TerraCycle
What Can Nature Teach Us about Sustainable Design?
Talk about Velcro®, Gecko Tape, WhalePower turbine blades, and other innovations that mimic nature to inspire your STEM or engineering class. This set of worksheets gets them thinking about imitating nature in terms of sustainable...
Curated OER
ESOL Family and Parenting
Sstudents discuss disciplinary options when parenting. They compare and contrast what was acceptable in their native country with what is acceptable in America. They list courses that are available to parents. They write one paragraph...
The New York Times
Kidding Around Down Under
After reading an article, "From an Alternate to a 'Miracle Kid' in a Flash," youngsters discuss the kind of commitment required for a teenager to become an Olympic athlete. A variety of activities is suggested, and the popular topic...
Curated OER
Rainy Day Games And Lessons
Bad weather can be a great reason to take a break from the regular curriculum and learn using the imagination, and games.
Curated OER
Leprechaun Traps Using Simple Machines
Are you looking for a fun way to incorporate St. Patrick's Day into your science curriculum? Try designing and building leprechaun traps!
Curated OER
Identification and Classification Activities
Explore and understand your world with taxonomy.
Curated OER
Workplace Vocabulary
High schoolers engage in daily spelling and vocabulary practice of workplace-related terms with definition matching exercises, word scrambles, dictation, sentence writing. Finally, they compose a short essay in which they use the words...
Curated OER
Encouraging Girls in Engineering
Use these lesson plans rich in teamwork, societal impact, and creativity to get girls excited about engineering!
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
Other
The Mint: The Stock Market: Risks and Rewards
This lesson teaches students the importance of the stock market, how to read and interpret reports, and how to track different stocks.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: The Teenage Brain
Teens and adults have different brains. Find out what makes the teenage brain so unique.
Read Works
Read Works: News Debate Cash Courses
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating whether students should or should not get paid to attend class. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Little Red Hen [Pdf]
"The Little Red Hen" is a one page fable about the other animals not helping the little red hen plant wheat, harvest it, or bake the bread, so they did not get to eat it either. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Strategies Increase Participation, Interest, Motivation
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Strategies Increase Participation, Interest, Motivation
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
Other
Common Sense Media: Talking Safely Online [Pdf]
In this lesson students learn that they can develop rewarding online relationships, but that they should never reveal private information to a person they know only online without asking their parent or guardian for permission.
British Library
British Library: Wilde's the Importance of Being Earnest: A Close Reading
For this lesson, students will consider several aspects of Oscar Wilde's most popular of comedies, "The Importance of Being Earnest". The success of this play is in part due to its examination of moral principles - in this case, the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rock Paper Scissors Lesson Plan
This lesson puts a physical twist on the traditional game, rock, paper, scissors! Students get into pairs to play rock, paper, scissors. However, in this game the person who does not win the match is rewarded with exercise by doing...
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Awesomely Evolved Human Brain
This lesson plan reinforces comprehension of key facts and concepts in the student article "The Awesomely Evolved Human Brain." Learners will understand that the brain's reward system has evolved to help ensure the survival of the...
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Peace Love Recycle Create Relate [Pdf]
Students will learn the importance of acts of kindness. They will create a pot painted with acrylic paints, and or paint pens. They will place beautiful decorated tissue flowers in the pot. The music club will present a holiday...