Curated OER
Appreciating Our American Heritage
Students learn about the Chinese culture via literature. They read the poetry of Cathy Song, considering national pride as Americans and Chinese.
Curated OER
Ocean Animals vs. Humans
Students use critical thinking skills to solve word problems using ratios that allow them to compare humans to ocean animals.
Curated OER
Parasites: Our Tiny Companions
Young scholars consider parasites that seek human hosts. They prepare nutrient agar plates and cultivate samples of bacteria taken from their own bodies. They experiment with disinfectants and soaps to determine which method kills the...
TES Global
Blendspace: "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
An eight-part learning module with links to slides, videos, and texts to use while reading Ray Bradbury's "All Summer in a Day."
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: A Hot Summer Day
Look at all the fun you can have on a hot summer day. Book includes audio narration in 19 additional languages with text in English.
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Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Midnight Sun and Northern Lights [Pdf]
This magazine article discusses the arctic where in the summer, the sun shines all day and night, but the winter is dark all day and night. It also explains the Northern Lights or aurora which is like a light show with beautiful pinks...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Carthage (Joseph Smith Murder) Trial (1845)
One of the most consequential crimes in American history occurred on a summer day in 1844 when a mob stormed a jail in Carthage, Illinois and murdered Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum. The killing of Joseph Smith, the charismatic...