Shirley Sides
Math Flash: Fractions II Red
A rather simple presentation on identifying equivalent fractions awaits your young mathematicians. Each slide has a piece of pie that's been divided into equal parts, but one of the parts has been further divided into a different...
Curated OER
Propaganda
Introduce your class members to propaganda techniques writers and advertisers use to influence their opinions. Each appeal is defined and illustrated with examples from current ads and political campaigns. Additional examples are...
jc-schools
Moving to the Five Paragraph Narrative Essay: A Write On Activity
Ready to introduce your young writers to the multi-paragraph essay? Here’s an illustrated presentation that models how to use the pre-writing notes on a graphic organizer to craft a personal essay. Color codes help viewers identify the...
Curated OER
El Verbo Estar: Explanation and Practice 1
Estar means "to be" in Spanish. This resource provides a quick reference chart that illustrates the verb's conjugation, and there is a practice opportunity below. Consider giving your class five of the practice sentences to translate.
Curated OER
Time Worksheet 3-On the Quarter Hour
Build your Spanish learners' confidence in telling time with this worksheet. Digital and analog clock illustrations are provided, and learners must match the correct time to each clock illustration.
Curated OER
Personification
Introduce your young scholars to personification. The literary device is clearly defined and illustrated with clever examples. Opportunities for guided and independent practice using poems by Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes are also...
Curated OER
Sentence Patterns II: Locating Objects and Complements
What sets this worksheet apart are the clear, concise explanations for some rather complex grammatical terms. Object complements, subject complements, transitive and intransitive verbs, and direct and indirect objects are all carefully...
Curated OER
La Tête
How do you say tongue in French? Hair? Learn vocabulary for all of the facial features. The first page has each vocabulary word and its illustration, while the second requires learners to label parts of the face. Then, they complete a...
August House
Anansi Goes To Lunch - First Grade
Greed is the theme of this collection of multidisciplinary activities. As a class, read The West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch by Bobby Norfolk, and take part in a grand discussion about it's plot and theme. Reinforce the...
Curated OER
Speak Vocabulary Strategy
A scarlet letter “V” stands for a desktop teaching vocabulary activity designed for Speak. Prior to reading Laurie Hales Anderson’s young adult novel, individuals sign up for a word, design a handout that illustrates the word, includes...
Curated OER
The Power of Retelling: Developmental Steps to Building Comprehension
Empower your readers by modeling for them the steps for retelling a story. Designed as a teacher resource, Dr. Cummins argues that shifting responsibility for retelling to the learners increases their comprehension. The procedure is...
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
Shapes on the Farm
Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or out on the farm, shapes are everywhere in the world around us. Presented with an illustration of a farm, youngsters are tasked with coloring in all of the triangles,...
Curated OER
Composition in Journals
Carlos Fuentes’s The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait and Jaspre Bark’s Journal of Inventions: Leondardo da Vince serve as models for an assignment that asks class members to create a personal journal they will use...
Certificate Street
Award for a Bright Idea
Encourage kids to think up great ideas and reward their thoughts and ideas by giving out awards. The certificate, a PDF document, allows you to type in the bright thinker's name, a description of their idea, the date, and your own name...
Common Sense Media
Care and Maintenance Poster
Working with tablet computers in your class? Ensure that your pupils take care of their devices or those that belong to your school or district. This poster lists five easy guidelines for kids to follow when using a mobile device...
Weebly
Nationalism Project
Don't just ask your class to define nationalism, but invite them to experience it with an engaging project. Learners are divided into groups to design four items—a flag, slogan, national anthem, and historical tale—for a fictional...
Schools United to Provide Enhanced Resources Network
AP English Project: Journal of Literary Terms and Devices
To prepare for the AP English exams, individuals are asked to create a notebook of literary terms and devices. The terms must be defined, accompanied by representative artwork, and illustrated by an example drawn for a named source. A...
TED-Ed
Different Ways of Knowing
“Words have colors, emotions, numbers, shapes, and personalities.” Daniel Tammet welcomes viewers to his world with a 10-minutes video that illustrates how he, as an autistic savant, perceives the world. Class members are then...
K-3 Teacher Resources
Imagine, Believe, Achieve Quote
Inspire your kids with an adorable poster about imagining, believing, and achieving their goals. An illustration of a little girl smiles and celebrates her achievement on the first page of this poster, which would be a great addition to...
We are Teachers
The Six Traits in Plain Language
If your rockin' writers use Six-Trait Writing, you'll definitely want to include these displays around your classroom throughout the year. Each trait (e.g. voice, word choice, organization, ideas, sentence fluency, conventions) is...
Incredible Art
1, 2, and 3-Point Perspective
Introduce drawing young scholars to perspective with a series of lesson plan that detail how to draft images in one-, two-, and three-point perspective. Each exercise includes step-by-step, illustrated directions and examples.
Belinda David
Female Croquis
Templates for 41 female croquis (fashion figure outline sketches used for fashion illustration) in a variety of poses are featured in a 15-page packet perfect for fashion designers.
Get Set for School
Number Formation Chart
Help young learners write their numbers with a number formation chart. It illustrates the way their pencils should move when they make each number, along with a cute story about what each number is doing and thinking as it is being written.
Virginia Department of Education
Mathematics Vocabulary Cards - Grade 2
Augment your math curriculum with posters detailing several concepts important to second grade math. Each poster features one math term from geometry, measurement, probability and statistics, computation and estimation, numbers and...