Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Growing Pains of the Yearling

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reproduction

For Students 9th - 12th
In this reproduction worksheet, students review the processes involved with sexual reproduction in animals and pollination in plants. This worksheet has 6 fill in the blank, 5 true or false, and 9 short answer questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Follow the Clues

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read a story and predict words that make sense in replacing the nonsense words based on context clues. Students choose appropriate words that will match the meanings of the nonsense words.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Breathing

For Students 5th - 8th
For this breathing worksheet, learners will review vocabulary words and topics relating to the lungs and the parts of the breathing system in humans. Students will explore how exercise effects the carbon dioxide that is exhaled. This...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cinquain Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students write five-line, diamond shaped poems that are very easy to write then submit one through an automatic PIZZAZZ form.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Land and the Water

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read "The Land and the Water," a fictional short story and an article about John F. Kennedy, Jr. and compare and contrast fictional tragedy to a non-fiction tragedy. They fill out a Venn diagram and write an essay using...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Logical is Garfield?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze comics found in the newspaper for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal. They write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of logic, emotions, or ethics.
Lesson Plan
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Inventors

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students brainstorm a list of inventions that have affected their lives. In groups, they use the internet to research a specific inventor and their invention. They use the information to write two paragraphs and share their information...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Story of the Atom

For Students 8th - 12th
In this atom worksheet, students read about the model of the atom developed by Neils Bohr. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on what they read.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Why Do People Do What They Do?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners, in groups, develop questions on topics listed on a worksheet. They compare the results with other groups.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Message Time

For Teachers Pre-K
Students complete message time activities to improve their emerging literacy skills. In this emerging literacy lesson, students discuss writing symbols and the writing process with their teacher, as well as reading prompts. Students...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A ten-question exercise where students read each sentence and decide if it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any questions missed.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
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Quia

Quia: Sentence Structure

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A twenty-four-question, interactive quiz asking students to answer questions about and to identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. When finished, students can submit answers to see the correct answers as well as their percentage...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces compound-complex sentences and how they are constructed. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Compound-Complex Sentences."
Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Structure

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module including links to information, exercises, and learning games on dependent and independent clauses as well as simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students structure sentences using literary techniques to use a variety of literary techniques including simple, compound, and complex sentence structure.
Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Compound Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Sentence Structure Practice Game

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An interactive game focused on sentence structure. Students answer fifteen increasingly difficult questions about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in order to win the game. Three hints are available, but if a...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Sentence Structure Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A good site that gives a list of sentences with explanations. Students must choose whether each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.