Curated OER
Create-A-Puppet
In this art worksheet, students collect information from a given website to create scrap puppets. Students write their ideas about materials and designs in a graphic organizer. Students also write down tips from the website.
Curated OER
How Does Your Garden Grow?
In this science worksheet, students will plant some birdseed on a sponge to see if there is anything inside the seeds. Students will keep a record of how the seeds change over several days.
Curated OER
The Geiger Counter
For this Geiger counter worksheet, students read how Wilhelm Geiger developed a device that detects radiation detection. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: "Levi Strauss Heads West"
In this editing instructional activity, students read and edit the short paragraph, "Levi Strauss Heads West", to find ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct each error.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Mother's Day
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Mother's Day. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
Cooking Matters
Breakfast Boost
A healthy and balanced breakfast is essential to maintaining a day's worth of solid energy and mind-power. Encourage class members to eat a smart breakfast with a worksheet that provides interesting food facts, a questionnaire looking...
Cornell University
Field Day: Be an IPM Detective
Become a pest detective! Individually or in small groups, scholars scout the land to discover which pests—plant and animal—inhabit it, determine whether the pests are endangering the environment, and summarize their findings.
Curated OER
So Rich, Such Wealth!
In this sentence completion worksheet, 2nd graders review and discuss the appropriate ways of using so and such in sentences. Students read ten sentences and fill in each blank with either so or such to complete each one grammatically...
Curated OER
Values-Emotion-Action Choosing to Participate
Reflect on your own personal values with this simple graphic. Values, emotion, and action are all linked; Do your emotions and actions support the values you hold? After learners brainstorm their own additions to this graphic, divide the...
Curriculum Associates
Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies II
Assess your kids' reading skills with a straightforward reading comprehension exercise. Pupils read a story and answer 12 multiple choice questions about the story. Each question is labeled with one of 12 reading strategies, such as...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Finance: Depreciation (Double Declining)
Of particular interest to a group of business and finance pupils, this lesson explores depreciation of automobile values by comparing the double declining balance to the straight line method. Mostly this is done through a slide...
Math Learning Center
Grade 1 Supplement Set A3 - Number and Operations: Addition and Subtraction on the Number Line
Hop your way through a mathematical equation with your first grade class as they learn the idea of moving up and down the number line. Adding and subtracting like little frogs is an engaging and clever way to teach/reinforce this concept.
American Physiological Society
Drug the Water Flea
This is a flea. This is a flea on drugs. Any questions? Your class will have questions aplenty during an impactful experiment. Lab groups get to know Daphnia magna, the humble water flea, and study the effects of stimulants and...
American Physiological Society
Hoo Eats Who and What is What in Your Own Backyard?
Bird is the word! Teach life science scholars the importance of our feathered friends and the roles they play in our ecosystem. Using the plan, learners investigate the birds in their areas, determine the biotic and abiotic factors that...
American Physiological Society
Sticky Adaptations A Lesson on Natural Selection
Now you see it, now you don't! The stick bug exhibits the ability to disappear into a wooded environment. Why does this adaptation manifest in some species, but not in others? Life science students explore animal adaptations in nature...
American Physiological Society
Effects of Environment on Enzymes
Much like the tale of Humpty Dumpty, proteins, once altered, will never be the same again. Honors and pre-AP biology classes explore the delicate world of enzymes via a Webquest and lab experiment. The teacher's guide contains all...
Scholastic
Step-by-Step Strategies for Teaching Expository Writing
A carefully crafted, logically organized, 128-page packet is an excellent addition to your unit on expository writing.
Towson University
Looking Into Lactase: Guided Inquiry
Milk does a body good ... unless, of course, someone is lactose intolerant. Pupils play the role of pharmaceutical scientists in a guided inquiry lab about lactase. Lab groups collaborate to learn more about lactose intolerance, how...
Curated OER
Math Cross--Puzzle #29
This worksheet requires completing a crossword puzzle by determining the answers to 28 math problems, math equations, and various word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies.
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program
Common Core Writing Strand: The Research Paper Template for Standards 7-8
Considering a research paper for freshman and sophomores? Here's a template designed to meet the W.9-10.7 and 8 Common Core writing standards. Writers outline their research question, claims, counterarguments, support, commentary, and...
Scholastic
Citing Text Evidence
Could you go without your cell phone for 48 hours? Pose this question to your class and then read the article provided here. Pupils mark the text and and complete a graphic organizer that requires the use of textual evidence.
Math Learning Center
Grade 5 Supplement Set A2 – Number and Operations: Primes, Composites and Common Factors
Incorporate riddles into your math lesson by having students make tree factors and determine if the number is a prime or composite. They will also use other clues to find the answer to the riddle while sharpening their multiplication...
Math Learning Center
Grade 1 Supplement Set A5 – Number and Operations: Place Value
First graders work together to sort, categorize, and order collections of objects through activities that help build number sense.
American Physiological Society
Thermal Insulators: Keep it Hot!
There's nothing like a cup of hot chocolate on a chilly winter's day. Except for when that hot chocolate quickly becomes lukewarm chocolate ... or even cold chocolate. What material provides the best insulation to keep the chocolate from...