Prestwick House
Into the Wild
Chris McCandless's life, adventures, and untimely death is the subject of Jon Krakauer's nonfiction work, Into the Wild. A thorough crossword puzzle includes quotes, characters, and key details from the book as clues.
New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park
What would change in your daily life due to a power outage? Here, learners explore the inventions brought to us by the one and only, Thomas Edison, and imagine a day without them. Scholars take part in a grand conversation and write a...
Lee & Low Books
Classroom Guide for Sacred Mountain: Everest
The most famous climbers of Mount Everest could never have made it to the summit without the assistance of the local Sherpa. Christine Taylor-Butler's nonfiction children's book Sacred Mountain: Everest is the focus of an extensive...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Person to Person: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 4)
Help language learners understand words and cultural concepts. The second installment in a series of three language development lessons designed to accompany Theme 4: Person to Person helps bridge the gap for language learners by...
University of North Carolina
Poetry Explications
Explication may sound like a fancy word, but it's just a fancy way to say analysis. Using a handout on poetry explications, part of a larger series on specific writing assignments, writers learn how to break down and analyze a poem. The...
Reed Novel Studies
A Single Shard: Novel Study
Fulfilling a dream requires a lot of hard work. A study guide for the novel A Single Shard shares the dream of a young Korean orphan. As readers work through the guide, they answer comprehension questions about Tree-ear and the other...
Reed Novel Studies
Theodore Boone - Kid Lawyer: Novel Study
A child lawyer is exactly what people need ... not! With the novel study for John Grisham's Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, pupils use their imaginations to create their own examples of sarcasm. They also research a chosen famous lawyer and...
British Council
Much Ado About Nothing
An interactive introduces English learners to William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Pupils watch a short animated version of the play, match character names with images from the video, and put sentence strips in order.
PBS
Reading Adventure Pack: Building
Scholars become architects in an engaging unit on building structures. The Reading Adventure Pack features Roberto: The Insect Architect by Nina Laden and Construction Zone with photographs by Richard Sobol and text by Cheryl Willis...
Curated OER
ESOL Obtaining Employment
Students discuss what experience is needed for each job on a list of careers. They discuss skills needed for each job on the same list. They identify verbs in both the past and present tense associated with each skill. They work in...
Curated OER
Natural Resources Coloring
In this natural resources worksheet, students color the picture and label the natural resource. Students then list some products for which the resource is used.
Curated OER
How Body Parts Work
In this body parts worksheet, students draw a smiley face if the sentence correctly states a fact about a body part. Students draw a sad face if the sentence is incorrect. Students look at the pictures and list 3 body parts that are...
Curated OER
What is a Dictionary?
Second graders explore the purpose of a dictionary. In this library media lesson plan, 2nd graders explore My First Dictionary and identify guidewords, entry words, and captions. Students list ways they can use the dictionary.
Curated OER
Daily Journal Topics: My Community
In this social studies worksheet, students study their community by keeping a journal of writing. Students color the cover picture and use the lined paper which has room for a picture for daily writing. There are 10 thought-provoking...
Curated OER
Habitats Activity
In this habitat activity, students identify and sort the animals in a box of animal crackers to the habitats to which they belong and then create a graph to document how many animals fit into each habitat.
Curated OER
Values: Read and Reflect
For this values worksheet, 3rd graders will read a passage about a boy who is nervous about an oral presentation. After reading the passage, the students will choose from a list the main value demonstrated in the story and tell why it is...
Curated OER
Amazing Birds!
In this science/bird learning exercise, students research, analyze and illustrate how to categorize birds, list facts about birds, and draw a picture of a bird.
Curated OER
Homophones Activities 1-5
For this language arts worksheet, students discover that homophones are words that sound alike. Students complete 5 activities with homophones: matching words to pictures, completing sentences, explaining differences between words and...
Curated OER
Ocean Worksheet - Practice Counting
In this counting worksheet, students will determine the number of starfish pictured by counting and then identify the correct number form a list of four numbers.
Curated OER
Silent Letters 1 and 2
In this identifying words with silent letters worksheet, learners observe pictures and partially spelled words to fill in the blanks with the silent letters to complete the spellings and copy lists of words and circle their silent...
Curated OER
Hey Mr. Snowman!
In this winter-themed coloring worksheet, students color the picture of a snowman as they follow the set of 5 instructions listed on the page.
Curated OER
Tracing First Words - Lion
In this printing practice worksheet, students trace the word lion 5 times, print the word lion 10 times, then read a list of 8 words and circle the word lion. A picture of a lion is provided.
Curated OER
Spelling Connections: Grade 2: Number Words
In this spelling activity, students analyze a picture of a park scene and notice the animals and insects. Using number words, students fill in the blanks in a story about how many creatures are in the park. There is no word list.
Curated OER
Classroom Vocabulary
In this classroom objects online interactive worksheet, students view 7 pictures of objects found within a classroom. Students choose the multiple choice answer that properly names each object. Students find the 8 classroom objects...