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Curated OER

Summer Camp in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore wildlife plants and summer activities. In this natural science lesson, students identify plants and animals and create a scrapbook of their findings.
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Curated OER

5 More Ways to Have a Safe, Fun-Filled Summer!

For Teachers K - 5th
Students review and discuss five important summer safety tips.
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Curated OER

Kindergarten Writing: Narrative Prompt

For Teachers K
What is special about summer (fall, winter, or spring)? Using a bag filled with season-related items (for summer items like sunglasses, a swimming suit, etc.) the class take turns taking out one item. A discussion of how each item might...
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Curated OER

Summer Reading and Writing Assignment: Fahrenheit 451

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. For this reading and writing lesson, 12th graders read the book and think of five books to save from the fire. Students write an essay explaining why they'd save them. The essay...
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Curated OER

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners use the internet to research the location of their summer vacation trip. Given the demographics, they plot the location on a world map. They create a brochure using the information they collected. Using PowerPoint, they develop...
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Curated OER

Showing Off on Summer Vacation

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders write a descriptive narrative about summer vacation. The use of this topic helps the lesson to have a high engagement level. Technology is infused in the lesson with the use of computers to write the report.
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Edgate

Learning From the Past: Origin of the Modern Summer Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Where did our beloved Summer Games originate? Kids look for the origins of the Summer Olympics in our ancient past. They research how the Games came to be and how they have changed. They'll complete Venn diagrams to compare and contrast...
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Curated OER

Journalism: Foreign Language Summer Program for Teens

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students research the new Foreign Language Academy and other free summer programs at colleges for teens. They write features stories about the opportunities and interview deans and university officials. Students also interview school...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

I Know What You Did Last Summer: A Data Graphing Project

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
Young scholars participate in graphing data.  In this graphing data instructional activity, students make a stem and leaf plot of their summer activities.  Young scholars create numerous graphs on poster boards.  Students discuss the...
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Curated OER

Bytes: A Summer Byte

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a collage from their own digital pictures using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Following a step-by-step instruction guide, students create a collage from pictures of their summer vacation as part of a writing assignment.
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Curated OER

Summer Nature Activity: Carrots! Carrots!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate reading, cooking, and planting activities that teach that a carrot is the root of a plant. In this early childhood science lesson, students explore the world around them as they read The Carrot Seed and complete the...
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Curated OER

Booting Up For Summer

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore personal interests. They examine summer computer camps. Students write proposals to their school to sponsor the programs. Young scholars develop a list of Web sites that support the designed programs.
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Curated OER

Summer Water & Sand Activity: Mud Pies and More

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this lesson, Summer Water & Sand Activity: Mud Pies and More, students investigate mud while playing and creating with it. Students understand mud, what it is, and how it is formed. Students develop their creativeness by making...
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National Park Service

The Poet's Toolbox

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
If you need a lesson for your poetry unit, use two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Rain in Summer" and "The Slave in the Dismal Swamp") and a resource on Elements of Poetry. The lesson plan guides you through activities on...
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Curated OER

Summer School Rules and Procedures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the rules and procedures involved for taking summer school. They determine the consequences and rewards surrounding the compliance or non compliance with school expectations. The features of rules and expectations are...
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Curated OER

Identifying Trees Using Their Leaves in the Summer

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students discover how to identify trees.  In this research lesson students use dendrology to decipher what a trees classification is and explore each trees traits. 
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Curated OER

Winter and Summer Storms Scenarios

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze how summer and winter storms are different. In this weather lesson, 4th graders construct a winter storm simulation box and a summer storm bottle and record the temperature and barometer readings. The directions to...
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Curated OER

Summer Safety Items

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this seasons worksheet, students look at 7 pictures, circle the pictures that are good for summer sun safety and write a sentence explaining why the items circled help keep them safe in the summer.
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Curated OER

Summer Fun Activity: Dream Vacations

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students can turn the block area into a travel agency. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students use creative-thinking and language skills as they design a play environment.
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Curated OER

Summer Health Activity: Visiting the Doctor

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with dolls to act out feelings about a common experience. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use social, language, and fine motor skills while developing an understanding of their own bodies and the role of an...
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Curated OER

Summer Safety Activity: Time to Tidy Up

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students find that cleaning up can be easy. For this early childhood lesson, students practice fine motor skills while making their classroom more safe. Students create large storage boxes.
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Curated OER

Summer Planning

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students benefit from teachers planning. In this teacher development lesson, teachers use the CC! program during the summer to help with classroom management, student assessment and evaluations.  Summer Planning Worksheet included.  
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Curated OER

Puttin' On the Hits

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore "summer songs." They compose a list of songs that they would put on a summer CD and write an essay that explains the images they would choose for the cover for this CD. They also create collages that represent their...
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Curated OER

Ecology of The Sonoran Desert Soil Crusts: Biology, Geology

For Teachers 6th - 11th
This activity is designed after research done on the ecology of soil lichen in the Tucson Basin area during the summers of 1997 and 1998. Its purpose is to guide students into adopting the problem solving thinking of ecologists. The...