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Exploring Life After High School - On My Own Activity Booklet teaching resource preview
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Exploring Life After High School - On My Own Activity Booklet

Role-play apartment seeker/owner conversations using provided apartment listing cards; play a 'Price is Right' style grocery-cost guessing game and use a calculator to score it; track personal/family monthly expenses in a notebook; play a dice relay game to practice saving for goals; make a labeled 'money saving…

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Buy or Lease Car Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budget Project teaching resource preview
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Buy or Lease Car Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budget Project

Research three cars for sale and calculate months needed to save for each at $500/month; use an online car loan calculator to find monthly payment, loan amount, total interest, and total cost for a loan; find two local lease options and calculate total lease cost; research and total other monthly costs (insurance, gas, repairs,…

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High School Financial Literacy: Stock Market Project- Investing teaching resource preview
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High School Financial Literacy: Stock Market Project- Investing

Students research and select stocks using an external website, divide a simulated $1,000 investment between two companies and calculate shares purchased, track share prices and investment value on three later dates, calculate final gains/losses and class average performance, compare their results to the S&P 500 (US500), and write a…

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Single vs Dual Income Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budgeting teaching resource preview
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Single vs Dual Income Budget: High School Financial Literacy Budgeting

Students calculate net income after tax for a sample family (Kat and Alex), total up monthly expenses on single-income and dual-income budget spreadsheets, compare the two budgets' leftover money, discuss reflection prompts, write a final opinion paragraph, and optionally create their own single/dual-income budgets using blank…

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Florida (FAST) Writing Practice Test for Grade 10 teaching resource preview
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Florida (FAST) Writing Practice Test for Grade 10

Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 10, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.

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Mardi Gras 2-Hour Lesson Plan for High School teaching resource preview
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Mardi Gras 2-Hour Lesson Plan for High School

Students discuss prior knowledge in a warm-up, learn etymology/religious/historical background via teacher-led notes, work in small groups researching an assigned country's Carnival traditions (Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Venice, Germany, Mobile Alabama), and analyze cultural/social issues such as cultural…

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Relative Motion Lesson - Senior Physics Presentation Lesson teaching resource preview
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Relative Motion Lesson - Senior Physics Presentation Lesson

Follow a slide presentation on relative motion (using a fill-in-the-blank student copy with bolded/underlined terms left blank to copy into notes), work through worked examples (boat, escalator), and solve 'Check Your Understanding' practice problems (boat passenger, plane airspeed/wind, ship deck, plane displacement)…

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Stoichiometry in Solutions - Senior Chemistry lesson teaching resource preview
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Stoichiometry in Solutions - Senior Chemistry lesson

Follow presentation notes covering ionic compounds in water and net ionic equations, complete worked 'Check Your Understanding' practice problems (writing net ionic equations; calculating mass/concentration from solution stoichiometry), using a teacher-annotated version (with answers) or blanked-out student version.

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Stoichiometry - Solving Quantitative Chemisty- Senior Chemistry Lesson teaching resource preview
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Stoichiometry - Solving Quantitative Chemisty- Senior Chemistry Lesson

Follow presentation notes on what stoichiometry is, the mole ratio, and the 4-step method for solving stoichiometry problems, then complete worked 'Check Your Understanding' practice problems (e.g., mass of water produced from methanol combustion; mass of CO2 from propane combustion) using a teacher-annotated version (with worked…

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Gas Laws - Senior Chemistry lesson teaching resource preview
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Gas Laws - Senior Chemistry lesson

Follow slide-based notes (fill-in-the-blank student version), answer 'Check Your Understanding' practice problems (balloon/gas volume-pressure-temperature scenarios), and complete a condensed lesson-outline handout.

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Ideal Gas Law pV=nRT - Senior Chemistry lesson teaching resource preview
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Ideal Gas Law pV=nRT - Senior Chemistry lesson

Follow the presentation with fill-in blanks on the Ideal Gas Law, its assumptions, and derivation; answer 'Check Your Understanding' calculation problems (e.g., find mass, volume, or pressure of a gas using PV=nRT); learn STP and SATP conditions.

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Gas Law Stoichiometry - Senior Chemistry Lesson teaching resource preview
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Gas Law Stoichiometry - Senior Chemistry Lesson

Teach senior/high-school chemistry students gas law stoichiometry: Gay-Lussac's Law of Combining Volumes, Avogadro's Hypothesis, and mole-ratio-based reactions involving gases and solutions.

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Percent Composition - Senior Chemistry Lesson teaching resource preview
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Percent Composition - Senior Chemistry Lesson

Students follow guided notes/slides and complete 'Check Your Understanding' practice problems: calculating mass percent, building mole/mole-ratio tables to find empirical formulas, and using molar mass to find molecular formulas.

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Volumetric Analysis - Titration - Senior Chemistry lesson teaching resource preview
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Volumetric Analysis - Titration - Senior Chemistry lesson

Follow along with slide notes on titration procedure and equipment, fill in blanks in a condensed lesson outline, and solve titration concentration-calculation problems (using C_aV_a/Coeff_a = C_bV_b/Coeff_b) for given acid-base neutralization scenarios.

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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 12 teaching resource preview
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 12

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around 1984 by George Orwell (through Chapter 5): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on themes, Winston Smith's character development, language/propaganda…

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Calculating Concentration and Molarity - Senior Chemistry lesson teaching resource preview
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Calculating Concentration and Molarity - Senior Chemistry lesson

Students work through slideshow-guided notes and worked examples calculating percent concentration by mass, mass/volume percent concentration, and molarity; complete a PPM/PPB worksheet and follow a student lesson outline.

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Preparing Solutions and Dilutions - Senior Chemistry lesson teaching resource preview
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Preparing Solutions and Dilutions - Senior Chemistry lesson

Follow a slide lesson covering steps to prepare a solution from a solute and solvent; work through 'Check Your Understanding' problems calculating required stock-solution volumes and final concentrations after dilution (e.g., preparing 1.20 M HCl from 12.0 M stock; preparing 0.500 mol/L NaOH from 6.00 mol/L stock)…

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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 10 teaching resource preview
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 10

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on themes of friendship, isolation, and dreams; character analysis; vocabulary…

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Carbohydrates and Lipids - Senior High School Biology lesson teaching resource preview
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Carbohydrates and Lipids - Senior High School Biology lesson

Follow a slide lesson covering carbohydrate and lipid classification (isomers, mono/di/polysaccharides, fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids, steroids, waxes), filling in blanks on a student version of the slides and completing a student lesson outline handout; seller states an auto-graded exit ticket is also included.

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