Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let the Sun Shine!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how the sun can be used for energy. They read a handout, discuss the pros and cons of passive solar building design, develop flashcard questions, and identify jobs that can be helped by solar energy.
Worksheet
Curated OER

What's It Made Of? What's It Used For?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this passive present simple verb worksheet, students in groups pick a card and practice describing the object for their group to guess what they are talking about. Students generate how big it is, what it's used for and/or what it's...
Interactive
Curated OER

The Choking Dog: Exercise on Passive Voice

For Students 6th - 8th
In this passive voice worksheet, middle schoolers change the given active sentence to passive. Students can check their answers or ask for hints.
PPT
Curated OER

Part I: Principle of Effective Writing

For Teachers Higher Ed
Designed for higher education, this 151-slide presentation focuses on effective writing techniques, specifically in scientific manuscripts. While the slides contain readable amounts of text (none are text heavy), consider spreading this...
Handout
San José State University

Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Tenses and Conjugation

For Students 7th - 8th
Present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. Past, active, indicative. Need a learning exercise that not only defines verb forms, but demonstrates how to use them? If you want a resource for class members...
Lesson Plan
Teach Engineering

Capturing the Sun's Warmth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Passive solar heating is a technology that's been in use for thousands of years. Here, elementary schoolers are exposed to this type of heating, the materials that are used in passive solar heating, and they study how engineers design...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Verb Review: Mixed Including Passive

For Students 4th - 5th
In this verbs learning exercise, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in a three paragraph text about visiting Vancouver.
Worksheet
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Passive Participles

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students will focus on the correct usage of passive participles. Students will respond to five statements, choosing the correct participle form for each.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Socratic Seminar on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Key in the struggle to gain the rights of democratic citizenship was the April 1963 arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for civil disobedience. To deepen their knowledge and understanding of events during the civil rights movement,...
Unit Plan
Film Foundation

To Kill a Mockingbird: The Filmmaking Process

For Teachers 7th - 10th
"I'll just wait for the movie version." How often have you heard that line? Transform passive viewers into active readers of visual images with an understanding of the three stages of the filmmaking process. This 28-packet packet is...
Unit Plan
Film Foundation

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: What Is a Movie?

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Watching is not the same as seeing. Transform viewers from passive watchers to active students of film with this 34-page packet, filled with lessons and activities that use Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to examine the technology, the...
Unit Plan
Crown Prosecution Service

Racist and Religious Hate Crime

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Address the current political climate with a series of thought-provoking activities. A resource packet provides pupils with strategies for challenging racist behavior and religious prejudice, and moves them from being passive bystanders...
Unit Plan
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Echoes & Reflections

Jewish Resistance

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Resistance to the Holocaust took on many forms. Learners explore the passive and active resistance of Jewish people who continued their practices and observances, as well as organized resistance against the evils of the Nazis. An...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Tom Cruise Wedding

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Scholars read a newspaper article about Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes in 2006. They define vocabulary words, complete comprehension worksheets, and analyze use of the present perfect and passive in the article. Individuals write...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Antonyms 5

For Students 9th - 11th
Develop vocabulary in your pupils. This multiple-choice resource could be used for both native and non-native English speakers. Ten vocabulary words are presented, and learners must identify their antonyms. Example words include...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading a Comparison-Contrast Essay

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Turn your passive readers into active readers with an engaging lesson on reading informational text. Focused on compare and contrast structured essays, the activity prompts elementary learners to jot down questions and think-aloud...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Integrating Target Structures

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Diffusion

For Students 9th - 12th
For this diffusion worksheet, students review the terms associated with diffusion and osmosis plus answer questions based on a passive transport lab they completed. This worksheet has 8 short answer questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Cellular Transport

For Students 9th - 12th
In this cellular transport worksheet, students review the process of osmosis and compare passive transport and active transport. This worksheet has 12 matching questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Theme Parks Around the World

For Students 4th - 6th
In this passive voice verbs worksheet, students change sentences about theme parks around the world to passive voice. Students rewrite ten sentences.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Total English Upper Intermediate: More Buying!

For Students 7th - 9th
In this passive voice review worksheet, learners examine 8 sentences and rewrite them using passive voice. Students also write a letter of complaint.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Your Immune System

For Students 7th - 9th
In this immune system worksheet, students describe an antibody and how it functions. Then they determine sources of passive immunity and how HIV affects the immune system. Students also name defenses that the digestive system has against...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Causative Structures 3

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this causative structures worksheet, students, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose which causative structure grammatically makes ten sentences correct.