Curated OER
Extended Families
Students examine the various combinations that contemporary extended families take on. They identify how strong communication skills are important to the health of the family after reading a an excerpt from a first-person fictional journal.
Curated OER
What's Your Sign?
Students practice recognition of common street and safety signs and discuss what happens if these signs are ignored.
Curated OER
Panther in the Basement
Students produce an ongoing journal in which they relate their personal response to literature. They examine the theme of the rights of the individual versus the whole. They explore conflict in Panther in the Basement.
Curated OER
Bookmaking
Students make and assemble parts of a book, read and respond to classmates' work, read aloud from their own book of poetry. They use the writing process and written language skills, participation in fine arts experiences, appropriate and...
Curated OER
Vocabulary Evaluation and Practice
Eighth graders are introduced to new vocabulary associated with communication. In groups, they discuss how they memorize vocabulary words and the importance of a large vocabulary. To end the lesson, they complete a vocabulary test.
Curated OER
Meeting our Basic Needs
Young scholars brainstorm the basic needs of the community and create a chart. In this volunteerism lesson plan, students recognize people in the community who have given charity in the community. Young scholars read biographies of these...
Curated OER
Reading Between the Lines: Making Inferences About Idioms
Students discover idioms. In this inferencing lesson, students identify idioms from passages and infer meanings of unknown idioms using prior knowledge and experience. Students write sentences using newly learned idioms.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Working With Bilingual Parent Volunteers
Advice about how to start a group of bilingual parent volunteers at your school to work in mainstream classrooms and with first-year English language learners.
Patrick McSherry
Spanish American War Centennial: Private Oscar Hochstadter: 71st New York Volunteer Infantry: Letter
Spanish American War era letter written by Private Oscar Hochstadter, 71st New York Volunteer Infantry to his parents, providing a glimpse of life on the eve of battle.
Patrick McSherry
Spanish American War Centennial: Sherman Wyre: 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co H, Writes Home
Letters written by Sherman Wyre, who served in Company H of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, writes home to his parents with details of his well-being.
Other
Points of Light Institute: Generation On
Developed with the intention of making the world a better place, Generation On is a global project giving children service learning opportunities. Resources for teachers, children, teens, and parents are included.
Other
A Checklist for an Effective Parent School Partnership
Site provides six standards for parental involvement in their child's education. The standard is given along with sample best practices, challenges, and results.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom Workshop: Making Family and Community Connections
Creating partnerships among schools, parents and local communities can lead to increased learning for students, strengthening their decision making skills, collaboration skills, and overall learning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digging in for Dirt Day!
This lesson is managed through stations that young scholars will rotate around every 20- 30 minutes. Each second grade teacher conducts one station. Parent volunteers can also be used to manage stations. Students will use an auger to...
Other
Nsta: E Cybermission
eCybermission is a web-based national science fair competition. Students choose a challenge topic and fill out a mission folder with their ideas. They then work online with a team to complete the challenge. Rules for the competition,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Four Steps to Finding an Excellent Tutor for Your Child
Whether your child is lost in a haze of elementary grammar rules, sinking fast in a jumble of Newton's laws in middle school, or lost in the details of an AP biology class, you need help quickly, before your child falls way behind the...
Kidsource OnLine
Kidsource: How Can I Be Involved in My Child's Education?
It's easy to say you want to become involved, but doing it is another story. Find some meaningful ways to become involved in your child's education and look through the resource organizations listed for some good contacts.