EL Education
El Education: Into the Woods
7th grade students created this field guide to the trees, plants, and birds of Baxter Woods. Students did fieldwork visits to the park and each student was responsible for one tree that was located in Baxter Woods. Students worked with...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Tides
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a comprehensive study of the tides with the use of pictures, graphs, tables, Internet web sites, animations, and student interaction with the ACTIVboard, a glossary of tide...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learning About Subheadings and Bold Words
In this lesson plan, students will use several strategies to learn the meaning of new words they encounter in text. The students will learn specific strategies so when they encounter new words, they can figure out the meaning of those...
Other
Es Lnotes: English Learner Movie Guides
Detailed overviews of popular movies written especially for English language learners by an ESL instructor. Each guide includes a plot summary, descriptions of major characters, and an extensive glossary of words and expressions used in...
Other
What Are Collective Nouns? (With Examples)
This site provides a resource related to collective nouns. Numerous examples are provided, along with an multiple-choice interactive quiz.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Table of Contents
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the basic parts of a table of contents including chapter number, chapter title and page number. It explores the basic parts of a table of contents.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Exploring the Science of Light: General Terms
A glossary explaining the definitions of terms used in discussing the science of light.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Talk It Over
A research-led resource designed to support educators in facilitating empathetic, honest, and evidence-based conversations on online hate and how to tackle it with secondary aged pupils. Talk it over includes a slide presentation with...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Air Pollution: What's the Solution
This is a great set of lesson plans through which students explore air pollution and its causes and become aware of air pollution trends and how air pollution affects health. Many questions are examined during the course of study: "What...
Other
Ouc: Glossary of Terms for Physical Geography
A large online textbook of terms pertaining to physical geography. Useful as a supplement when studying this subject.
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach students how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features
Dr. Murphy shares a comprehensive lesson plan to support students identifying various text features in informational texts. Students will mentally and physically engage in active learning to know how to navigate through different types...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A nine-part learning module with links images and videos for use while learning about nonfiction text features.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
Other
Kids Wordsmyth: Free Online Dictionary
This is an interactive dictionary for kids. Students click on one of the 10 topics and find a list of related keywords; click on a keyword for its definition.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Discovering Plants: Vocabulary [Pdf]
A one-page glossary of words that might be used by young students when studying plants.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature
Multimedia course focuses on thirteen literary classics from many different times and many different cultures. Each lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on a particular work. Read excerpts from each work and...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Reading Plants: Vocabulary [Pdf]
A one-page glossary of terms that might be used by older students when studying plants.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Japanese Garden Vocabulary [Pdf]
A one-page glossary of vocabulary that might be used by students when discussing a Japanese garden.