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Curated OER

Switcheroo

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Who doesn't want to play tag? Here's a nice movement activity to keep your class running about practicing hopping, jumping, leaping, skipping and whatever motor skills your can think of. I like that the taggers are not "IT" forever, and...
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Curated OER

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"

For Teachers 11th
Do you want to live forever? After reading Kurt Vonnegutā€™s short story, ā€œTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,ā€ class groups adopt the roles of an ethics committee, product manufacturers, concerned scientists, and potential users of an...
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Curated OER

The Personal Narrative - Part Five

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Create a class anthology with your young writers. In this personal narrative instructional activity, each writer reflects on actions and events from their own lives and chronicles them in a three-part written sequence. They create a...
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Curated OER

The Giver: Lesson 1

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Do ā€œmemories need to be shared?" Are ā€œmemoriesā€¦forever?" Would you give up memory to live in a perfect world? Introduce a unit centered on Lois Lowryā€™s utopian/dystopian novelĀ The Giver with a series of activities that has groups...
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HawaiŹ»i State Department of Education

Railroad Tracks

For Teachers 5th
AhhhĀ the vanishing point! Sounds ominous, but it's not. Fifth graders analyze the use of perspective in Renaissance art. They practice using linear perspective to draw railroad tracks that seem to go on forever. Tip: Make this lesson as...
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Lesson Plan
Read4Health

Piggybook: A Read4Health Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
"You are pigs." With those three simple words, the lives of the Piggott family were changed forever. Read aloud the children's storyĀ PiggybookĀ by Anthony Browne and teach your class the importance of personal responsibility, learning...
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Carolina K-12

The End of World War II: Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment Camps, and the Atomic Bomb

For Teachers 8th Standards
The end of World War II saw major events that would forever change the global landscape and international relations. Using a fantastic PowerPoint presentation and several primary source documents, your learners willĀ discuss the bombing...
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Activity
Curated OER

The Metamorphosis: Problematic Situation

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Are you enjoying the use of all five senses? Imagine that you have to lose one of them; you can choose which one, but it's gone forever. Work through a lesson based on Franz Kafka'sĀ TheĀ MetamorphosisĀ that asksĀ class membersĀ to rank their...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Scientific Method Mania

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Horrible science puns only happen periodically, but the scientific method is forever. Young scientists observe two presentations on the scientific method, complete independent practice worksheets, and integrate their knowledge through a...
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Interactive
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Project WET Foundation

Use Water Wisely

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
What's the point in saving water? Surprisingly water isn't a forever resource because it is a natural resource. Here, young water conservationistsĀ hunt for 23 wise water users and water wasters by clicking on the people in the...
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NPR

Investigate the Plastic Problem

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Plastics are forever. The second lesson in a 10-part unit has pupils research the effects of plastics on the environment. They present their findings by creating an infographic.
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Activity
DiscoverE

Hidden Alarm

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
It's time to wake up! Young engineers build an electric circuit that will activate an alarm. The use of switches in the circuit is a mustā€”because you don't want the alarm to keep beeping forever!
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PBS

Civil War: Blacks on the Battlefield

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Imagine a war being fought to free slaves, with slaves on the front line. Scholars use primary documents, videos, and research in the second installment of a three-part series to guide their analysis of the first African-Americans on the...
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Activity
Ziptales

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: The Mystery of the Children of Hamelin

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Which is more likely: 130 children followed a magical piper out of Hamelin and disappeared forever, or that they died of the plague? Or could they haveĀ escaped from Hamelin via a secret tunnel to Transylvania? Learners investigate...
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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

Peter Pan: Teacher Resource Guide

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
What are some of the pros and cons of staying young forever? With the Peter Pan resource, learners discover the magical world of Neverland. Scholars create advertisements that promote eternal youth, and then write persuasive pitches for...
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Assessment
Stanford University

Nagasaki

For Students 9th - 12th
After mere minutes, the atomic bomb in warfare changed the world forever. Pupils use their knowledge of primary sources to complete a written assessment. The assessment requires learners to identify the event and to explain in...
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Lesson Plan
American Battlefield Trust

1862: Antietam and Emancipation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Was the Emancipation Proclamation a revolutionary document or just a military strategy? It proclaimed that all those enslaved in Confederate states would be "forever free." Logistically, though, it did little. The order, however,...
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Curated OER

1863: Shifting Tides

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The victory at Gettysburg is forever immortalized in the famous speech given by Present Abraham Lincoln. Designed for secondary pupils, an interesting lesson plan explains how 1863 was a pivotal year for the Union. Academics explore the...
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American Battlefield Trust

Civil War Battle Strategy

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
But for a fluke, 1862 could have gone differently during the Civil War. When Union troops found Robert E. Lee's battle plans for critical engagements in Maryland wrapped around cigars and tossed aside, history changed forever. Class...
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Interactive
DocsTeach

Analyzing a Photograph of Amelia Earhart

For Teachers K - 2nd
Amelia Earhart forever changed the idea of who could be pilots. The activity helps young academics examine a photo of Amelia Earhart to understand what it tells individuals about the past. Scholars participate in group discussions and...
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Curated OER

Reader Response

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders reflect upon different concepts of Language Arts while reading literature. In the novel Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt, the characters discover a spring of eternal youth. After reading the first several chapters of...
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Curated OER

Forest Friends Forever

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate how to use the senses to gather information about objects such as size, shape, color, texture, sound, position, and change (qualitative observations are utilized throughout this lesson). They investigate and explain...
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Curated OER

Fractals Forever or Obvious and Hidden Order

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss ways computers use properties of similar figures to generate scale models and create scenes. they describe patterns they have seen on a fern, pineapple, or pinecone. Students research Benoit mandebrot, H. von Koch and...
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Curated OER

Dive Into Reading

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners observe and demonstrate various reading strategies to improve their reading fluency. The teacher first models smooth speech. In pairs, pupils take turns reading from the book Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea by Cynthia...

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