Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Relations and Graphs

For Teachers 2nd
Here is a simple, yet clever lesson on how to teach the important concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to. Pupils write their names down on grid paper - one letter per box. They compare their names and find a name that is...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adding and Subtracting Decimals With Excel

For Teachers 5th
What a great way to have pupils apply classroom learning to real-world skills! They complete problems involving the addition and subtraction of decimals related to banking-type questions, and then use a spreadsheet to display their results.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Commas 101: The Basics

For Students 7th - 9th
Clear up common questions about commas with this handy resource! Useful as a reference page as well as a grammar activity, it presents six different rules for comma usage, including fanboys, lists, and parenthetical words and phrases. A...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduce: Cause and Effect

For Teachers K - 3rd
Introduce beginning readers to cause and effect in a story by exploring it together. Learners make predictions about a book based on its cover, title, and a brief flip through the pages. They listen to an explanation of cause and...
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Curated OER

Education: Looking Beyond the Classroom

For Teachers 7th - 8th
To better understand what it takes to work in the field of training or educating, learners first explore the education career cluster. After they research the cluster, pupils write questions for a guest speaker. This speaker can be from...
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Hill of Fire Teaching Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Some books are perfect for drawing connections between multiple subjects. The book Hill of Fire becomes the hub for three very different, yet related activity ideas. First the class hones their oral language skills by creating an...
Lesson Plan
National Wildlife Federation

Massive Migrations

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Turn your students into flocks of migratory birds for this fun lesson on animal migration. Prior to the activity, the teacher creates four different migration routes in the classroom or any available open space, labeling nesting...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

The Inverse Relationship Between Logarithmic and Exponential Functions

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Introducing inverse functions! The 20th installment of a 35-part lesson plan encourages scholars to learn the definition of inverse functions and how to find them. The lesson plan considers all types of functions, not just exponential...
Unit Plan
Columbus City Schools

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction

For Students 8th Standards
Can you name a type of reproduction that produces no variation in the offspring? The multimedia lesson covers both sexual and asexual reproduction through videos and discussions. It includes topics such as genetic modification, meiosis,...
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California Education Partners

John's Trip Disneyland

For Students 5th Standards
It all adds up to one. Pupils solve several items that involve finding sums of fractions in relationship to a whole. The assessment task uses fractions with unlike denominators to determine the amount of a tank of gas and the amount of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding My Pathway

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the acquiring of skills necessary to make informed career choices. They examine the type of language that should be acquired for communication in the workplace. They also have...
Lab Resource
Creative Chemistry

Oxidation of Ethanol to Ethanal

For Students 9th - 12th
Here is a laboratory exercise in which chemistry masters conduct an oxidation reaction to change ethanol into ethanal. They compare the original alcohol to the resulting aldehyde by forming a precipitate. This activity is aimed at...
Worksheet
Alberta Learning

Area and Perimeter of Irregular Shapes

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Evaluate young mathematicians' understanding of area and perimeter with this series of three assessment tasks. Challenging students to not only calculate the area and perimeter of irregular shapes, but to explain in writing their...
Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

Summer of the Monkeys: Novel Study

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
There are more than 260 types of monkeys in the world. With the novel study for Wilson Rawls' Summer of the Monkeys, pupils research interesting facts about the banana-loving primates. They also practice exaggeration, write...
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Workforce Solutions

Reality Check

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Talk about a reality check! High schoolers complete a lifestyle survey indicating their preference for housing, entertainment, etc., and then calculate the salary required to support those choices. Finally, they research the types of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's So Good About Popcorn?

For Teachers 1st
First graders use a thinking map to organize a paragraph. They write and edit their paragraph about popcorn and type the final copy on the computer.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Letter to Self: A Personal Time Capsule

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify the parts of a friendly letter and write a letter to themselves as a part of a time capsule. In this letter writing lesson, 7th graders identify the five parts of a letter and write a friendly letter to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adopt a Highway

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a letter to a community company asking for a donation to their adopt a highway project. In the letter, they include the reasons they want to adopt the highway and thank they store for their time. They word process the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Typing, Reproducing and Distributing the Job Pamphlet

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use a word processing program to make a job pamphlet that is suitable for reproduction. This lesson help students write for a purpose. They use the skills of organizing, pre-writing, and revising with a word processing program.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather Systems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research weather phenomenon in groups on the Internet and create a slide for the class power point presentation. They include 5 key points (temperature, air pressure, and fronts and descriptions for each type of cloud or...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What will you be for Halloween?

For Teachers 1st
First graders construct a story sticking to the topic with 2-4 sentences.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ode to the Ordinary

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders identify an ordinary object and write an ode for the subject. In this poetry writing activity, 9th graders select an ordinary object and define its uses. Students then write an ode for the poem.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Persuasive Paper: RFID

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students write a persuasive essay. In this persuasive writing activity, students argue either for or against RFID technology. Students research RFID both as a class and individually, and follow paragraph-by-paragraph instructions to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing a Criticism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view various paintings and write down the adjectives that come to mind. Using the painting, they use information from a previous lesson to write their own critique or point of view. They share their writings with the class.