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Government of Alberta

Alberta Learning: Focus on Inquiry [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This document provides supports for implementing inquiry-based learning activities in the classroom and is intended for teachers working on their own or in teams, with or without the support of a teacher-librarian or other library...
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Other

National Geographic: Jason Learning

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Educators and students will enjoy visiting the JASON Project, a NASA and National Geographic cooperation which works to provide accurate and intriguing scientific knowledge for students.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These visual, easy-to-grasp lessons in world economics and consumerism features lessons and related videos in which students experience first-hand the economic dilemmas faced by other countries and are asked to examine their own values...
Lesson Plan
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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Other

Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson plan utilizing cooperative learning for use with the book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig. Includes printable word-sort cards and discussion question cards.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Is Your Order Up or Down?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The students will be afforded opportunities to actively explore ordering numbers (from least to greatest and greatest to least). The students will engage in a whole group and cooperative learning group setting to explore ordering whole...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this WebQuest, sudents will be working in cooperative learning groups to research bacteria, viruses, and the immune system via the Internet. Young scholars will be taking notes and answering questions to show the teacher for approval....
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Organization for Community Networks

Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What is an adjective? This site features a lesson plan that will allow students to think creatively and work in small groups. This will sharpen your grammar skills.
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My Science Site

Beneath the Sea: Blowing Ballast [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students dive down deep as they experience a hands-on activity and build a model of a submersible. Lesson plan includes a web connection, a teaching guide, extensions to learning as well as curriculum links and national science...
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Verbal Cues

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use verbal cues in the form of yes/no questions to guess an item inside a bag. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Actions

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan asking students to use action cues while playing a game of Charades. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included. Independent practice worksheets are...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Habitats of the World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site has a instructional activity to use to start a unit on biomes and animal habitats. This plan incorporates grasslands, temperate forests, tropical rainforests, deserts, polar ice regions, and tidepools.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's the Difference? Subtracting Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this lesson will actively engage learners to subtract positive and negative integers. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for understanding...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Arc Lengths and Sector Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will work in cooperative groups to discover the relationships between arc length, central angle measure, and circumference. They will also discover the relationship between circle area, central angle measures, and sector area....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Positively f.u.n. !

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and set the purpose...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As a hands-on lesson, the students will recognize the correct usage of the order of operations. In groups, the students will work cooperatively to discover the importance of following step-by-step instructions and apply that knowledge in...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fractions on a Number Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
As students master the concept of the number line, they may be curious about where fractions would fit on a standard number line. Students will work cooperatively to explore the possibilities where fractions lie on number lines. Students...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This instructional activity explores the making of comparisons by using percents. In this instructional activity you will compare your class's favorite foods using percents. Students will use cooperative groups to answer follow up...
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Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Sample Guided Reading Lesson [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This text on the topic of Women's Rights from Scholastic has been reformatted into a guided reading lesson plan where students can see annotated examples of active reading, stop at logical places in the text to answer discussion...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Birds in Flight, What a Sight!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan has been designed to show students the unique structure that birds possess--feathers--and how they maneuver them in flight.
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My Science Site

My Science Site: What Drops Faster? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource provides a simple science activity teachers can use to teach gravity and mass. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.