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Brigham Young University

Understanding the Research Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The second lesson in a unit on set design focuses on the importance of historical and stylistic research. Working in teams created in the previous session, groups consider what resources they will use as they consider design concepts for...
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US Department of Agriculture

Agriculture Counts

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Agricultural survey and the documentation of livestock or goods was the basis for the first written language. Youngsters discuss sorting and counting, and how these skills have been used for thousands of years. They accent their class...
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Film English

We've All Been There

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does empathy look like? Encourage your pupils to put themselves in another person's shoes with several writing and discussion activities that relate to a featured short film. Over the course of the lesson, individuals collaborate...
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Azusa Pacific University

Historical Landmark Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Close a unit or the year with a five-step research project. Class members choose a US landmark, research the landmark, compose a report about it, build a model of it, and present their model and findings to the class. Each step is...
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Film English

Serial Taxi

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Explore the murder mystery genre through film, discussion, and writing. The plan features several activities centered around a two-minute video that include collaboration, writing, and prediction. After the lesson, individuals write...
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Film English

My Shoes

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Engage your pupils in short story and short film. Using a still from the film as inspiration, pairs compose short stories, which they later share and compare with other members of the class. They then watch the film and respond to a...
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Curated OER

First-Day-of-School Activity: The Kissing Hand

For Teachers K - 2nd
Looking for an interactive back to school activity? Start by reading the book The Kissing Hand, and having your class discuss their feelings about the first day of school. They trace their hand onto paper, cut out the paper hand, paint a...
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Film English

Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Some emotions are indescribable, but sometimes you have to try! After brainstorming adjectives that describe emotions, pupils watch a quick film, at first with no sound. Partners share their adjectives and come up with descriptions for...
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Curated OER

"Tape Murals"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This is a really neat idea! To practice line variation and hatching, young artists create masking tape murals. They brainstorm a list of hot high school topics, then they get into small groups and begin sketching. Once they have their...
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Curated OER

Going on a Lion Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a canteen and binoculars before reading, Going on a Lion Hunt.  In this reading lesson, students reenact the story they have just heard by using the props they have created.   
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Curated OER

A Potting We Will Go

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students read A Tree is Nice and It Could Still Be a Tree. In this tree planting lesson, students compare and contrast private property and common resources. Students identify the needs of a tree and follow the directions to plan a tree...
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Curated OER

Going Up and Down

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to and compare music to gain understanding of melodic direction in song, discuss types of movement in song, sing song while moving to it, and create movements that show pitches of melody moving upward, downward, or...
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Curated OER

Can you think of pictures that will tell a story about rice?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use pictures and letters to create a rebus. In this writing sentences lessons, 1st graders analyze sample rebuses as a class and read a rice rebus independently. Students make three rebus sentences. Students play a rice game.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Getting to Know You

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find.
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Curated OER

Which Way Did He Go?

For Students 5th
In this visual thinking worksheet, 5th graders determine which of three routes that Max should take to get to a party by noon. Students answer 10 fill in the blank questions relating to different amounts of time and miles.
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Curated OER

Something Fishy Going On

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a video animation of how Swimmy gathered his fish friends together to form a great big fish that would frighten the predator tuna away. In art class each child create a small red fish which gets displayed in the ocean...
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Curated OER

"Flip-it" - Where Do I Go From Here?

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders interview themselves reflecting on various topics.  In this self-reflection lesson, 12th graders video tape four different interviews throughout the year of themselves discussing various topics, with the last prompt being...
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Curated OER

Go Fly a ( Tetrehedral) Kite!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars research the tetrahedral kites invented by Alexander Graham Bell. In this components of flight instructional activity, students examine the kites made by Bell and his team. Young scholars create their own kite and add them...
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Curated OER

If You Could Fly, Where Would You Go?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore story quilts. In this cross curriculum literacy and art lesson, students listen to the story Tar Beachand discuss the art form of story quilts as used by Faith Ringgold. Students sketch their own "Where Would You Fly?"...
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Curated OER

Go, Johnny, Go!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners become familiar with the story of Johnny Appleseed by reading, singing and creating a Johnny Appleseed hat. For this Johnny Appleseed lesson, students understand that Johnny Appleseed was a philanthropist and gave unselfishly of...
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Curated OER

An Introduction to Opera: The Emperor's New Clothes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to opera, its vocabulary, definitions and are given an opportunity to listen to an opera sung by children. They identify phrases and events in the story, "The Emperor's New Clothes." Each student creates a...
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Curated OER

Oh, Go Fly a Kite!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research and report on aspects of kites including: history, types, building and flying kites. They use Inspiration Software as a graphic organizer. They use gathered research to complete informational booklets.
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Curated OER

The Gift of Life - Day 2: "Cell & Organelle Time to Tell" and "World in Color" (Chapters 2-4)

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete a cell biology lesson and a color lesson based on The Giver. In this biology and reading comprehension lesson set, students examine cells using microscopes. They look at the organelles and listen to How Much is a...
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Curated OER

How Owly And Wormy Became Friends: Using a Silent Comic To Inspire Creative Writing

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students view a wordless comic before using it as a story starter. They access a story that uses the same characters at a website in order to better understand the nature of the characters. They write a story inspired by the comic and...

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