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Businesses That Provide The Needs of Our Community
Students investigate the economy by creating a mock store in the classroom. In this business instructional activity, students research traditional department stores and brainstorm with their classmates as to what they could sell in...
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Consumer Education
Students, while examining an intense list of vocabulary terms on types of money, change and simple foods, name and state the cost of food items in supermarkets, grocery stores and flea markets with flash cards and newspaper ads.
Curated OER
Teaching Students About Money
Classroom activities can teach young students the value of money.
State of Victoria
Making Healthy Choices, Making Healthy Food: 4-6 Curriculum Support
How much water should we drink every day? How can food preparation be both healthy and satisfying? Check out this great 10-lesson unit which not only covers the body's need for water, but also includes lessons on tasting and storing...
Scholastic
Teaching with Aesop's Fables
Bring the applicable morals of Aesop's Fables to your classroom with a series of reading comprehension activities. With 12 different fables with activities and exercises, the packet focuses on the ways learners can apply the fables...
Baylor College
Modeling Earth's Atmosphere
Life on Earth is made possible by the unique composition of its atmosphere. Working collaboratively, a scale model is created as young scientists learn about the different layers of gas that surround the planet. Cards are included that...
Baylor College
There's Something in the Air
Clever! In order to compare indoor and outdoor dispersal rates for the movement of gases and particles through air, collaborators will participate in a classroom experiment. Set up a circular grid and set students on lines that are...
Baylor College
Heart and Lungs
With a partner, youngsters measure their pulse and breathing rates, both at rest and after running in place for a minute. While this activity is not novel, the lesson plan includes a large-scale classroom graphing activity and other...
Baylor College
Dust Catchers
In class, your emerging environmentalists construct dust catchers. They take them home for a week or two, and then bring them back into class to examine under a magnifier. From this activity, they learn what makes up dust and that...
Ed Change
Exchanging Stories: Names
Students write short stories about their names and share them in small groups to help build community in the classroom.
Curated OER
Working Together As a Team
Students examine the need for rules to keep order at home, in school, in communities, and in the country using trade books and teamwork activities. They work in cooperative groups to define a positive learning community by writing a...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Aquifer in a Cup
Young scientists create their very own aquifers in this science lesson on ground water. After learning about how some people get their drinking water from underground wells, young learners use sand, modeling clay, and aquarium rocks to...
Nemours KidsHealth
Food Safety: Grades 6-8
The flu or food poisoning? Middle schoolers learn how to safely prepare, cook, clean up, and store food with a lesson that has them first read articles about food safety. Partners create a video that shows them modeling these steps and...
Curated OER
Seed Sensations!
First graders examine seeds. In this Science lesson, 1st graders classify and dissect seeds. Students sprout their own seeds in the classroom.
Curriculum Corner
IEP at a Glance
Here's a quick reference tool that permits resource teachers to identify the key elements in a kid's IEP.
Curated OER
Spending Spree
Students collect objects to use in a classroom store. In groups, they must place a value on each object and take turns spending their fake dollar in the store. They predict how much they can buy and use addition and subtraction to...
Federal Reserve Bank
Money and Inflation: A Functional Relationship
What is the difference between money and bartering, and how is money valued when considering inflation? Delve into the correlation between these fundamental components of economics with this detailed resource, which consists of...
Curated OER
Take Math Shopping!
Percents, estimation, and comparative analysis become more understandable when they are used in-context at the grocery store.
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Bring Your Lessons to Life with Videos
Take advantage of pupils' fascination with exciting, visual presentations by using movie clips to demonstrate key concepts.
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Teaching Life Skills to Students with Special Needs
Ideas for instilling essential life skills in learners with special needs.
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Quadrant D: Bringing Learning to a New Level
As young learners prepare to be successful in the 21st century, teachers can promote critical thinking by implementing Quadrant D learning activities.
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CSI Interdisciplinary Projects
Work across content areas with an engaging project that highlights higher-level thinking, teamwork, and a STEM focus.
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Learning Lessons from Letters
Writing personal correspondence offers children a chance to learn many skills beyond simple format.
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Portfolios To Be Proud Of
Class members can create their own personal websites while collecting and celebrating their writing.