Government of Alberta
Alberta Learning: Focus on Inquiry [Pdf]
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...
Other
National Geographic: Jason Learning
[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.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes
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...
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: What the World Consumes
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...
PBS
Pbs: America Responds Classroom Resources
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.
Other
Laura Candler: Sylverster and the Magic Pebble Activities [Pdf]
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Your Order Up or Down?
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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....
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Adjective? What's an Adjective?
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.
My Science Site
Beneath the Sea: Blowing Ballast [Pdf]
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Verbal Cues
[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....
Read Works
Read Works: Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit: Actions
[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...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Habitats of the World
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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Difference? Subtracting Integers
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Arc Lengths and Sector Areas
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....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Positively f.u.n. !
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fractions on a Number Line
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Percents
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...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Sample Guided Reading Lesson [Pdf]
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...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Birds in Flight, What a Sight!
This lesson plan has been designed to show students the unique structure that birds possess--feathers--and how they maneuver them in flight.
My Science Site
My Science Site: What Drops Faster? [Pdf]
This resource provides a simple science activity teachers can use to teach gravity and mass. This resource is in PDF form; requires Adobe Reader.