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Curated OER
Fraction Strips: Adding Fractions
Third graders problem solve using fraction strips. In this adding fractions lesson, 3rd graders create fraction strips to help identify fractional sizes (fourths, eighths, thirds) and to solve word problems.
Curated OER
Read Martin's Big Words
Students read Martin's Big Words. In this social studies lesson, students read and discuss the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Functions
Use this site to find the defintion of a function. The site offers a discussion on the vertical line test, symbolic, numerical and verbal discussions on the definition of a function.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Verbals on Visuals
This task is to produce a picture book based on relationships. This will aim to combine verbal and visual features to produce a text for a year 7/8 class. Assessment will involve the identification and use of the illustrations, use of...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Independent Learners
In this instructional activity, students will learn about the skills of visualizing and verbalizing. Both skills will be used to help the students become independent learners.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Listen to and Follow Directions: Day 2
One important aspect of the common core is to prepare students to be able to participate in conversations and contribute accurate and relevant information. In this lesson, students listening skills will evolve as they translate verbal...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The World Needs All Kinds of Minds
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Persuading Others
Identify the elements that make a successful TV advertisement. Identify the difference between verbal and visual features and say how they can be combined. Use the video camera to produce advertisements that show understanding of the...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Irony
This is a glossary entry for the term "Irony" including the definition, the three types, and visual examples.
PBS
Pbs: Representing Functions
Watch as the organ function grinder from the National Museum of Mathematics represents a quadratic function in a variety of ways. This video focuses on converting a verbal expression into an algebraic representation.
Newspapers in Education
Ni Eonline: Cartoons for the Classroom: Cartoon Analysis Worksheet [Pdf]
Newspapers in Education and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists developed this worksheet as a classroom handout to aid lessons in dissecting the visual and verbal messages of political cartoons.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Watch Out for the Blind Spots
In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design a hearing testing device. More specifically, they design a prototype machine that can be used to test the peripheral...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Conflict and War
This instructional activity requires three writing assignments on the topic or war or conflict: 1. Once familiar with the language, types, rhyme and metre used in poetry, students then write their own. They are given a selection of types...
CPALMS
Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson plan, students will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text. Students will...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom :Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences
This site contains a wealth of information on Gardner's theory of multiple inteligences. It discusses what it consists of, the difference between it and the traditional definition of intelligence, how it has developed since its...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Draw a Story: Stepping From Pictures to Writing
Help young students move from drawing pictures into writing simple stories. Good plan for having students put pictures in sequential order and teaching them about sequential order.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Two Ways to Animate Slam Poetry
Slam poetry packs an emotional punch by using powerful verbal metaphors; animation can do the same using visual tools. TED-Ed animators show how two separate techniques- rotoscoping and more traditional hand-drawn animation- bring to...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Plant Inspector
Students will provide a verbal and visual description of plants that are close their homes. The pictures can be published online.
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: As Far as the Eye Can See
View a variety of television advertisements analyzing visual and verbal features and how these are combined to communicate ideas. Write a coherent essay which expresses and argues a viewpoint about a chosen marketing strategy, linking...
Other
Ld Pride: Learning Styles Explained
This resource helps explain the different styles of learning. Also includes tests to see what kind of a learner you are.
Other
Ld Pride: Learning Styles Explained
LdPride.net offers resources that explain the different styles of learning. Tests can also be found on this site that helps determine which intelligence you favor most.
Other
Speaking Effectively: Supporting the Talk
This substantial section focuses on supporting the main points of your speech or presentation. Find out how to avoid faulty reasoning and irrational appeals.