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Common Core Constructed Response Organizer

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Get your writers ready to compose a constructed response essay in response to either an informational or fictional text. Pupils note down the big idea they wish to address as well as up to nine examples from the text that they wish to...
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ELT-Connect

Happy Valentine's Day

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Shelves filled with heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. Bouquets of red roses. Racks of romantic cards. Stores are preparing for Valentine's Day. Has the holiday become too commercialized? That is the question asked by a lesson designed...
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Miama-Dade County Public Schools

Middle School Mock Trial Competition

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Objection! Scholars participate in a mock trial to gain an understanding the ins and outs of court procedures. Using the Jessie Jones v. Palm City court case, they role play each specific part of the trial, learning how courts operate...
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Curated OER

Time Capsule Survey

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Here's a fun way to incorporate technology into your curriculum. E-mail each of your class members a picture and 10 questions about the photo. Individuals then imagine the story behind the image and e-mail back their responses. Although...
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Interactive
Curated OER

English Exercises: Past and Present Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Online interactives are fun for early finishers, great at independent work stations, and perfect for home schoolers. Use this one to reinforce the use of helping verbs. Learners complete each of the 20 sentences using a drop down located...
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Curated OER

Enough to Make Your Head Spin

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate the world of nonverbal communication by analyzing body language around the world.  In this cultural communication lesson, students research the Bulgarian language and how we could easily misinterpret their...
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Curated OER

Speaker Report

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Fifth through eighth graders think of themselves as newspaper reporters as they listen to a presentation by a guest speaker. As reporters, they take notes during the presentation. Using these notes, they create a rough draft and then a...
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Curated OER

Uniform Design

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the military by examining their uniforms.  In this design lesson, students analyze the military uniforms from different locations and time periods.  Students create new ideas for current military uniforms.
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Curated OER

A South African Storm

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore racial prejudice in South Africa through the reading of "A South African Storm" by Allison Howard. In this cultural and geography instructional activity, students discuss ethnicity and prejudices and cite examples...
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Curated OER

Aerospace Engineering

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students are introduced to aviation history and aerospace engineering achievements. They assemble a class aviation history timeline from individual student research on people and events.
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Curated OER

Puerto Rico: The 51st State?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars explore Puerto Rico.  In this Puerto Rico current events lesson plan, students conduct a Webquest to answer questions about Puerto Rico's culture.  Young scholars discuss whether Puerto Rico is a country or a state, and...
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Curated OER

Poverty and Natural Disasters: Exploring the Connections

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore the connections between natural disasters and poverty. In this economic activity students examine worksheets and activities for each level.
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Curated OER

Environmental Problems

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the environment by completing environmental problem worksheets. In this pollution instructional activity, students identify the biggest threats to our environment such as deforestation, global warming, and pollution....
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Curated OER

The World is a Village

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Students observe Americans through the eyes of the world.  In this human population activity, students utilize the Internet to view the World Pop Clock and follow the world's population by the minute.  Students predict what the world's...
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Curated OER

Get to Know a Fish

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Students discover the anatomy of a fish by identifying its body parts.  In this oceanography lesson, students view a live fish in their classroom and draw a poster of the fish one body part at a time while identifying it.  Students...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Verbs in Past Tense

For Students 7th - 10th
In this grammar learning exercise, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in past tense in thirty sentences. Students check to make sure each one is grammatically correct.
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Curated OER

Character Education: Integrity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand the definition of integrity and explain quotes about it. In this integrity instructional activity, students apply quotes about integrity to a personal experience and write about it.
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Curated OER

Writing about Art:Comparing Portraits

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students compare and contrast an academic and Impressionist portrait. In this art history lesson, students look at two different styles of painting and write a paragraph as if they are the subject in the painting. They compare and...
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Curated OER

They Called Him Sequoyah

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students become familiar with George Gist and his life as a Cherokee.  In this Cherokee lesson, students research the ways people have communicated in the past and presently.  Students recognize that better communication could have...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Media Lessons Help Students to Better Understand Persuasive Language

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Beginning a media unit by taking a closer look at advertising, and persuasive techniques can keep students engaged.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Counterfeit Roubles in Russia

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars read an article about counterfeiting and complete worksheets about it. In groups, They compile lists of punishments for various crimes and explain their reasons.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Word Roots 1: DICT, VENT, DUCT Advanced Word Search

For Students 7th - 12th
Polish knowledge of the listed word roots and vocabulary words with this word search. Learners find twelve words. Answers are provided as are printouts of the directions, clues, word search, and word search answers.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Present Tense Exercise 16

For Students 6th - 8th
In this present progressive tense worksheet, fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb in the present progressive tense.  Students complete 10 sentences.
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Interactive
Curated OER

English Exercises: Verb Tenses Exercises

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 27 mulitiple choice and fill in the blank questions regarding comparatives and superlatives. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

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