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Nemours KidsHealth

Screen Time: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Two engaging activities encourage teens to turn off their screens and tune into healthy activities. Learners use a tracker to assess their daily screen-time habits, read several articles about the value of exercise, then research the...
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National Woman's History Museum

Fannie Lou Hamer and Social Activism

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Not all heroes wear capes. An impactful lesson focuses on the life and activism of Fannie Lou Hamer during the civil rights movement. Scholars read her speeches and other material, participate in group discussion, and complete a jigsaw...
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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Leaving Home Forever: What Would You Put In Your Suitcase?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Scholars put themselves in an immigrant's shoes to decide what items they would take on their journey to a new home. Learners read primary sources, take part in a whole-class discussion, and make a list that they share with their peers,...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Understanding Conflicts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The Resolving Conflicts module begins with a lesson about tolerance and learning to appreciate differences among people. Through a series of activities and games, middle schoolers learn that conflicts arise when people have opposing...
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Curated OER

On-Line Homework Help: An Ethical Dilemma

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a visual thesaurus and Vocabgrabber to interpret a news article. In this vocabulary building and comprehension lesson, students analyze quotes from the article. Students use the visual thesaurus and Vocabgrabber to interpret...
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Curated OER

Up, Up, Up The Banana Tree

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding, chunking and rereading, students complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed...
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Anti-Defamation League

Identity-Based Bullying

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What is identity? What is bullying? What is identity-based bullying? After discussing these questions as a class, pupils engage in partner discussions before participating in a small group activity to act out bullying scenarios. Then,...
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Curated OER

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Request Strategy

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Model for readers how to develop effective questions with a request strategy for questioning. Text-explicit, text-implicit, and experiential based questions are the focus. Step-by-step instructions are included for the strategy that...
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Curated OER

Holiday Homework Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this holiday homework challenge worksheet, students participate in completing nine mini homework assignments for a prize when they return from the holiday break.
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Curated OER

Holiday Homework Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this holiday homework challenge worksheet, students participate in completing nine mini homework assignments to receive a prize when they return to school after the long holiday break.
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Curated OER

Reading Review for Grade 2 (2.1)

For Teachers 2nd
In this reading review for grade 2 (2.1) worksheet, 2nd graders answer 25 multiple choice questions in standardized test format about comprehension of 7 passages.
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Curated OER

Critical Reading- Air Pollution and Asthma

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read two different articles which present the scientific issue of asthma, the causes, and the rising rates in our society. Students read for facts and examine whether or not the scientists have a political point of view....
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Curated OER

"Potato Mountain": Reading/Understanding Topographic Maps

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate how to read topographic maps.  In this map reading lesson students complete a topographic map activity. 
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Curated OER

Promoting Fluency and Accuracy Through Planning, Telling, Transcribing and Noticing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students promote fluency through planning and noticing language through transcribing and correcting recorded anecdotes. They provide opportunities for long turns in speaking and give intensive listening practice.
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Curated OER

"Thou hast set me on the rack": A Dramatic Reading of Iago's Most Poisonous Lines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students select and analyze quotations from Othello, and do a dramatic reading to illustrate the power of Iago's most poisonous words.
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Curated OER

Homework Help In A Hurry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover strategies for getting immediate help with their homework, including online sources in which an adult is available for assistance. They work through a simulated situations in which they visit one of these sites to gain...
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Curated OER

Circle of Gold Guided Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils participate in a variety of Guided Reading activities including comprehension questions, discussion, prediction, characterization and inferring meaning while they read Circle of Gold by Candy Dawson Boyd.
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Curated OER

Read To Feed

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read to accumulate pledge money to purchase a heifer for a needy family. In this reading for the needy instructional activity, students solicit pledges from family and friends for each book they read. They use the money from the...
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Curated OER

Speak: Questioning Strategy - ReQuest Strategy

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
The best way to analyze a piece of literature is to ask questions about the characters, plot, and theme. Encourage your learners to stump the teacher with the most difficult questions they can create using Bloom's Taxonomy and various...
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Curated OER

The Tempest: The K-W-H-L Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does your class want to know about William Shakespeare's The Tempest? Host a discussion about the questions high schoolers have about the play with a KWHL activity in which they write down their inquiries, what they...
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EngageNY

Point of View: Comparing Esperanza's and Isabel's Perspectives About Life in the Camp (Chapter 7: "Las Cebollas/Onions")

For Teachers 5th Standards
Explore point of view and more with a Common Core-designed instructional activity. Learners experience different points of view by representing one of two characters from Esperanza Rising during a partner discussion. They must use...
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Scholastic

Lesson 2: Values and Barriers

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Scholars investigate and discuss the importance of values and how they can be used to break barriers. Small groups work collaboratively to examine the text and draw inferences to answer questions. A writing assignment challenges pupils...
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Curated OER

Another Backpack Idea- The Button Bag

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners receive activity bags to bring home and share with their families. They are excited to have "homework" and they accomplish several skills by completing the activities within the bags. This is great for special needs students.
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Curated OER

"Seeing Things With Parted Eye."

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Student read a section of Shakespeare's, Julius Caesar to identify the context. In this Shakespeare lesson, students discuss a section of Julius Caesar to determine how Cassius feels about Antony. They work with a partner to develop a...

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