Curated OER
How to Celebrate Kwanzaa on Your Campus
An article details everything you need to know about celebrating Kwanzaa at your school. An opening-day ceremony starts the seven-day holiday celebration followed a daily routine that includes a greeting, candle lighting, reciting an...
Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
College Board
AP® Psychology: Teaching Statistics and Research Methodology
Psychologists use statistics? Scholars investigate the research behind the methodology of statistical analysis. Using hands-on practice, case-studies, and scatterplots, they complete various tasks to understand the very roots of high...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Following Directions
Through this lesson plan, young scholars demonstrate their understanding of the importance of following directions.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Measuring for Cookies
In this lesson, learners use math and physics skills to follow directions when making cookies. This is a very detailed and structured lesson!
Can Teach
Can Teach Lesson Plan: Graphing Constellations
In this lesson plan, young scholars practice their graphing skills by following directions to recreate constellations.
Other
Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this lesson, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this lesson.
Can Teach
Can Teach Student Activity: A Variety of Bug Catchers
This web site presents four different sets of directions for how to make bug catchers. Teachers could use these to direct students, or students can follow the directions on their own.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: An Exploration of Direct Variation and Linear Regression
Students will use this activity for the following Algebra concepts: Review of Direct Variation; Properties of direct variations; Finding the constant of variations from data sets; Find missing values in data sets both numerically and...
Starfall
Starfall: Teddy Bear Teddy Bear
This video is a song about Teddy Bear following directions such as touch your feet.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wild World: Games: Animal House Hunt
Cleverly animated matching game asks players to match animals to their homes. [All instructions and prompts are voiced, not written, making this an excellent resource for young children and English language learners who need practice in...
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Magician
Fun magician-related activities for early readers learning to follow directions. Dress a magician, then label all the articles of clothing before performing some magic tricks. All the activities combine audio and basic words to assist...
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Dinos Rock Print Out Activity: Dinosaur Book
Students print out pictures of dinosaurs, color them, and follow the directions to make a dinosaur book.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: The Riddle Quest Print Out Activity: Who's Hat
In this activity, students match types of hats to the people who would wear them.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: The Mammal Marathon Print Out Activity: License Plates Puzzle
This activity asks students to read, decipher, and write the meaning of vanity license plates.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Directions Around Town 2
This exercise combines map-reading and listening skills designed especially for English language learners. Students locate designated buildings on a map by following directions for turning right, walking two blocks forward, and so on.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prairie Ecology Questions and Activities [Pdf]
"Prairie Ecology Questions and Activities" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about prairie ecology the interdependence of its plants and animals. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the...
Other
Teaching heart.net: Down on the Teaching Farm
Come and check out this comprehensive teaching resource for farms. Students and teachers will benefit from the activities and book found within this site.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Make Asteroids You Can Eat
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity on making asteroids. "Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them asteroid...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Hovercraft
Make discs hover on the table and play air hockey or other games. Just gather materials including balloons, Cds or DVDs, straws, foam packing, and barbeque skewers and follow the directions.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Build a Better Lunchbox
Follow the directions to build a lunchbox that will keep a frozen treat from melting.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build
Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Box Pop Up Card
Follow these instructions to make pop-up greeting cards for your friends.
PBS
Wgbh: Peep and the Big Wide World: Games: Sounds Like Fun!
Cleverly animated game that alerts young learners to the musical sounds all around them in their everyday environments. A useful exercise in helping children understand sound patterns and repetitive beats and the meaning of start and...