Worksheet
Curated OER

Homonyms Worksheet 1

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students underline the appropriate word in parentheses that best fits twenty-one sentences. Students check to make sure each sentence is grammatically correct.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Friendship Book Questions

For Students 5th - 12th
In this literature study instructional activity, students answer eleven short answer questions based upon the book, The Friendship.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Oral History to Understand Immigrant History

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use oral history to comprehend how life chaned for men, women, and childern when they immigrated to the United States. Students conduct interviews with immigrants in an attempt to interpret hardships, lifestyles, careers, and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sampling Snoops

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis. They identify several sampling techniques they can use to test their hypotheses.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Secret War: Lesson 15

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss civic responsibility. In this social studies instructional activity, student read about World War II. Students compose "I Am an American" poems and share with the class.
Activity
Other

Impassioned: Journals, Diaries and Notebooks

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes examples of diaries, journals, and notebooks in the Collection at Richard Hugo House and The Diary Library of Corralitos, California. Focuses upon the genre of diaries and journals within the practice of writing....
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing With Virginia Hamilton

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent site geared towards student writers interesting in learning how to journal. Follow Virginia Hamilton, an author, and learn her techniques from examples. Very comprehensive learning site.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Nonfiction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction including the definition, types of nonfiction: biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, essays, speeches, and diaries, examples of authors and types, key terms, essential questions,...
Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Introduction to the Nature Journal [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....
Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Introduction to the Nature Journal [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Indian Country Diaries, Tribal Sovereignty Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will ask learners to review sections of A Seat at the Drum and Spiral of Fire where the many issues of tribal sovereignty are evident. Students will be asked to research the sovereignty issues facing a tribe that resides...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Anne Frank and Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The main focus of this resource is on the nature of writing a Recount document, but it takes texts from Anne Frank's Diary as an example. This offers a valuable view of the document as a historical...