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Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment

Self Concept

For Teachers 8th
Reflect on your identity, the past events that helped you form your personality, and your future aspirations with a lesson about self concept. Eighth graders examine their own traits and the ways they are unique from their peers before...
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Lesson Plan
Michigan State University

All About Rodents

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Get to the know the common house mouse and the Norway rat with an activity that reinforces reading comprehension skills. Scholars read a three-page document detailing key information about mammals, specifically rodents, and use their...
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Savannah-Chatham County Public School System

Using Self-Control

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Everyone gets frustrated from time to time. You may not be able to control the way you feel, but you can definitely learn to control the way you act in times of frustration. A helpful lesson on self control encourages your class to stop,...
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Printables
Together Group

Substitute Report

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
What was the overall behavior of your class while you were away and they were with the substitute? Which students had difficulty in particular subject areas, and which were more challenging than others? Get the answers to these questions...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Frindle: A Guiding Reading Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Guide your class through a reading of the popular children's book, Frindle, with this comprehensive literature unit. Starting with a brief introduction to the guided reading process, the class goes on to read the story two chapters at a...
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Curated OER

Our Classroom Constitution

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Develop a system of classroom rules created by the kids, for the kids with this three-part instructional activity series on the US Constitution. After learning about the structure of the Constitution and the government it established,...
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Curated OER

Getting to Know Your Textbook

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders use the glossary, index, and headings to location information in their textbooks. For this textbooks lesson plan, 8th graders complete discussion questions about the information they can learn from textbook features.
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Curated OER

Mini - Lesson #5: Get To Know - Mapping

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine and draw landscape maps. In this mapping lesson plan, students investigate what a landscape map is. They draw a map showing objects on a small piece of natural landscape. Students fill in a grid sheet and a worksheet to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Getting to Know "Aquatic Fish Foods"

For Students 5th - 12th
In this fish learning exercise, students access a website to learn more about the common insects eaten by fish. Then students draw and label three types of insect life cycles. This learning exercise has 10 true or false questions and 3...
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Curated OER

More About Me

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore what they like to do, their interests, and their aptitudes.
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Curated OER

Who Am I? (Primary Grades)

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify their names, follow directions and use listening skills to learn their classmates names in a game format.
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Curated OER

Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
”If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.”—Henry Ford. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts lesson two of 20 continues with the class getting to know each other. There is review of the crane stance, the cat...
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Curated OER

Training Students for Literature Circles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Role sheets clearly define expectations of all group members in this introduction to literature circles. By using a variety of picture books or short texts, readers can practice roles while the teacher circulates to each group observing...
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Curated OER

Discovering American Symbols

For Teachers 3rd
Help youngsters get to know their states and capitals, explore their own country, and study American symbolism. They take a "trip" across America collecting symbols, images, and information about each state as they go (through text and...
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Polar Trec

Polar Detectives: Using Ice Core Data to Decode Past Climate Mysteries

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How does examining an ice core tell us about weather? Learners set up and explore fake ice cores made of sugar, salt, and ash to represent historical snowfall and volcanic eruptions. From their setups, scholars determine what caused the...
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Curated OER

Getting To Know You - Lesson 1

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders complete a worksheet about themselves as individuals and as members of groups and discuss questions about themselves as they present their sheets. In this individuality lesson plan, 5th graders discuss what makes them...
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American Chemical Society

Powder Particulars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
By both demonstration and hands-on investigation, physical science fanatics come to know that some materials react when they come together. Adding vinegar to both baking soda and to baking powder, the difference between the two is clear....
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Curated OER

Survival Challenge: Would You Make It?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students face a challenge. In this survival activity, students discover the hardships faced by the pioneers who moved west and see if they would survive a similar situation. They discuss essential items they need to survive and...
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Curated OER

Let's Get Along

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars examine the book Smoky Night. In this cultural lesson, students read the text and discuss why it's important to get along with others. Young scholars complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast themselves with a peer.
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PBS

Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Contemplating Nature vs. Nurture

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Does having an addict in your family make it more likely to become one yourself? Explore the genetic risk factors, as well as the prominent environmental influences, for substance addiction in a lesson plan that encourages awareness and...
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University of North Carolina

Style

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Just like you choose your clothes to ensure they fit the occasion, you should choose your words deliberately while writing. Style, the main topic of one handout in a series on writing skills, involves choosing words carefully and paying...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a lesson plan highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and trees during...
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Humanities Texas

Primary Source Worksheet: Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr., Excerpt of Telephone Conversation

For Students 8th - 11th
Imagine listening in on a conversation between President Lyndon B. Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as Johnson outlines the support he needs from King to pass the legislation required for programs essential for "The Great...
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Writing
Curated OER

Writing Bug - Inquiring Minds Want to Know - #5

For Students 4th - 6th
In this journal writing activity, students are given four headlines for news stories published in tabloid newspapers. Students write the story that might have matched one of the headlines.