Curated OER
The Changing countryside
Students draw a poster showing the costs and benefits of opening up Britain's farmers to the global marketplace. They use a piece of A4 or A3 paper in landscape. Students draw a vertical line to split the page in two. On the left...
Curated OER
Poetry Calendar
Students research the work of famous poets. They design and create a school year calendar based on the work of famous poets. Students research five poets born during each month.
Curated OER
Immigration to the United States
Students examine the reasons why people immigrated to the United States. Using maps and charts, they analyze population movements and religious affiliations. They discover how the United States became a lesser Protestant country.
Curated OER
Go For the Gold! For Grades 3-5
Students use web technology to investigate ancient Greece and the Olympic Games. They explore the history of the Olympics. Students make connections between Greek and English. They make and record a persuasive speech and write a...
Curated OER
Water Facts And Media
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the facts surrounding water. They conduct research using a variety of resources to gather facts for the game of trivia. The information is used also to create a group presentation.
Curated OER
Write to Music
Students improve their creative writing skills. In this writing skills lesson, students learn about picture captions, story writing, critiques, poems, reports, letter writing, creative writing, and a rap poem.
Curated OER
Wheat Berry Sprouts
Students prepare a wheat berry sprouts sandwich and discuss digraphs. In this wheat berry sprouts lesson plan, students circle the digraphs in the recipe for the wheat berry sprouts sandwich.
Curated OER
Reintroduce /R/
Students review the sound /r/. In this phonics lesson, students practice the sound, remembering that their tongue touches the roof of their mouth and their "voice box is on." Students say the sound when the teacher points to the letter...
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Becoming Authors
Fourth graders create the illustrations for their contrbutions for the class book. The students create a tough sketch on a plain piece of paper. Once the students have a plan they begin illustrating their page, using any materials...
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Fact and Opinion
In this writing learning exercise, students identify and describe the difference between a fact and an opinion. They place the cut-up words from the house ad in the correct column to indicate if they are fact or opinion.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Looking at Numbers Every Which Way
In this lesson plan students are to read and write numbers based on the question being asked.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Ice Cream Shop: Numbers to 999
On this interactive site students learn to read two and three digit numbers, use words to write numbers, put numbers in ascending and descending order and locate place value of digits.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Write Numbers in Different Forms
Practice breaking numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a tutorial video, or receive hints.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Ensuring Left to Right Reading Daily
Left to right progression is an important focus skill for kindergarteners; we really need to help our students get used to working from left to right every time! This lesson is something easy you can do to remind your students to start...
Read Works
Read Works: Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes" discusses how they study volcanoes to learn how they work. It is part of Paired Texts: "Volcanoes: Magma...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Curious George: Count With Allie
Use this game resource to foster the skill of counting and representing quantities in different ways - using real objects, drawings, words and numerals. With George and his friend Allie, children will also read and write numerals 0 to 19.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Strength in Numbers" by Bird Brain Science
A learning module that begins with "Strength in Numbers," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Turning Numbers Into Words Place Values to 1000
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to change a number into the corresponding words, with a number in the thousands including a review of place value. The video is followed by...
Read Works
Read Works: Einstein in Time
[Free Registration/Login Required] This four-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Einstein in Time" features a timeline of Einstein's life. It is part of Paired Texts: "Everyday Einstein - Lasers" and "It's All Relative" (See link above...
History is Fun
Jan Brett: Matching Numbers and Amounts Flashcards for 1 20 Pdf
Print out these colorfully illustrated PDF file pages to practice matching the number with the correct amounts. Cut the cards into two parts. One side has the number while the other side has an illustration with an object that shows the...
History is Fun
Jan Brett: Number Pages 11 20 Pdf
Print out these colorfully illustrated PDF file pages for each of the numbers 11-20. Each card shows the numeral, the word and clever art work that shows the amount for that numeral.
History is Fun
Jan Brett: Number Pages 21 30 Pdf
Print out these colorfully illustrated PDF file pages for each of the numbers 21-30. Each card shows the numeral, the word and clever art work that shows the amount for that numeral.