Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation
The pocket mouse can be light brown like the sands of the desert, or dark brown like the volcanic lava flows that are interspersed throughout New Mexico's Valley of Fire. It seems that predators have weeded out light colored mice in this...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans
Sickle cell disease only occurs when both parents contribute the trait, and mostly in those of African descent. Where did it come from? How did it evolve? Tony Allison, a molecular biologist, noticed a connection between sickle cell and...
Federal Reserve Bank
Invest in Yourself
What are the different ways that people can invest in their human capital for a better future? Pupils participate in an engaging hands-on activity and analyze data regarding unemployment, the ability to obtain an education, and median...
Federal Reserve Bank
Your Budget Plan
What do Whoosh and Jet Stream have in common? They are both characters in a fantastic game designed to help students identify various positive and negative spending behaviors. Through an engaging activity, worksheets, and...
Odell Education
Making Evidence-Based Claims: Grade 8
American women have been working toward equal rights since the ink dried on the Declaration of Independence. Focused on the words and actions of Sojourner Truth, Shirley Chisholm, and Venus Williams, a language arts lesson takes eighth...
Curated OER
Harvesting Oil from the Earth
Fourth graders research sources of fossil fuels especially oil while determining how scientists take core samples from an Earth model. They look at oil consumption and production in the US and throughout the world.
Curated OER
Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica Today
Students explore the importance of research in Antarctica, then explain how snow becomes part of the Antarctic ice cap. They explore Antarctica's harsh environment and discover how scientists drill ice cores and what information ice...
Curated OER
Comprehension Skills: Picture, Question and Summarize Using Fiction Stories
Students build a variety of comprehension skills through the nine lessons of this unit. Picturing events, monitoring understanding during reading, forming questions, and summarizing stories form the core of the lessons being taught...
Curated OER
CSAP Preparation: "Strike While the Iron is Hot"
Students survey several concepts in literature, science, history, and geography as a preparation for the CSAP standardized testing experience. This nine lesson unit provides exposure to the format and content of the test.
Curated OER
Aging of Trees
Students examine tree rings to determine its age. For this tree ring lesson, students examine core tree samples, identify the tree rings, and then determine its age. Students complete a worksheet, deciding which of the two core...
Curated OER
Electromagnets
Students are introduced to the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Using a compass, they observe and record the effects of placing the object near magnetic fields and electric currents. They also experiment using a steel and...
T. Smith Publishing
Halloween Add or Subtract
A jack-o-lantern containing a ghost top this page, making it a seasonal addition to your math lessons. On it, your little goblins will practice addition and subtraction of three-digit numbers. A terrific tool when working on Common Core...
Curated OER
Write On! Step by Step Paragraph and Report Writing
Students plan and write paragraphs while integrating other core subject areas. In this paragraph writing lesson, students complete 5 lessons to practice writing paragraphs. Students incorporate various core subjects into their paragraph...
T. Smith Publishing
Saint Patrick's Day Ordering Numbers Worksheet 2
Lucky learners practice reading and ordering two-digit numbers on this shamrock-themed sheet. As you are working on the Common Core initiative with your class, this assignment provides much-needed practice with this new level of number...
Curated OER
Respect and Democracy
Students explore the concept of respect. In this respect and democracy lesson, students define respect and brainstorm examples of showing respect and disrespect. Students read Core Values of American Constitutional Democracy and pick out...
T. Smith Publishing
Count and Color Dogs
Who is top dog? Primary mathematicians count a pyramid of 15 dogs, write the total, and then color it. That's all you will find on this assignment, but you can use it to practice counting and cardinality standards for the Common Core.
TLS Books
Dot-to-Dot Puppy
Connect the dots to complete a huge puppy! What preschooler or kindergartener wouldn't find such a task rewarding? The dots are numbered from 1 to 30, so this will definitely meed Common Core counting and cardinality standards for...
Curated OER
Count, Color, and Add Dogs: Seven Worksheets
Go, dog! Go! Math minors count the running dogs and count the sitting dogs, and come up with the total. These straightforward worksheets are a splendid tool for introducing little ones to addition. Add them to your arsenal when striving...
Curated OER
Angles Identification
In this assignment, math whizzes identify angles as either being obtuse, acute, right, or straight. Students identify six angles. The publisher states that this is designed with CCSS.Math.Content.MD.6 in mind, but it really does not ask...
Curated OER
Ag In The Outfield
Young scholars explore baseball. This is a cross-curricular plan that includes math, history, and agriculture. Pupils use their five senses to observe the materials a baseball is made from and identify the agricultural products used. In...
T. Smith Publishing
Larger and Smaller Numbers with Bear
A teddy bear tops the page, for no other reason than to look cute. Ten pairs of boxes follow. For each of the first five, learners color the box with the smaller of the two numbers. For the final five, they color the larger. This is a...
T. Smith Publishing
Fraction Review Worksheet 1
An answer key is included with this fraction review assignment. In it, fractioniers simplify large fractions, convert mixed numbers to improper fractoins, and change improper fractions into mixed numbers. Though the publisher states that...
Curated OER
WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Twelfth graders explore women (or men if they are underrepresented) who are leaders and achievers in the particular core content curriculum area. In this Anthropology lesson, 12th graders study the women who have distinguished...
Curated OER
Patterns That Grow
Students investigate growing patterns. In this additive patterns lesson, students analyze the core of growing patterns. Students extend additive patterns based on the core.
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