Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Free Speech Comes At a Price

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use communicative activity strategy, Go, Ask and Tell, or more traditional whole text comprehension activity to read, discuss and explore issues in article, Free Speech Comes at a Price, by Hugh Mackay.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Habitat Unit - Day 2

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore abiotic factors that affect habitats. After a class lecture, students work in groups to answer questions about plant tissue, production and growth. They share answers, complete a crossword puzzle, and create a habitat...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Media Literacy Unit on "Turn Beauty Inside Out"

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners become aware of the importance of distinguishing between inner and outer beauty. They explore how the media's opinion of beauty is biased and should be evaluated rather than just accepted. Each student also assesses how the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tibet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the dynamics of minority-majority relations between the Han (majority) and the Tibetans (minority). They jigsaw the book, The Making of Modern Tibet, by A. Tom Grunfeld and answer the question, "Is minority status...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Memorizing Techniques

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars explore a variety of nmemonic devices, methods and techniques to help improve their memories. They brainstorm a list of things they find difficult to remember on their own first. In pairs they work on memory tricks by...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Britons Furious Over Politician's Expenses

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "Briton's Furious over Politician's Expenses," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Article
BBC

Bbc Bitesize: Data Structures and Data Types: Identifiers and Annotation

For Students 9th - 10th
See how choosing meaningful names for the variables, constants, and subroutines makes it easier for the next person to work on the code to understand it.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details Explained

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on supporting details; it discusses their purpose, the audience, and the point to be made. It lists the five most common types of supporting details: facts, statistics, opinions, examples, and personal observations...
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Pronouns

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This page focuses on pronouns including definitions, personal pronouns, antecedents, relative pronouns, who vs. whom, demonstrative, indefinite, reflexive and intensive, possessive, and interrogative pronouns. Examples are provided for...
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Need for Encryption

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge amount of private data is sent around the Internet every day: emails with details about our personal lives, passwords that we type into login screens, tax documents that we upload to servers. Learn more about the need for data...
Professional Doc
Other

Teacher Vision: Problem Solving

For Teachers K - 1st
Help your students learn how to overcome issues independently by integrating problem-solving skills into your lesson plans. This article will help you teach your students how to understand, identify, and resolve issues that they are...
Professional Doc
Other

Share: 5 Problem Solving Activities for the Classroom

For Teachers K - 1st
Problem-solving skills are necessary for all areas of life, and classroom problem-solving activities can be a great way to get students prepped and ready to solve real problems in real-life scenarios. Here are five classroom...