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Curated OER

The Dream Career

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers engage the study of career paths while conducting research using a variety of resources. They use the information in order to focus upon a specific career path. Then the research is focused upon that one path. Students set...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reaching the Clouds for Equality

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. They create their own cloud and write a dream they have for the world inside. They write journal entries on how to treat others fairly.
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Unit Plan
Family & Children's Service

Children in Change

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
While children may not have the opportunity to directly affect the changes happening in their family life, help them develop necessary coping skills for expressing their emotions and dealing with those changes.
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Curated OER

Land, Liberty and the Struggle for the American Dream

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate equality by reading a historical fiction book in class.  In this civil rights lesson, students read the story Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry with their classmates and define the Jim Crow Laws that kept blacks...
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Hey Teachers! Get to Know Me!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Foster community in your classroom and encourage learners to get up and get to know each other. Individuals each receive the classmate inventory handout included and use it to fill in information about their fellow scholars. Once they...
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Curated OER

The Man, The Dream

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss how one person's life can affect a community . In this Martin Luther King Jr. lesson, students read about Dr. King's life and contributions. They formulate ideas about how they can meet the needs of their own community.
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Unit Plan
University of Kentucky

Bullying Awareness

For Teachers 5th - 8th
As a teacher, it's likely you're seeing bullying at your school in some capacity. Use three activities as a refresher course for junior high schoolers on what bullying is, the severity of its consequences, and how they can make a...
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Curated OER

The Very Busy Spider

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Youngsters explore visual arts by participating in a geometry identification activity. They read the book The Very Busy Spider and identify the techniques spiders use to create webs. Have you ever noticed that their webs are geometric...
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Activity
Society of Petroleum Engineers

Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy

For Teachers 2nd - 10th Standards
Energize an environmental science unit on natural resources with this collection of instructional materials. From simple coloring sheets for primary grade children, to guiding questions for a high school research report, a wide variety...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Analyzing How Shakespeare’s Play Draws upon Greek Mythology: Part 2

For Teachers 8th Standards
Pupils explore the narrative structure of a piece of literary text, mapping out the plot structure of the Greek myth "Pyramus and Thisbe." Next, they use their completed graphic organizers to write story summaries.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

If I Had a Dream Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this creative writing learning exercise, learners explore China. Students write a short narrative describing what their typical day in China would be like.
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Curated OER

Careers and Self-Portraits

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore careers they may have in their future. They create a paper collage self-portrait of themselves as adults dressed for work. They write an autobiography describing the education and training required for their chosen career.
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Workforce Solutions

Discover Your Interests

For Teachers 9th - 12th
For many high schoolers, what they want to be when they grow up can be very intimidating. Here's an activity that gets them thinking about their interests and how they might connect these interests to future jobs. After watching a short...
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Puck's Girdle

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders calculate the perimeters, areas, and volumes of everyday objects. They discuss the word problem involving Puck from the Shakespeare play "Mid-Summer Night's Dream," and invent and plan a method for solving the problem in...
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Curated OER

"Newimals"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
It's fun to dream up crazy or new types of animals. Let your high schoolers' dream animals become a reality by engaging them in a fun photo manipulation activity that requires them to synthesize two images, match colors, textures, and...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Inventions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
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Curated OER

"Whose (Is)land is This?": topics in Immigration and The Tempest

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Class members compare the ways the subject of immigration is treated in The Tempest, Act I, scene ii, Act II, scene i and Act III, scene ii with patterns in American history. After tracing their own family’s journey, a series of...
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

Danny The Champion of The World: Novel Study

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Many children dream about being a champion. The dream could be reality for Danny in Danny the Champion of the World. Danny's championship is a sure thing if he and his father gain victory against a nasty landowner with a bad attitude....
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Handout
Nosapo

Pronouns: Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Which do you use: that or this? Which or where? Me or I? Practice pronoun use with a series of activities that focus on personal and demonstrative pronouns.
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Study Guide
Penguin Books

A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of George Orwell’s 1984

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Whether you're new to using Nineteen Eighty Four in the classroom or you're an Orwell veteran, the materials in this teacher's guide are a valuable addition to your curriculum. The suggested activities prompt readers to create a newspeak...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Unleash Your Inner Editor

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, is a writing project for which participants write an entire novel in a single month. If you have decided to this in your class, this resource will be useful for you. This is an editing...
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Curated OER

The Verb

For Students 6th - 8th
How are linking verbs and action verbs different? First, study the definitions and examples of each (at the top of the first page). Then, assess the comprehension skills of your class by having them complete the 20-question practice...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Figurative Language #2

For Students 9th
Identify figurative language in sentences that have been pulled out of a text. Looking at the sentence independently, can you tell which technique is being used? How do you know? Ninth graders look at 10 sentences that show simile,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: Chapter 1 Reading Check

For Students 6th - 9th
Good worksheets pinpoint key events and get readers thinking about the choices writers make when crafting a story. Here's a good instructional activity. Designed to be used with the first chapter of Of Mice and Men, consider having your...

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