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National Geographic

National Geographic: Reading a Resource Map

For Students 2nd - 5th
Students will study maps to recognize where natural resources are found through exercises provided.
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Literature Circles Resource Center: Teaching Students How to Discuss

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
Teachers are given strategies and hands-on approaches to help students prepare for a discussion and participate as active members of it.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Adding Tens to a 2 Digit Number [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Students will flip two cards over and determine the sum. Base ten blocks could be used for additional help.
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Learn My Way

Learn My Way: Using the Internet

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this online course, students will learn all about browsing the Internet. They'll learn about using a web browser to view websites, how to create bookmarks, and what copyright means for online resources.
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TES Global

Tes: Printed Quiz on 11: Plus Verbal Reasoning Hidden Word

For Students 1st - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides several word puzzles for students. When given sets of phrases, students will find four-letter words hidden within each set.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Genre Study of Letter With the Jolly Postman

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this lesson outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, students learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Who Do I Admire?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Who are our real life heroes? Learners will learn and write about inspirational women.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Listen, Look, and Learn: An Information Gathering Process

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson models an information-gathering process for primary learners as they listen to and look at resources, seeking information pertinent to the questions on an information wheel. Guiding the listening, looking, and learning...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Seasonal Haiku

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
This site is a three-part lesson that teaches students how to write and depict seasonal imagery through haiku. Students study, listen to, and create original haiku on colored backgrounds.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for eight lessons in a poetry unit that asks students to write poetry in various forms after reading models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Elementary Math Club: The Human Counting Machine

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the concept of a number as a quantity. The lesson plan includes an overview and a lesson toolkit.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Elementary Math Club: "Guess the Number" Magic Trick

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate the concept of a number as a quantity. The activity has learners convert back and forth between decimal and binary expansions of numbers. The lesson plan includes an overview and a lesson toolkit.
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PBS

Pbs: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Proper Punctuation for Titles

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This video focuses on correctly punctuating titles. Small works (short stories, essays, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) are indicated with the use of quotation marks. Larger works, such as books or movies, are indicated either...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 1.4: Sometimes a Vowel, Sometimes a Consonant:

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Spelling rules with examples for words that contain the letter "u."
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

New Zealand Government: Te Kete Ipurangi: Teaching Technological Systems

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Two teachers approached the technological systems component of the curriculum through a "simple is best" strategy. By the end of the unit, their students had used simple circuits to develop their understanding of technological systems...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Device Free Moments

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, 2nd graders learn when it's appropriate to use technology and when it's not, and practice making family rules for device-free time at home. Includes lesson plan, slideshow, student...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Five Ways to Practice Spelling: Trace, Copy, and Recall

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource relates to word study. Students will learn the spellings of new words by tracing and copying so that they can recall them.
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Other

Bmw: Safe on the Streets

For Students 2nd - 6th
The BMW Group offers interactive, fun, easy-to-use resources for teachers, parents, and students to help find ways to keep safe on the streets. Provides safety tips, activities, and quizzes that help you learn to be safe whether you are...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Investigate Sources to Look for Answers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Students will practice locating and investigating resources to answer questions on a topic using the FINDS research process. FINDS is an acronym describing its five-step research process: Focus, Investigate, Note, Develop, and Score. A...
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TES Global

Tes: Englicious

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a preview for free website, Englicious.org, a resource that can help students with English and writing skills.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elementary Math: Difference Between Two Time Intervals

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students compare the times on two clocks and calculate what time it will be before or after a given time interval, which clock shows an earlier or later time, etc....
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Other

Science and Kids Activities: Pollination and Seed Dispersal

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders learn how plants depend on animals to disperse their seeds. Students will learn about ways that animals can disperse seeds. They will design their own model and compare it to the real action of plants and animals. In the...
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Greek Daily Life

For Students 1st - 7th
History for Kids presents an overview written for elementary students of daily life of the ancient Greeks. Students learn about Greek government, agriculture and industry, houses and food. Teacher resources included.

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