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Curated OER

Color My World Grey and Blue

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Can colors help to convey a mood in writing? Explore this question with your class using the songs "Grey Street" by the Dave Matthews Band and "Blu is a Mood" by Blu Cantrell. After analyzing the effect of the color words in these songs...
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EngageNY

Recognizing Equations of Circles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does completing the square have to do with circles? Math pupils use completing the square and other algebraic techniques to rewrite equations of circles in center-radius form. They then analyze equations of the form x^2 + y^2 + Ax +...
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Curated OER

Perceiving Place

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Learners observe how color creates the mood of a place, and generate sketches and drawings that capture their observations.
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Curated OER

Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Included in this resource are a variety of activities to do while reading Willa Cather's My Antonia. The activities, which range from mapping out Nebraska to writing activities about pioneer living, are all designed with one...
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Curated OER

Study Buddies: Part of a Set

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this math worksheet, students will work with a coach to describe a group of marbles as a fraction. Students will follow a step-by-step process and notes are provided for the coach.
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Curated OER

Telling Time to 5 Minutes

For Teachers 2nd
In this second grade lesson your class will practice telling time. The goal is to tell time to five minutes using an analog clock. Your young students count by 5 minute intervals and discuss elapsed time. 
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Visa

Nothing But Net: Understanding Your Take Home Pay

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Introduce your young adults to the important understanding that the money they receive from their paychecks is a net amount as a result of deductions from taxes. Other topics covered include federal, state, Medicare and social...
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Curated OER

Stop, Drop, Goal

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine how to resolve conflicts quickly and independently in the classroom by connecting putting out fights to putting out fire. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their role plays.
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Curated OER

Plan for Your Future

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students participate in ongoing learning experiences for future success. In this planning future lesson, students discuss training requirements for today's job market and possible future plans. Students write a description of their...
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Curated OER

Self Care Goals For Health

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners analyze potentially stressful situations to determine the degree of control an individual has over my own behaviors. They develop a behavior change plan that includes rehearsal as a means to promote frequency of replacement of...
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Curated OER

Own Goals

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students  explore steps to control football violence. In this current events instructional activity, students listen to a lecture about patriotism, policing, and films relating to British football. Students debate the efforts...
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Curated OER

Scoring a Goal with Fluency!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice a variety of strategies to become fluent readers with expression. They master the ability to read quickly and accurately and focus on decoding individual words to achieve automatic word recognition, as well as, develop...
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Delaware Health and Social Services

My Life, My Plan: Teen

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Teenagers often feel that their lives are out of their control, but in just a few short years, their futures will be entirely in their own hands. Help with the first few steps of their journey toward adulthood with a lesson about life...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Safe and Healthy Life Choices (Part I)

For Teachers 9th
As high schoolers seek to grow more and more independent, they must constantly make choices. Some options are healthy and some not so much. To begin the discussion, class members are asked to identify five safe and healthy (or...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Fatal Accident

For Teachers 11th
While there may not be any ghostbusters in the neighborhood, there are plenty of emergency response agencies ready to give support if something is amiss. To that end, instructors invite a member of an emergency response agency to address...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Put Yourself in Check

For Teachers 8th
The final instructional activity in a four-part unit on conflict resolution offers middle schoolers strategies for how to keep themselves in check when involved in conflicts. A role-play activity and a reflective journal stress the...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Relationships…Going Up While Growing Up

For Teachers 8th
The final lesson in a series of five that focus on developing the interpersonal skills required to develop and maintain positive relationships asks class members to identify their best friend-making skill. Individuals share these claims...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

A Stranger Among Us

For Teachers 8th Standards
The final lesson in the R.E.S.PE.C.T series asks eighth graders to expand their vision beyond the walls of the classroom and to consider how they can promote acceptance and respect of others within in the global community. "A Stranger...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

The Quest for Magic Minutes

For Teachers 7th Standards
A "Magic Minute" activity asks class groups to develop a commercial to advertise a way to turn a time-waster into a time-saver. Ad groups begin by brainstorming time-wasters and then problem-solve was to turn them into time-savers. After...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

Survivors

For Teachers 7th Standards
Developing a positive self-concept can sometimes be a challenge. Seventh graders engage in an activity that helps them identify their individual strengths and helps them recognize how these strengths can contribute to being a successful...
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A Perfect Fit: Finding the Right Career for You

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Class members explore possible career paths and consider their own passions and interests by researching job openings, career descriptions, and skills, as well as reading the success stories of experienced entrepreneurs.
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Missouri Department of Elementary

I Know What You Did This Summer

For Teachers 8th Standards
Developing and maintaining healthy interpersonal relationships is difficult, especially as middle schoolers begin dating. A short activity permits eighth graders to practice their skills as they consider how they should respond to a...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

The Clique

For Teachers 9th
Mean girls and bully packs are favorite topic for films and TV shows that focus on the destructive power of cliques. High school freshmen are asked to reflect on both the positive and negative aspects of cliques by reading a short...
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California Department of Education

The Next 6 Years

For Teachers 7th Standards
Six years seems like a long time when you're in seventh grade! But, graduation is closer than they think! The sixth and final college and career readiness lesson plan gets scholars focused on the courses they need to take throughout the...

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