Curated OER
Learning Life Lessons through Fables
Explore a variety of fables to learn life's lessons through engaging stories. Add rigor to the learning process with activities that include matching a a fable to the story's moral, short answer exit slips, and a three-column graphic...
KOG Ranger Program
Campfire Safety
Make sure that campfire is completely out before packing up your campsite! A straightforward and informational instructional activity encourages learners to match pictures to the sequential steps needed to safely extinguish a campfire,...
KOG Ranger Program
Matches, Lighters, and Kids Do Not Go Together!
Do your part to prevent forest fires with an activity about not playing with matches. A word search prompts young rangers to fill in the blanks about the consequences of playing with matches, and a set of pictures provides spaces for...
KOG Ranger Program
Use It Safely!
Campfires are not the only way that forest fires start. In a instructional activity and word matching activity, young campers learn about common fuel and heat sources that, when combined, can be the spark to a dangerous and harmful...
KOG Ranger Program
Burning Decisions
There's a big difference between a comfortable campfire and a raging forest fire, but they both often start in the same ways. Follow a forest maze that leads to either a controlled burn that extinguishes easily, or a large,...
KOG Ranger Program
Oregon Wildfire Mystery
Forest fires can be devastating to the beautiful woodland around us. How do they start, and what are the best ways to prevent them? Learn about the common ways that fires break out in forest and the most effective ways to keep these...
KOG Ranger Program
Making Fire
Campfires are great for getting warm, singing camp songs, and roasting marshmallows. However, it's important to be aware of what can start an uncontrollable forest fire when camping. Young rangers identify possible fuel sources and heat...
KOG Ranger Program
A Place to Call Home
Lots of animals live in the forest, and some are easier to spot than others! Locate 12 animals and their preferred habitats within the forest with an engaging worksheet. After learners fill in the correct animal for each area, they...
KOG Ranger Program
Fantastic Forests
The forest is a wonderland of plants, animals, and flourishing life within the ecosystem. Use a crossword puzzle and an unscrambling activity to teach future rangers about the beauty and characteristics of the forest and its inhabitants.
WITS Program
Whoever You Are
Deep down, everyone is the same. Discuss the similarities and differences between people across cultures with a series of reading activities based on the beautiful story and illustrations in Whoever You Are by Mem Fox.
Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Arguing with Aristotle Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Introduce your classes to the Art of Rhetoric with a lesson that focuses on Aristotle's persuasive appeals and how they have been used, both ethically and unethically, to influence opinion.
Curated OER
1st Grade Strategy Worksheets
Enhance your first grade math curriculum with a thorough resource packet. It includes worksheets for practicing counting on and counting back, addition and subtraction facts to 10, and addition and subtraction doubles.
Curated OER
Abstract Nouns and Concrete Nouns
Practice identifying concrete and abstract nouns with a activity that offers three different ways to show what enthusiastic grammarians know. First, pupils read a passage and identify the nouns; second, they think up three more of their...
Curated OER
Compare and Contrast Versions of a Story
Compare and contrast reading passages with the ever favorite story of Cinderella. The versions in focus include an Italian version and a Native American story followed by three questions designed to share similarities and differences, as...
School Specialty
The Tortoise and the Hare - Drawing Conclusions/Predictions Outcomes
Does the fastest one always win the race? Look deeper into The Tortoise and the Hare with a set of discussion questions for before, during, and after reading the story.
Lied Center of Kansas
The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare
Both The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare are great additions to an elementary language arts lesson. Young readers focus on the literary elements of each story, including characters and plot development, and apply counting and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Practice Book: The Boy Who Saved Baseball
An array of reading comprehension, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary activities are at your fingertips with a language arts practice packet. Second, third, and fourth graders work on various skills using reading passages and word banks,...
Macmillan Education
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Follow Alice as she travels through Wonderland with a set of lessons based on the first chapter of the book. Learners discuss key moments and ideas from chapter 1 before answering a series of comprehension questions about what they have...
Curated OER
Homophones and Homonyms
Whether or not your class has heard of homonyms, they'll herd together to complete a language learning exercise! With examples of both homophones and homonyms, the learning exercise prompts learners to come up with additional pairs of...
Teach-nology
Clauses and Phrases
Assign a grammar worksheet that prompts individuals to identify clauses and phrases. As they read ten sentences, elementary learners circle the predicate, underline the subject, and double underline the phrase.
Curated OER
The Buzz About Honey
What's the buzz these days? Learn some fun and interesting facts about honeybees with an informational reading passage, including the steps for successful pollination and honey creation.
Curated OER
Using Homophones
Never mix up principle and principal again with a helpful homophones worksheet. Featuring ten pairs of words that have the same sounds but different meanings, the worksheet prompts your class to fill in the blanks with the appropriate...
Pearson
Object Pronouns Grammar Activities
Young grammarians put a sentence together with the help of a short, straightforward grammar worksheet. Learners match subject and object pronouns before unscrambling the parts of five different sentences.
Curated OER
Understanding Paragraph Basics
Full of informative, helpful, and accessible activities, a language arts packet is sure to be a valuable part of your writing unit. It's versatile between reading levels and grade levels, and focuses on the most efficient ways for your...