Curated OER
What's The Flow?
Learners examine urban runoff and identify peak flows. They examine causes for different flow rates, and complete worksheets and a graph.
Curated OER
The Constitution and The Bill of Rights
Students explore the Constitution and The Bill of Rights including the process of the Convention throgh a variety of websites that examine the framers, venets leading up to and after the convention games and more.
Curated OER
The Peanut Wizard
Peanuts inspire this lesson about George Washington Carver, called The Peanut Wizard in the included informational text. Class members read about peanuts and George Washington Carver and create a timeline of his life. In addition, pupils...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Instructor: Reading Clinic: Strategy Inventory
This lesson plan includes a group of activities that will teach students how to use vocabulary knowledge to help with comprehension of a text. Split into three activities, this lesson plan encourages students to use prior knowledge, word...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" Words
This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to...
Other
Apartheid Museum: Understanding Apartheid
This is an extensive teaching and study unit on apartheid in South Africa, complete with teacher notes and assessment materials. It looks at the historical roots of apartheid until the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990. It...
Quia
Quia: Inflectional Endings (S, Ed, and Ing)
Decide which inflectional ending matches the verb in each sentence.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Suffix Ly
A brief tutorial about the use of the "ly" suffix and its effect on a word, followed by questions asking students to choose the appropriate "ly" word to complete sentences and to find the base word in four words with "ly" suffixes....
Rock ’N Learn
Rock 'N Learn: Quick as a Wink: Ink
This printable vowels worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will solve riddles with words that end in the -ink root. An answer key and lesson extension are included.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Plains Pocket Gopher
The Plains Pocket Gopher is a medium-size rodent with a disproportionately massive front end, including an impressive head and strong, curved claws. Its diet consists mostly of roots and tubers located by tunneling through loose soil....