Worksheet
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Sharing Marbles Equally

For Students K - 3rd
Young elementary-schoolers are constantly reminded to share with others. Use this familiar concept in this equal distribution activity. Scholars choose either 10, 16, or 28 as the number of marbles they have to give out. Then, they...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Doorbell Rang

For Students 1st - 3rd
Using the Pat Hutchins book The Doorbell Rang, introduce your learners to division using this simple exercise. They start with either 16, 24, or 32 cookies and consider how many friends they could share this number of cookies with....
PPT
Curated OER

The Eight Hero Archetypes

For Teachers 8th - 12th
The Chief, the Bad Boy, the Best Friend, the Charmer, the Lost Soul, the Professor, the Swashbuckler, the Warrior. After examining the criteria for each of these archetypes, viewers are ask to generate a list of their own examples of...
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English To Go

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

For Students 6th - 8th
Who is the tallest person in your family? Are you taller than your siblings? Intermediate language learners can read over and review comparative and superlative adjectives on the first page before they jump to page two for the exercises...
Lesson Plan
Novelinks

The Little Prince: Brainstorming Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What do you think of when you hear the word adult? Or friend? Learners brainstorm with a group of peers to list the words they think of when they hear seven words from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.
Assessment
Balanced Assessment

Pen Pals

For Students 6th - 8th
It's always nice to hear from friends. Your budding mathematicians read letters from pen pals and convert customary measurements into metric units and vice versa. They also write letters to an imaginary pen pal using metric units.
Activity
Seussville

The Lorax's Earth Day

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Add a touch of Dr. Seuss whimsy to your Earth Day celebration with six pages consisting of Earth-friendly, inspiring, and engaging activities designed to enhance the beauty of your school campus and showcase the famous story, The...
Lesson Plan
Tech Museum of Innovation

Tree House Escape

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Use simple machines to escape from a tree house. Pupils learn about simple machines and how they are useful in everyday life in a STEM lesson. Groups then design a device to rescue a friend stuck in a tree house.
Lesson Plan
Nemours KidsHealth

Human Body Series: Immune System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
When you work with school children, teaching about immunity and illness prevention is a priority! This approach includes a discussion, kid-friendly online articles, a creative writing assignment, and a quiz on the role of leukocytes and...
Writing
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Writing a Letter

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Here are three well-thought-out tasks intended to build good note taking and letter writing skills. The class reads three short letters, determines who wrote them (based on context) and takes notes as a pre-writing activity. They...
Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Jog-A-Thon

For Teachers 5th Standards
Adding fractions with unlike denominators can be cloudy, but attaching the fractions to real-life math can add to fraction number sense. Alex needed to run only a mile, will completing the training in two segments satisfy this...
Worksheet
Using English

Emailing Functions Correction and Brainstorming

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
How do you address a large group of people? How would give someone bad news? How would you share happy news with a friend? Help your intermediate English language classes form these sentiments by providing them with this practice...
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Career Solutions Publishing

It’s For Real Workplace Ethics

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed Standards
Discuss the ethical and practical consequences of dishonesty at work by analyzing a hypothetical situation in which a young employee at a pizza shop is being asked by her friends for free meals.
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K12 Reader

Alliteration Game

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Practice alliteration with a fun game! Kids match names to a best friend's name, and add something they both like. 
Worksheet
English Worksheets Land

The Donkey, the Fox and the Lion

For Students 3rd Standards
Have learners read about a lion that lures a foolish fox into a trap and gets himself and his donkey friend eaten. After reading, pupils answer three questions and determine what the lesson of the story is.
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

Photo Pen Pals

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students learn to write a descriptive friendly letter to a pen pal.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Soldier's Valentine

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create Valentine's for soldiers in Iraq. They review how to write a friendly paragraph and discuss the military and duties of soldiers in Iraq. They create postcards and write reasons why they are rpoud of the military and how...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Letter from the Chateau

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a friendly letter based on their observations of a painting by Poussin.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

First Grade Writing Lesson #1/ Narrative Prompt

For Teachers 1st
First graders write a descriptive paragraph about a friend.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Friendships and Differences

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students complete a variety of activities related to the book "My Friend Jacob" by Lucille Clifton. They complete a graphic organizer web about friendship qualities, and participate in a discussion about friendship. In small groups...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

When Turtle Grew Feathers

For Teachers Pre-K
Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship.  In this friendship lesson, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers.  Students  answer questions about the friends in the story. Students discuss the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Building Friendships

For Teachers K
Students describe the characteristics in which make a good friend. They participate in four activities to help them to get to know their classmates. They role-play different situations.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Writing letters

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a teacher demonstration lesson of the five main parts of a friendly letter including the heading, the salutation, the body, the closing, and the signature. They write a friendly letter to their parents...

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