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Curated OER

Science Charades

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars dramatize the wonderful world of nature, without making a sound. In this early childhood creative thinking lesson, students dramatize different aspects of nature to develop creative thinking, reading, memory, and motor...
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Curated OER

Let's Make a Mural

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students social skills blossom as they work together on this mural-making activity. In this early childhood visual arts lesson, students develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, language, and social skills as they work together to plan,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Body Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the shape of things as they bend, twist, and turn. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop social, creative-thinking, and language skills and spatial awareness as they use their bodies to create geometric...
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Curated OER

Activity Plan 5-6: Shape Transformers

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students expand their thinking while investigating shape and design. In this early childhood lesson plan, students transform a geometric shape into another shape or design to develop math and creative-thinking skills.
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Curated OER

Activity Plan Mixed Ages: A Funny Hat Show

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create unique hats. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a group celebration to foster social skills, creativity, and fine- and gross-motor development as they put on a funny fashion show with the hats they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Imagination and the Second Great Migration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties. They access websites imbedded in this plan to research, then write about past struggles for gender and racial fairness.
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Curated OER

Imagining a United Nations Coffee Break

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars demonstrate basic knowledge of modern Middle Eastern history, politics, and political figures. They assess the validity of generalizations and stereotypes that impede the Middle East peace process.
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Curated OER

Imagine Life Without Friction

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students learn about the concept of friction. In this friction lesson, students learn how friction from one object to another moves that object and creates energy.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create a Youth Consumer Magazine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
To underscore the importance of being informed consumers, kids check out youth consumer magazines and websites and then create their own. Although no detailed plans are included in the resource, it is packed with ideas and suggestions.
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Scholastic

Presenting Persuasively (Grades 9-12)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As a review of persuasive techniques, groups develop a one-sentence slogan designed to entice others to purchase a produce or adopt a point of view. The group then craft a storyboard for a commercial for their product.
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Curated OER

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Socratic Seminar

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
After reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and an article about the use of the novel, class members engage in a Socratic seminar focused on whether or not Twain's book should be banned.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Department of Archives and History

The Effect of the Great Depression on Children

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
How did the Great Depression affect children? Sometimes studying the Great Depression means only studying about how it affected adults, however, relating the experiences of children and peers their age to themselves may make the...
Printables
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Goodnight Mini-Book

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
When little ones just start to read, it is important to provide texts that support basic skills development. Provide a printable mini-book that reinforces literacy development with simple CVC words and repetition.  
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Curated OER

How Many in My Home?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Engage young mathematicians in practicing their counting skills while learning a little about the home environment of your students with this simple worksheet. By asking students to determine the number of windows, doors, rooms, people,...
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Film English

We've All Been There

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What does empathy look like? Encourage your pupils to put themselves in another person's shoes with several writing and discussion activities that relate to a featured short film. Over the course of the lesson, individuals collaborate...
Worksheet
Springfield Public Schools District 186

Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
Fractions are your learners' best friend in this simple instructional activity that has room to show work as learners practice adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.
Printables
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Suspense Writing Prompts

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
"I don't know what to write about!" How often have you heard that lament? Here's a list of 10 prompts that provide a starting place for suspense stories.
Writing
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K12 Reader

The Magic Egg

For Students 2nd - 5th
A butterfly? A dragon? A golden fairy? Young writers create a tale about a magic egg, its contents, and what happens next. No yoke.
Writing
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Curated OER

Finish the Snowman: Tell the Story

For Students K - 3rd
Using pictures and words young writers create a story about a snowman decorated with "funny things."
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Curated OER

Using Prefixes, Suffixes and Root Words to Improve College Level Vocabulary

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Grow vocabulary skills with an understanding of affixes and word roots. Included here are a few activities and plenty of materials you can use to support your learners as the focus on building vocabulary.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Home Sweet Home: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Through grand discussion, picture cards, and poems, enhance language proficiency with a Home Sweet Home themed unit created to support English language development. Each lesson follows a listen, speak, move, and/or look routine that...
Activity
Super Teacher Worksheets

Spelling Test Nightmare

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
What do you do when faced with a bully? Scholars answer this question when presented with a scenario regarding two learners and their spelling test grades. They take part in a grand conversation that leads to problem solving and...
Writing
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Curriculum Corner

Writing Prompts

For Students 3rd Standards
Stretch scholars' writing muscles with an assortment of narrative writing prompts set to the theme of, You won't believe what happened to me!
Writing
DLTK

St. Patrick's Day Creative Writing Prompt

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and encourage creativity with a writing prompt. Young scholars to compose a narrative that details what they would keep at the end of a rainbow.

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