Teaching Tolerance
Fairness Fair
How can we create a more fair world? Chances are, class members have some ideas! After reading a text about fairness, individuals create skits around the ideas of fairness. Extend the learning and make their presentations a...
Virginia Department of Education
Scatterplots
Math is all fun and games with this activity! Learners use an activity designed around hula hoops to collect data. They create scatter plots with their data and then analyze the graphs for correlation.
Nebraska Department of Education
Career Family Tree
What do you want to be when you grow up? How does your family influence your choices of occupations? These are the questions middle schoolers consider as they interview family members and create a career Family Tree.
Curated OER
The Death Sentence Remains A Question
Examine the results of recent opinion polls on where people stand on the issue of the death penalty. In groups, middle schoolers examine various cases dealing with this issue and discuss the judgments. They write their own argument for...
EngageNY
Notices, Wonders, and Vocabulary of the Third Stanza of “If”
How does one's experience reading a poem's text differ from listening to its audio version? Delve into the insightful question with the poem, If by Rudyard Kipling, as pupils compare and contrast their experience using a note-taking...
EngageNY
Grade 9 ELA Module 1: Unit 3, Lesson 14
After watching the scene from Romeo + Juliet in which Juliet argues with her parents because she does not want to marry Paris, groups do a close reading of Act 4, scene 1, lines 44-88, examining the word choices in the conversation...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Volume
Young mathematicians may solve for cubic units but do they know what that is? This video does a great job of visually explaining not only how to find cubic volume, but what it means in relatable terms.
ProCon
Sanctuary Cities
Should sanctuary cities receive federal funding, or do they defy federal laws? That is precisely the question scholars attempt to answer as they prepare for a class discussion or debate. After reading some brief background information,...
EngageNY
End of Unit Assessment: Commentary on Confessional
What does commentary have to do with narrative? Before scholars explain the narrative choices in their Character Confessionals, they review provided commentary to explain the score they received on previous assessments. They review...
EngageNY
Grade 12 ELA Module 4: Literary Analysis
Does identity come from within, or do external forces shape it? Explore the complex identity concept with a two-unit module for 12th-grade language arts. The first unit uses A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and "A Daily Joy...
American Chemical Society
Joseph Priestley, Discoverer of Oxygen
Do you want to hear a joke about nitrogen and oxygen? NO. We all know there is oxygen in the air and that plants produce oxygen, but how was it discovered? Scholars read a handout, answer questions, and analyze material in the...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Journey
Drive home math concepts with an engaging task. Learners follow a verbal description to fill in a table and create a distance-time graph representing a car journey. They then answer questions by interpreting the graph.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A Defense of the Electoral College
Each presidential election year, the debate about the electoral college rages. Michael C. Maibach's "A Defense of the Electoral College" offers young political scientists an opportunity to examine a reasoned argument for why the...
K20 LEARN
The Bank Of Justice: Civil Rights In The US
To launch a study of racial segregation and integration, young historians first watch a news video about a prom in Georgia that was first integrated in 2013. They then compare the goals in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to King's "I Have a...
Curated OER
ESL: Short Answers Question Activity
In this ESL short answer question learning exercise, students circle the correct answer to simple, short answer questions, 10 total. Answers are included on page 2.
Curated OER
Double Quiz: Present Simple Questions/ Trivia
In this ESL online interactive grammar worksheet, students answer 15 multiple choice questions regarding the use of present simple tense verbs. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Preferences
In this oral language worksheet, learners work in pairs to ask and answer questions. The first student asks 6 questions about the preferences of Leonardo di Caprio and Cameron Diaz. When the partner answers, it is checked and marked as...
Curated OER
Revision - Various
In this word order worksheet, students put sentences in order, match phrases with words, insert question words into sentences, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
Curated OER
The 3 Bears Mystery (On-line Interactive)
In this question words worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz on question words. Students finish each question with the correct word. All sentences are pertaining to The Three Bears.
Curated OER
Galaxy 4
In this food and transportation worksheet, students make questions, complete a crossword, complete a word search, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
Curated OER
Any Answers 1-- Intermediate Level
In this language arts worksheet, students read 10 questions or comments followed by 4 possible responses. Students choose the most appropriate answer or response.
Curated OER
Why does Twenty Questions Suffice for Guessing a Number Between One and One Million?
In this probability worksheet, students use logarithms and exponentials to determine why twenty questions suffice for guessing a number between one and million. The solution is provided.
Curated OER
Who, What, Where, When, Why?
In this creating information questions and answers worksheet, students write who, what, where, when, and why questions write answers in complete sentences, and complete a dialogue. Students write 19 short sentences.
The New York Times
Anatomy of a Scene
Casting, setting, context, frame, camera angle, lighting, soundtrack. Every choice a writer or director makes is conscious. Here's a worksheet that asks readers/viewers to examine these choices and consider how they are used to to...