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Curated OER

World Hunger

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discover the benefits of balanced nutrition. In this service learning lesson, students read Beatrice's Goat and create a poster featuring the Heifer International Project.
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Curated OER

What is Justice?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss justice and fairness. In this equitable treatment of others lesson, 8th graders say the Pledge of Allegiance and read a passage from a blog. Students discuss the terms: fair, just, and equitable. 
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Curated OER

Creating Volunteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the benefits of volunteering. For this creating volunteers lesson, students consider philanthropic actions and opportunity costs. Students create a song and visual aid about being a volunteer.
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Curated OER

Polite Listeners and Traffic Rules

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students consider the necessity of rules. In this citizenship lesson plan, students consider the reasons for rules and they complete traffic light activities.
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Curated OER

Classic Hero

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss hero tales. In this character education lesson, students identify heroes from the movie Star Wars and explain how the hero showed courage. Students reflect upon their own definition of courage and present it to the class.
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Learning to Give

Heroes with Heart

For Students 8th
This resource provides a lesson that will have learners explain how women and minority figures worked for the common good of their community.
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Curated OER

Building a Structure With Legos: Oral Communication and Process Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Illustrate the importance of specific details and clear directions. Sitting back-to-back, partners take turns building a Lego structure and giving directions to their partners to create an identical structure. The subsequent discussion...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Identifying Setting: Expository Writing

For Teachers 6th
Your class can take turns describing a well know location or setting without giving its name, and the rest of the class can try to identify the location, based on the details given.  They chart the elements that helped in the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Angles Activities

For Students 5th - 8th
A series of geometry worksheets have mathematicians constructing, dissecting, overlapping, and measuring as they analyze angles in various contexts. Learners use symmetry and reflections in a compass rose to write instructions on...
Writing
Curated OER

Like Water for Chocolate: How-to Narrative Essay

For Students 10th
Connect Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate to student experience with this how-to narrative essay. Writers weave the instructions from their own family recipe into a narrative using sensory details. This assignment sheet includes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Como Se Hace...?

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students work in groups to give step-by-step instructions to the rest of the class about an activity of interest. They write presentation proposals, research the activity and then draft and edit a presentation. Students present their...
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Curated OER

Conventions - Punctuation Research

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Study unusual punctuation marks in this punctuation instructional activity. Young grammarians work in small groups to research one of the unusual punctuation marks (semi-colon, colon, dash, comma, ellipses, or quotation marks) and...
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Curated OER

Keeping students engaged after standardized testing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Instructional strategies and lesson ideas to keep students excited about learning, while reviewing and preparing for the next grade level.
PPT
Curated OER

Aim: Can I Identify and Use Imperative Verbs?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Different types of verbs are presented in this PowerPoint. Learners discover that imperative verbs are often used when writing instructions. For example: "First, fold the card in half, then cut a small slit," is a sentence that uses two...
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DiscoverE

My Friend Robot

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Can you do better than a robot? Teams write instructions for a hypothetical robot to build a structure. They test their instructions by acting them out to see if they produce the desired structure.
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Curated OER

Is That Your Final Answer?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
This unit on integers includes a pre-test, a post-test, four spreadsheets, and links to an interactive web-site to support the learning of integer operations. Access to computers and the Internet are imperative to this unit. The lessons...
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School City of Hobart

Too Many Types Of Titles

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Direct instruction on punctuation rules for titles is followed by collaborative practice in class. Two worksheets with aesthetically engaging graphic design provide practice. For 12 examples, small groups either underline, italicize, or...
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Weebly

Definitions of Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Students 6th - 8th
There's quite a bit in this physical science packet. First, how is heat transferred? Learners read a brief explanation of conduction, convection, and radiation before identifying common occurrences (with pictures) as one of the three....
Lesson Plan
FloridaHealth

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Invite that hungry caterpillar to teach your class about nutrition! After brief instruction on fruit, the teacher reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to the class. Kids hold up the fruit images at appropriate points in the...
Handout
Fun Music Company

The Harmonic Minor Scale

For Students 2nd - 12th
The harmonic minor scale, including the use of accidentals, is the focus of a one-page worksheet that includes instructional information and practice exercises.
Activity
Pearson

End-of-Year Portfolio Guidelines

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Go beyond a traditional end-of-the-year survey and have your middle school pupils compile a portfolio of work illustrating their progression as a writer. 
PPT
Positively Autism

"When Mom is on the Phone" Social Skills Story

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
How should youngsters act when their parents are on the phone? Using the story slides in this resource, your learners will discover the importance of not interrupting a parent's phone call and how to whisper or play with toys quietly.
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Common Core Sheets

Using Order of Operations

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
With two versions and an answer key, this order of operations worksheet is easily accessible for most learners to practice their skills. 
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ReadWriteThink

Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Plagiarism, copyright, and fair use are the focus of a three-part instructional activity designed to inform scholars of how to properly cite others' work. First, pupils use a KWL chart to begin thinking and...

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