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Core Knowledge Foundation

A Time for All Seasons - Summer

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
The sun is shining and the birds are singing, what better time to teach young learners about the fun season of summer. In this week-long science series, children learn how the rotation and orbit of the earth influence...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

A Time for All Seasons - Winter

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
As the days get shorter and a chill enters the air, it's time to start teaching your little ones about the wondrous winter season. Through a series of teacher demonstrations, whole-class read alouds and discussions, and hands-on...
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US Institute of Peace

Nonverbal Communication

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What is your body saying that maybe your words aren't? Scholars explore the vast world of the subtle, and not-so-subtle, nonverbal communication cues through group and individual work. Lesson seven in a series of peacebuilding exercises...
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E Reading Worksheets

Making Predictions #4

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Show young readers how to use evidence from the text in an activity about making predictions. After reading five short passages, kids note what they think will happen next based on what they have read, and include the evidence that...
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EngageNY

Gathering Information about Water Management: Assessing and Reading Internet Sources, Day 3

For Teachers 7th Standards
Water is life! Using the informative resource, scholars first read two informational articles about water management in agriculture. Then, they use a Venn diagram to contrast the different types of evidence authors use to support a...
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Curated OER

Western Civilizations, Chapter 2: Gods and Empires in the Ancient Near East

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Ancient Hebrew history comes to life through this online western civilizations tool, which follows history in detail from ancient origins to modern-day. Chapter two covers ancient eastern cultures, including beginnings of Hebrew...
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California Department of Education

An Online Tool I Can Use

For Teachers 6th Standards
Tools for school—and beyond! Introduce your sixth graders to online tools to plan their academic and professional futures. The fifth and final lesson in a series of career and college readiness activities focuses on a scavenger hunt to...
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US Institute of Peace

Taking a Step Toward Peacebuilding

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What can someone do to increase the peace? Pupils take small steps toward a big peacebuilding role in the final lesson in a 15-part unit. Individuals identify their roles as a peacebuilder and create a stepping stone that reflects their...
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British Council

Unit 5: Making Arrangements

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Are future entrepreneurs prepared to set up a meeting or schedule a conference call? Lesson five of a nine-part series of career education and skills activities focuses on proper punctuation and great grammar in the business world....
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British Council

Unit 9: Email Etiquette

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Manners matter! The ninth and final lesson in a series of career education and skills activities focuses on hitting a happy medium in business correspondence. Scholars master five simple rules for creating e-mails that are friendly,...
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Judicial Learning Center

Article III and the Courts

For Students 6th - 12th
What's the best way to make sense of the Constitution?  A helpful lesson contains both the text of Article III and annotation of each of its sections, breaking it down into easy-to-understand parts. It also includes links to a...
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Amazon Web Services

Idiom Dictionary

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Examining idioms is a peace of cake when using this graphic organizer! Here, grammarians identify an idiom and use it in a sentence. Then they investigate its literal meaning versus its figurative meaning, and accompany each one with a...
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US Institute of Peace

Identifying Elements of Conflict

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What lies at the heart of a conflict? Help pupils peel back the layers during an in-depth study of the elements of conflict. A lesson addressing peacekeeping and conflict management examines the historical, emotional, and societal...
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Curated OER

Lesson Plan to Accompany Psalm of Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read and analyze the poem, "Psalm of Life," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. They create a Footsteps Quilt, developing quilt squares to represent each goal and gift they would leave as a gift to humanity.
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Curated OER

Science Puzzlers, Twisters, and Teasers: The History of Life on Earth

For Students 6th - 8th
A somewhat amusing assignment, this worksheet lists statements that an ancient organism may have made and asks learners to determine what geologic era that each may have lived in. It uses witty word puzzles and fill-in-the-blank-style...
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Curated OER

Bluebirds Project - Life Cycles

For Students 4th - 8th
In this bluebirds worksheet, learners complete a table and answer short answer questions about the life cycle of bluebirds. Students complete 1 chart and answer 5 questions.
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Curated OER

The Joy of a Garden-Earth Day

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore the purpose of a garden. In this Earth Day lesson, students read the story The Gardener and complete a Venn diagram comparing life in a city to farm life. Learners discuss Earth Day and plant flowers in a garden .
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Curated OER

Total English Elementary: Day by Day

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this talking and writing about daily routines worksheet, students record information on the graphic organizer, interview other students about their daily routines, and write sentences to describe the answers each student gave them.
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Curated OER

Field Trip - Marine Science Institute

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discover the ocean life of the San Francisco Bay. In this ocean lesson plan, students take a Discovery Voyage of the Bay ecosystem through the Marine Science Institute. Also available are inland voyages, ocean labs, and tidepool...
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Curated OER

Ocean Life

For Teachers K
Students explore the types of plants and animals that can be found in the ocean. They browse books and/or magazines to identify and gain a knowledge base of plant and animal life found in the ocean, then create a collage.
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Curated OER

Life Cycle of a Frog

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate the life cycle of a frog. In this biology lesson, students read the book From Tadpole to Frog and use templates to identify the stages of the frog life cycle. Students draw the life cycle of the frog on construction...
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Curated OER

Arbor Day Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Arbor Day vocabulary activity, students draw lines to match ten words pertaining to trees to their definitions. Some prior knowledge or research is assumed.
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Curated OER

Life Cycle Of A Frog

For Teachers K
Students use books and an art activity to study the stages of a frog's life cycle. After listening to a book about frogs, students engage in a fun art activity. When finished, students work is displayed as a pond on the bulletin board.
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Curated OER

What's in the Water?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine how pollutants can affect ocean animals. In this pollution lesson plan, students read a story about the ocean floor, think about what would happen to the plants and animals if the ocean became dirty or polluted, and...