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Penguin Books

An Educator's Guide to Jan Brett

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd Standards
Prepare to teach Jan Brett stories by taking a look at this teacher resource, which includes text-based questions, writing assignments, discussion ideas, and vocabulary practice for 18 different stories.
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Teacher's Guide

Printable Grade Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Print your own grade book, complete with attendance sheets, assignment pages, and class lists, with the collection of templates available in this packet.
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District 158

Plan an Adventure

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
For kids, taking a vacation is all fun and games, but after completing this pre-algebra project, they'll have a whole new appreciation for the planning that makes these trips possible. Given a budget of $5,000 to spend on purchasing the...
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Curated OER

Paradise Lost: Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Processes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Chapter II of John Milton's Paradise Lost provides the text for a series of comprehension questions crafted using Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Curated OER

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: DR-TA Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Making predictions is an excellent reading strategy. Work on building this into your pupils' toolkit of strategies by trying out the process outlined here for reading the very beginning of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The...
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Wells Fargo

Hands on Banking

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Cha-ching! You just hit the jackpot with this interactive consumer math unit. Supported by a series of online lessons and activities, these lessons engage students in applying their math skills to real-life personal...
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Ms. Winston

Parent Communication Log

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Clean and simple, two words that accurately describe this log for parent communications. Print up one for each student, add the names of the student and the caregiver contacted, the date, the method of contact, the reason for the...
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Novelinks

The Devil’s Arithmetic: Personal Narrative Assignment

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
How can an unfamiliar place help you learn something about yourself? Use a narrative writing prompt as you culminate your unit on Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic. Kids consider the ways that, like the main character from the...
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Project Maths

Complex Number Operations

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
What do animated videos have to do with mathematics? Using operations of complex numbers and their representations on the complex plane, high schoolers observe how mathematics could be used to move animations. The lesson...
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National Sailing Hall of Fame

Introduction to Sailboats

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The left part of the boat is called what? An informative lesson and accompanying slideshow presentation introduce middle schoolers to the terminology and parts associated with a sailboat.
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EngageNY

Adding and Subtracting Expressions with Radicals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
I can multiply, so why can't I add these radicals? Mathematicians use the distributive property to explain addition of radical expressions. As they learn how to add radicals, they then apply that concept to find the perimeter of...
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PBS

Working With Equivalent Fractions, Decimals and Percentages: Activities and Supplemental Materials

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Reinforce math concepts using six worksheets that coincide with Virtual Math Girl's video instruction. The practice pages' objectives include writing equivalent fractions, decimal equivalents, and converting percents to decimals and...
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University of Florida

Protecting Our Water Resources

For Teachers K - 9th
Teach young environmentalists to protect their planet's resources with a set of interactive experiments. Kindergartners and other youngsters learn about watersheds and the water cycle, while older elementary learners focus on fertilizer...
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Novelinks

Tuck Everlasting: Directed Reading Thinking Activity

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Encourage close reading for young learners with a lesson based on Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. The first part of the resource guides readers through a Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA), prompting them to make...
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Georgia Standards

Sociology Unit Six: Socialization Within the Group

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
How do we learn the rules of society? How do beliefs and ideas affect these rules? Introduce your young sociologists to the factors that socialize individuals with a unit that uses observation and experimentation to analyze how factors...
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University of Wisconsin

BEAM: Background, Exhibit, Argument, Method

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Thinking of assigning a research paper? Get writers off on the right foot with a lesson that introduces the BEAM research model. Writers brainstorm the background of their topic, explicate the aspects of their topic, consider the...
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Code.org

Good and Bad Data Visualizations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Good versus bad data. Pairs rate online collections of data representations from good to bad and then suggest ways to improve the visualizations. The class then creates a list of best practices and common errors in data representations...
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Cornell University

Metamorphosis

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Looking for an insect unit that addresses multiple skill strategies? Young entomologists explore multiple life cycles of insects that go through metamorphosis. The brainteasers and mobile activity spark learner interest before guiding...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Introduction to Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Life isn't fair ... like inequalities. After first reviewing inequality symbols and how to read inequality statements, learners discover how to solve one-step inequalities and graph their solution sets.
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EngageNY

Calculating Probabilities of Events Using Two-Way Tables

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Tables are useful for more than just eating. Learners use tables to organize data and calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities. 
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EngageNY

Types of Statistical Studies

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
All data is not created equal. Scholars examine the different types of studies and learn about the importance of randomization. They explore the meaning of causation and when it can be applied to data. 
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Center for Applied Linguistics

Chemical Interactions: Atoms and Bonding

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Watch budding chemists interact with the resource on chemical interactions. In the unit, six lessons provide an overview of basic chemistry, from understanding the development of atomic theory to distinguishing between ionic and covalent...
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EngageNY

Solution Sets to Simultaneous Equations (part 1)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How are systems related? Build on your pupils' previous knowledge of solving systems of equations by introducing systems of inequalities. Learners explore similarities between systems of equations and inequalities to make a strong...
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EngageNY

Solving Equations Involving Linear Transformations of the Coordinate Space

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Explore methods for solving linear systems with your classes and introduce learners to using matrices as a viable method. Scholars are able to recognize situations where matrices are the efficient method of solving. Application...

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