Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Through the Odyssey, Lesson 3

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create Powerpoint Presentation using information and assignments from previous two lessons. They compare Odysseus's obstacles with those from their own lives, and share slideshows with classmates.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ancient Egypt

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This lesson plan template aligns with the TechnoMummy curriculum and resources, but includes great ideas to use without the curriculum. During this lesson on Ancient Egypt, students will become Egyptologists and learn about ancient...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Scholastic News to Introduce the Net

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders log on to the net, type in the address for Scholastic and browse the subjects for the week. They select one area of interest and generate five interesting facts about the article.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our World A Complex Eco-system

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders set up an ecosystem, investigate conservation techniques, develop an action plan for conservation, and various other activities to explore the ecosystem.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Effects of The Great Depression

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss the unemployment trends of the 1920s-1930's. They look at it faces of the citizens that lived in the time period. Students work with visual clues to investigate about the living conditions during the Great...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Where We Buy Food

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate how to buy food by going to the store. They use pictures of farming and different types of food to engage in the lesson plan. It includes key vocabulary that puppets use while telling a story to the students....
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Writing a Letter Using the Book Mole's Hill

For Teachers K
In this lesson, students will engage in writing activities as extensions to Lois Ehlert's book, Mole's Hill. Students will generate soluntions to conflicts in the story, generate ideas for writing letters, write an interactive letter to...
Unit Plan
PBS

Arthur: Letter Writer Helper

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interactive site gives examples of how to write a letter, an email, a postcard, and a greeting card. It even explains how to address an envelope. As students roll their mouse over the letter it explains what each part is called and...
Activity
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: A Letter

For Students 9th - 10th
Short tutorial about letter writing from a Scottish Standard Grade examination preparation site. Contains a page of information about personal letters and another about formal letters. This is followed by a five question interactive true...
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Clifford the Big Red Dog

For Students 3rd - 5th
Highly interactive site all about Clifford! Activities available include games, stories, coloring pages, crafts, letter writing, painting, and music. There's even a special section for parents and teachers with teaching and learning ideas.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Teaching Audience in Interactive Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Lesson which teaches elementary students the importance and significance of keeping the audience in mind when writing. Students write invitation letters and perform extension activities while learning these concepts. Good resource.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alphabet Organizer

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An online resource for a variety of tools and topics concerning student knowledge and learning of the English alphabet. Includes lesson plan links, online tools, interactive games, and more.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street Story Book Builder

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Early readers will love building their own story book with Elmo, Abby Cadabby, or Cookie Monster! A perfect tool for helping identify feelings and emotions, word and letter recognition, and letter sounds.
Interactive
ICT Games

Ict Games: Sky Writing

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this this interactive activity, and airplane demonstrates how to print the letters of the alphabet through sky writing.
Activity
BBC

Bbc: Algebra Revision Bite Solving Equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
BBC Schools offers a test review ("revision") of several aspects of solving equations. Content includes solving simple equations, solving equations with brackets, simplifying letters in equations, plus much more. After working through...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson plan uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson plan are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creating a School Survival Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students will create a school survival guide that follows the model of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. This survival guide will serve as a "how to" instructional manual for other incoming freshman students...
Unit Plan
Chateau Meddybemps

Spinner's Writing Guide

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Watch Spinner the Spider draw the letters of the alphabet, both upper and lower case.
Unit Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Wacky Wipe Offs a Phenome Segmentation Activity

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An activity incorporating Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" book, and dry erase boards and markers. Reading the book, students identify CVC-pattern words. Writing a selected one down on their boards, they are able to substitute letters to make...
Activity
Free Reading

Free Reading: Slate Races: A Phoneme Blending Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A classroom or small group game to build accuracy of students' abilities to blend phonemes. Students write the sounds that the teacher gives them on their own slate/dry erase board and then blend the sounds together to form words.
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Other

Handwriting for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
At this site students can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, lesson ideas, and interactive activities.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Beginning With the End in Mind

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, learners will learn what goals are and why it is important to plan ahead. The students will interact with a story from The 7 Habits of Happy Kids by Sean Covey and use a blog to communicate their goals and plans with...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Captivating Cc

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This kindergarten flipchart focuses on the letter Cc. Each page allows the students to interact using the reveal tool, highlighter, and pen tool to write words, create sentences, and draw pictures.
Website
Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Eric Carle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What do you know about Eric Carle, the author? This Carol Hurst site highlights some interesting facts about this author's life and refers to some of his books.