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Hands On Network

Passion into Action

For Students 9th - 12th
Find your passion. Find service opportunities. Decide how to serve. An instructional packet offers step-by-step directions for getting involved in community service. The practical suggestions and helpful worksheets make what may...
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DiscoverE

Safe Landing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Watch out below! Future engineers come up with methods to ensure that a ball in a cup stays in the cup even after dropped from a given height. It might be prudent to include some kind of shock absorber in the cup. Parachutes are a good...
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University of North Carolina

Verb Tenses

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Twelve categories of verbs exist in the future tense, ranging from simple present to future perfect progressive, but only three have a place in academic writing. Those three tenses make up the content of an informational handout that...
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Biology Junction

Water, Solutions, pH, and Buffers

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
What common chemical includes safety warnings for being harmful if swallowed or inhaled, causes serious eye damage, and needs to be cleaned up immediately if spilled on the floor? Surprisingly, the dangerous chemical turns out to be...
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K12 Reader

From Nomad to Farmer

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
The gradual evolution of the earliest settlers in North America from nomads to farmers is the subject of a reading comprehension learning exercise that asks kids to answer a series of questions using information provided in the reading...
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Curated OER

Finding the Main Idea

For Students 8th - 9th
Thar she blows! An excerpt from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick provides the text for an exercise in finding the main idea. After recording the main idea of the passage, readers also provide two supporting ideas. An answer key is provided.
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Curated OER

Find the Main Idea: O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

For Students 7th - 9th
An excerpt from Willa Cather's O Pioneer's! provides learners with practice in finding the main idea and supporting details in a narrative. As readers record the bleak details on the included graphic organizer, they can conclude that...
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Curated OER

Science-Related Field Trips That Won’t Break the Bank

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Try some of these tips to put a new spin on the old field trip favorites.
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NASA

Climate Change Inquiry Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With global temperatures on the rise faster than ever recorded, the effects of a heating planet could be devastating. Allow learners to discover just what the world is in store for if the warming continues through a series of videos, a...
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Illinois Elementary School Association

Improv Exercises

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Here's an eight-page packet that describes 70 different improv activities to use as warm ups for drama classes. 
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Federal Reserve Bank

Income Taxes

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Most adults dread April 15 — tax day! Tax preparation can be intimidating even for adults. Build confidence by leading individuals through the process and then give them a scenario to practice. The exercise uses tax vocabulary to give...
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K5 Learning

Liza's First Spelling Bee

For Students 4th Standards
Learners read about Liza's first spelling bee before answering six reading comprehension questions. Skills include identifying similarities, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and answer questions based on explicit information in...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Understanding Variation

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Does where we live influence how our bodies express genetic traits? Explore variation in human skin color with an activity that incorporate video and hands-on learning. Individuals model the relationship between phenotypes and genotypes,...
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

Rachel Carson and the Modern Environmental Movement

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Scholars analyze the environmental movement started in the 1960s. Through excerpts from Rachel Carson's books as well as diary entries, they take a look at the reason for the modern movement to save the planet and then create final...
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Curated OER

Neat Feet

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students view a video and discuss different kinds of feet found in the animal kingdom. They make prints using paint, rubber stamps and their own feet and then measure and compare the tracks.
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Curated OER

The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students make binoculars to reinforce fine motor skills. In this fine motor skills lesson plan, students use colorful materials such as toilet paper rolls, craft paper, crayons, glue, scissors and yarn to make binoculars. By doing this...
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Curated OER

Cinquain Poems

For Teachers 2nd - 10th
Students write five-line, diamond shaped poems that are very easy to write then submit one through an automatic PIZZAZZ form.
Worksheet
Curated OER

World Wetlands Day

For Students 7th - 8th
In this World Wetlands Day worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct words, unscramble words and sentences, put sentences in order, write discussion questions and conduct...
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Curated OER

Spiders Live Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the different habitats of spiders.
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Curated OER

4th Grade Math Quiz

For Students 4th
In this grade 4 math quiz activity, 4th graders complete a 15 question multiple choice quiz covering a variety of grade 4 concepts. 
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Curated OER

Fourth Grade Mathematics Quiz

For Students 4th
For this math worksheet, 4th graders complete multiple choice questions about multiplication, bar graphs, rounding, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Curated OER

Ruler and Magnifying Fun

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate objects using rulers and magnifying glasses. They record their observations using a data-recording sheet and write a characteristic for each item they observe. They use the ruler to solve math problems.
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Curated OER

Tree Identification

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list four ways to identify trees. In this tree identification instructional activity, students use tree identification techniques such as leafs, bark, wood grain, soil type, and climate to create tables and graphs.
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Curated OER

A Bug's Journey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine the artwork of John Baldessari that was inspired by a 16th century drawing of a beetle. They analyze a drawing of a beetle, discuss the insect's characteristics, and write a story from the perspective of a bug....

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