Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Squirrel Islands

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this adaptations worksheet, students read about 3 species that have changed over time to adapt to their environment. Students design a squirrel that has adapted to an island habitat that students are assigned. They describe the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather, Sea Level Rise and Climate Change Course

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars explain the impact of glacial melting to global climate change. In this environmental science lesson, students design an experiment to investigate the effect of salinity change to melting glaciers. They share their results...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Haiku

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars write haiku poems on leaf paper.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Where in the World Am I?

For Teachers 1st
Students participate in mapping activities to explore an area from different spatial perspectives. In this mapping lesson, students define the terms needed to understand a map. Students use representations such as a balloon and a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mixed Verb Tenses: Role Play

For Students 6th - 7th
In this mixed verb tense worksheet, students pretend they are someone else from a different country and with a new name. Students answer the 12 questions as if they were a different person.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plate Tectonic - Volcanoes

For Teachers K
Students examine how all mountains are not volcanoes by dramatizing how volcanoes erupt.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

California Regions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore and compare and contrast the four main regions of California: mountains, coast, central valley, and desert. students use pictures and research to describe how regions vary in land use, vegetation, wildlife and climate.
Worksheet
Curated OER

School-Home Link: Maps

For Students 4th - 5th
In this atlas and parent communication form worksheet, students use an atlas to find several things: the capitol city of Japan, the number of countries in Africa, where to buy a newspaper, the names of Presidents of the United States,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning About Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners investigate the many uses and features of maps and globes and locate where they live on both. For this map lesson, student play a travel game and create their own maps to explore states, continents, countries, and islands.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather Forecasting Unit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study weather concepts, mapping, characteristics in this series of lessons.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Perception Propaganda

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders explore the various uses of perception, propaganda, and perspective.  In this Social Studies lesson, 11th graders distinguish between fact and fiction.  Students analyze the impact of conflict on society.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Plate Tectonic - Volcanoes Post Lab

For Teachers 1st
First graders draw an erupting volcano. They learn the components of an erupting volcano.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Desert Views - First Impressions: Travelers on the Gila Trail

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils draw animals and plants that are described to them as they read passages of people who traveled across the Gila Trail in the Southwest. In this Gila Trail lesson plan, students also write a letter describing a plant or animal in...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Acid Rain Research

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collect samples of rainfall, cloud condensation, and water that trickles through the soil. These samples are tested for pH, conductivity, and the presence of sulfates, nitrates, calcium, and magnesium.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Volcano Under the City

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the different flow rates of liquids and how lava's viscosity influences flow.  In this liquids lesson students complete several handouts and a lab activity.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rock Hunters

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners observe rocks of various types and sizes and to record these observations through drawings.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ecosystem Interactions Web

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students pick an ecosystem (forest, desert, coral reef, open ocean, grassland, mountain, savanna, etc.) and design an interaction web for their chosen ecosystem. Each group shares their ecosystem's web of life with the class.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Total English Upper Intermediate: Traveling and Going Places

For Students 5th - 8th
In this travel key vocabulary worksheet, students complete 8 sentence starters and evaluate 3 descriptions of holidays in order to write about their ideal companions for each.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Climate

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars explore climate and weather conditions. Using the Internet, and other activities, students examine climate maps and the factors that affect climate. They examine how climate affects clothes, shelter, food,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Story Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine story writing. In this writing instructional activity, students discuss the structure of a story and create a story using suspense and character description with dialogue.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Places and Production

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate United States GDP and GDP per capita, use a choropleth map to acquire information, and create choropleth maps of GDP per capita in South America. They identify regions with high and low GDP per capita
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Places and Production

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners investigate the economy and the market value of goods. In this algebra lesson, students differentiate between domestic goods value and international good value. The define and identify the importance of GDP or Gross Domestic...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Take a Rock Apart

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars take a crushed rock and sort the remains of the rock minerals into different categories based on the different properties. In this sorting lesson plan, students learn what makes up a rock and how to sort something into...