Curated OER
Planting Phil's Garden
Students study how to care for plants. In this plant care instructional activity, students observe a plant care demonstration and examine flowers using their senses. They listen to Janet Wakefield's, What If Everybody Gave? They complete...
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Famous Americans
Students investigate famous Americans. For this American history and research lesson, students choose a famous American to research, collect information from a variety of sources, and create a related PowerPoint presentation.
Curated OER
Carla Bruni
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Carla Bruni and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
In this Alice's Adventures in Wonderland activity, students check their reading comprehension as they respond to 10 short answer questions covering chapters 1-12.
Curated OER
Figure This
Second graders identify congruent figures and match shapes using transformation. They work in groups, utilizing a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice identifying congruent shapes.
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Fame
In this fame instructional activity, students, with a partner, research, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with fame and all that comes with being famous.
Curated OER
"Big Enough" Lesson Plan
Students gain awareness and knowledge about Dwarfism by watching and responding to a film.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 5-11) to pair with "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry. Number the Stars is historical fiction set during WWII in Nazi occupied Denmark. 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen risks her life to help the Rosens,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Set in 1943 when the Nazis occupied Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen is asked to carry out a heroic deed and aid her uncle in his efforts to smuggle Danish Jews across the sea to Sweden, where they will be safe. She has already...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Stars 1 5
[Free Registration/Login Required] Making sets of stars to match the numbers 1-5.
Lone Star Junction
Lone Star Junction: Baseball Cards of Early Texas
Describes two of the earliest baseball card sets ever produced, and the associations to Texas that each had. These were issued in 1910.
Other
Wilbers: Columns on Parallel Structure
This unusual site actually is a set of articles that first appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, not exactly the place one would expect to find a discourse on parallel structure. Not only is there an interesting discussion of why we...