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Colon and Semicolon Rules
Are your kids always mixing up the colon and the semicolon? Help make their purpose clear with this short presentation. Thirteen slides offer explanations, examples, and a short practice opportunity. Although it serves its purpose, the...
Curated OER
Commas
How do you use a comma? Review the most basic uses of a comma with this quick and easy presentation. Six comma rules are introduced and examples are given, but no practice opportunity is currently provided. Edit the presentation by...
Curated OER
Making Connections
Connections or "links that readers can make between what they are reading and things they already know. . ." are the focus of a persentation that looks at how to make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world links.
Prenhall
Walter Dean Myers: A Man of Many Words
Using Monster, Slam, or Fallen Angels with your young readers? Here’s a PowerPoint about Walter Dean Myers that could be shown in the classroom or used as a teacher resource. The presentation includes a brief biography, a partial list of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Writing Workshop: Writing a Compare-Contrast Essay
Crafting a compare-contrast essay can prove to be a challenge even for experienced writers. Eradicate the mystery with a PowerPoint that details the rationale for and the structure of this form of expository writing. The 20-slide...
Orange County Schools
Piggybook
Summarizing text is a balancing act between being brief but thorough. You need to be short and to the point, but also cover all the important details, a task that presents a challenge for many young learners. In this lesson based on the...
Curated OER
Ernest Hemingway
Introduce readers to Ernest Hemingway and his writing style with a learning exercise that includes a brief biography, a WebQuest, and his short story "Old Man At The Bridge." Discussion questions are attached to the story but the link to...
Wordpress
Healthy Living Lesson Project
Individuals each select a healthy habit to explain and demonstrate with the rest of the class. They are assigned a partner to evaluate and videotape them, but they will create their own class presentation. The document includes a peer...
Curated OER
Part III: Document-Based Question
Need a DBQ practice set? Whether or not your class is preparing for the AP exam, learners will benefit from analyzing primary source documents about economic and social change. For Part A, the short-answer questions, participants read...
Curated Video
Safety Mode
Teach your YouTube users how to protect themselves from offensive content with a mini instructional activity on Safety Mode. The teacher presents information about Safety Mode, and then demonstrates how it can be turned on and...
Google
Plate Tectonics Questions
Investigating plate tectonics, boundaries, and the earth's physical attributes is the focus of this short answer, tectonic plates worksheet.
Saline Area Schools
Moving Home: A Map Skills Project
You have just been informed you are moving, but you have the choice of three locations. Where do you go? This is the question class members answer in a map skills project. Learners examine three locations using maps, gather...
Texas A&M University
Genetics Using Punnett Squares
Gregor Mendel was a monk who failed his teaching certification exam. He then dedicated his life to science and ended up creating the field of genetics. This presentation introduces the concepts of genetics and Punnett squares.
Curated OER
Playing With Friends
In this editing worksheet, students edit a sentence about playing with their friends and then draw a picture of it. Students complete 2 activities.
Curated OER
On The Move
Eighth graders engage in a instructional activity to investigate the Laws of Motion while observing different examples with the use of video lessons. They predict why objects move the way they do and then apply the new knowledge to...
Curated OER
Sink or Float: Exploring the Laws of Buoyancy
Young scholars explore the relationship between density and buoyancy. After watching a video explaining buoyancy, students discuss displacement and floating. Young scholars have a raft building competition. Afterward, they conduct...
Curated OER
Trekking Across America
Learners evaluate the impact of transportation on society, the economy, communication, and travel. They complete an inquiry project about modern modes of transportation, and compare transportation of the 19th century to transportation...
Curated OER
Where in the World? The Basics of Latitude and Longitude
Students are introduced to the concepts of latitude and longitude. In groups, they identify the Earth's magnetic field and the disadvantages of using compasses for navigation. They identify the major lines of latitude and longitude on a...
Curated OER
Good Readers Visualize
Students explore reading. In this visualization lesson, students practice, creating images in their minds while listening to the story The Vegetables Go To Bed, by Christopher King. They listen to the story and then draw what they...
Curated OER
Introduction to Visualization
Fourth graders listen to The Bear's Toothache and illustrate the story in their minds. In this visualization instructional activity, 4th graders draw pictures of what they hear in a read aloud. Students discuss their...
Curated OER
Deep Blue Sea
Elementary schoolers identify the ocean floor in a geological sense. They create a presentation that highlights the key features of the ocean floor. This terrific lesson plan has excellent streaming video segments embedded in it, and the...
Santa Ana Unified School District
The Giver
Wouldn't it be great to live an a community without pain, without danger? Such a society is the goal of the community in The Giver. Using Lois Lowry's dystopian novel as the core text, class members read primary source materials...
Curated OER
Translation Lesson to help Students Improve Vocabulary and Writing Style
Students translate an entire Internet page from English into a target language. In small groups, they create a short story or document in their native tongue or find an Internet page in their own tongue that they translate into English.
Curated OER
Dr. Seuss Subtraction
A math learning exercise with a Dr. Seuss theme prompts youngsters to solve 12 subtraction problems (one digit subtracted from one digit). There are whimsical Dr. Seuss drawings for each problem for learners to mark the...
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