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Curated OER

Essay Exchange Unit: Response to Essays

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students receive and read electronic reviews of their essays.
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Essay Exchange Unit: Thesis Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify areas of interest and conduct preliminary research using on-line and library resources to develop their thesis statements.
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Global Warming: The Greenhouse Effect Visualizer

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work in small groups to study the various aspects of global weather and discuss the possibility of a Greenhouse Effect.
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Immigration Explorations, Part I

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students visit a number of web sites on immigration created by other Students, evaluate types of research used, structure of sites, and what types of information were included.
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Imagination Travel

For Teachers K
Students watch video segments on shapes and patterns. They create their own pattern within shapes.
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Immigration Explorations

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils visit John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum in order to complete research and evaluate how students created their site, how they structured the site, and what sort of information and graphics they included. This list is then...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's in a Name?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Internet and library resources to find the meanings of their first and/or last names and discuss the evolution of the concept of naming individuals.
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Creating a Map for Future Reference

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use Web and other resources to create maps of either the site of their day trip, their final destination, the entire trip, or some combination of these.
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Selecting A Destination

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students utilize atlases, maps, and Internet resources to select destinations and places to stop along the way on a day trip. They examine and write about the reasons they want to visit the particular places they chose.
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Sharing Information

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners collaborate with another classroom via the Internet to share data, questions, results, and check the validity of their testing procedures.
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Planting

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students form groups to conduct an experiment. They plant seedlings to test the effects of sunlight, water and soil, on the growth of seedlings.
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Story Assignments

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students choose their beats and decide what areas of school and community news they cover.
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Website Publishing

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students visit the student-created John Schick's Virtual Ellis Island Museum website. They evaluate the sorts of research the students carried out to create their site, how they structured the site, and what sort of information and...
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Pick a Holiday

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the Internet resources provided and their own searches to select and investigate a holiday of interest to them. They present their findings to the rest of the class in a format of their choice.
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Pick a Holiday

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars use the internet to research a holiday of interest to them. After researching the holiday, they research the country, culture and group who celebrates it and why. They create a presentation to share their information...
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My Name is.....

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct survey and sort data according to categories, construct bar graph with intervals of 1, and write a few sentences about their graphs.
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Curated OER

Using Inspiration Software to Explore Characters In Stories

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify characters, their qualities, and examples of their qualities and use Inspiration to organize them in a clear and understandable format. After a lecture/demo, students use the program on the next story by themselves.
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Mmm, Mmm, Mmm

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify the grapheme and phoneme for M. They practice writing the letter M and through listening activities, discriminate the phoneme /m/. They associate the phoneme /m/ with its letter representation and identify it in various...
Worksheet
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Force and Motion

For Students 6th - 8th
For this force and motion worksheet, middle schoolers read six paragraphs with numbered sentences about force and the laws of motion and answer one question.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Inside Your Computer

For Students 9th - 10th
How does a computer work? The critical components of a computer are the peripherals (including the mouse), the input/output subsystem (which controls what and how much information comes in and out), and the central processing unit (the...
Activity
University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Practice 4: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lesson engages students in determining "why" each word grouping is a sentence fragment. The lesson involves moving a computer's mouse from each fragment to the reason the word grouping is an incomplete thought.
Unit Plan
Other

Kidwings: Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection

For Students 4th - 8th
A complete lesson on owl pellets. Students can read information, watch a tutorial, and use their computer mouse to complete a dissection simulation right there on the screen.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Click and Drag Make a Snowman

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice basic mouse manipulation techniques using this interactive lesson. Using the mouse, learners move the shapes to create a colorful snowman. Immediate feedback given.