Curated OER
A Science Experiment With Crayfish
A crayfish can lead to a science experiment involving habitats, animal behavior, and anatomy..
Curated OER
Stamps and Yo-yo
Students discuss items people collect, such as stamps and baseball cards, solve related word problems to practice adding and subtracting tens, complete worksheet, and share items they do or would like to collect with classmates.
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Alvarez: Time of the Butterflies
Guide to Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies provides historical context, author biography, questions, and a collection of resources for teachers, including a ten-day lesson schedule, project ideas, and essay topics. A radio...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Life Stages Cards: Frog, Butterfly, and Dragonfly
All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this document undergo one of the most dramatic developmental processes known, metamorphosis. See if you can place the developmental stages in their proper order.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
"In the Time of the Butterflies" is the story of the four Mirabal sisters, who lived through the despotic regime of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Throughout the novel that spans more than 50 years, Julia Alvarez masterfully weaves...
PBS
Nova: Stories in Amber
Like a time machine, amber fossils take us back in the earth's history to discover the plants, animals and ecological relationships of prehistoric ecosystems. This resource has several interesting pictures of a variety of Dominican...
Emory University
Emory University: Julia Alvarez
Good website from Emory University containing a biography of Julia Alvarez, a list of awards and honors she has won, some of her works, and a list of works about her. Related links and a bibliography also provided.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Butterfly Life Cycles
This unit introduces students to a study of life cycles by having them examine the life cycle of a butterfly. The students will observe, record and describe the changes in caterpillars as they become butterflies. The teacher will...
Kids' Wings
Texas Bluebonnet Books: "How Tia Lola Came to Stay"
This site provides a book summary, lesson plan ideas, book connections and resource links for teaching How Tia Lola Came to Stay by Julia Alvarez.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Sweet Girl Goldie by l.b. Humphrey
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Sweet Girl Goldie: A Wonder Story of Butterfly Time by L.B. Humphrey (c1884). This book, cut in the shape of a butterfly, tells a story of butterfly time.
Read Works
Read Works: Fact and Opinion 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-instructional activity unit on fact and opinion through which students learn how to identify facts and opinions in different fiction genres. Students also use non-fiction texts to identify and...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Robert Frost
The site provides background and texts of numerous poems. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to specific poetry books to find complete text of individual poems.
Other
Robert Frost: America's Poet
This site provides many full text poems by Robert Frost. There are also multiple links for more information on Frost and his works.