Teachnology
Teachnology: End of Year Teaching Theme
Enhance lessons at the end of the school year with the help of these resources. Teachnology provides many worksheets, activities, suggestions for report card comments and more.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End? [Pdf]
Article discussing 45 years of the Cold War between Russia and the U.S. Questions for discussion and small group activity.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Picture This (Drama Activity About Sexting)
A practical educational sexting resource that addresses and questions the sensitive issue of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically with 11-16 year olds. By asking young people to step into the shoes of the...
Other
Teachingheart.net: End of the Year
Celebrate the end of school and the arrival of summer with these fun activities to finish the school year with your class.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Rl.4.10: Read and Comprehend Literature in Grades 4 and 5
Links to 94 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard RL.4.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4 and 5 text complexity band proficiently,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: M&m's and Decay Graphs
Observe exponential decay with the classic M&M lab, here written up and ready to go. At the end, the author intends for students to send equations and data to the teacher via TI-Navigator, but this step can done on paper if the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A La Restaurante!
This is an activity to test the strength of the learners. It allows students to exercise everything that they have learned throughout the school year. It is suitable for Spanish I-Spanish IV learners. It is an end-of-the-year activity...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke
In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut's beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
In A.D. 793, eleven-year-old Jack leaves his family farm to become an apprentice to the Bard, a druid from Ireland, who is assigned to his Saxon village. At first, he is unsure of his duties, and is puzzled when the Bard experiences a...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Seasonal Changes of a Tree
For this activity, students adopt a tree in the schoolyard and observe it throughout the year, recording the changes that they notice as the seasons pass. They will learn about the parts of the tree and notice how the tree is used by...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mri Safety Grand Challenge
This module was written for a first year accelerated or AP physics class. It is intended to provide hands on activities to teach end of the year electricity and magnetism topics including the magnetic force, magnetic moments and torque,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hybrid Vehicle Design Challenge
This module is written for a first-year algebra-based physics class, though it could easily be modified for conceptual physics. It is intended to provide hands-on activities to teach the overarching concept of energy, as it relates to...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Friends: School Is Out for the Summer!
Now that school is out for the summer, children have many new adventures and experiences. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish with text in English.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: The American West: The Gold Rush
Describes the impact of the California Gold Rush of 1848 which brought hundreds of thousands of gold-seeking migrants to the region. This massive influx of people to a place with little law enforcement and no infrastructure led to...