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PBS

Family History: Those with Lofty Ideals

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Would you stand up for your beliefs, no matter the cost? Scholars investigate their own families to uncover examples of how and when someone stood up for their ideals. Using video clips, interviews, and eulogies, they come to understand...
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Curated OER

The Lightning Thief: Directed Reading-Thinking Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Before diving into the engaging tale of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, conduct this directed reading and thinking activity. Assess your pupils' knowledge of Greek gods and mythology through a knowledge web,...
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Curated OER

Running Out of Time: Vocabulary Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Review concepts and terms after reading Running Out of Time. Learners each come up with a few terms that they think are important and then participate in a list-group-label exercise, paying close attention to the two main years featured...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Let’s Count!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers K Standards
Counting is the theme of this compilation of ESL lessons. Through listening, speaking, and moving, your young learners take part in a variety of activities to enhance their English proficiency such as making menus and books,...
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Curated OER

Compare and Contrast Versions of a Story

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Compare and contrast reading passages with the ever favorite story of Cinderella. The versions in focus include an Italian version and a Native American story followed by three questions designed to share similarities and...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

That’s Amazing!: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 4th Standards
Follow a teach, practice, and apply routine to provide extra support with a themed unit created by Houghton Mifflin. Topics include compound words, noting details, action verbs, suffixes, compare, and contrast, verbs, fantasy,...
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Science Matters

Earthquake Preparedness

For Teachers 6th
Forty-five states and territories in the USA are at moderate to very high risk of earthquakes. The discussion-based instructional activity covers what to do before, during, and after an earthquake. The 14th instructional activity in...
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Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Decisions and Consequences

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Teach young learners that most drug addictions end in one of three outcomes: treatment, jail, or death. After watching a short video segment on the consequences of drug abuse, class members discuss what they viewed and consider what...
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Generation Rx

Medication Safety Patrol: Trivia Game

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
It trivia time! Small groups work collaboratively to answer questions all about medication safety. Groups earn points with each correct response, and as the ultimate game changer, they wager all or a portion of their points on one final...
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Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

Responding with Kindness Role-plays

For Students 6th Standards
Thank you. Excuse me. I'm sorry! Pupils watch a video about encouraging things people should say more often. Next, they work in small groups to develop a role-play based on a difficult situation. They perform their role-plays for the...
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Thoughtful Learning

Seeing Emotions in Body Language

For Students K - 5th
Scholars test their skills of reading body language with a collaborative learning experience that focuses on showing and identifying emotions. Pairs take turns acting out an emotion, one uses body language while the other guesses what...
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EngageNY

Summarizing Notes: Planning a Graphic Novelette, Part III: The Invention of Television

For Teachers 5th Standards
How did the television change people's lives? Learners consider the question as they complete their storyboards about the invention of the TV, adding visual elements along the way. Then, they participate in a peer review to offer and...
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Micron Technology Foundation

Early - Weather and Seasons

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young scientists from any region can take a scientific journey and be exposed to weather changes that include rain and snow.
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August House

The Hidden Feast

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
What is a proverb? This is the leading question of this resource. First, explore proverbs and their meanings. Then, read aloud The Hidden Feast: A Folktale from the American South by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss and partake...
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Curated OER

The Old Man and the Sea: Directed Reading Thinking Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can you find the themes from Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea in other books? What about picture books? Compare the novel to a picture book with a lesson about making predictions and finding textual evidence.
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American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

Welcome to My American Farm!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Take a step into the virtual farm world and explore the impact farming has on our everyday eating habits. Future farmers discover the meaning of agriculture and the hard work that goes into providing food for us to enjoy. A computer...
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Scholastic

Building Trust in a Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Check out these three great trust-building activities that will help your young learners understand the importance of safe, trusting relationships and environments.
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Curated OER

Maniac Magee: A 5th Grade Literature Guide

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
There's no need to run around trying to plan a unit for the book Maniac Magee, the work has already been done for you. Through a series of whole class, small group, and independent lessons and activities, students practice...
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Make Take Teach

Sight Word Assessment and Progress Monitoring

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Keep track of your pupils' progress with sight words. Included here are nine handy lists of Dolch sight words as well as tracking worksheets that you can use when assessing each learner.
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Really Good Stuff

Compound Word Addition

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Sometimes you can add two words together to make one longer word! Practice doing just this with your class with the worksheets and activities included here. The main goal here is to look at an image, name it, and figure out the two words...
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Mojang

Minecraft – Pocket Edition

For Students 4th - 12th
You don't have to be a Minecraft wiz to know that this app has great playability for your learners! As afterschool programs and classroom projects around the world demonstrate, this game goes well beyond placing blocks and traditional...
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Read Theory

Analogies 3 (Level 6)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Positive and negative may be opposites, but what does that have to do with the words clean and filthy? Ask your pupils to consider word relationships as they complete the 10 analogies presented here. Note that the exercise gradually...
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Read Theory

Analogies 1 (Level 7)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Analogies are a great tool for teaching word relationships. For this worksheet, learners complete 10 analogies using the bridge sentences provided to help them make the correct connections.

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