Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Greece: What Are Pushes and Pulls?

For Students 2nd - 4th
Nikos is cleaning up and organizing in his family's theater. He finds out that different movements need different motions; sometimes a push, and sometimes a pull. Help him figure out which force to use.
eBook
Can Teach

Can Teach: Novel and Picture Book Ideas (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers K - 1st
Novels and picture books are great ways to teach across the curriculum. This site lists about 75 novels and picture books around which CanTeach has constructed lesson ideas and plans. All grade levels indicated.
Activity
Math Cats

Math Cat: Fact Family Card

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you need to know about fact families can be found here. Discover what fact families are and learn different strategies for using them. Links included to print your own fact family cards, create a fact family house, and play a...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Alphabet and Word Recognition With Phonics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are actively engaged with this interactive flipchart that prompts the students to use the eraser, pen, highlighter, and arrow tools along with a link to a website that continues to build on the...
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Quark

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia provides an in-depth description of quarks describes different characteristics about them. Mentions how they are different from leptons, the theory of quantum chromodynamics, and the process of...
Website
Canadian Museum of History

Cmc: What in the World?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Colourful pictures and clues invite the student to identify objects associated with 10 different Canadian cultural groups. The student has 3 chances to match the clue with the picture. Descriptions of the object are presented as the...
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Living With a Single Parent

For Students 3rd - 5th
Can you describe the "typical American family?" What would that family look like to you? Would it resemble your family? Today, there are so many different kinds of families that it is difficult to describe a "typical" family. Families...
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Living With Grandparents

For Students 3rd - 5th
Parents "of the grandest sort" are sometimes people we only get to see on holidays. Maybe you spend each afternoon after school with your grandparent. Kids have all kinds of different relationships with their grandparents. Sometimes kids...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Crayon Box: Family Diversity

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps reinforce the idea that families are diverse and have many different types of traditions. Students discuss The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane DeRolf, talk about their family traditions, and draw and write about their...
Website
Other

Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
In an effort to facilitate efforts by people of Hispanic descent to trace their roots and family trees, this research center maintains a database called The Great New Mexico Pedigree Database where they have combined different sources of...
Activity
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Family Art Guides

For Students 3rd - 8th
Even if you are miles away from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, these four-page downloadable family guides to the museum's collections make wonderful tools for teaching interesting things about art to children. Full-page illustrations...
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Digital Trails

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Does what you do online always stay online? Students learn that the information they share online leaves a digital footprint or "trail." Depending on how they manage it, this trail can be big or small,...
Graphic
Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Ethnolinguistic Groups of China, 1971

For Students 9th - 10th
" Ethnolinguistic Groups - Almost all inhabitants of mainland China are of Mongoloid stock, and ethnic distinctions in the country are largely linguistic rather than racial. The Han comprise nearly 95 percent of the population; the...
Professional Doc
Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety Activities You Can Do From Home

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During remote learning, young people will be spending more time at home than usual -- with their families, and on devices. We have put together a list of resources that you can use with them, to explore online safety in a fun, engaging,...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Medicating Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS Frontline series companion site features the reaction that four different families had to medication designed to treat ADHD. This program can be viewed in its entirety or in six separate segments. Positive and negative aspects...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Patricia Polacco's Family Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps students understand that families have both differences and similarities and reinforces the concept that family traditions are part of a student's heritage. Students discuss stories by Patricia Polacco and make...
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: All About Apes

For Students 1st - 5th
Provides a basic overview of the different ape families, along with an in-depth study of each kind of ape. Pictures, charts, and stories are provided.
Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Elements

For Students K - 1st
Fun and interesting information about elements. Learn about the periodic table, how they are distinguished, and the different families of elements.