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Engaging high school learners in any lesson, whether from math to literature, is sometimes challenging. The high school activities Education.com provides below encourage students to participate. For example, if students have trouble following a lengthy novel, turn in-class reading into a card game by assigning values to each suit of cards, and having students draw a card to determine which aspect of the story they need to analyze.

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Guidelines for Answering Multiple-Choice Questions

Multiple-choice test questions can be confusing. Here's a toolbox of tricks and strategies to help your teen become a multiple-choice master.

Cartoon Physics

Looking for a way to help your teen explore the fun side of physics? How about a round of Saturday morning cartoons?

What's Eating Hamlet? Reading Shakespeare

Here's a quick look at the Hamlet, the classic Shakespearean tragedy, as well as useful SAT vocabulary to give your teen a leg up in English class and beyond.

CSI Science: Get the Prints!

Set your teen on the beat in a real world "crime scene" investigation. Can he tell whose fingerprints are on a drinking glass?

Electro-Scope It Out!

Build an electroscope, a simple device that measures static electricity, or the freely flowing electrical charges of the atmosphere!

Here's how you and your teen can stage your own formal debateâbeyond arguing why chores are unethical! Formal debates improve teens' critical thinking skills.

Fun Ways to Study

Here are six fresh ideas to liven up your teen's study time, and involve the whole family at the same time!

SAT Boot Camp: A Strong Study Schedule

Want to help your teen ace the SAT? Here's a step-by-step guide to getting underway.

SAT Card Shark: Strategies for Sentence Completion

How to make sure SAT test tricks touch home? Try this game for some card-slinging study fun!

SAT Survivor: A Reading Comprehension Game

Here's a fun game to practice strategies for acing the Reading Comprehension section of the SAT.

Need some SAT Essay Tips? Check out these ABCs (and DEFs) of acing the SAT essay.

Public Speaking 101

Here's a fun way to get the whole family involved in helping your high schooler prepare to give a speech, while creating a family keepsake in the process!

The SAT Crossword Challenge

Struggling to memorize all those SAT words? How about challenging Mom or Dad to a crossword puzzle duel?

Environmental Cleanup

Here's a guide to starting a community clean-up project from scratch.

Roving Reporter

Here's how teens can produce an audio guide of an exhibit, field trip, or ballgame, confess their thoughts in an audio diary or record a letter to a friend.

Join a Reading Community Online!

Social networking sites that promote reading, reviewing books, and sharing books with others are springing up all over, making reading fun again.

Get your Teen Excited About Politics!

Teenagers across the country are getting involved in the issues they care about, and your child shouldn't be the exception to the rule.

Family First Aid Kit

Enlisting the cooperation of your teenager to help prepare your household for an emergency is the perfect way to get set, fast.

Use Algebra to Find the Best-Priced Pizza!

Here's an activity that uses second-semester high school algebra to determine which pizza gives you the most bang for your appetite. Here's how to get started:

Collaborative Poetry

In this activity, create a poem that emerges from the collaboration of parent and teen in the activity of observing, discussing, reading, and writing.

Go on a Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Using cameras, host a friendly contest between family members or friends to see who can find the most examples of geometry in the real world!

A Crash Course in the College Admissions Essay

Even for expert writers, this part of the college application process can be tough. Here's writing activity that will get your teen ready to tackle the task!

Get Halloween Math Practice with Candy Calories

By tracking nutritional information from candy wrappers, your teen can use statistics to find which treats offer the fewest tricks on Halloween!

Reading The Odyssey

Who remembers their ancient Greek history? Here's a teen-friendly refresher course in the epic poem The Odyssey, as well as SAT vocabulary your teen can use.

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