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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Introduction to Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"The goal of this lesson is to introduce the concepts of mean, median and mode and to develop understanding and familiarity with these ideas." This lesson is provided by Shodor Education Foundation.
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: How to Develop a Lesson Plan That Includes El Ls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this article, readers will learn how to develop a lesson plan that will include ELL students. This article highlights that effect lessons, that will inclusive of ELL students, will work to build background knowledge, provide explicit...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter Review Using Legos

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Lesson plan in which students calculate area, build areas to a given amount, and calculate the perimeter with the use of Legos. Step by step instructions and videos are provided. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.c Use area models to represent...
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Author's Purpose: Lesson 2

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students learn to identify an author's purpose.
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Read Works

Read Works: 3rd Grade: Using Compare and Contrast Keywords: Lesson 1

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this lesson plan, teachers can help students increase their understanding of what they read through the use of key words that compare and contrast.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Looking at Food Advertising Lesson

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. For this lesson, young students will learn about the importance of spokescharacters for companies. Then students will create own jingles and spokescharacters for foods...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Cities in Mesopotamia: Understanding a Complex Text

For Teachers 6th Standards
In this instructional activity, 6th graders use details from a nonfiction article to create a visual representation and then, from that visual, provide evidence that demonstrates their understanding of the text. Includes samples of...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting With "Then and Now"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional activity is a great small group reading instructional activity that has a social studies connection. In this instructional activity, learners will be comparing and contrasting schools from long ago and schools of today...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tap and Say an Activity for Segmenting Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
You can add a phonemic awareness activity to your phonics lessons each day and it will only add a few extra minutes to your lessons. You also don't need to buy expensive manipulatives for your students to use. There are lots of low-cost...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Blowing in the Wind Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this Curious George STEM lesson, students will explore the concepts of air and wind. Student will engage in a hands-on activity after watching a video excerpt from Curious George.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Super Why!: Lesson Plan: Lesson 209: Princess Gwennie Saves the Day

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
In this lesson, students will identify lowercase letters of the alphabet, specifically: h, a, r, p.
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Lesson Plan on Letter From Birmingham Jail

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A comprehensive six-part lesson plan that encourages students to study the concept of non-violence as it was practiced during the confrontation that took place in Birmingham in 1963. This led to the famous letter written by Dr. King in...
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: A Lesson Before Dying

For Students 9th - 10th
Guide to Ernest J. Gaines' novel, A Lesson Before Dying, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and ten lesson plans with activities, homework assignments, project ideas and essay topics. A radio show, with...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Guide to Finding Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Locate links to thousands of lesson plans and curriculum guides in all disciplines.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of George Washington

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people who are famous or important.
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Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: The Story of Ruby Bridges

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people and give information about their lives.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Why Are Some Animal Groups So Successful?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Using squirrels as an example, young scholars will understand that some animal groups' inherited traits enable them to adapt and spread into many environments. Included in this lesson are videos showing the lesson in action, discussion...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Colliding Marbles

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this lesson, students use marbles of various sizes to see how collisions can transfer energy from one object to another. Resources include videos of the lesson in actions, examples of student work, and a lab worksheet for students.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collision Course (Part 2)

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This is part 2 of a two-part lesson on understanding how speed changes when two objects collide. Students will conduct an experiment, collect data, and draw conclusions about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide....
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Better Lesson: Food Chains Moving Matter in an Ecosystem (Day 1)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students will create a food chain model and use it to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Resources include a detailed lesson plan, student handouts, pictures of a completed chain,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Recipe for a Great Word Problem

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
The big idea of this lesson is to have students write their own word problems to help them have a better understanding of mathematical operations, as they relate to real-world scenarios. Pictures and videos of the lesson in the process...
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Education.com

Education.com: Words That Make Us Feel: A Lesson on Sensory Language

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] After this lesson centered around the book Owl Moon, students will be able to identify words and phrases that suggest feelings and appeal to the senses.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts:teaching Tv: Critically Evaluating Tv Lesson

For Students 1st - 6th Standards
MediaSmarts provides digital and media literacy lessons for students. In this instructional activity, students will learn to watch and listen to a television with a critical lense

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