Curated OER
The Age of Sailing Songs
Pupils explore various genres of spoken and written expression. While considering the era of the shipyard and sailing, students describe and document a favorite ship, captain, crew, or life of a sailor. Using this information, they...
Curated OER
Ho Chi Minh and Freedom of Speech
Students explore freedom of speech. Individually, they complete a K-W-L chart. Students participate in a "Stand If You Can" activity where they make statements regarding the freedom of speech. Students stand if they agree with the...
Curated OER
Observing Fruits and Seeds
Third graders discuss what they think the word "observation" means and discover different ways that we observe. They observe as the teacher demonstrates how to use a hand lens as a tool for observing tiny details. They then use hand...
Curated OER
Descriptive Words
Learners use descriptive words in writing. In this descriptive words lesson plan, students learn to show instead of tell. Learners enter into a discussion of adjectives and adverbs, then add descriptive words to sentences to make vivid...
Curated OER
Using Parallax to Determine Distances
Young scholars study parallax and what it is used for. In this distance lesson students complete an activity that allows young scholars to get experience using a parallax.
Curated OER
Tying it all Together
Students study an article on drugs in their society. In this investigative lesson students create their own concept map.
Curated OER
Ballistic Pendulum Lab
Students determine the muzzle velocity of projectile launcher. In this physics lesson, students compare the pendulum method and kinematic method in calculating the initial velocity. They analyze data and discuss results in class.
Curated OER
Potato Launcher Energy Lab
Students investigate conservation laws using a potato launcher. In this physics lesson, students measure angles, time and distance of the potato. They discuss applications of experiments like this.
Curated OER
Acid and Base Testing
Students study descriptions of indicators and the way they are used to identify acids and bases. They use this information to determine if unknown solutions are acids or bases.
Curated OER
Acid Precipitation
Learners test the acidity of unknown solutions. They use this information to make inferences from data given from recorded rainfall records to identify areas that receive the most acid rain.
Curated OER
Where Do Fish Live in the Hudson?
Students explore the environmental factors that influence where fish live and determine the makeup of fish communities in the Hudson. They interpret guided observations and measurements to assess patterns, sequences and relationships.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complete Subject
This lesson focuses on how to find the complete subject of a sentence; it defines simple and complete subject with examples, provides sample sentences with both the simple and complete subjects identified, and offers tips for how to find...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Romanticism: Parts of the Sentence
This lesson focuses on parts of a sentence including simple subjects and predicates, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives and adjectives, subject compliments, and complements. It also provides examples of each and a...
Other
Critical Reading: Subject and Predicate
Part of a larger site on "The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing," this section on the simple sentence focuses on the subject and the predicate. Definitions and examples are provided along with a section on...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments
This tutorial provides information about the sentence fragment. Several examples are provided to support the explanations. A PowerPoint is available on the site for additional tutorial information regarding sentence fragments and other...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Compound Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines compound sentences and discusses conjunctions and punctuation to combine the sentences. It provides many examples utilizing color-coding to help define each of the sentence parts.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...