Curated OER
A Rainbow Under the Sea: How Do Animals Survive in the Ocean?
Second graders, with adult help, create a PowerPoint presentation on a selected ocean animal.
Curated OER
Everybody Needs Somebody
Students brainstorm feelings words and discuss what causes us to have feelings. Using artwork, they discuss how different artists show feelings and emotions. Using the internet, they research how other cultures express their feelings and...
Curated OER
Michigan Symbols
Third graders are introduced to the symbols of the state of Michigan. Using the symbols, they discuss how they represent the differences in Michigan's environment. They use various websites to collect their information and share it with...
Curated OER
Virginian Contributors
Students examine the contributions of native Virginians to the United States. For each person, they read excerpts of a book about their contributions and organize the information in a chart. In groups, they become an expert on one of...
Curated OER
San Francisco, Ahoy!
Fifth graders analyze paintings that share a common theme of San Francisco as seen by some of the first travelers who arrived there. In this art history lesson plan, 5th graders consider the experiences involved with the arrival to a new...
Curated OER
The Cuisenaire Four-Pan Algebra Balance: Limitations and Suggestions
Young scholars illustrate the concept of balancing equations using a Four-Pan Algebra Balance. In this balancing lesson, students visualize why it is necessary to add or subtract the same quantity on both sides of an equation when...
Curated OER
Parts of a Crinoid
Learners study the parts of a crinoid. In this parts of a crinoid lesson, students look at pictures of a crinoid fossil or examine an actual fossil if one is available. They match names to pictures of the parts in the second part of the...
Curated OER
Favourite Things Bingo
In this ice breaker game worksheet, students will find other students with the characteristics listed on the bingo card, such as favorite color and food. A teacher guide is included.
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Poetry
Students read poems from the book Runny Babbit and do language arts activities based on the book. In this language arts lesson plan, students read poems from the given book and do activities that include a word finder, rhyming...
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Ellis Island
Students explore immigration. In this U.S. history immigration lesson, students complete and read a mini-book about Ellis Island.
Curated OER
A Look at My Teeth
Young scholars examine their oral hygiene. In this oral hygiene lesson, students examine tooth x-rays, molds, and specimens. Young scholars create a record of their own teeth.
NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Making Talking Books [Pdf]
Talking books are ones created on the computer using digital photos and pictures with accompanying audio. This manual gives instructions in how to create them easily using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. The booklet was made to support...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Compound Probability Simple
This lesson plan asks learners to find all the possible outcomes from a compound event. Students will create a powerpoint, booklet, or foldable to demonstrate their understanding of the methods for solving compound events. It also...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Beginning Reading Instruction
Research-based programs for beginning reading instruction provide comprehensive, well-organized instructional plans and practice opportunities that allow all students to make sense of reading. It offers two free downloads: Beginning...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am Poems
Students will write and illustrate I Am poems. An I Am poem is an 18-line, three-stanza poem which students write about themselves, or a real or fictitious character. When all students have presented their poems to their classmates, the...
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of General Medical Sciences: Inside the Cell
Very good science e-book that details why cells are the fundamental unit of life and why our health depends on what happens within the many different cells that make up our body. Each chapter is presented separately and the book can also...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geological Institute: Evolution and the Fossil Record
The American Geological Institute has done an excellent job of defining and explaining evolution in this online booklet. Darwin, fossils, natural selection, and change over time are some of the concepts that are covered. Make sure to see...
Other
In Pursuit of Freedom & Equality: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Teachers and students can find a comprehensive summary of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. Learn about the myths and find out the truth. The activities offered are especially meaningful. Students can perform a...
Other
Book Units Teacher: Teaching Comma Rules
Lots of ideas for teaching Grade 5 students about commas. Includes an anchor chart showing the comma rules they need to understand, four videos, an idea for making a comma rules booklet, and links to additional resources.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Promoting Vocabulary Development
This site provides a free download of the Promoting Vocabulary Development publication. The booklet is divided into three parts: Obstacles that make vocabulary development difficult, Components of effective vocabulary instruction and how...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Producing and Consuming
Lesson that helps students understand the difference between producers and consumers. Students create booklets, making them producers, and then use the booklets to complete the lesson, making them consumers.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mercalli Scale Illustrated
In this activity, students will learn about the Mercalli Scale for rating earthquakes. Also, students will make a booklet with drawings that represent each rating of the scale.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Magnitude of the Richter Scale
In this activity, students will learn about the Richter Scale for measuring earthquakes. The students will make a booklet with drawings that represent each rating of the Richter Scale.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's Inside a Pumpkin?
As part of a study on pumpkins, young scholars will discover what's inside a pumpkin by observing a pumpkin, making individual booklets, and tasting baked pumpkin seeds.