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Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Work That Matters: The Teacher’s Guide to Project-Based Learning

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Whether new to inquiry-based learning or experienced with its protocols, you'll find much to value in High Tech High's comprehensive guide to project-based learning. Designed for educators, the guide has everything instructors need to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hey, Teacher, Leave My Kids Alone

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What are the differences between homeschooling, traditional schooling, and unschooling? Middle and high schoolers examine the opinions of their peers on these varied types of education. After reading a New York Times article, they...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Teacher Erase/Color a Rhyme

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this rhyming instructional activity, students fill in 10 blanks to a rhyming poem about a teacher, then color a partially completed drawing of the teacher based on the rhymes in the poem.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Anticipation Guide Strategy for Gary Paulsen's Canyons (For Teachers)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
"Things never change." "It's okay to steal from those who already have a lot." Before reading Canyons, readers respond to an anticipation guide that focuses on issues raised in Gary Paulsen's novel. Groups share their responses, and...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

The Importance of Teacher/Parent Collaboration

For Teachers K - 6th
There are many ways that parents and teachers can work together to ensure a student's school success.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Ways to Improve Parent/Teacher Communication

For Teachers 1st - 6th
There are many ways to make parent/teacher communication easy and extremely productive.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

New Year's Resolutions for Teachers

For Teachers 1st - 6th
New Year's can be a time for teachers to make resolutions as well.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Parent/Teacher Conferences

For Teachers K - 6th
There are ways to make a parent/teacher conference go as smoothly as possible.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Test Taking Strategies for Teachers and Students

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Test taking can be stressful, but using these test taking strategies can be beneficial for both students and teachers.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

A Summer Reading List for Math Teachers

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Teachers can read through these math-related books for pure enjoyment.
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EngageNY

Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 8th Standards
What does similarity have to do with the Pythagorean Theorem? The activity steps through the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem by using similar triangles. Next, the teacher leads a discussion of the proof and follows it by an animated...
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Printables
Do2Learn

Classroom Observation Form

For Teachers K - 12th
Monitor individual students during a classroom observation with a template form. Three pages of fields prompt the observer to note the class member's affect, behavior, peer interactions, and presence of accommodations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technology Resources for the Social Studies Classroom

For Teachers Higher Ed
Looking for ways to increase engagement by bringing technology into your elementary social studies class? Teachers are introduced to the technology resources available for social studies and then they show their students specific...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spanish Literature: Teaching the Course for the First Time

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Are you a first year AP Spanish teacher? Will you be teaching literature this year? Read this article for some professional development; what can you do to ensure your Spanish learners build their skills and master Spanish literature?
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Curated OER

CSET Test

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
The California Subject Examination for Teachers or CSET is a must pass if you want to teach in California. Prepare young career-minded learners or paraprofessionals with an overview of the exam, five multiple choice questions, and a...
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Curated OER

Les Métiers (Jobs and Professions)

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Work a few of these activities into your unit on jobs and professions for beginning French speakers. This teacher's guide focuses on feminine and masculine word endings, and introduces the teacher to different opportunities for oral...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Unit 5: Realms of Gold - Vol. 2 Poetry and Short Stories Teacher Guide

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders have a golden opportunity to learn how to read poems and short stories with a unit that introduces them to the techniques writers use to craft their works. They examine poems by William Carlos Williams and Edgar Allen Poe...
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Corner Stone For Teachers

Parent-Teacher Communication Log

For Teachers K - 12th
Communicating, and documenting that communication, is made a whole lot easier with this log. Instructors begin by creating a separate log for each class member, listing the phone numbers of the primary caregivers and other adult contacts...
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Worksheet
Royal Society of Chemistry

Gimli Glider—Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
What's the moral of this story? Units save lives! Teach measurement conversion through storytelling in a quick math-based lesson. Young scientists learn how one country's decision to swap from imperial to metric standard units caused an...
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Professional Doc
Listenwise

Teacher's Guide to Podcasting in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Ever feel disengaged? Let's talk about it! Learning how to create podcast lessons in the classroom fully engages scholars and educators. Participants learn how to conduct simple podcast lessons, then evolve into creating more complex,...
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Study Guide
Penguin Books

Teacher's Guide: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelous

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is controversial. Like many other Angelou books, it is frequently challenged or banned from schools. In fact, Angelou is one of the most frequently banned authors in the United States. An...
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Curated OER

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

For Teachers 8th - 9th Standards
"It is my lady, O, It is my Love!" Provide class members an opportunity to develop their skills reading difficult text with an exercise that focuses on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet (Act II, scene ii). Using the provided...
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Baylor College

Neural Network Signals

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Using a simple circuit with the battery representing the brain, future physiologists test to see which solutions conduct electrical "nerve impulses." Enlighten learners with plentiful information on electric signals in the nervous system...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Opening a Special Ed Class

For Teachers 1st - 12th
This is not just a lesson plan, it's a life saver! Here are 10 separate documents intended to assist a new Special Ed teacher. There are 4 different games, instructional tips, ways to handle documentation, behavioral modification...

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