Curated OER
Help the Frogs
In this frogs and numbers activity, students match the five numbered frogs to the same number of bugs by drawing a line from one to the other.
Curated OER
Lesson PlanThe Huexotzinco Codex
Students examine primary sources that include pictographs from Puebla, Mexico. In this Huexotzinco Codex lesson, students perform historical analysis as they investigate the codex as they make inferences and draw conclusions about taxes...
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What America Knew About the Holocaust?
Learners examine American involvement in World War II. In this World War II lesson, students discuss the Holocaust and its implications. Learners read New York Times articles regarding the treatment of Jews during the war. Students infer...
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The Pauper and the Pop Star
Students examine international adoption. In this current events lesson, students investigate international adoptions as they visit selected websites to educate themselves about the topic. Students then discuss their findings.
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School Day
Students participate in a lesson that involves writing a persuasive essay. They use the prompt of "extending the school day". The paper should contain correct elements of sentence structure with clear purpose that is supported with...
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Risky Business - Or Not!
Learners explore the concept of the stock market. In this stock market instructional activity, students discuss the stock market and how it works. Learners hypothesize what makes a stock price go up or down. Students watch a short...
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Creating Multimedia Reviews with Glogster
Young scholars use Glogster to create online reviews of books and films. In this online review lesson, students use the website to create an interactive poster that reviews a film or book. Young scholars make comments and given feedback...
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How to Protect Your Money
Students review the basics of investing. They discuss saving strategies and investing fundamentals. Afterward, they consider a scenario from different investment perspectives.
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Internet: Introducing Email
Students discuss the use and misuse of email and identify six new technology terms. After opening a word document, they experiment with fonts and sentence writing before pasting it into their email. The lesson concludes with students...
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Traveling Around Nebraska
Students analyze a current or historical photograph from their textbook and as a class complete a worksheet of the analysis. Using the Photographic Analysis Form, they locate and analyze two transportation photographs and use the...
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Driving Down the Highway: Billboards in Nebraska
Young scholars review photos of billboards from Nebraska highways. Using these billboards as examples, students design a billboard promoting a city in Nebraska.
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John Lawson's Emigration Impact: Short Essay
Students review John Lawson's writings to discover the impact they had on emigration to America. Using the writings, they analyze the influence of them and review the early settlement of the colonies. They write their own essay sharing...
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Tile My Bathroom Floor
Seventh graders create a bathroom floor plan using measurement math. In this measurement lesson, 7th graders use measurement, proportionality, estimation, and area to design a floor plan. Students design floor tiles using centimeter...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson introduces rules...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Accountable Talk Introduction
Learning to engage in collaborative conversations allows children to learn about their world, to become familiar with words, and to build a solid foundation for the development of reading and writing skills. This lesson will model...
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life
Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Accountable Talk
In this lesson, young scholars will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Financial Literacy
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Using Your Checkbook: Eastside Literacy Program
Show your student how to correctly write a check, fill out a deposit slip, and use a check register. Introduce the concept of balancing a checkbook. Requires the ability to add and subtract decimals, sign one's name, write number words,...
Other
Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Compare Perspectives
A short explanation of the difference between a firsthand account and a secondhand account.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
In Cures for Heartbreak, Margo Rabb writes a fictional account of a 15-year old girl whose mother dies just days after being diagnosed with melanoma; then her father falls ill, too. Using vignettes - many appeared elsewhere as short...
Careers New Zealand
Careers New Zealand: Media Producer
An informative page on the career field of a media producer. Content discussed includes general tasks and duties, educational requirements, personal skills needed, working conditions, expected salary, and job outlook. Also given is a...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Corporation: Income Statement Case Study
This case study uses information from the Disney company to reinforce knowledge about corporation income statements. Additional activities in this case require Internet research.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...