Curated OER
Ask Personal Questions
For this personal questions worksheet, students practice asking each other questions to complete a profile analysis. Students ask and answer 20 questions.
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Family Tradition And History
Second graders investigate personal family traditions with objects brought to class that represent personal history. The objects are shared with the class during sharing time. The goal of the lesson is that students would recognize there...
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Designing Families
Students design a tee shirt that depicts some aspect of their family history.
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Goals
Students discuss their goals for the short and long term. They develop plans to help them achieve their goals. They bring all of their plans together and publish it in a school newspaper.
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Jumbo Butterfly
Students duplicate butterfly designs. They use jumbo sizes to develop an awareness of designs found in nature. Students construct a butterfly house to share with their classmates.
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Modeling Forest Fires Using Probability
Young scholars explore forestry. They discuss creating fire breaks to control forest fires. Students create models to determine the best way to manage forest fires. They discuss current techniques of forest management.
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What Did He Say?
Students practice the use of Subjunctive I and II. They then analyze a text to find Indirect Discourse and practice writing sentences in Indirect discourse. For homework, students find an online article written this way in which they...
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Primary Sources
Students write personal facts on a photograph of themselves to create a Primary Source. They then define Primary Source and list examples as a class of places where they could find primary sources. They also discuss the importance of...
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South Asians in Canada: Unity through diversity
Ninth graders explore the elements of culture and their role in a multicultural society. In this World History lesson, 9th graders examine the concepts of diversity.
Curated OER
Letter Writing Accuracy, Name Tags
Students build writing accuracy by making classroom name tags. In this writing accuracy lesson plan, students review the usage of writing uppercase letters Students also practice the usage of lowercase letters. Students recall the...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Sports/hobbies: Pronunciation/sonidos
This Spanish-speaking ELL tutorial practices sound recognition - contrasts short "ch" and "j" sounds as in "choke/joke". Great interactive listening comprehension exercises reinforce teachings. Site has a "Teacher's Lounge" for suggested...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Microscope | Hobby Shop
In this activity, students use a virtual biology lab to perform investigations and learn lab procedures using compound and dissecting microscopes to look at a variety of animal and plant cells.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Oveta Culp Hobby 1905 1995
Elected to both the Texas and National Women's Hall of Fame, Oveta Culp Hobby led an accomplished life in politics, in the military, and government. here you can learn about her journey.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Sports/hobbies
Great tool from Ingles Mundial for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: Sports and Hobbies. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Oveta Culp Hobby
A biography of Oveta Culp Hobby, who lived from 1905-1995. She helped to create and became the director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. Trained as a lawyer, she was also active in various government posts and as...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Sports &Hobbies (Telling Time)
Spanish-speaking ELLs can read a short sporting activities schedule and test themselves using interactive comprehension exercises.
Other
Lixls Kinderseiten Im Netz: Youth Groups
Prof. Andreas Lixl's Kinderseiten Home Page offers links to youth groups, activities, schools, games, hobbies and interests for all ages. Easy to read for beginners.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp
This website chronicles the stamp designs of the past. There are images from the Arts, Stamps with a Story, Athletics, American History, The American Scene, American Legends, Love, Flora and Fauna, Norman Rockwell, Science and Technology...
Other
Museum of Web Art
A fascinating site devoted to art and graphics used on the world wide web. Explore the best in buttons, banners, counters, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Stupid or Smart?
This video clip highlights several dangerous hobbies/past times and asks students to explain if they would do any of these and why.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: An Interview With Thomas Jefferson
"What do you think Thomas Jefferson was like as a person? What were his interests and hobbies? Where did he go to school? Imagine yourself as a reporter in 1826, about to interview Mr. Jefferson at Monticello, his home."
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cuneiform Tablets: Backstory
The looting and illegal sale of important historical artifacts is detrimental to global cultural heritage for many reasons. This article explains the ramifications of this illegal activity using the Hobby Lobby case as an example.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Jane Yolen Biography
Discover more about the award-winning Caldecott author Jane Yolen when you explore this site. This resource provides a biography, interview transcript, booklist and more.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Russia Sports and Recreation
An article about popular sports and recreation in Russia. Includes information on some of the most famous Russian athletes and chess champions.