Activity
Curated OER

Through My Eyes...How I See Relationships

For Teachers 8th - 11th
For this relationships worksheet, students read shorts stories about relationships and then analyze the relationships in their own lives. Students then tell a visual story about their relationships using photographs from their lives.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where Did My Lunch Come From? A U.S. Regional Tour

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore the regions from which their food comes. In this social studies instructional activity, students identify the different agricultural products that are found in the major regions of the United States. Learners create a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Life On The Oregon Trail

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the concept of the Oregon Trail. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The class divides into different groups to take a different aspect of the research. Then the groups present the findings to the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson on Ethnic Discrimination

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study ethnic discrimination. In this discrimination lesson, students define ethnicity and ethnic discrimination in the global community as well as steps against it. Students examine their own ethnic backgrounds and examine...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discover Ways to Further Classify Matter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students analyze and classify substances.  In this classifying matter lesson, students look at various substances and identify them as heterogeneous or homogeneous mixtures, pure substances, or solutions.  Students bring...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Forces and Masses and Motion, Oh My!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore how varying force and mass effect the motion of an object.  In this motion lesson students participate in a class activity and demonstrations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spark (A Variation on Sparkle Spelling Game)

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in a game in which they practice their spelling words, in which each student adds another letter to the word. They are given the chance to rejoin the game if they miss a letter.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Artist as Entrepreneur: Getting Down to Business: What's My Market?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners create a marketing plan for their artwork by analyzing their potential customers. They consider the type of art they wish to produce, the price range for the art and the type of competition that they face then develop a low...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Whole Lotta Shaking Going On

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explore earthquake activity in California. They observe the historical data and create databases and graphs of the earthquakes. Students analyze the data and form a hypothesis about future earthquakes.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting Started with the TI-Navigator™ System: What's My Rule?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Students explore linear relationships. In this sixth through eighth grade mathematics lesson plan, students explore the symbolic representation of verbal descriptions of mathematical rules defining the relationship between two variables.
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Curated OER

Meet Danitra Brown Lesson on Friendship

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners discover the qualities of friends. In this character education lesson, students read the poem "Coke-bottle Brown" by Nikki Grimes. Learners then discuss the Golden Rule and how it applies to friendships. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

COME INTO MY PARLOR

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners interpret a map scale to measure the space in a milking parlor. They reveiw the process of using a map scale to calculate distances. Students are given worksheets, they read the information in the box together. They draw an...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Focus on Problem-Solving: Explain Your Answer: Problem Solving

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this explaining answers worksheet, students read the word problem about a passenger helicopter and its speed abilities. Students use the understand, plan, solve, and look back method to solve the problem and then explain how they...
Worksheet
Curated OER

My Tarantula Book

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this tarantula worksheet, students complete a tarantula book that has activities including a word search, coloring, reading, and more. Students complete 11 pages.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

My Farm Web

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the role of agriculture in everyday life. In this agriculture instructional activity, students read books such as Harvest Year and identify products which from from the farm. Students fill in a word web using the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Exercise on Future Simple: Going To

For Students 4th - 5th
In this grammar activity, students complete a ten question online interactive exercise pertaining to the correct use of the future simple tense "going to".
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Curated OER

Cell, Socks, and Sex

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Donate old socks for science! Young biologists model mitosis and meiosis, using socks as chromosomes and a balloon as a nucleus. This ingenious idea for modeling cell division will be more memorable to your young biologists than any set...
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Silly or Sensible?

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Is it silly or sensible? That's a great question, and it's the question that will drive this entire lesson. Learners with special needs and visual impairments work together to analyze verbal information. The instructor makes a statement,...
Worksheet
Prestwick House

The Crucible

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Characters and events in The Crucible provide the clues for a crossword puzzle that asks readers to demonstrate their knowledge of Arthur Miller's allegorical play.
Website
American Museum of Natural History

Being an Astronomer: Neil deGrasse Tyson

For Students 6th - 12th
An interview delves deep into the life of famous astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson. 
Worksheet
Teach-nology

The Terrific Taxi

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
What would you wish for if you were granted one wish? Kids read a story about a taxi that bestows wishes upon its passengers in a short cloze activity. They use ten words at the bottom of the page to fill in the blanks throughout the...
Activity
101 Questions

Representative Sample

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
At what point does data switch from being an outlier to part of the average? Scholars view conflicting news articles about protesters. They must decide which, if any, side is using the correct sample to draw their conclusions. It's a...
Lesson Plan
Novelinks

Touching Spirit Bear: Question Answer Response Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What types of questions help readers learn the most? Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders learn how to ask four types of questions from the Question Answer Response (QAR) reading strategy to help grow their comprehension of Touching Spirit...
Lesson Plan
Weebly

Author Study: Eric Carle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Dive into an author study of one of the most beloved children’s book authors, Eric Carle. After reading some of his stories, including Papa Get me the Moon, A House for Hermit Crab, The Grouchy Ladybug, and The Very Busy...