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What So Proudly We Hail

The Meaning of America: Equality

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What if society sought equality by handicapping the gifted and dispelling any traces of diversity? Kurt Vonnegut Jr. offers one possible answer to this question through his incredibly engaging and thought-provoking satirical...
Lab Resource
Colorado State University

How Can I Turn a Solar Oven into a Refrigerator?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Whether you want to heat things up in science class or cool things down a bit, an intriguing lab's got you covered! Science scholars explore the principles of thermodynamics using a solar oven, then change the conditions to turn their...
Worksheet
Dorling Kindersley

Clauses

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A thorough worksheet takes your class through main clauses and subordinate clauses, or independent clauses and dependent clauses. With several practice sentences and easy-to-understand instructions, the activity would be a good addition...
Worksheet
Reading Through History

Reading with a Purpose: Haunted Houses

For Students 8th Standards
Boo! Whether you're easily scared or enjoy a good fright, a reading passage on haunted house attractions is a great addition to a Halloween-themed unit. Learners read a short informational passage before answering multiple choice,...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fourth of July Addition and Subtraction

For Students 2nd - 3rd
What is Thomas Jefferson signing? Focus on American history with this cross-curricular math puzzle. Learners utilize addition and subtraction skills to solve the mystery of the Fourth of July. All numbers are 3-digit, and there are no...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Three Skeleton Key

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Encourage your middle schoolers to interact with the text as they read. While reading "Three Skeleton Key," class members note predictions, define words and study their meanings, take notes on how the suspense builds, and jot down...
Learning
School Mathematics Project

Resource Sheets

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This extensive and far-reaching collection of worksheets puts a new twist on many basic concepts. Learners use multiplication to trace a path from one point to another, tile a plane by converting between improper and proper fractions,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shasta Dam: How High is Too High?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Research water use in California, environmental protection laws, and the proposition to raise Shasta Dam by 200 feet. Researchers use their findings to build an argument which will be presented at a mock decision panel. Groups then...
Interactive
Curated OER

Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 12th
This online multiple choice quiz focuses on upper-level grammar concepts. In addition to covering simple parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, this resource also covers more advanced information, such as transitive vs....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animation Pre-Production

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Does your class love reading cartoons? Use their talents and interests to examine the process of writing a story they wish to tell through a cartoon. They develop the beginning, middle, and end of a story based on their original...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Spaceship Math Addition W

For Students 2nd
In this addition instructional activity, 2nd graders practice single digit addition. Students complete 40 vertical problems for mastery.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recognition and Classification of Mixtures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Immerse your chemistry class in solutions! They melt and compare the mixtures that make up margarine, separate black ink into its component colors, distill ocean saltwater, and practice chromatography with plant pigments. There are eight...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Work and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The first activity may not work for your class if you don't have access to an open area of 30 meters and two cars of different masses, but the remaining activities can be used in any physics course. They all involve the investigation of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Evidence Revealing the Composition of the Atom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Investigators use indirect evidence to guess what is occupying a sealed box. You could also use a set of plastic Easter eggs to encase the unknown items. Another terrific activity involves having learners drop a pencil on a sheet of...
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Insides and Outsides

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Give small groups handfuls of unit cubes and then dare them to build as many rectangular prisms as possible using only 12 cubes. This engaging activity serves as an introduction to the volume of solid figures. In addition to volume,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My View's Write!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After researching issues involving panthers, middle schoolers practice writing persuasive letters.  They  become familiar with a controversial issue related to panthers and write their position on the issue. This lesson...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Money Riddle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this addition worksheet, students solve 11 problems in which a mystery number is added to another two digit number with the sum always being 100. After completing the problems a mystery message will be revealed.
Learning
Curriculum Corner

Bugs and Flowers Math and Literacy Centers

For Students K - 1st Standards
The sun shines, flowers bloom, and bugs fly—it must be Spring! Add a cheerful theme of bugs and flowers to math and literacy centers. Scholars take part in an assortment of activities designed to reinforce concepts such as...
Handout
Prince Edward Island

Fact Learning, Mental Computation, Estimation

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Need help with mental math in your classroom? This guide is full of tips, tricks, and examples to help the teacher encourage learners to use their brain instead of a calculator. Practice problems are included with reasons how...
Activity
InTouch

Warm-up and Cool-down Activities

For Teachers K - 5th
What fun! Try out some of these PE warm-up and cool-down activities with your youngsters. Find several ideas written out along with tips to designing an effective warm-up or cool-down with elementary schoolers. 
Assessment
Math Learning Center

Fourth Grade Assessments and Scoring Checklists, Common Core State Standards

For Teachers 4th Standards
Find out how your class is progressing in math with a set of assessments. Learners finish a baseline assignment to assess where they are beginning the year and then work on tests with increasing difficulty as the year progresses.
Worksheet
Curated OER

It All Adds Up Puzzle #26

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math game addition practice worksheet, students examine their addition skills as they solve the math puzzle by inserting the correct numbers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

WORKSHEET # 8 [4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, & 4.8]

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this college prep algebra worksheet, pupils combine like terms in 15 polynomial expressions. Students multiply polynomials in 18 expressions. Pupils divide 6 polynomial expressions. The rest of the 48 problems relate to the vocabulary...
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Common Core 1st Grade Workbook

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
You've found the first grade Common Core jackpot! English Language Arts and Math Common Core standards are addressed in a 74-page packet complete with standard text printables, activities, cut-outs for the classroom, and worksheets. 

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