Discovery Education
Sonar & Echolocation
A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...
Scholastic
Reading Success Mini Books: Word Families
Engage children in learning about rhyming words with this printable book on the -ing word family. Including six words with supporting pictures, young learners practice reading and writing the words before adding their own word...
Curated OER
Should Populations in an Ecosystem be Restricted?
Fourth graders experiment to determine how overpopulation effects ecosystems specifically plants. In this ecosystem instructional activity, 4th graders conduct an ecosystems experiment after listening to Claire Daniel's, Ecosystems. They...
Curated OER
Korean Table Manners
Students experience the proper table manners in Korea. They eat a Korean meal with proper table manners. Students then describe, list and demonstrate the proper Korean table manners. They compare and contrast the American table...
Curated OER
Frequency Tables; Discrete Ungrouped Data
In this frequency tables worksheet, students utilize given data to work out three frequency charts with one containing values and a pie chart involving angles for each value. Students complete three vertical line diagrams and check all...
Curated OER
Water: A Necessity for Life
Students examine types of aquifers and make a model landfill. In this water usage lesson, students determine the difference between confined and unconfined aquifers. They build a model landfill, observe it for two weeks, and analyze what...
Curated OER
New Way to Produce Biofuels
Young scholars identify global issues in the world today. They explore the vocabulary related to the issues and design a poster for a campaign to deal with one of the global issues they identified. Worksheet and answer key provided.
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Cooperative Classroom Text Features Activities
Fifth graders examine text features and create a PowerPoint presentation. In this text features instructional activity, 5th graders go over Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures and text features before they choose one to include in a...
Curated OER
Sampling
In this statistics and probability instructional activity, learners solve problems that involve various sampling methods and procedures. A calculator that generates random digits is required. The five page instructional...
Curated OER
ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel
Students, after defining a list of vocabulary words on the board, review and identify basic types of transportation (bus, taxi cab, car, plane, and ship) in the United States. In addition, they make a graph of all the different ways that...
Curated OER
Reading Vocabulary Definition Test
In this recognizing definitions of daily vocabulary words worksheet, students listen to oral clues or definitions of their word lists from Monday through Thursday, write the correct words in the numbered columns, and create sentences for...
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Breaking News English: World Toilets
In this world toilets worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...
Curated OER
Charting the Course
Learners list and describe the characteristics of a good citizen relative to democracy. They see that philanthropy is part of good citizenship and exemplify philanthropy through random acts of kindness. Each group will be responsible for...
PHET
Iron Filings and Magnetic Field Lines
How do magnetic fields differ? Allow scholars to see the difference between 2-D and 3-D magnetic fields. They construct models of both and observe how they are similar and different. It is the fifth installment of an 18-part unit.
Google
History of Math Lesson Plan
Learners honor mathematicians who have contributed important discoveries throughout history by researching and creating a report about a famous mathematician and their contributions to the history of mathematics. Pairs of learners...
NASA
Planning Time
Ever feel there's just not enough hours in the day? Young adults explore an important part of personal development using a group of activities. After comparing how they actually spend their time with how they would like to, scholars...
Curated OER
Times & Dates in Spanish
Use this information, presentation, and infographic to build several lessons on telling the time and expressing the date in Spanish. The information is broken into topics and includes many examples and exceptions to the standard rules....
Dick Blick Art Materials
Natural Twig Journals
Connect science, art, and language arts with a nature-themed bookmaking project. Kids craft book covers, cut paper for pages, and learn how to bind their creations.
Curated OER
Books for Teaching About Colors
Students explore colors through books. In this lesson plan students read books about colors. The lesson plan is divided by color and within each color there is a list of books about that color. Moreover each color section also includes...
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Traits Needed for Effective Group Process
Students compile a list of 10 desirable traits for working with others. They evaluate the traits that are necessary for specific jobs and describe them in work settings.
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Rhyme Match
First graders match rhyming words. In this rhyming lesson plan students play a game with a partner matching rhyming words and a coordinating picture. The student pairs make a list of rhyming words that fit with their game.
Curated OER
Prepositions of Place, Position, or Direction
In this grammar worksheet, learners identify the correct preposition in parentheses in twenty sentences that makes each one grammatically correct.
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Adjective Recognition Practice
In this adjectives practice worksheet, students read an informative lesson. Students then respond to 10 questions that require them to identify all of the adjectives in each of the sentences.
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Giving Good Advice
Students use prior knowledge of their own lives to come up with a list of tips for kids who are in the grade below who will be moving up to the next grade. The tips should include what they should know and what they should do. They...