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Literature Circles: Getting Started
Make reading more enjoyable and interactive with literature circles! Here you'll find detailed lessons to begin the literature circle process. Ten lessons introduce each role learners take on. Literature circle roles include...
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Continental Differences
Students break into groups and closely investigate primary sources associated with the seven different continents. After deciding which continent their primary sources relate to, representatives from each group present their...
Dick Blick Art Materials
Start with a Circle...
The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...
Scholastic
Super Sentences & Perfect Paragraphs
An extensive collection of lessons and activities includes many writing, grammar, and proofreading exercises. With templates and worksheets that cover several steps in the writing process, from sentence to paragraph to essay, this...
Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Programs
Step-by-Step: College Awareness and Planning
Encourage your group of learners to consider their academic and personal goals for the future with this great series of academic counseling activities.
Mathalicious
New-tritional Info
Burning off a Big Mac® doesn't seem like a big feat until you calculate the minutes of exercise necessary to break even. Young mathematicians look at different menu items in relation to different body weights and exercises to calculate...
Baylor College
Activity and Exercise
Leave it to the classic jump rope to get your class excited about physical activity! Your class will begin by discussing the benefits of jumping rope as a form of exercise and learning a few different types of jumps. Then in groups of...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Dramatic and Theatrical Aspects in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town”: A Common Core Exemplar
“So I’m going to have a copy of this play put in the cornerstone and the people a thousand years from now’ll know a few simple facts about us.” Our Town is used as the text in a Common Core exemplar that examines the dramatic and...
Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc.
Schedules and Routines: Grade 1
It doesn't matter if you're a new teacher trying to set up your classroom for the first time or a veteran teacher looking for new ideas to freshen up your teaching, this resource has something to offer everyone. After...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gorongosa: Making Observations Activity
Do you have young scientists wanting to make new discoveries rather than just completing the same experiments? Young scientists use their observational skills to identify animals and patterns in animal behavior. Through tracking...
Curated OER
Appreciating Diversity: A Multicultural Lesson Based on the Traditional Clothing of the Maya
Students compare the traditional Mayan clothing to their everyday clothing. In this multicultural appreciation lesson, students look at images of traditional Mayan clothing and discuss its importance.
Curated OER
History of the Stock Market and How it Works
In this stock market instructional activity, students read a 2-page article about the history of the U.S. stock market and then respond to 12 short answer questions about the selection.
Curated OER
How We Elect a President in the United States
In this United States government worksheet, students learn how a president is elected in the United States. They then answer the 11 definition questions and complete an activity in which they create a platform for a presidential...
Curated OER
Beginning, Middle, Ending of Story
In this retelling a story in order worksheet, students write short answers for the beginning, middle and end of a story of their choice. Students compete three parts of the worksheet.
Education World
Every Day Edit - Liberty Day
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Liberty Day. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Malta
In this everyday editing learning exercise, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Malta. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Eleanor Roosevelt
For this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Eleanor Roosevelt. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Author Katherine Holabird
For this everyday editing activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about author Katherine Holabird. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Robert F. Kennedy
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Robert F. Kennedy. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Education World
Every-Day Edit: Kwanzaa
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Kwanzaa. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.
Curated OER
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions based on The Woman Warrior. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
The Seasons
Discover the change of the seasons by modeling the Earth-Sun system. Learners model the orbit of the Earth around the sun and explore how and why the patterns of winter and summer occur.
Education World
Every Day Edit - Sled Dogs Save Nome
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the sled dogs who inspired the Iditarod. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and spelling.