Curated OER
Message Time
Students complete message time activities to improve their emerging literacy skills. In this emerging literacy lesson, students discuss writing symbols and the writing process with their teacher, as well as reading prompts. Students...
Curated OER
The Holocaust: Valuing Creation
Students write a descriptive essay. In this Holocaust lesson, students discuss what it must have been like for Anne Frank to stay inside for two years. Students try to appeal to all five senses in their descriptions.
Curated OER
Heat from Light
Second graders explore solar energy. In this science lesson, 2nd graders use hand lenses to see that light energy can be converted to heat energy.
Curated OER
AdVENTurous Findings on the Deep Sea Floor
Students conduct investigations to observe formations of precipitates, then create models of developing hydrothermal vents. They compare the models with the actual hydrothermal vents developing along the Galapagos Rift.
Curated OER
Making Your Own Sampling Tools
Young scholars begin a class recycling project. They create data sampling equipment using their own designs and test them in the field.
Curated OER
Making Books
Students make a variety of books using the computer program iPhoto and digital images of their choosing. This lesson for the upper-elementary classroom includes an example of student work and four possible lesson extensions and...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: The Outsiders Wordlist and Vocabulary Puzzles
This page offers a The Outsiders wordlist and vocabulary puzzles.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Understanding New Vocabulary Within Context
This lesson focuses on ways to understand new vocabulary words in context. It provides an introduction with examples, information about how our language changes and how words get into the dictionary, and how to look outside the word to...
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Book Summary for the Outsiders
This is a alphabetical wordlist with definitions and a fill-in-the-blanks word puzzle for The Outsiders.
Rong-Chang ESL
Esl: English for Intermediate Learners (2):Man Fatally Stabbed Outside Nightclub
A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Man Fatally Stabbed Outside Nightclub" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary...
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Outside Games
Learn about how the synapse works in the nervous system. Then play common games that demonstrate many functions of the nervous system. Find definitions of the vocabulary necessary to understand how the nervous system works.
TES Global
Blendspace: Making Inferences, Context Clues, &The Outsiders Vocabulary
A six-part learning module with links to videos to use while reading S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Is the Weather Outside Like Today?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart asks students what the weather outside is today, offers weather vocabulary, and a practice quiz. There are links to websites included.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Arcs and Angles Study Guide
This study guide on arcs and angles covers key vocabulary, arc measurement in degrees and radians, congruent arcs, bisecting arcs, and the angles on, inside, and outside a circle. Also covers formulas and theorems. It is available for...
Language Guide
Language Guide: La Casa
These colorful pictures model vocabulary pertaining to the external parts of the house, windows and a few appliances for upkeep of the garden. Interactive audio and written vocabulary appear when the mouse is moved over the illustration.
Other
Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...