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Curated OER

Vocabulary: Talking About Your Work 1

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students read 10 sentences about working and choose the best response for the blank word. Students use their best judgment in correct grammar.
Lesson Plan
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Work Force Awareness

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners identify desirable personal qualities for a chosen workplace. They brainstorm 3 work environments of good and poor personal work qualities. Students interview their parents or employer. They comprehend learning style and how it...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Advertising Works

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students investigate the concept of advertising while using the context of tanning lotion. They have a class discussion using examples provided in the lesson to measure the effectiveness of advertising. Students investigate the key...
Lesson Plan
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Size Per Unit

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate how to find the average and the concept of a per unit quantity and its applications. They also make connections of using population density and how to find the speed with its relating formula. This is bringing...
Lesson Plan
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Work and Play: Today and Yesterday

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the concept of play and work. They use primary and secondary resources in order to find the information of comparing the concepts in the context of the past to present day. Students brainstorm to find the...
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Elastic Racquet

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils discover the science behind a tennis racket by looking at a simple toy that works in a similar way. After looking at the related mathematical equations, students experiment with the simple toy to find the spring constant k by...
Lesson Plan
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Breaking Energy

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students experiment with the amount of work required to break a piece of wood by hanging masses from a string attached to a thin dowel of wood. At the completion of activity, students calculate if a fast moving hand could break the dowel.
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The Elastic Racquet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use this introductory lab using a tennis racquet, however it is very difficult to study because of the strings and the racquet stretch so little and so quickly during a match that students were unable to make simple...
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Looking for Work #2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers review new vocabulary from a previous lesson dealing with work. They practice speaking work-related phrases as a class. They read a story and answer questions. They use the classified ads to write their own dialogue about...
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More Life and Work

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice pronouncing idioms from a worksheet and use them in a sentence. They work together to perform a dialogue using slang about their likes and dislikes at work. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson.
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The Way to Work

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students make oral and/or written presentations describing results of interviews with professionals and their transit experiences traveling to the interviews.
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Inside Work/Outside Work

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore inside and outside work, what kind of people like which one, and what they would prefer.
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Work and Rewards

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the concept of work. Rewards for working are considered and related to personal recognition and satisfaction.
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Working

For Teachers K
Students draw a picture of a work setting previously discussed in class.
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Off to Work We Go

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between jobs that provide goods and those that provide services. They role-play jobs and analyze whether their job provides services or produces goods. They draw pictures and write a description of a job in each...
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The Laundress

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of work, and work typically assigned to women, through artwork depicting laundresses.
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A Cowboy Song

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders sing "Cowboy Lullaby" with two-part harmony and discuss the text of the song.
Primary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: Caesar: The Alexandrian Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
The full text English translation of Caesar's "Alexandrian Wars."
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Skateboard Science

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site is on the science and art of skateboard design, including equipment, tricks, glossary of terms, and a live webcast of a skateboard performance.
Website
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: The Hound of the Baskervilles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the full text of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Includes a summary note.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Bibliomania contains the English translation of the work of the 11th century poet, Omar Khayyam. Edward Fitzgerald's translation is the best, and most respected translation of this ancient poem.
Handout
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Tales From Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Bibliomania provides great information on Charles Lamb's Shakespeares works. Includes a brief summary, then lists his famous plays, and each has a summary that can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding link. This is...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Ramp and Piano

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This module has students using a simple machine to learn about the relationship between work, force, and energy.
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Block and Tackle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A video module where students learn about the relationship between force, work, energy, and mechanical advantage using a simple machine.