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Blake Education

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

For Students 3rd - 12th Standards
The motto for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry warns that one should never tickle a sleeping dragon, but learners will definitely be tickled by the activities in a packet of materials designed to accompany a reading of the...
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Curated OER

Back-to-school ESL Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners share their countries and languages, flags, cultural identity, and pride in home culture.
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Curated OER

How Do You Say Hello?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students access an online resource to study how to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic. They complete a worksheet telling how to say hello in these three languages before practicing the proper pronunciation of each.
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Curated OER

Eggs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders examine a variety of information about eggs. They complete a class KWL chart, and read "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Eggs Are Hatching" by Monica Incisa and discuss the fictional and non-fictional aspects of each book. In...
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Curated OER

Connecting Families through Folk Stories and Fairy Tales

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners engage their families to write down a folk story from their primary language. In this family literacy lesson plan, students rewrite the story or fairy tales in English. Parents and learners are invited to present the stories in...
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Curated OER

Word Wake

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Put your common writing errors to rest with this resource, which prompts high schoolers to create eulogies and tombstones for overused and incorrect words. They work on correcting common errors in spelling and usage mistakes in their own...
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Curated OER

Metaphor

For Teachers 9th - 11th
High schoolers identify the distinction between literal and figurative language with a focus on metaphors. They complete a metaphor analysis chart, then practice expanding metaphors by composing their own comparisons of elements of the...
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Curated OER

Debating for Land

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover about the varying attitudes and definitions of land ownership held by Native and European Americans. They study a variety of primary documents from the nineteenth century.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mother Language Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Mother Language Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences,...
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Curated OER

No More Accordion-Style Teaching - Addressing Different Learning Styles

For Teachers 1st - 6th
There are ways to address different learning styles in the classroom that can be motivating for all students.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Half of Europe's Citizens are Bilingual

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English activity, learners read "Half of Europe's Citizens are Bilingual," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Curated OER

GENDER BIAS IN LANGUAGE

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore how to make their language gender neutral.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Readers are first introduced to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by making a map of Africa. They will better understand the novel's historical and literary contexts, European and African literary traditions, and how historical events...
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Curated OER

Whose Rock Is This Anyway?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners will seek to understand the events at Pipestone Quarry and what may have caused them. Pipestone Quarry in Pipestone, Minnesota, bears the mythic red Sioux quartzite called Pipestone or Catlinite.
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Curated OER

Newspaper for Inner City School

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars use their writing skills and digital cameras to produce a newspaper. They write about school events, class projects, items of interest, culturally-related issues, and interview students. Young scholars edit digital images...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Multimodality: The Five Modes of Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the five modes of communication: visual, linguistic, spatial, aural, and gestural along with examples of each.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Rome's Influence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan which has students understanding the impact that Rome had on history, from things as diverse as city planning to our everyday vocabulary.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 17: Irony Made Understandable

For Teachers 9th - 10th
One of the more difficult literary concepts to teach is irony, especially ironic point of view. Not only do students often miss the subtle linguistic clues, they become distracted by the issue of author's intent. Whether it's the classic...