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Anti-Defamation League

Sixty Years Later

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Has any progress been made in desegregating schools since 1954's Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education? To find out, class members examine charts and graphs representing U.S. schools' racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic...
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K20 LEARN

From Apples To Oranges: Examining Literary Devices

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Make learning the definitions of literary terms memorable with a fun and engaging activity. Teams of scholars are given several terms and create an acrostic poem with simplified definitions and examples.
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Anti-Defamation League

“They Don’t Know Me”: Exposing the Myths and Establishing the Facts about Immigration

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers engage in a lesson that teaches them to distinguish myths from facts about United States immigration. Class members take an immigration quiz, watch a "What Would You do" video, and discuss how they could be an ally to...
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Anti-Defamation League

‘Migrant Caravan’ and the People Seeking Asylum

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The controversies surrounding migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. have recently been a hot topic. To understand some of the issues involved, young scholars investigate the Migrant Caravans of 2018. A 10-page packet, including photos, a...
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Anti-Defamation League

Who Was César Chávez?

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Scholars complete a KWL chart to indicate what they know about Cesar Chavez and then research what they want to know about this farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist. To complete the lesson, scholars research modern civil...
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Anti-Defamation League

Dealing with the Social Pressures that Promote Online Cruelty

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Why do people engage in cyberbullying? What can be done about it? These are the questions middle schoolers consider in a very timely lesson. Participants view PSA announcements, read a case study, and participate in scenarios designed to...
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Curated OER

Reduce and Reuse

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners conduct a lunch waste audit by recording each item they throw away at lunch. They graph class lunch waste. They use this information to devise a plan of action to reduce lunch waste. There is also an activity to make paper.
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Curated OER

A Waste Not Picture Frame

For Teachers K - 12th
Students reuse old puzzles with missing pieces by painting the remaining pieces and using them to make a picture frame. They embellish the frame with other recycled items.
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Curated OER

Are you going to eat that?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils identify and define composting. STudents compare and contrast aerobic and anaerobic composting. Students illustrate the benefits of composting and other methods to reuse, recycle, reduce, and respond. Pupils identify through...
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Curated OER

Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore environmental awareness through reusing materials. For this environmental awareness lesson, students use trash to create a "trashasaurus," a large dinosaur sculpture made from waste. Detailed structure and papier-mâché...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Waste Not, Want Not

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils determine what materials are able to be recycled. In this environment protection lesson plan, students read The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle and discuss landfills. They are given an item to decide if it can be recycled. They...
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Curated OER

Earth Day Snack Cup Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students plant a seed in a decorated left over yogurt cup. In this planting lesson plan, students reuse a yogurt cup that they would have thrown away, decorate it with wrapping paper, put dirt in it, and plant a seed.
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Curated OER

Corn An A-Maizing Plant

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders consider the uses of corn.  In this agricultural lesson, 5th graders examine corn as a natural resource and discuss the many ways to reuse the grain.  A variety of activities, books, and web resources are included...
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Curated OER

Recycling!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore environmental awareness by participating in a recycling activity. In this sustainability activity, students identify methods in which things can be reused, such as paper. Young scholars utilize aluminum foil, a...
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Quadrilaterals Pack 1

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Thirteen different quadrilaterals make up this page of shapes with endless possibilities to learn and discover. 
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K12 Reader

Fix the Story with Antonyms

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Readers correct a paragraph, providing antonyms for words printed in bold print so that the paragraph makes sense.
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PB Works

The Cay Word Wall

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Support your learners as they read The Cay by Theodore Taylor with a word wall. This resource includes 50 words from the book. All the words are printed in large font, and some of the words are paired with images.
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Collaborative Learning Project

Punctuation Games

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
It might not be "Conjunction Junction" but your school room will rock with this punctuation game. Game rules, templates, and background information are all included in the packet.
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Teach Your Children Well

Spinning a Web

For Students 1st - 3rd
Lisa Trumbauer's big book, Spinning a Web, provides kids with an opportunity to practice word sequencing, to use correct punctuation, and to develop comprehension skills with a cloze reading evercise.
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Curated OER

Formal and Informal Language Resources

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Yo! Check it out. Here's a lesson on formal and informal language. And the packet includes a game. What fun!
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K20 LEARN

Barbie™: Blessing Or Curse? Style, Format, And Genre

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
How does a writer's choice of genre, style, and format impact the effectiveness of an argument about a social issue? After reading a poem and an essay about Barbie dolls, class members choose a social issue important to them, select a...
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Curated OER

Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students research ways to conserve and reduce energy and resources. For this reducing waste lesson, students work in teams to experiment with water and losing resources. students brainstorm about ways to conserve and reduce energy and...
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Curated OER

Trash Check

For Students 8th - 10th
In this trash worksheet, learners keep track of all the trash they accumulate in one day. They categorize the trash into groups including recycled, reusable, hazardous waste and food scraps. They brainstorm as to how they can reduce the...
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Curated OER

Think Green

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils experience and practice compositing and recycling through hands-on-activities. They distinguish between which items from their trash can be recycled, composted and reused. The process for making recycled paper is also covered in...

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