Curated OER
Making Choices
Students solve word problems relating to economic choices. In this economic choices lesson plan, students discuss the importance of budgeting and how to save money. Students complete a economic choices worksheet.
Curated OER
Independent Novel Project
Students complete activities for an independent novel project. For this novel project worksheet, students follow the 13 steps to analyze and complete a comprehensive project about a novel they've read.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Story, Identity, Unity
Delve into the art of storytelling in this self-guided unit. Multiple topics are covered such as literary genres, the 7 elements of fiction, figurative language, theme, characterization, etc. At the end of the unit, write your own flash...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Magnets From Mini to Mighty
If your knowledge of magnets ends with posting a to-do list on the fridge, add this to the list. Learn more about magnets! You can start here with a straightforward rundown of magnet types, uses and strengths, explained in a way that...
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Other
Online Statistics Education: Graphing Distributions [Pdf]
This is the second chapter of a statistics e-text developed collaboratively by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University. It looks at many different types of data displays and the advantages and...
Other
Dandi Palmer: Salvation & the Devil Dancer
Click through the pages of this beautifully illustrated story book to read about a little girl who listens to her grandmother tell a story about two dancers and their performance at a carnival that ended up saving the whole village from...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Rock Steady
Students use their knowledge of the rock cycle to write a story about a pet rock. The story must include the rock changing from magma, to each type of rock igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. The story should end with the pet rock...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Plants and Places [Pdf]
"Plants and Places" is a one page, nonfiction passage about how plants fit the types of environment they live in such as cactus like hot, dry weather and live in Arizona. The state flowers fit the climate of the states. It is followed by...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...