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Curated OER

Goals and Perseverance

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Define the word perseverance to have learners understand why it is important in reaching goals. Young scholars research how Martin Luther King needed perseverance to accomplish his goals. They write acrostic poems using the word...
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Lesson Plan
Digital Public Library of America

Teaching Guide: Exploring Little Women

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a literary masterpiece as well as a timestamp of the formative mid-nineteenth century in America. Using a primary source set of photographs, letters, and portraits, readers discuss the ways...
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Activity
PBS

Primary Source Set: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What did Jo write her stories with? How did the March sisters dress? A primary source set designed for Louisa May Alcott's Little Women prompts learners to look over images of household items and clothes from the 1860s before engaging in...
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Curated OER

My Favorite Story

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discuss their favorite book. In this book discussion lesson, students name the title and tell what makes the book special. Students also review the setting, plot, conflict, and resolution. Students make a book that tells all of...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Functions that Describe Situations: Manny's Mang-o-gurt

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
How much does it cost to add more mangos? An interactive allows users to see how the price of frozen yogurt changes based on the number of scoops and the number of slices of mango. Learners then answer a set of challenge questions about...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

The Real Numbers: Surjections, Injections and Bijections

For Students 8th - 12th
Inject a great interactive into your lesson plans. Scholars learn about injections, surjections, and bijections of sets. They use an interactive that shows an example for each of these relationships between sets.
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Curated OER

Library Skills Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers review library skills by rotating through teacher-created learning stations covering various topics. They discuss plagiarism, work on Almanac practice as a team, complete practice using indexes, and an abstracts handout...
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Curated OER

Get Set!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars create vivid descriptions for various sets used in the new movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Middle Tennessee State University

A House Divided: The Civil War Home Front in Tennessee

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
To broaden their understanding of both the short term and long terms effects of the Civil War, class groups examine primary source materials and then assume the role of a family member and draft a letter to a soldier describing life at...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Featuring Fairy Tales

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing activity, students investigate a fairy tale by selecting one from the school library and completing the 7 writing activities.
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CK-12 Foundation

Mode: Boxes of Oranges

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
See how your data stacks up. Pupils stack crates of oranges in increasing order, creating a simple bar graph. Using the graph, individuals determine measures of center and describe the shape of the distribution. Scholars determine what...
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Curated OER

Dusty Locks and the Three Bears

For Teachers K
Read this twist on Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Dusty Locks and the Three Bears by Susan Lowell. Kindergartners listen, predict, and discuss the story. They then participate in a dramatization of the story and draw a picture to...
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Florida Department of Education

Phonemic Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build your library of strategies and activities for teaching phonemic awareness with the ideas provided in this resource. Described here are five different activities to try out with your class.
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Activity
Azusa Pacific University

Historical Landmark Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Close a unit or the year with a five-step research project. Class members choose a US landmark, research the landmark, compose a report about it, build a model of it, and present their model and findings to the class. Each step is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Childhood Lost: Child Labor in the United States, 1830-1930

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Working in groups, middle and high schoolers describe and discuss photographs depicting working conditions experienced by child laborers in the 19th century. They then write a persuasive paragraph supporting an amendment to regulate the...
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Curated OER

George Washington Crossing the Delaware: A Study of Setting and Character

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine "Washington Crossing the Delaware." In this American Revolution lesson, students analyze the painting, research its background, and then perform skits based on their findings. 
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Inequalities that Describe Patterns: Freezing Cold Comparison

For Students 6th Standards
Don't freeze out the interactive on inequalities from your lesson plans. Young mathematicians use an interactive thermometer and number line to compare freezing temperatures. Inequalities help express these comparisons.
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Curated OER

Famous Leaders

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the goals and visions they have set for themselves. They discuss realistic expectations for themselves and others. Students explore their own individual leadership styles by reading a biography of a leader they admire....
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Curated OER

Reader's Review

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create booklets to provide information on elements of a novel, including plot, setting, character, major and minor conflicts and theme.
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Curated OER

Chain Together A Book Report

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Individuals examine a book's components, including key events, characters, and vocabulary and develop "chain book reports" with their peers. Strips of paper containing the book's important events are staples together and hung.
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Curated OER

Poetry Describing Ordinary Life

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners examine the cultural and historical context which a poem is written in or describes. In this poetry instructional activity, students listen to an online recording of Philip Larkin reading "The Whitsun Wedding." Learners explore...
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Curated OER

Writing Paragraphs: Paragraphs which describe events in chronological order

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explain the structure of a paragraph which describes chronological events. They demonstrate this by construction in writing of a paragraph.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Properties of Polygons, Same-Length Sides

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Can your third graders spot the differences between these geometric shapes? After studying several sections of triangles, rectangles, and other polygons, learners circle the shape described in each set of instructions. For extra...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Letters: c and o

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
How can you incorporate drawing a dinosaur with printing practice? Here's how! Budding printers trace and write lowercase letters c and o, following guidelines to trace one set before trying another on their own. Then, they complete a...