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National Science Teachers Association

Using Concept Maps in the Science Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 12th
A good concept map requires high thought processes. This makes it a great tool for teaching and evaluating your pupils. A helpful article describes a great approach for teaching young scholars the art of concept map building and how best...
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Center for Math and Science Education

Solar System Launch

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Trying to understand the vastness of outer space can be quite a challenge for young scientists. Help put things in perspective with this cross-curricular activity as students work in pairs creating scaled models of...
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Cornell University

Chemical Reactions

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Investigate the Law of Conservation of Mass through a lab exploration. Individuals combine materials to initiate chemical reactions. They monitor for signs of reactions and measure the masses before and after the reactions for...
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Piscataway Township Schools

Bake Sale

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Here is a project that instructs young bakers to calculate the ingredients needed for a cookie bake sale. The catch is that the ingredients for 32 cookies is given; however, pupils must figure out the amounts needed for 12 and 60...
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Feedbooks

Anne of Green Gables

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
When Anne Shirley shows up in Green Gables, no one knows what to expect. An eBook version of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery introduces readers to the spunky girl's journey and the friends she makes along the way. An author...
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Center for Civic Education

Citizenship Schools and Civic Education During the Civil Rights Movement and in the Present

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Your young historians will discover the importance that citizenship education has played in the social progress of the United States as they learn about early efforts to discourage African Americans from voting in the 1960s.
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Wish for the Future

Wish for the Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What would be your class's ideal world 30 years in the future? What about 100 years? Use a series of activities to discuss globalization, sustainability, scientific contributions to society, and the global community of which your...
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Oklahoma State Department of Education

Narrative Prompt

For Students 8th Standards
Reading about history is nothing like experiencing it firsthand. Encourage your eighth graders to do the next best thing with a historical narrative prompt, in which they describe the experience of a first-time traveler on the...
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Big Kid Science

Exploring Shadows

For Teachers 8th - 12th
What's that lurking in the shadows? An activity that demonstrates how eclipses happen. Science scholars investigate how light and distance interact to form shadows. The experiment uses simple materials to generate data and observations...
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Curated OER

Segmenting and Blending Words

For Teachers K
Students are introduced to the concept of segmentation and blending of words. As a class, they are shown various words and are asked to determine the amount of letters and sounds in each. To end the lesson, they participate in a...
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Curated OER

Code Cracking

For Teachers 5th - 8th
There is nothing more engaging than cracking a secret code! Middle schoolers will replace letters with numbers to solve problems. This game will help them to begin to understand algebra questions by finding the value of missing numbers....
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Curated OER

Skill Explored: Count Forward from a Given Number Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students K - 2nd
It's warm-up time for your counters! Project this short learning exercise, covering up the explanation as learners try to solve the number sequence. They are given the beginning and ending numbers (four and 10), but have to complete the...
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EngageNY

Grade 12 ELA Module 1

For Teachers 12th Standards
Ah, the dreaded college application essay. Here's a unique approach to crafting a powerful personal essay. Class members read The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, analyze the...
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Curated OER

Energy Conservation (Middle, Mathematics)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners take turns reading the electric meter six times a day at regularly scheduled intervals. They figure out the amount of electricity used and then determine the total cost of electricity for the week.
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Curated OER

4 Opening and Closing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this technology worksheet, students practice producing parts of e-mails based upon the openings and closings. Their task is to write the middle paragraph.
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Curated OER

Cargoes from Three Continents Ancient Mediterranean Trade

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders begin the lesson by researching the different types of ships and shipbuilding techniques used to help trade in the Mediterranean Sea. Using different objects, they determine what one can tell about a society and discuss...
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Curated OER

Round Robin Suspense

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars, in groups, write suspense stories. At the end of a timed period, they pass the story to the next student to continue it. At the last writing session, the papers are returned to the originators and they share the stories...
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Curated OER

Short A Words

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study the short "a" sound. For this word study lesson, students brainstorm words that begin with a short "a" sound and are given a picture of the word. Students play an online game to reinforce the concepts taught.
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Curated OER

Mali

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders begin the lesson by reading primary sources about the country of Mali. Using maps drawn in the past, they discuss what they can gather about the country from the map and how it has changed over time. They use a graphic...
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Curated OER

Where is the Sound of H?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this letter/sound worksheet, students look at pictures, circle the letter sound they hear at the beginning of the word, then print the word in the space provided.
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Curated OER

Where is the Sound of - h ?

For Students K - 1st
In this word and letter recognition instructional activity, students examine 7 pictures and words. Students identify whether they hear the h sound or g sound at the beginning of each of the words.
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Curated OER

Natural resource Race

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders answer true or false questions about natural resources. They stand on lines opposite each other and hop toward the middle if they answered the question correctly.
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Curated OER

School-Home Links: Root Words and Suffixes

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this spelling new words activity, learners learn to figure out the meaning of a new word by learning the root word and suffix. Students put the root words and suffixes together to make new words and write those words on the line....
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Starfall

Zz is for Zebra

For Students K - 2nd
In this printing worksheet, students form 11 upper and lowercase letter Z's. Students color in pictures of words beginning with the letter and write two rows of Z's on their own.

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