Channel Islands Film
Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island: Lesson Plan 4
Imagine being stranded all alone on an island for 18 years. How would you survive? Class members are challenged to makes necessities out of natural materials that would likely be found on an island.
Teach Engineering
Density Column Lab - Part 1
Mass and density — aren't they the same thing? This activity has groups use balance beams and water displacement to measure several objects. The pupils use the measurements to calculate the density of the objects.
Teach Engineering
Density Column Lab - Part 2
Groups suspend objects within layers of liquids to determine the densities of different liquids and compare them to the densities of objects calculated in Part 1. The groups then carefully test their calculations by layering the...
Curated OER
Chapter 10: Racial and Ethnic Relations
In this racial and ethnic relations in America worksheet, high schoolers answer 15 matching questions and respond to 7 short answer questions regarding various racial and ethnic groups terms and issues in U.S. society.
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Compound Word Match-Up
Second graders demonstrate an understanding of compound words. They create a compound word with a partner. In addition, 2nd graders correctly use their compound word in a written sentence.
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Acronyms Used in E-mails
Students examine some common acronyms used in e-mail and at how to write e-mail.
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Farm Products Help Me Grow
Learners view a display of empty food containers (or illustrations). They select a food and decide as a class if it has an animal or plant origin. Students view a display of common farm animals that are commonly eaten (cow, pig, chicken,...
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What Would it Cost You Today?
Learners explore inflation and the role played by advertising and marketing over the years. In this financial literacy lesson, students complete worksheets, do Internet research, and create an excel spreadsheet comparing prices from...
T. Smith Publishing
The Number 1, 2, 3,, 4, 5 worksheets B
Five individual worksheets give preschoolers an opportunity to practice counting groups of animals up to the number five. Learners circle the group that has the correct number of animals as shown by a printed numeral and a domino with...
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Plate and Planet
Students investigate the health hazards of modern agriculture and how we can choose better food options. In this healthy eating lesson, students identify different indigenous people in photographs and discuss what they might eat....
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Long Vowels With Clifford
Learners recognize long vowel sounds by reading and listening to a story that highlights words with long vowel sounds. They then construct an original story. They use picture clues to aid comprehension, and match words with similar vowel...
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Classroom Objects
For this language arts worksheet, students unscramble names of common classroom items. They connect the word to an illustration of the item.
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From War to Peace
In this post World War I worksheet, pupils review a chapter as they write 5 vocabulary terms that match 5 definitions, change 3 false statements into true statements, and explain 2 historical themes regarding this time period in United...
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Counting Farm Animals
Very simply, fledgling farmers count farm animals, trace the numbers, and then draw a line to connect them to the matching set on the other half of the page. Because the correct number is listed right next to each group of animals, this...
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Engineering and the Senses: Smell
Students define the sense of smell. In this smell sense lesson plan, students review their five senses and define the importance of smell. Students practice smelling and identifying items in bags. Students discuss the importance of smell...
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BL to the Ends (blends)
Learners examine word blends. In this word blends lesson, students investigate common word blends. Working in pairs, learners analyze words containing blends and generate a word list.
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The Wonderful World of Colors
First graders imagine what life would look like in one color, then many. They play a game with colored cards where students call out the names of colors. They match colored cards with objects of same color. They read "The Color Box."
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Recycling Spelling Activity
In this recycling worksheet, students read definitions of recycling words, then fill in missing letters to complete the matching words. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Leaf Patterns
First graders explore the existence of patterns in everyday items. In this science and math integrated lesson plan, 1st graders match leaves with a name word card and organize them into four patterns. This lesson plan includes a reading...
Harvard University
The Nouns of Geometry
Socratic questioning to teach Euclidean geometry? "The Nouns of Geometry," followed by "The Verbs of Geometry," and the misfit, "A Beginner's Story - The Equilateral Triangle" are designed to encourage learners to explore various...
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Label Tables
Learners match objects to cards with the names of the objects spelled on them. Students play bingo with the new vocabulary words.
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Chinese Inventions A Selected History of Science and Invention in China
Young scholars study the history of Chinese technology by identifying when and where items were invented or discovered.
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COLORS ON THE FARM
Young scholars follow directions regarding what colors farm objects should be
colored. They identify various items pictured on provided worksheet that can be found on a farm or are made from farm animals. Finally, they match each color...
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What's In a Phrase? Finding Historical Understandings in an Immigrant Guidebook
Using a Chinese-English phrase book from the late 19th century, learners view a glimpse of life on the frontier for a Chinese immigrant. They work in groups and on their own to analyze and summarize the content of various phrases, given...