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Association of American Geographers

Project GeoSTART

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Investigate the fascinating, yet terrifying phenomenon of hurricanes from the safety of your classroom using this earth science unit. Focusing on developing young scientists' spacial thinking skills, these lessons engage...
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Curated OER

Shizuko’s Daughter: Problematic Situation

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How could you decide which of your late mother's possessions are important enough to take to college with you? Decide which items would be the most valuable to you with an activity based on Kyoko Mori's Shizuko's Daughter. After...
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PBS

Inventions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
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Curated OER

Divulging in Detail

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students rely on their senses to write descriptions of an object within their view. They incorporate different parts of speech in their descriptions. They write a descriptive paragraph about their object.
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Curated OER

Help Me Find My Keys

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write a five-paragraph essay on the topic: What mistakes have you made and then learned a life lesson from that experience?
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Curated OER

Let It Snow!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners use a modified version for the steps of writing.
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Curated OER

Hearing

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Sound can produce patterns.
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Curated OER

Sight

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discover how the sense of sight helps us recognize each other and explore color, motion and distance.
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Curated OER

Plunge Into Place Value

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use expanded notation. For this mathematics lesson, students determine the place value of a digit within a whole number. Students use manipulatives, words, and symbols to represent whole numbers.
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Curated OER

Common Sense Cookie Shop

For Teachers 1st
First graders shop for a bag of cookies using toy money. In teams, they choose which variety to buy and decides which bills and coins are necessary to buy the bag of cookies and a cashier makes change. They tally the cookies purchased...
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Curated OER

Logs, Charts, and Journals: What's On Your Plate?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Have your writers identify and use words that appeal to the senses. They create a chart of sensory words and record some of their favorites, then write a journal entry in which they describe eating at a restaurant using sensory details....
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Train Game

For Students 5th
In this division and multiplication worksheet, 5th graders complete, by multiple choice, 4 division sentences by choosing the correct quotient from the cars in the train yard. Students choose, by multiple choice, the missing factor in 4...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kinds of Sentences

For Students 5th - 8th
Boost understanding of the four types of sentences with several exercises. To start off, read through the provided information about the types of sentences together. This will prepare your class to practice their new knowledge. Then,...
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Curated OER

Bats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate bats. In this animal science lesson, students use several websites and suggested bat books to write an informative paragraph. Students should be able to write with 90% accuracy.
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Curated OER

Apple Addition

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this addition worksheet, students add simple one-digit numbers. They write their sum in the apple below the equation. Addition facts zero through eight are represented. Sums to extend to eighteen. Twenty-five problems are on each...
Organizer
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Numbers: Standard, Expanded, and Written Forms

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this number sense worksheet, students fill in the blanks in a graphic organizer by writing the numbers in standard, expanded, and written form. They work with numbers to the hundred thousands place value.
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Piece It Together

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders develop spatial sense, such as above and below. In this spatial sense lesson, 2nd graders go on a scavenger hunt and to piece together the clues. Each clue has a question using spatial vocabulary. 
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Curated OER

Standard, Expanded and Written Form (T)

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this number sense worksheet, students fill in 14 blanks in a chart with either the standard, expanded, or written form of each of the given numbers. They work with numbers to the hundred thousands place value.
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Curated OER

Place Value (A)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this place value worksheet, students solve 34 problems in which the underlined digit in a 3 digit number is analyzed. Students write the value of that digit on the line.
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Curated OER

Verb Form Worksheet 2

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students write a verb form that goes with the underlined auxiliary verb in five sentences and then write a past-tense auxiliary verb in five additional sentences.
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Curated OER

Lesson 3: Making Predictions

For Students 4th - 6th
In this making predictions activity, students read a newspaper article, locate the "Five Ws and the H," and then make logical predictions on the content that they read and then analyze those predictions based on a rubric.
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Curated OER

Herb Gardening: Which Herb?

For Students 4th - 8th
In this herbs worksheet, students play a game where they write the herb and its characteristics after being blindfolded and identifying each herb. Students then answer 1 short answer question.
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Curated OER

Magic Math Work

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this magic math work instructional activity, students follow the steps for 2 math puzzles where they pick a number, and perform some computations with it.
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Tadpoles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine tadpoles at various stages of development. They make careful scientific observations and compare the changes that occur at five different phases of a frog's life.