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Research Organizer & Essay Assignment: Dante Alighieri
Guides students through independent biographical research on Dante Alighieri and the writing of a 5-paragraph research essay, using a graphic-organizer worksheet, a peer/self writing-tips checklist, and a scored essay rubric.
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Earth's Layers Diagram & Worksheets
A set of diagrams, a reading passage, and worksheets teaching Earth's layers (crust, mantle, outer core, inner core) and, per the seller description, volcano parts/labeling, using cut-and-glue, labeling, and digital (BOOM deck) activities.
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Macbeth - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12
A comprehensive literature-study kit for Shakespeare's Macbeth (Classroom Complete Press 'Literature Kit'), providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension activities, writing tasks, and assessments across Bloom's Taxonomy levels.
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Math & reasoning
5 in 1 Fractions Activities
a set of hands-on activities that build fraction understanding, including matching fractions to models and working with equivalent fractions
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President's Day Mini-Lapbook / Interactive Notebook - EBOOK
A President's Day mini-lapbook/interactive notebook that teaches the history, origins, and traditions of the holiday through assembled foldable booklets, paired with a study guide for direct instruction
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Operations with Fractions | Treasure Island Escape Room
Operations with Fractions | Treasure Island Escape Room This innovative learning tool is designed for students in 5th to 7th grade. It focuses on operations with fractions involving unlike denominators. Your students will be immersed in a pirate-themed treasure hunt! They will face twenty math problems revolving around addition,…
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5 SEL Advisory & Icebreaker Activities-Low Prep and Fun
low-prep SEL advisory and icebreaker activities for self-reflection and group community-building
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Number Detective Math Tiles – Middle School Freebie
A free 'Number Detective' logic-puzzle worksheet pack where students use number-tile clues (divisibility, place value, fractions/decimals) to deduce a hidden number, aimed at middle-school math reasoning and number sense.
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More Back to School Activities for Middle School Students
Provide four icebreaker/community-building activities to ease the transition back to school for middle school students at the start of the year
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Leaders of Ancient Rome Essay Research Guide
A scaffolded research-essay guide that walks students through selecting, researching, and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay about an influential leader of ancient Rome.
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Solving for Unknown Angles (CCSS 7.G.B.5): Supplemental Worksheets for the Common Core
Becoming an integral supplement to any 7th-grade mathematics curriculum, this teaching tool adheres meticulously to the Common Core standards. Full download and print access, facilitating uninterrupted delivery of high-quality geometry instruction.
Reading & writing
Realistic Fiction Narrative Writing Guide
A step-by-step realistic-fiction narrative writing guide that has students make structural/setting/character decisions before drafting, then write, peer-edit, and revise a realistic fiction story, with an accompanying scoring rubric.
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Argumentative Letter on a Candidate or Mandatory Voting
Guide middle/high school students to write a 4-paragraph argumentative letter to the editor taking a position on either a presidential candidate or mandatory voting.
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Email Etiquette Mini Unit: Appropriate and Professional Emails
A multi-day mini unit teaching students professional email etiquette: what makes an email appropriate/professional, the parts of an email, and how to write and revise emails for different real-world purposes.
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Puzzle Paragraphs: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing Nonfiction
Teaches students to write informational/nonfiction paragraphs using distinct text structures (examples, facts, reasons, cause-effect, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, list, sequencing, how-to, definitions) via a 'puzzle paragraph' method.
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Scheme of Work: Local Area investigation
A brief outline scheme of work for a Geography unit on local-area investigation, framed around the question of whether Heathrow Airport should be expanded, and teaching primary data collection and presentation methods.
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Write, Revise, & Present Rhyming Poems with Vivid Verbs & Imagery- 6-8
A 4-5 day middle-school poetry mini-unit teaching students to analyze, write, revise, and present a rhyming poem using vivid verbs and imagery, modeled on Eve Merriam's 'Catch a Little Rhyme.'
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Reading & writing
KS4 Literature: (5) ‘The Tempest’ – Act 3 Scene 1
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 3 Scene 1 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, focusing on the romance between Ferdinand and Miranda, the concept of love at first sight, and Prospero's secret manipulation of their courtship.
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KS4 Literature: (4) ‘The Tempest’ – Act 2 Scene 2
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical reading of Act 2 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, focusing on the comic introduction of Trinculo and Stephano, Caliban's mistaken worship of Stephano as a god, and the beginnings of the murder plot against Prospero.
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Picture Book Literary Study Interactive Notebook
An interactive notebook unit teaching literary analysis skills (vocabulary, plot, characters, theme, inference, point of view, literary devices) using a student-selected picture book as a repeated mentor text.
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U.S. Presidential Election Process from Primaries to Electoral College
Teach students the full U.S. presidential election process, from constitutional presidential qualifications through primaries/caucuses, national conventions, campaigns, the popular vote, and the Electoral College, updated to reference the 2020 election and the January 6th Capitol events.
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Reading & writing
KS4 Literature: (2) ‘The Tempest’ – Act 1 Scene 2
Guide KS4 secondary English literature students through an analytical, scene-by-scene reading of Act 1 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Tempest, focusing on the relationship between Prospero and his daughter Miranda and his servants Ariel and Caliban, and introducing the play's backstory (Prospero's overthrow, Ariel's imprisonment, Caliban's enslavement).
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The Cask of Amontillado Case Study
A detective/case-file-themed literary analysis unit built around Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Cask of Amontillado', teaching close reading, character analysis, and textual-evidence-based argument writing.