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Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'How to Make a Wave' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
"How to Make a Wave", a novel by Lisa Hurst-Archer, is about an adolescent girl struggling to come to terms with a scar on her face and the absence of her mother. This extensive teacher's guide includes chapter summaries with...
Scholastic
Scholastic: How to Choose the Best Multicultural Books
Teacher's resource that advises how to choose great multicultural books for children. Includes lists of good books and authors, as well as criteria for selecting texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: How to Use the Guidebooks
A guide to teaching ELA Guidebooks, English language arts curriculum made up of units focused around a collection of texts. Made by teachers for teachers, the guidebook units ensure all students read, understand, and express their...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Reading Music in Elementary School
A description on how to teach elementary music to children.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Teacher2 Teacher Ask a Question
If you are a math teacher and have a concern about how to teach something to your student(s), would like some suggestions on what resources are available, or any other concern related to teaching mathematics come to this site to find an...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography
An eight-part professional development workshop for 7th-12th grade teachers.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Instruction: Reading Rockets: Topics a to Z
This site provides a link to curricular materials that tell us what to teach, and instruction informs us of the best way to teach. This section includes information about both the "what" and "how" of evidence-based teaching.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teaching With Primary Sources: Hispanic Exploration in America [Pdf]
This is a great lesson plan from the Library of Congress that shows how to use primary sources in the examination of the Spanish Conquistadors in America. The lesson offers many possible activities for students to use with the primary...
Library of Congress
Loc: For Teachers: Classroom Materials Using Primary Sources
This excellent teacher resource features lessons that use primary source documents in an engaging way. Included are lesson plans created by teachers, themed resources, primary source sets, presentations and activities, and collections...
Library of Congress
Loc: For Teachers: Analyzing Primary Source Documents
These student worksheets and activities help students analyze many different types of primary source documents. Life histories, objects, and photographs are all used to engage students.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What's With All the Pressure?
Students learn how to take blood pressure by observing a teacher demonstration and then practicing on fellow classmates in small groups. Once the hands-on component of this activity is completed, the class brainstorms and discusses how...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: 'Jeffrey and Sloth' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
This teaching guide for Jeffrey and Sloth, a story written by Kari-Lynn Winters, provides a synopsis of the story, discussion questions and teaching ideas. The book is about the experience of writer's block and how to overcome it. The...
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Poetry teachers.com
This site has lots of teaching ideas for instilling a love of poetry in students. Sections include Poetry Class, Poetry Fun, Poetry Theater, Poetry Contests, and information on how to invite authors to your school.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Renewable Energy Living Lab
Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become familiar with where the most...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Storing Android Accelerometer Data: App Design
Students work through an online tutorial on MIT's App Inventor to learn how to create Android applications. Using those skills, they create their own applications and use them to collect data from an Android device accelerometer and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Teacher Lessons: Technology and Resources for Flipped Lessons
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing flipped lesson strategies straight to your fingertips. Learn how to integrate technology into your lessons easier than ever before!
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Concept to Classroom: Webquests
This site shows how to use technology in the classroom and not be afraid of it! WebQuests are an inquiry based online tool for educators to use in the classroom. All the information during the lesson comes from the World Wide Web and...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Learning to Study: The Elementary Years
Teachers teach the subjects, but parents teach how to study. Many of us are not set up to do that! The author shares some good tips that just might help.
Other
Five Steps to Teaching Solid Character in Students
The author of this article argues that character development must be taught in schools and that teachers must take steps to make sure students understand what perseverance, determination, empathy, responsibility, respect, and caring are....
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: How to Blues
This site has ten lessons to teach about the blues in which students learn the geography, historical events and performers associated with the blues. The unit has been recognized by the American Music Education Initiative as one of the...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing Riddle Rhymes With Jean Marzollo
Children's author Jean Marzollo will teach you how to write "I Spy Riddle Rhymes"! There is a teacher's guide included.
Curated OER
History Matters: Making Sense of Documents
Designed to help teachers and students make effective use of primary documents. There are well written section on how to make sense of numbers, ads, music, diaries, and more. included are interactive activities for students to help them...