to get your students ready for the AP Physics exam or reviewing electromagnetism for a STEM class? Tired of all the practice problems in your textbook? Look no further for this online lab that should help ensure that your students have mastered the skills related to magnetism. Given the descriptive nature of these questions that are open ended, students will have an opportunity to practice for the AP Physics exam with this assignment. This is a great standalone item on thos
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Modeling Population Growth (Ideal vs. Logistic Model)
This activity provides instructions to construct a mathematical model on a blank spreadsheet that simulates population growth using an ideal model and a logistic model. The activity provides background discussion and then gives instructions on how to program a spreadsheet to produce and display the ideal and logistic population models. Their results are studied for various cases including human population, rabbits, polar bears, bacterial and yeast colonies.
This quantitative population model
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9th - 12th, Staff
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Team and Community Building Communication Skill Simulation Icebreaker All Grades
30 minute activity, all ready to go! The goal of this activity is not only for students to build communication skills with each other but also to realize that asking questions, especially in group work is useful to get something done more efficiently. This is a great activity at the beginning of the year or a beginning of group work and can be used with a variety of grades. Classroom community can also be built through this interactive activity. All students must be engaged and in my experience,
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3rd - 12th, Staff
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Also included in: First Week Classroom Community Building Bundle
Five Tricks: A Game for Teaching about Worldview & Intercultural Communication
“Five Tricks” is based on a program designed to explore factors related to communication problems in intercultural situations. It is based on the premise that serious conflicts arise not from major, obvious cultural differences, but from unrecognized minor ones. While playing “Five Tricks” participants experience the shock of realizing that despite good intentions, people interpret things differently in profound ways. Players learn that they must understand and reconcile these differences in ord
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Animated Books Display (Slideshow) for School Libraries / Classrooms
Feature your library’s brand new books or a specific genre collection with this Animated Book Covers display. The display is made on Google Slides – yes, Google Slides. It is a slideshow with preset animations on each book cover.This animated books display can be featured on your classroom or school library website to feature new books that you school has purchased or to showcase a specific set / genre or books. After you download the Google Slides file, make sure you have a folder of your book
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Oregon Trail directions and question for online game
Oregon trail online simulation directions, link, and questions.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Model Literary Analysis essay and body paragraphs -- MLA format
Included is a full, five paragraph analytical essay, in MLA format, comparing how three different poems and poets tackle the concept of spring. The thesis is the last line of the introduction. This essay features in-text citations and a Works Cited page. Also included in this bundle (after the initial essay) is a more complex example of literary analysis -- but just one body paragraph. The paragraph is presented in two forms -- one is a straight forward analysis/comparison of a theme that appear
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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GOOD THINKING: A Self-Improvement Approach to Getting Your Mind to
Huh? Hmm. Aha! GOOD THINKING, from high school English chair and Hunter College instructor Robert Eidelberg, is 14 chapters of interactive and mindful college-ready self-improvement from Binder Books / Books With a Built-In Teacher. GOOD THINKING (the ultimate compliment to a student of all life's "classrooms") is engaging (in all senses of the word) and essential foundation preparation for anyone planning on starting and succeeding in college in the next year or two. Thoughtful and thought
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Investment vs. Paying Off Debts
This assignment helps students see how they can acquire $1,032,850.00 by age 35 if they invest in the stock market today. It also shows how poor their friends will be if their friends, instead, take out large student loans that require payments until age 43.As ever, the key to making $10,000,000 by the time you’re 70 is to start investing today, not seven years from now.Student love these eye-popping and yet highly realistic scenarios. At our school, we have a 25-year-old teacher on track to be
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Bookmarks (for rewards or sentimental gift)
The thumbnails make it look messy but I assure you they are in great quality.Just download the preview and you will see. Thanks.I have 21 bookmarks with 21 pictures on it. I use this as a reward system for my students. You might want to cut and laminate them. I have put why students bring a difference into our classroom. It can serve as a sentimental gift as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do : ))))(Some of the pictures belong to me and some are taken off of UNSPLASH website.)
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Interview Questionnaire
This interview form has 11 questions, and some are multiple choice, and some are open-ended questions. All of them are thought-provoking, and the notes (included as the preview file) will discuss some of the aspects of the candidate interview. A great preparation tool for those that want practice, and certainly usable for screening applicants.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Ecology Formal Lab-Quality Critters
In this investigation, learners will demonstrate how water quality can be tested by studying the effects of acid rain on different populations of aquatic invertebrates.
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8th - 12th, Staff
Creative Writing, Adult Education /Distance Learning/
Eight real-life situations which will inspire your students and stimulate critical thinking. Suitable for pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced learners. Problems include both positive and negative coefficients. Perfect for ESL students. Different types of writing + templates included. Your students will practice writing notes, letters, messages with texting abbreviations, business plans etc. Totally editable and suitable for distance learning.You may also like:Opinion Essay Writing (inter
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Among us in person
Looking for a fun 15 minute game that engages all students and gives everyone a chance to get to know each other? Might as well play a game the kids like! its AMONG us in person. My students gave me a little idea and we have been messing with it all year. With these simple to follow directions you will skip over the road bumps we had when we first tried playing in person.
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5th - 12th, Staff
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WRITING AN ELEVATOR PITCH
Use this assignment to practice the art of an Elevator Pitch/Speech. Students will have to write, peer review, memorize, and perform a 30 second prepared speech introducing themselves and their talents.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Child Development: The Effects of Nutrition and Stimulation on Child Development
This article introduces you to the effect of nutrition and stimulation in a child’s development. The article highlights on the importance of good nutrition of the child and mother and how that affects the child’s development. It also demonstrates how stimulation is critical in the child’s survival and development.
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Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Canadian Battles WWI Activity
Students will act out one of the battles of WWI in groups with costumes and factual information from the battle.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: WWI and Canadian History
Instagram Feed View
This project is great for teaching about either historical people or even book characters. Every piece is editable and relatable to student interest.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Instagram Project
Newspaper Architecture: A hands-on approach to understanding economics
In this lesson, students compete as design/build teams to create towers while simultaneously using and analyzing key economic concepts. Promotes kinesthetic learning, higher-levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, Common Core Writing Standards and team building. Post activity analysis leads to deep understanding of economic concepts.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Appearing in court social story
This social story is focused around allowing students or children have a better understanding what the process of appearing in court would be and how to lower anxiety surrounding.
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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