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Curated OER

Yesteryear and a One Room School House

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore a one room schoolhouse at their school. They write questions to interview teachers and administrators involved in preserving the one room schoolhouse. They create Venn diagrams to compare and contrast information...
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Curated OER

Diversity Under the Roof of the World

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars learn about Nepals many cultures, religions, and landscape. They compare a Nepal student to an American student and relate location, place, and culture of American and Nepals. They discuss reasons why they think there is...
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Curated OER

Routing Explorers

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read excerpts from an explorer's journal and then become investigators and navigators themselves. Students answer questions about the difficulties and time it took for the explorers to travel from Washington to New Orleans and...
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Curated OER

Barefoot and Pregnant

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners address the problem of a reduction in the world population growth rate being offset by a growing world population base. This problem is particularly true with the rapid population growth in many Third World countries. The lesson...
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Curated OER

Herd Management

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners examine herd management and career opportunities while working in groups. They analyze herd strengths and weakness as well as identify herd traits and other management factors through research. Individually students present a...
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Curated OER

Cave Painting in the Ice Age

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students take notes and sketch during the Internet research. They take notes of the colors found in the cave paintings (black, browns, ochre, sienna). They create an initial full size comprehensive sketch on scrap paper and in their...
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Curated OER

Candy Land Math

For Teachers K
Students order numbers and sets of objects from 0 through 10 and organize and interpret information collected from the immediate environment. They read and interpret graphs usin real objects and the computer. Finally, students sort a...
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Curated OER

Multimedia Valentine's Card

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a Valentine's card stack for a special person of their choice. They write a clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that create a central idea. Students use the computer to create a HyperStudio two card stack....
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Curated OER

Portraits That Capture Character

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the definition of a portrait. For this portrait analysis lesson, students discuss two of Dorothea Lange's portraits and create their own portraits of their classmates.
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Curated OER

Mandarin Mountains: Get a Job

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students consider career options. For this career lesson, students use a selected Internet source to explore various jobs as well as the skills required for them. Students also consider the contributions of workers to the communities...
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Education Development Center

Digital Media Arts: Introduction to Visual Arts and Digital Media

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital media curriculum for teaching high school students how to communicate through media. Students learn the fundamentals of art and design and the technical skills to prepare them for careers in the arts, media, and entertainment...
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Media Smarts

Digital Media Literacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
MediaSmarts will answer your questions regarding media literacy and why it is important to teach media literacy. Approaches to media literacy, key media literacy concepts, and evaluations and assessments pertaining to media literacy can...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: California Public Media Education Service

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Public media stations across California have banded together to package a comprehensive set of broadcast and digital resources for teachers, students, and families for at-home learning. Drawing on our most popular offerings to teachers...
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South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Media Arts

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a one-minute tour through the history of media arts. Examine a variety of media forms and be a media critic. Visit the Media Studio and learn about movie soundtracks, animation, and creating a storyboard. Meet different artists as...
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Looking at Food Advertising Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this lesson, young students will learn about the importance of spokescharacters for companies. Then students will create own jingles and spokescharacters for foods...
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PBS

Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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PBS

Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Edutopia

Edutopia: Why Media Literacy Is Not Just for Kids

For Students K - 1st Standards
Do you know the difference between social media skills and overal media literacy? Learn why these skills are not just valuable to students, but to teachers and parents as well.
Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Social Media Guidelines

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Read about the ways in which educators can create social media guidelines that work to keep students safe.
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US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Media and Communication Occupations

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about media and communication occupations.
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Other

21 Things4 Students: Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Media Table

For Students 9th - 10th
This chart lists different tools students can use to create digital media. The table covers animation, audio recording and podcasts, cartoons, infographics, interactives, screencasts, slideshows, and videos. Each tool has a list of...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson Plan: Unit 2: My Media: Grades 6 8

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review their media habits and the array of media they use on a weekly basis, and reflect on the role of digital media in their lives. Requires free membership.
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: We the Digital Citizens

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, 2nd graders explore the amazing possibilities that come with using technology. They'll also learn from the Digital Citizens, who take a pledge to be safe, responsible,...
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Other

Pbs: Media Shift: Your Guide to the Digital Media Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This website is a guide to the way the new media-blogs, RSS, podcasting, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators, and video repositories-are changing the way we take in the news of our world. Click on the underlined words to...

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