Curated OER
Lousia May Alcott
Students examine the life of Louisa May Alcott. Using the Internet, they examine the types of books and plays she wrote. In groups, they compare and contrast the types of covers used on the various publishing's. They design and color...
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Social Studies:Anglo-Saxon Dress Accessories
Students discover the materials and designs used by Anglo-Saxons. By examining an ancient village, they determine materials and shapes most frequently used to make brooches and strap fittings. Finally, students draw pictures of the...
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Designing Another Juilliard
Ninth graders explore the characteristics for a top notch school. In this Social Studies lesson plan, 9th graders create their own fictional school that promotes excellence in a discipline of their choice. Students read Frank...
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Adult Roles and Responsibilities
Students explore goods and services. In this money management lesson, students pick a $100.00 item they would like to buy and they use the internet to research that specific topic. With their research they answer questions on a given...
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Women's Roles: Then and Now
Fourth graders investigate women's roles during the frontier era in what is today's West Virginia. In this US history lesson, 4th graders discuss similarities and differences of women's roles in the past with what women's roles...
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CEENBot Soccer
Students research the history and uses of the different elements in the periodic table. In this chemistry lesson, students explain the significance of an element's valence electrons. They create a multimedia presentation of an element...
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Immigration and Settlement of Ethnic Groups in the Pacific Northwest
Young scholars examine ethnic history of the Pacific Northwest in the period 1850-1950. They research documents and images in digital archives to explore immigration of various ethnic groups that settled in the region during this period.
Curated OER
Creating with Alice
Students explore Alice Programming Software. For this exploratory lesson, students design a unique storyboard which will guide the creation of their Alice World. Students write and create their own films.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Resources for Using Ph Et Simulations in Class Ph Et Activities Database
The PhET website at the University of Colorado in Boulder has a large collection of science simulations for teaching chemistry and physics, available in many languages. This page describes the Activities Database, which is searchable by...
Other
Esri: Arc Gis: Agricultural Capability of United States Soils
A sophisticated map tool that shows the capability of soils for agriculture, with or without irrigation, for the whole of the United States. Enter a location and a color coded map is shown, along with a key for interpreting it. The...
Other
Tonya Skinner Business Ed Lesson Plans: Grocery Shopping
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners to plan a class party while organizing the budget details in a spreadsheet program. Learners will demonstrate computer skills in inputting data, formatting data, and...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Glackens
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on William Glackens in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Central Tendency Activity
An Internet activity that creates data to be evaluated using statistics skills such as central tendency, data analysis, and graphing. The topic of the exercise is the average height of a student's class.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Thoughts on Teaching Perm. And Combin.
An article written for teachers with recommendations on how to present permutations, combinations, and the binomial theorem to students. It contains both useful suggestions about order of presentation and many class examples. A good...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Well Can Hand Size Predict Height?
This activity uses student's own data to introduce bivariate relationship using hand size to predict height. Students enter their data through a real-time online database. Data from different classes are stored and accumulated in the...
Other
Wild Finder: Mapping the World's Species
The World Wildlife Fund has created a searchable database containing thousands of species. Users can search by both species and location. Results are organized by their scientific name and include the common name, class, their threatened...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Multimedia Careers
Learners may be surprised that Computer Careers aren't all found under "Computer" in the Occupation Handbook. Students will conduct guided research of careers related to Multimedia Design and/or Multimedia Publication course objectives....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Using Hour of Code in Your Classroom
Hour of Code, a Khan Academy online program, encourages students to spend an hour learning to program. Titles include Hour of Drawing with Code, Hour of Webpage, and Hour of Databases are explained. This article explains how teachers can...
Other
Microsoft: Template Gallery for Teachers
This Microsoft site provides a wealth of Office templates to be used by teachers. Such templates include attendance records in Excel, essay tests in Word, seat assignments in PowerPoint, and much more.
Other
Catching Sunshine
Teachers can enroll their class in this online 'Science-athon.' Students design and build a solar collector, and over a period of several days, collect data and enter it into an online database.