Curated OER
Let's Ride The Train
Students explore the digraph /ch/. They read and spell words with /ch/ and practice making the /ch/ sound by saying tongue twisters. They observe the teacher writing a /ch/ word and then write their own ch's. Students hold up a green...
Curated OER
Owl Pellets: A Fowl-Up, Chuck!
Young scholars discover the world of owls as predators. After watching a video of owls hunting and eating, are introduced to owl pellets. Students dissect their own pellet and match the prey's bones to a bone diagram.
Curated OER
Path Map for the Lake Bonneville Flood
Pupils use a digital atlas of Idaho to explore the effects of the Lake Bonneville Flood. They become familiar with how floods shape our earth and change landscapes. Students graph a a timeline of the rise and fall of Lake Bonneville.
Curated OER
That's a Good Questions Worksheet: Interview Questions
In this question worksheet, learners generate several questions they would use to interview their music career mentor before the actual interview.
Curated OER
Balancing Act!
Students participate in various balancing activities. In this body management lesson, students use cones, mats, ropes, and a balance beam to demonstrate balance. Students are divided into small groups and are assigned to stations.
Curated OER
Phonetic Skill 4
In these phonetic skills worksheets, students complete several activities that help them learn to recognize phonetic patterns in words. Students complete 6 activities.
Curated OER
Basic Geometry Ideas and Angle Measurement
Seventh graders explore the concept of basic geometry. In this basic geometry instructional activity, 7th graders identify the correct picture for a given vocabulary word such as midpoint, line, ray, or parallel lines. Students discuss...
Curated OER
Foamie Fun Stuff
Students use foam pieces for matching games and other activities. In this foamie craft lesson, students make a foam pizza puzzle and other forms. Students use the foam shapes to do the puzzle or create the other forms.
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Life Through a Microscope
In this microscope usage worksheet, 7th graders complete an introduction packet that takes them through several lab activities that helps introduce and familiarize them with using the microscope.
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Max's Math Adventures
In these shape activity worksheets, students read the poem about shapes and then draw and write about one of the zoo animals from the zoo. Students use the given shapes to put their animal together. Students add hair, eye color, and...
Curated OER
Pigeon Study-Nature Notebook
in this pigeon study worksheet, students "find pigeons to investigate," then complete activities, answering questions about where the pigeons were found, how many, what they look like, observing behaviors and writing questions they may...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Great Circles and Straight Lines
Using maps, students explore the concept of distances along great circles and straight lines. Airline flight paths are used as an example.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Traveling on Good Circles
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this high-level math lesson has students delve into the topic of Great Circles on a sphere (specifically, the Earth), in order to find the shortest distances between locations. Students will...
Morning Earth
Life Lives in Circles: Introduction Life Materials Cycle and Re Cycle
Scholars explore the Biology concept of life cycles. The tutorial consists of definitions, examples, and pictures. Topics include the great circle dance and life-materials.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Colonial Literature: The Great Awakening
This lesson focuses on Johnathan Edwards and The Great Awakening, a movement to revival the Puritan religion. It features information about the Great Awakening and why in wasn't successful and a link to the sermon "Sinners in the Hands...
Other
Pittsburg Post Gazette: Ohio Embankments Evidence of Sophisticated Culture
News article offering details of Great Circle of Newark Earthworks.
Other
Hoover Online!: Circular No. 4
A detailed description of three major attempts made by Herbert Hoover and his administration to get money back into circulation and stem the tide of the Great Depression. Read about the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks learners to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Circle Graph Analysis and Creation
This site, which is provided for by WNET, gives a great way to practice using circle graphs through these exercises. One is analyzing a pie graph from the Census Bureau and the other creating pie charts using government data.
Other
Fallacy Files: Begging the Question
Discusses the error in logic behind the fallacy of Begging the Question (also known as Circular Argument, Circular Reasoning, Circulus in Probando, Petitio Principii, or Vicious Circle). Although a great deal of information about the...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Diameter
This site shows what a diameter is, how to find one on a circle or a sphere, and provides the formula to find diameter of a circle or "the great circle of a sphere.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Let's Hear It for the Ear!
Use this site to learn about the body part that is responsible for collecting sounds, processing them and sending them to your brain. See all the inner workings of the ear through great diagrams. Available in Spanish.
Curated OER
Web Math: Find Out Things About Circles
WebMath offers a great site for students to practice finding the diameter, area and circumference of a circle.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Matthew Henson 1866 1955
Find out about the exciting life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, who helped to discover the North Pole along with Robert Peary. Click on a camera to view some great photos.