Activity
Curated OER

Musical Activities for Early Childhood Inclusion

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Get your movers and shakers grooving to the beat with this series of musical activities designed to meet everyone's needs! Ten games, using an assortment of instruments, bring awareness to one's body, brain, and social interactions in a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Who Said it in Romeo and Juliet?

For Students 9th
Identify the speaker of each quote taken from The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Some are more difficult than others, but most are fairly well-known. Each question is multiple-choice.
Unit Plan
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Special Olympics

Walking & Running

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Here's a fun collection of activities for helping youngsters develop body awareness, walking and running skills, spatial awareness, fine motor skills, and adaptive physical education skills such as following directions.
Unit Plan
Calvin Crest Outdoor School

Survival

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Equip young campers with important survival knowledge with a set of engaging lessons. Teammates work together to complete three outdoor activities, which include building a shelter, starting a campfire, and finding directions in the...
Lesson Plan
Novelinks

Oedipus the King: Anticipation Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Is it possible to escape fate? Are all types of pride evil? Are family secrets best kept secret? Before reading Oedipus the King, class members respond to a series of statements on an anticipation guide that introduces some of the basic...
Activity
Novelinks

The Winter’s Tale: Storybook Strategy

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Introduce class members to the conventions of the romance genre and the theme of familial relationships with Mahlon F. Craft's illustrated Sleeping Beauty. The themes are a focus of their study of The Winter's Tale.
Lesson Plan
Midland Independent School District

Drama

For Teachers 5th Standards
Ten drama lessons are the perfect addition to your language arts or theater class. With a focus on script elements, plot development, and parts of a dramatic story, the lessons guide young playwrights through the steps of telling a story...
Lesson Plan
University of the Desert

How Can Conflict and Disagreement be Managed and Resolved?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As you explore the meaning of cultural understanding and diffusion with your learners, discuss how dialogue can play a role in resolving conflicts based on misunderstanding. Examine keywords such as compromise, communication, and...
Worksheet
Itsy Bitsy Fun

Reading Comprehension Worksheet

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice color words and following instructions with a set of worksheets. Kids read each description on the side of the page about a person's hair color and clothing colors, and color the parts of the illustration accordingly.
Lesson Plan
West Contra Costa Unified School District

Simplifying Fractions Activity

For Teachers 6th Standards
Warm-up pupils' fraction muscles with a four-question quiz, then delve into a learning game designed to reinforce the concept of simplifying fractions. Based on the "I do, We do, You do" method of teaching, the lesson directly...
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NPR

Young And Brave Lesson Plan

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Honor brave young women with a lesson that showcases 30 individuals who's achievements made a lasting impression on our country's history. Here, scholars randomly choose a person to examine from an interactive myseum exhibit then share...
Assessment
California Education Partners

Glass Menagerie

For Students 9th Standards
As a reading comprehension assessment, ninth graders are asked to use evidence drawn from The Glass Menagerie to support an analysis of how Tennessee Williams uses specific lines to develop Amanda's character as well as her...
Activity
Oxford Cambridge

Set and Prop Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What's the difference between set dressing and a prop? Between a costume accessory and a personal prop? As part of their study of set and prop design, class members engage in a series of activities that prepare them to design a prop for...
Lesson Plan
August House

The Stolen Smell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson plan is a...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Coriolis Effect: Flying... South?

For Students 9th - 12th
It turns out there's a lot more to heading south for the winter for migratory birds! Study the Coriolis Effect with a fun, hands-on teaching tool. Pupils take to the skies as a small red bird bound for the tropics from his frosty home at...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pride and Prejudice: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
What would you do if your sister ran off with a man whom you didn't trust? Explore a scenario based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Once kids work though the problem, they read the appropriate chapters from the book and write...
Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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California Shakespeare Theater

Hamlet Teacher's Guide

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Even those experienced teachers of Hamlet can find much to like in a guide that offers many fresh ideas for activities. Class members may take on the role of FBI profilers that investigate Claudius and Hamlet as murderers, or...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Delightful Directions

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify and demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment. They identify the directions on a map as east, west, north, and south. Finally, 1st graders play a direction game, move to...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Direct Objects: Verbs That Act on Something

For Students 4th - 6th
In this direct objects worksheet, students underline the direct objects in 8 sentences and finish 8 sentences with a personal direct object.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Direction March

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game that explores map reading skills and intermediate directions. The teacher turns over a direction card for each player or team and announces the move, and they move towards a designated cardinal or...
Interactive
Curated OER

Locating Direct Objects

For Students 4th - 8th
In this online interactive direct objects worksheet, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions identifying the direct objects in 10 sentences.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine all the descriptions of costumes, props, movement, lighting and music in the stage directions of A Streetcar Named Desire. They begin to imagine this drama as a production, not simply a script. Students perform...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Follow the Directions: June

For Students 1st
In this following directions worksheet, 1st graders will either read or listen to five month of June related directions to complete a picture of a boy at the beach.