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PPT
Curated OER

Floriculture

For Teachers 10th
Various types of shops in the floral trade are presented in this presentation. Also provided, are descriptions of the types of services, clients and job opportunities that are available in this business.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sarah, Plain and Tall - Intro to Literature Circle jobs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read a book with each student having a specific job for the class.  In this literature instructional activity, students read Sarah, Plain and Tall over 10 days, dividing up responsibilities for each student to make sure everyone...
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Visa

A Perfect Fit: Finding the Right Career for You

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Class members explore possible career paths and consider their own passions and interests by researching job openings, career descriptions, and skills, as well as reading the success stories of experienced entrepreneurs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Careers in Ag Engineering

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars examine various careers in Ag Engineering both globally and locally. They analyze work sites, compare/contrast working conditions and define skills needed by employers. They prepare short speeches and present them,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living The Life of a Scribe

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students write a descriptive letter about life in ancient Mesopotamia. Through video streaming, students discover the history of Mesopotamia. They assume the role of a scribe and compose a three paragraph essay using main ideas and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sources of Energy

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders take a close look at how energy changes from one form to another within their surroundings. They also study the ten different sources of energy and determine which are renewable and which are non-renewable. This seven-page...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

# 18 Gas Chromatography: Introduction and Application

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students are introduced to a gas chromatography using a discovery-based approach. They are presented with a scenario/industrial application where their job is to verify that the company's mouthwash contains a specific percentage of...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Module: Self Awareness

For Teachers 8th - 12th
What are your high school students interested in? This college and career readiness resource gives them a chance to consider their choices based on interest. The CHOICES Planner link takes kids to a home page where they must create an...
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K12 Reader

Literature About Chicago: Prose vs. Poetry

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
For this comprehension exercise, readers compare Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" to a description of the city from Upton's Sinclair's The Jungle.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Guide Word Game

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In pairs, learners describe and use guide words to locate words in a dictionary. This is a timed activity, where points can be earned by completing the goal first. Tip: Have kids look up weird words in the dictionary, and then come up...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

You've Got to Have Heart

For Students 5th
After reading an excellent description of the human heart, fifth graders look at a drawing of a human body, and choose the circle they think represents where the human heart is found. There are four circles inside the character's chest....
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PPT
Curated OER

Basketball - Hoops - Team Sports 2

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Hoopsters! Looking for something to use to teach your hoopsters a bit about the game of basketball? Use this very comprehensive PowerPoint to teach everything from the history of the sport, to skill techniques, to game plays. Included...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Using Specific Vocabulary and Collaboration

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Develop concepts on how to change your improving wordsmiths' writing from blah to wow with the activities and ideas in this resource. The instructor provides the class with examples of writing that lacks detail and precision, and then...
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Lesson Plan
Omaha Zoo

I Like to Move It

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
What do lemurs do best? They move! Lemurs like to jump, run, hop, and climb and it's your class's job to document seven fun lemur behaviors. The class starts by discussing why lemurs are considered primates, and then they isolate seven...
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Activity
Salmon Schools

Presentation Preparation Guildeline

For Teachers 11th - 12th
What's next? Once seniors have completed a job exploration project (or any project for that matter) they prepare a speech for judges in which they describe their project, reflect on what have learned about the subject, and what they...
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Lesson Plan
Southwestern Medical Center

Field Epidemiology: Investigation of an Unknown Disease

For Teachers 7th - 12th
More than 90 percent of the people in a building have come down with an illness, and it is your job to investigate. Teachers give scientists the data needed to decide what is important and how they can solve the mystery. The exercise is...
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Handout
Curated OER

The Metamorphosis: Concept/Vocabulary Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Historically, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis has been difficult for many readers to grasp. From the difficult translation issues to the complex plot and themes, the novel's message and story can be lost when learners can't get their...
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Making an Issue-Based Video

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Encourage class members to become engaged citizens by researching an issue they are passionate about and then producing a video to present to policymakers, the public, and their peers. Everything needed for the unit is contained in...
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Advocates for Human Rights

Refugees and Asylum Seekers

For Students 8th - Higher Ed Standards
To gain a deeper understanding of the plight of refugees and asylum seekers, class members read stories written from the point of view of an emigrant, map the individual's journey, and note the human rights affected by each stage of the...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Domain and Range of a Function: Making Money Math

For Students 8th Standards
Graphs are useful for many things, including seeing how much money you can make. Individuals create a graph of earnings from a job based on the number of hours. They determine the domain and range of the graph and answer challenge...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Function Rules for Input-Output Tables: Whats My Rule?

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
What's the rule that makes it true?  A virtual function machine generates output values as learners submit the input values. Their job is to analyze the inputs and outputs for a pattern and write a function rule.
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Website
University of North Carolina

Annotated Bibliographies

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
When researchers write a paper, they become curators of information. It's their job to determine the best sources of information on a topic and use those sources to inform their writing. As part of a larger series, a handout on annotated...
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

The Six Faces of Amzora

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Here's a task that is out of this world! Given a description of a fictional cube-shaped planet, scholars answer a set of questions about the planet. They create a two-dimensional map and consider the distances between locations on the map.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Paws in Jobland Job Stars

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students research a fictional character with a job. For this lesson, about jobs, students chose a characters to look at. Students use the Paws in Jobland and a worksheet as a guide. Students understand their fictional character's job and...

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