Curated OER
Local Retreats
Students consider how their favorite local places might be interesting spots for visitors. They investigate and write articles on these locations to examine what their community has to offer and to create an Unlikely Tourist's Guide to...
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Celebration Symbols and Their Meaning
Students develop a symbol that represents something they wish to celebrate or include in a celebration of their choosing.
Curated OER
Combining Coins to Make Equal Monetary Amounts
Third graders determine how to make equivalent amounts of money using different sets of coins. For this money lesson, 3rd graders review money vocabulary and coin values before determining how to count bills and coins in different sets...
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Trash a Pizza!
Students investigate data about America's trash production. In this environmental lesson, students use statistics about what we throw away to create an art pie chart project called a "trash pizza."
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Just Graph It!
Students research presidential election voting results, and organize and interpret data on class graphs.
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Nothing Goes to Waste Here: Saw Mills in Action
Students examine lumber mills operate and their efficiency. In this saw mill lesson students view a PowerPoint presentation then feel different grades of lumber to see how rough sawn lumber is.
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Wetland Safari!
Students identify how humans, fish, plants, birds, insects and other wildlife benefit from wetland environments. They observe a wetland and its inhabitants, draw a migration map that represents how birds use wetlands in traveling long...
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: The Fifty States
The New York Times Learning Network presents an online crossword puzzle that you can print or play online. This one is on The Fifty States. Subject matter may be a bit deep for an elementary student to work on independently.
A&E Television
History.com: The States
Learn unique facts about each American state. You can also read a more in-depth history of each state, watch videos and play a game about all the states.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fifty States Project
Learners will follow simple research steps in the school media center and on the Internet to complete a poster on an assigned state by identifying the state's symbols and agricultural products.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Pop Art in the Us
This collection uses primary sources to explore Pop art in the US.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Finding the Slope of a Line
This lesson will use a slide presentation to facilitate teaching students how to find the slope of a line when given the graph of the line or two points. Students will interact with the presentation in two ways: first, by taking notes...
Curated OER
States and Capitals of the u.s.
A free software program to help students learn the states and capitals of the United States. Works on Windows. Click on "Download U.S. Map Puzzle" to receive instructions to install game and actual download link.
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: Wildlife Watch
Folks are observing the effects of global warming by identifying the wildlife creatures they see in their local states. Check out the interactive map that highlights the observations in each of the fifty states. Learn how to become a...
iCivics
I Civics: Oregon Treaty (1845)
Students explore how and when we got the present day border between the United States and Canada. They learn how it happened, what tensions were involved, and how Native Americans were affected.