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Federal Reserve Bank

Lesson 2: In the Aftermath

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Don't wait for a crisis to get your finances together. An economics instructional activity demonstrates the importance of understanding crucial documents, banking basics, and financial tools with the focus on Hurricane Katrina in 2005...
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Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

Parts of Speech Pre-Test: The Building Blocks of Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Help your learners get a good grasp on grammar. An insightful pre-test allows teachers to learn about their young writers' knowledge of the building blocks of grammar, so they can begin building a unit of study. It includes a...
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Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

Parts of Speech Adjectives: Building Blocks of Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How do you describe a jellyfish? Individuals write adjectives for Nomura's jellyfish, take notes, and check understanding with a formative assessment. Notes include the definition for adjectives, guiding questions to help writers...
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Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District

Parts of Speech Verbs: Building Blocks of Grammar

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Pupils begin with a brain teaser, take notes, and formatively check understanding with a Chinese proverb. In addition to parts of speech, the resource also includes information about parts of a sentence. Teachers may extend instruction...
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Curated OER

Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a unit of lessons examining the cultural context of the novel, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' They write a critique of the novel, compare/contrast two published critiques, and explore various websites.
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Curated OER

The Final Word

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Although this instructional activity is based on “Final Word,” Craig Wilson’s USA Today column, the strategies could be adapted to any local columnist. After reading three articles independently, groups share observations about content...
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Indiana University

Asian Literature: “The View in Spring” by Du Fu

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Over the course of the lesson, your pupils read and analyze a translated eight-line poem from the Tang Dynasty written by Du Fu, a poet caught behind enemy lines during the An Lu-Shan rebellion (755-763). Literary/historical context is...
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PBS

Team Work and Planning

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Welcome to the Great Marshmallow Challenge. To conclude a unit study designed to help scholars develop teamwork and collaboration skills, groups are charged with developing a free-standing structure using only one marshmallow,...
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Curated OER

Abigail’s Daily Life

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Young scholars continue their analysis of Abigail Adam's letters looking in this lesson plan at what they reveal about her daily life and concerns about the increasing political tensions with the British.
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Curated OER

Teaching Strategies: The Word Wall: A Tool for Beginning Readers and Writers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in various activities through the school week involving the high-frequency words on their word wall in order to increase familiarity with reading and spelling the selected words. In this word wall instructional...
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Curated OER

Power and the Communication of Values in West African Art of the Past and Present

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine art from West Africa from the past and present. In groups, they compare their community to the one depicted in the artwork and note the similiarities. To end the activity, they discuss the concept of power and how...
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Curated OER

Designing Another Juilliard

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate the vision and history of the Juilliard School. They develop a personal mission statement, watch a video, conduct Internet research, and create a PowerPoint presentation about a fictional school that also promotes...
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Curated OER

That's Not Fair!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students complete an art project with either great or mediocre supplies and discuss how fair it was that they got the supplies they got. In this fairness lesson plan, students are given supplies by their teacher and discuss how unfair it...
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Curated OER

The Photogingerbread Connection

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students draw pictures of themselves. They mail the picture of themself to the teacher prior to the start of the school year.
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Curated OER

Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read the book Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken and do language arts activities based on the book. In this language arts lesson plan, students read the book given and do language arts activities that include taking a class pet...
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Curated OER

The Essential Brick

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils examine their position within their school and discuss qualities they need to be productive citizens outside of school. they culminate the unit by writing an autobiography that includes the concepts of responsibility, choice, and...
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Curated OER

Reflecting On The Past, Looking Towaards The Future

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils engage in a lesson that is concerned with the formation of a multimedia presentation to create a documentary of a middle school. They take photographs with a digital camera and use computer software to create a school project.
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Curated OER

Pride in Diversity - Our Similarities and Differences Make Us Strong

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners find similarities and differences between themselves and a partner using a digital photograph to illustrate them. They use Multimedia Lab to create a multi-grade interactive multimedia presentation using the digital photos,...
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Curated OER

Papunya Dot Paintings

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners create examples of Papunya Dot Paintings using brushes, tempera or acrylic paints, dowel rods, and paper in this Art lesson for any grade or ability level. Examples of Papunya Dot Paintings are included as resource links.
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Curated OER

London

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, young scholars listen to a podcast about London. They find words in the text that have a similar meaning to the 8 listed words and phrases. They answer 7 comprehension questions. Students finish a cloze...
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Curated OER

Greek Vase Painting Project

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Young scholars create authentic Greek paintings on clay tiles using knowledge learned about Greek art and painting techniques. This instructional activity is highly adaptable and can be accomplished in less than a week if focus is...
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Curated OER

RAINSTICKS

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create a rainstick from recycled materials and begin learning about the "nature" of the rainforest.
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Curated OER

Berlioz the Bear

For Teachers K - 1st
Young children read the story, Berlioz the Bear and complete various reading and writing activities. They learn about fiction and non-fiction, and complete graphing and writing activities for the story. Youngsters draw the bear and use...
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Curated OER

Social Studies: A Quiet Protest

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the protest by Gallaudet University students concerning the hiring of a new school president. They investigate laws related to protests and present their findings to the class in a multimedia show, oral report, or debate.

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