+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Unified Floor Hockey (Special Olympics)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
All levels of sports participants can play in a team sport. Working in teams, they participate in Unified Floor Hockey as a part of the Special Olympics sports program. They practice various skills associated with floor hockey and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nationalism and the Olympics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss the topic of nationalism in the Olympics. After viewing video segments, they discuss how politics and nationalism have influenced the Olympic Games in various ways. They also examine the main reasons why a country...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Imus Struggling to Retain Sway as a Franchise

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students will perform research and reflect upon a newspaper article. The lesson plan will help them to refine reading and cognitive skills of forming a personal opinion. The learners will ultimately learn and grow into a greater...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Names in the Field: A Simple GPS Field Exercise

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore basic methods of GPS data collection, uploading the data to a computer, and making simple maps of their data using GIS software. They create a map of the data using GIS software (or Excel)
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Balanced Forces

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to explain why football running backs benefit from having a lower center of gravity when opponents are trying to tackle them. They explain why racing cars are designed to have a low center of gravity. Students explain...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Theoretically Speaking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students define probability. They determine outcome from a given situation based on simple probability. Students create experimental data using a coin and a number cube. They write how theoretical and experimental probability are different.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

iDNAvestigation Exploration

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners investigate DNA Fingerprinting techniques and applications. They participate in a scenario to analyze blood to discover who shattered a plexiglass backboards. In addition, they explain why the DNA fingerprint of blood from the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Social Studies: Heroes in American Culture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils examine heroes and discuss their characteristics, values, and actions. They produce Powerpoint presentations on real-life and fictional heroes. Students interview veterans for an oral history project.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Olympic Rings

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are introduced to the Olympic rings and their historic significance as an international symbol. Working in small groups, they research the history behind the Olympic symbol using traditional research methods. Using the intended...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Literature-Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review themes they have seen so far in their study of poetry. They compare four poems and one set of song lyrics as they search for meaning in each. They compare and contrast all five and then give a presentation of their...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Safety Belts and the Media

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discuss the importance of using their seat belts in cars. After viewing different public service announcements, they identify ones which made an impact on them. In groups, they draw their own announcement to educate others about...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get a Clue: What is There and What Isn't

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students practice the ability to examine and analyze evidence and extract information that eventually leads to deductive conclusions. After evaluating the objects discovered in a box, students write a one-page reflection paper of their...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grammar Exercises

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this language arts worksheet, students find the words to create each sentence and also they write sentences in negative and interrogative form.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Baga Drum

For Teachers K - 6th
Students examine a Baga Drum in order to explore the history of the Baga people of West Africa. In this art history lesson, students recognize figures used in Baga Drum design that represent aspects of Baga culture. They also design and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Famous Figures in History

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate famous people in U.S. history. In this American history lesson, students read about famous people such as Helen Keller and Einstein. Students think of ways they might become famous.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Raising the Bar on How Business Gets Done

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of energy bar sales. In this energy bar sales lesson, students read an article about the sales of energy bars. High schoolers discuss what is meant by red roads and white roads in the article. Students...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sport Dictation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
For this sport dictation worksheet, students take dictation concerning various sports terms and their definitions.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introducing the Olympian Gods

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars compare and contrast characteristics of the Olympians with the character of the One True God.  In this mythology lesson students work in groups and are assigned one god and one myth to compare and contrast to God.

Other popular searches