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Virginia Department of Education

Ecosystem Dynamics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Searching for an eccentric way to enhance lessons on ecosystems while ensuring pupils remain creative and motivated? Upon viewing The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, designated groups design and construct a pop-up book that...
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Curated OER

Career Interest Record Update

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students create and update Career Interest Records to indicate their current career interests. Students evaluate what they want to be when they grow up and how their interests have changed since the previous year.
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All About Me

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore how everyone is different and have a certain way in which they learn best.
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Planning and Setting Goals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders set goals for themselves and evaluate themselves a month later.
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Three Wishes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make three wishes in order to help them decide what is important to them and compare it to what is important to others.
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Bar Graphs and Pie Charts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore their interest and strengths and display them using a bar graph and pie chart.
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My Personal Goal

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use goal setting in order to use time and energy efficiently.
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Who Do I Admire?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders describe who they admire and how they influence them.
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Worry Critter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate what worrying is, its causes, feeling, and how to deal with it.
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Money Responsibility

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Introduce young learners to the important life skill of responsibly managing money and recording how much they spend and save. 
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Fly Your Kite

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Encourage scholars to become a productive community member with a kite-themed lesson plan. Following a review and discussion, learners complete a Venn diagram that displays the connection between character traits needed to make a home...
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Career Interest Record Update

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders update their career interest record with their new attitudes, interests, aptitudes, and achievements.
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Working for What You Want

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a story about someone who works in order to earn money for something they want.
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More About Me

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore what they like to do, their interests, and their aptitudes.
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We're All O.K.

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze how people are different.
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Make a Statement

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders come up with goals and plan on how to reach them.
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Who I Am - Likes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a "Who Am I" sheet to decide what kinds of things they like and then have a class discussion.
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I Can . . .

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe some of the things they can do and what they have improved on since last year.
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Medals of Honor

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify their strengths and find out what careers they would do best in.
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What Matters to Me?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders describe what is important to them.
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Providing Service

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders plan and then do a community service project.
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Nontraditional Occupations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars participate in a class discussion about stereotypes and nontraditional occupations. Thy fill out a worksheet while they search through a database.
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Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Clydesdales

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the characteristics of horses and the Clydesdale breed, including classification, history, behaviors, and diet. Information at a level of upper intermediate elementary but easily adaptable for all teachers.
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University of Delaware: Major Resource Kits

For Students 9th - 10th
Major Resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major....