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Curated OER

Regions: Meet the Experts Presentation

For Teachers K - 4th
Students gather information and create a web site on prairies and plains using a variety of resources, including the internet.
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Curated OER

Boy Cricket Girl Cricket

For Teachers 1st
First graders differentiate between (adult) male and female crickets through observations, counts, and drawings of crickets.
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Curated OER

Lessons From the Lorax

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Young scholars read and discuss Dr. Seuss's The Lorax. They explore the changes the characters could have made to preserve the environment and relate the plot to real-world places and events.
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Curated OER

Little Me in a Big World: Ants

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use the life cycle of an ant to learn about their own self-esteem. In this self-esteem lesson, students read books about ants and discuss obstacles from the stories as well as the ant behavior.
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Curated OER

History of World Religions

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to a variety of Noah's Ark, based on the story in the Old Testament. They hear another "flood story" for comparison.
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Curated OER

Four Corners Locomotion

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in warm-up activities before physical education class. They read the activities from card that are set up in the four corners of the room.
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Curated OER

Haiku

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars write haiku poems on leaf paper.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Maya and Miguel, Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interactive and fun activity to drill vocabulary related to sports, adventure and musical instruments. Children choose the language (English or Spanish). Engaging activity for ELL learners and students of Spanish.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead...
Website
PBS

Pbs Kids: Go!

For Students K - 1st
This educational tool is for children in grades 3-5. Provides information on art, music, language arts, science, social studies, and more using games and videos.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This multi-media visual and language arts lesson offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
Website
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
One of the finest sites of its kind on the Internet, ArtsEdge is dedicated to supporting arts education through such initiatives as curriculum development, cross-curricular teaching, and technology integration. Find arts-related...
Professional Doc
CPALMS

Cpalms: Browse and Search Resources

For Students K - 1st Standards
This site shares a collection of expert and peer-vetted teacher resources that are searchable for teachers and students. Searching can be achieved via a subject, grade, audience, and/or type. Curricula standards for the following subjets...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, learners will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Reading With Cups, and More! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will explore how music and language arts naturally overlap to promote literacy as they cultivate their creative and critical thinking.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Carnival of the Animals [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will expand knowledge about music vocabulary through exploration of The Carnival of the Animals, composed by Camille Saint-Sains. Students will be able to use key music terms in discussions with their peers and in persuasive...
Handout
The National Gallery (UK)

National Gallery, London: Teacher's Notes Jan Beerstraten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Fantastic suggestions on how to introduce and discuss Beerstraten's painting 'The Castle of Muiden in Winter' in almost all school subjects.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Making Rain

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Your students will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part lesson plan gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Dr. Seuss Is on the Loose [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The rhythmic and melodic elements of Theodor Geisel's children's literature provide many opportunities for knowledge of language, vocabulary acquisition and use, and creative expression and communication in music. Students work with two...
Professional Doc
Other

Homework Spot

For Teachers K - 1st
Check out this all-encompassing website. From this location students can surf and get information on any subject. Forget about 6 to 10 different URLs --just use this one to get what you need!
Graphic
Other

Printable Flash Cards: Flash Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Hundreds of sets of printable flash cards for language arts, science, geography, music, and other subjects. Also includes link to a flash card maker to create custom-made flash cards.
Activity
Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Shadowbox Theatre

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Have you ever thought about your shadow? One way to learn about them is to make your own shadow box theater--once a very popular form of entertainment in Europe during the 1800s and early 1900s.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a great teaching, review, and assessment for short and long vowels. The children love the music and voting to find the correct answers.
Website
Other

North Dakota Department Fo Public Instruction: Content Standards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The state displays its learning standards for the areas of dance, drama, music, visual, English/language arts, health, math,physical education, sciences, and social studies.