Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Classroom Jobs

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore responsibility by participating in class exercises. In this classroom community lesson plan, students utilize flash cards which assign one of six jobs to every student in the class. Students perform their class...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building A Portfolio

For Teachers K - 4th
Students gather images that are part of portfolio to be shared throughout the course of one school year. They complete written reflections based upon the images that are attained. The primary sources for the images is using a digital...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Civil War Telecollaborative Newspaper

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders produce Civil War newspapers.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Natural Resources Trick-or-Treat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore that some resources are finite. They are able to deelop an understanding of commodities-some resources are worth more than others so companies choose to spend more money to find them. Students realize that some...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Molecular Evolution in Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine chlorophylls. They explore the absorbing pigments in a variety of plants. Through activities, students determine spectrophotometrically. They compare plant proteins from the family Brassicace to assess the level of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hazardous Waste Hot Potato

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate hazardous substances. They work in groups to decide how to properly dispose of such materials..
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roll With the Punches: What Do You Know?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students activate prior knowledge about life in the South during the Great Depression in preparation for reading the novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hand Sensitivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile lesson, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Students experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory data...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Guetemala's Changing Forest

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare their local ecological zone to the tropical rainforest. In this natural ecology instructional activity, 8th graders complete an activity about the differences in ecological zones. They compare their biome to the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Cycle of Restoration

For Teachers K - 6th
Learners describe what is meant by restoration cycle. In groups, they create a poster to show the cycle of restoration work. After presenting their poster, they discuss the actions that can be done for each season. To end the lesson,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How do We Treat Our Environment?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of collecting data. In this data collection lesson, 7th graders survey others about their environmental habits. Students graph their data.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

We Can Work It Out

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students practice conflict resolution by considering alternatives before reacting to a conflict.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Should Humans Be Cloned?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore links on the Internet to collect facts about cloning then prepare an essay on their findings. In this research writing lesson students examine how to include their opinions on what they have found in their research. 
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Works in This Forest?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the variety of jobs that are related to working in the forest. Information on the different jobs is provided in this lesson plan for the teacher to share with the students. The students create a collage using magazines...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dig It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children will enjoy learning about dinosaurs through the use of technology, research, hands-on activities, discussions, and written and oral presentations. This unit will help students to collaborate as a group and manage their own time.
Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Human Environmental Interactions [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Inspired by Hemispheres' 2004 Teachers' Summer Institute, People and Place: Human-Geographic Relations, this curriculum unit was designed to address human adaptation to and modification of the environment. How have humans adjusted to...