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Career Solutions Publishing

It’s For Real Workplace Ethics

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed Standards
Discuss the ethical and practical consequences of dishonesty at work by analyzing a hypothetical situation in which a young employee at a pizza shop is being asked by her friends for free meals.
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Curated OER

Let's Get Cooking

For Teachers 1st
First graders create food from their cultures and present food and its history with the rest of class. They read "Everybody Cooks Rice" and everyone tastes the meals brought into class. They write a paragraph describing the reason for...
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Curated OER

My Family Tradition

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners examine different family traditions to further explain social patterns. They complete a graphic organizer using educational software.
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Curated OER

Career Development (Career Skills Awareness)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help high schoolers develop career awareness. They will review their transferable skills and relate them to occupational and lifestyle choices and then apply research skills to identify the various types of work within career clusters
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Virginia Department of Education

Deciding the Mode

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Are your young writers having difficulty distinguishing between expository and persuasive writing? Discuss the difference between the two, and how some prompts can be responded to in either fashion. Included here is a simple lesson plan...
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Curated OER

Fair is Fair

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in two unfair activities to explain the concept of fairness. Then they role-play different scenarios demonstrating the idea of fairness. They discuss reasons to make rules and complete a web chart on fairness.
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Curated OER

Don't Let Pressure Get to You

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study the ways peers can pressure them on a daily basis. They watch video segments on how to better deal with peer pressure.
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Curated OER

Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson plan, students examine water as a resource as they create a water cycle poster and create a water cycle model. Water cycle game instructions are included as well.
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Curated OER

Aquifers and Groundwater

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students understand the purpose of an aquifer. In this aquifer and groundwater lesson, students build a model aquifer find its relationship to water usage. Students record observations as they build the layers of the aquifer.
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Curated OER

Food Webs in the Barnegat Bay

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate the food webs in the Barnegat Bay. In this organisms lesson, students use a graphic organizer to illustrate the types of consumers in the bay. Students use reference books to continue to research the animals found in...
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Curated OER

Who Will I Be Tomorrow?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine various careers and character traits. They create an Affinity Chart using career survey results, compare/contrast personality traits and character traits, and discuss why character traits are important for jobs.
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Curated OER

The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Ley Oppenheim

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate knowledge of what a hero does, discuss concepts of persecution and hiding, identify ways Nazis persecuted Jews, and analyze reasons and motivations that caused people to take a stand.
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Curated OER

The Art of Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze images using several perspectives or entry points. They create images and develop accompanying texts that support a specific purpose or function. Students assess the effectiveness of collected images and those of their...
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Curated OER

Visual Arts: Symbols That Stand for You!

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore symbols and what they represent. In this visual art lesson, students collect various symbols and discuss what they represent. Students create and discuss personal symbols which represent themselves.
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Curated OER

Parenting Skills

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students introduce themselves and discuss situational problems in their family.  In this family structure lesson students complete an activity on parenting and discuss different topics.
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National First Ladies' Library

Birds of a Feather: Parrots, Pigeons, Parakeets, and More

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concepts related to the extinction of birds while conduct research using the internet and a variety of resources. The information is used in order to create a class presentation or set the context for class...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Honesty

For Students 9th - 10th
What is honesty? How can you be an honest person? Find the answers to these questions as well as discussion questions, essay prompts, a self-evaluation quiz, and activity ideas.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: President's Day for Early Elementary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson for early elementary and special education students using graphic organizers/thinksheets to learn about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and honesty. Students finish by creating pop-up or pocket books about honesty with teacher...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Be a Good Citizen

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson guides students to learning about the qualities of a good citizen.
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: The Six Pillars of Character: Fairness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to be a fair person. This website lists simple things you can do to be fair to others as well as discussion questions and activity ideas through which young students can think critically about what it means to be fair.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders learn that even in the most fantastical settings, literature can teach us real lessons about life. Students explore the opposition of good and evil; the value in courage, adventure, forgiveness, and honesty; and the...