Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sentence Writing and Parts of Speech

For Teachers 6th - 9th
For this sentence writing worksheet, students are given sentences with the words out of order and must put them in order so the sentence makes sense. Students are also given adjectives and must divide them into positive and negative...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Question Words

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL instructional activity, students focus on words used to create questions.  Students complete 19 fill in the blank and short answer questions using words that are commonly put into question form when asking about...
Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Balancing Mobiles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, students will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They will learn to classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile. Students will explore...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Bedtime Mobile Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a bedtime mobile to discuss healthy sleeping habits with your learners! Site includes instructions for making the mobile.
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Nature Mobile

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a pre-k or lower elementary activity. Students take a nature walk, collect things and hang them on a mobile.
Article
World War 1

Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Italian Political and Military Mobilization in the Great War

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides a discussion of the role played by the state in organizing the war effort both in terms of marshaling the troops to the front as well as mobilizing the society and the economy.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Catherine, Called Birdy

For Students 3rd - 5th
Cross-curricular online resource on the book "Catherine Called Birdy," by Karen Cushman. Includes discussion questions and engaging learning activities.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Democracy in Amer: Interest Groups: Organizing to Influence

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit probes into the role political interest groups plays in both complicating and influencing public policy making in America. Offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
Handout
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: Wartime Mobilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the short-term problems and long-term successes in mobilizing troops from Pennsylvania to fight in the Civil War. Included is information about the discussion of allowing blacks to serve in the war.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Acceleration With an Android

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students conduct an experiment to study the acceleration of a mobile Android device. During the experiment, they run an application created with MIT's App Inventor that monitors linear acceleration in one-dimension. Students use an...
Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Dinosaurs Eggs Phonics

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A game for students to practice elementary vocabulary and spelling. Choose from a list of patterns. Listen to the word and choose the egg that correctly spells the word that was said. Receive a certificate with words you know well and...
Article
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center: Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the findings from a research study on how teens use popular social media and social networking sites. The study looked at the different sites, tools, and apps that are being used, with Facebook ranking the highest. It also...
Website
World Health Organization

World Health Organization: International Emf Project

For Students 9th - 10th
The World Health Organization probes into the feared associations between electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and cancer. Check out "What is EMF?" for detailed summaries on what electromagnetic fields are and the possible health effects, or...
Website
Other

Canopy Network: National Center for Educational Documentation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A resource to digital, television, and mobile support educators throughout France's school systems.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Android App Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop an app for an Android device that utilizes its built-in internal sensors, specifically the accelerometer. The goal of this activity is to teach programming design and skills using MIT's App Inventor software (free to...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mars Rover App Creation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Based on their experience exploring the Mars rover Curiosity and learning about what engineers must go through to develop a vehicle like Curiosity, students create Android apps that can control LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, simulating the...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work through an online tutorial on MIT's App Inventor to learn how to create Android applications. Using those skills, they create their own applications and use them to collect data from an Android device accelerometer and...
Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Shark Numbers

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shark Numbers is a mobile-friendly place value game. The learning objective of this game is to know what each digit in a 3-digit number represents, (for ages 5-8).
Interactive
Room Recess

Room Recess: Skill: Context Clues

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Play this online learning game by using context clues to click on the work that best completes each sentence.
Article
University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame: The Story of the Steel Seizure Case [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how President Roosevelt used his presidential powers to prohibit labor strikes during World War II. Scroll to page 4 of this PDF to read this background information which is part of a discussion about President Truman's...
Website
University of Washington

University of Washington: Equal Access Computer Labs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As increasing numbers of people with disabilities pursue educational opportunities that require computer use, accessibility of computing facilities becomes even more critical. The key is simply equal access. Everyone who needs to use a...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: What Do We Know About Who Drops Out and Why?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students decide to drop out for many reasons. This overview classifies the reasons as either status (e.g., age, socioeconomic status, geographic region or mobility) or alterable (e.g., grades, disruptive behaviors, school climate,...
Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Funky Mummy

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Funky Mummy is a mobile-friendly number facts game. Play this game to practice quick recall of addition, subtraction and multiplication facts.
Article
PBS

Pbs Kids Design Squad: Take a Look

For Students 3rd - 8th
See how a new mobile phone technology is helping people receive basic eye exams.