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Curated OER

Nutrition and the Food Pyramid

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine the food pyramid and how healthy food effects the body. They discuss what they ate for breakfast and identify what makes a food healthy. Students analyze the food pyramid, and cut out magazine pictures of food and...
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Curated OER

Veterans Day Remembered

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders gather information about Veterans and create a PowerPoint. For this Veterans remembered lesson, 6th graders interview a veteran and research on the computer to create a five slide PowerPoint.
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Curated OER

Miracle of Winged Migration

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the life cycle of insects by researching butterflies. In this insect migration lesson, students identify the Monarch butterfly, where they inhabit, and what their migration consists of. Students utilize the Internet to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Lesson Plan: Calendar Fun Operations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson allows students to practice evaluating expressions using order of operations. They will create a calendar using symbols, and a PowerPoint presentation to review the order of operations. It also gives an assessment and ideas...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Follow the Digital Trail: K 2

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars learn that the information they put online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." This trail can be big or small, helpful or hurtful, depending on how they manage it. Free membership required.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometry City

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan reviews transformations in the coordinate plane while mimicking real-world planning skills. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Laws of Exponents

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan walks young scholars through understanding and applying laws of exponents. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Investigating Integers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of real-world integers and create a PowerPoint presentation. It contains an assessment rubric as well as ideas for grouping students and managing...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Peanut Butter Is Better Than Yours!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan provides a real-world example of using a scatter plot to compare data. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Great Golly Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan asks learners to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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PBS

Pbs: America Responds Classroom Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Online PBS lesson plan to help students understand world conflict and cooperation and the rights of people all over the world. Through this lesson, students learn how to respond to world conflict, such as September 11.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson introduces students to experimental and theoretical probability using spinners and trials with pennies. Students also research careers that involve probability, and create a video presentation. It provides an assessment and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Color This Polynomial Simplified

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson walks students through the process of simplifying polynomials by combining like terms. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant learners.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Binky Goes Nuts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach children how to manage a peanut allergy with this lesson plan from Arthur: "Binky Goes Nuts." Includes resources in Spanish.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Class Rules a Beginning to Creating Community

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about proper classroom behavior and creating community by discussing why they are in school and what they need in order to accomplish their goals while there. In addition to objectives and...
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National Pest Managment Association

Pest World for Kids: Before They Were Pests

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students will explore the native habitats and behaviors of common pests to understand why and how household pests enter our homes. Students will examine the relationship between humans and pests and the limited...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Shape Are You?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan walks middle schoolers through an exploration of two- and three-dimensional shapes. Students will create a PowerPoint and poster of themselves as a chosen shape. It also gives assessment and remediation ideas as well as...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Cool Kool Aid Experiment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson allows students to practice writing and solving rates by conducting an experiment to find the best tasting Kool-Aid mixture. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Variables and Algebraic Expressions

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan has middle schoolers identify a variable, term, constant, coefficient, and an algebraic expression. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extention as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Express Yourself

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan walks students through using variables to translate between algebraic expressions and English phrases and sentences. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation, extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site, created by a teacher, was put together to provide easy access to information she found most helpful. The end result is an excellent resource for all educators.