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Curated OER

Learning about Tint and Shade- Van Gogh

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore tint, hues, and shades of color. In this art and color instructional activity, students observe and discuss Van Gogh's artistic style. Learners mix paints to create a single hue background and add details to paint a...
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Mobile Education Store

Rainbow Sentences

For Students 1st - 8th
Learners who struggle with grammar, foundational reading skills, and sentence composition can learn how to write proper sentences using an app that relies on research-based practice. It uses a color-coded formula that had been proven to...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Fairness

For Teachers K - 2nd
Fairness is the subject of a lesson plan designed to boost relationship skills and social awareness. Class members discuss that fairness is getting what you need when needed, differences are okay, and review classroom...
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PBS

Women's History: Glass Windows; Glass Ceilings

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Discover stories about women's history in beautiful stained glass windows. The second in a three-part series teaches scholars about a famous artistic style of stained glass windows and the influential women that used art to impact...
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August House

The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read the story The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog: A Folktale from Great Britain by Margaret Read MacDonald and choose from multiple activities to learn about the tale's theme—kindness. With so many options, your kind kids will...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Resolving Conflicts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Assist scholars in resolving conflicts with a lesson plan that starts with defining the terms, conflicts, and resolutions. Learners take their newfound knowledge to identify a conflict and list strategies to resolve...
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Using Communication Skills Effectively

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Miscommunication is often the basis of conflict. To improve their communication skills, pupils first review what they learned about assertive (as opposed to aggressive or passive) communication, role-play several scenarios, and...
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Health Smart Virginia

Taking Turns

For Teachers K
Scholars work cooperatively, taking turns, to boost peer relationships and fairness. Rotating through five stations, players practice tossing, bouncing, push-ups, and working together to clean up fallen equipment, then...
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Health Smart Virginia

Communication

For Teachers 3rd
In preparation for a game in which they guess the type of communication used in a scenario, scholars examine and discuss the four types of communication: passive, aggressive, assertive, and passive-aggressive. Learners identify "I"...
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Nebraska Department of Education

The Five Things

For Teachers 9th
 High school freshmen consider how their resources and values can support them in their future goals by answering questions such as; What do you value? What do you enjoy doing? What do you do well? Of what accomplishments are...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Listening Responsibly

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Responsible speaker + critical listener = effective communication is the equation at the heart of a responsible listening lesson about the power of words. Class members view the clip of the courtroom scene from the film A Few...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
"Ode to la Tortilla" and "Ode to Joy"? Sure! Use Gary Soto's poem to introduce learners to the ode format. After examining the descriptive words Soto uses, class members study a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven, suggest words that describe...
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Garden Earth Naturalist Club

Parts of a Flower! Flower Dissection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Sometimes the best way to learn about plants is to see the different parts of a plant yourself. Groups of learners dissect flowers to answer questions about what they observe and what they wonder about their flower.
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Forum

A Research Toolkit of 12 Reading Strategies for the Foreign Language Classroom

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learning to read is not a simple task, but there are methods for assisting pupils as they develop literacy skills. The first four pages of this resource include information about language development and reading development, as well as...
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Health Smart Virginia

Making Partners

For Teachers K
Partnering with someone new may be daunting. Here a instructional activity encourages young peers to work collaboratively in physical activity settings. Following a whole-class discussion, scholars participate in several cooperative...
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Mindful Self-Awareness Exercise: Accurate Self-Perception

For Parents Pre-K - 2nd
Scholars think to themselves about what is something that they are good at and what makes them a good person. A prompt asks them to reflect on their feelings when they think of their positive attributes.
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Overcoming Obstacles

Cooperation

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice cooperation by working together for a common cause. After a short demonstration, learners fill in a T-Chart describing how cooperation looks and sounds. Small groups work together to pick up tiny beads and put...
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Kindness

For Teachers K - 2nd
Encourage kindness with a lesson that defines kindness, asks scholars how to show kindness, and share how others have shown them kindness. Multiple activities prove that kindness is easy to give through coloring, storytelling,...
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Resolving Conflicts

For Teachers K - 2nd
A instructional activity about resolving conflicts guides young scholars through the process of identifying emotions and reflecting on the situation, all before taking action. The instructional activity encourages class members to...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Integrity

For Teachers K - 2nd
A activity showcases the character trait of integrity. Scholars define the term, discuss how having integrity means being trustworthy, that one can choose to have integrity, and the significance of looking at situations from other...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Coping Skills

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A lesson plan challenges scholars to identify life stressors and list ways to cope. Learners create a "Coping with Emotions" book detailing the importance of responsibly working through our feelings.
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Overcoming Obstacles

Integrity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A lesson about integrity challenges scholars to define it, discuss why it's essential, and the benefits of having it. Class members brainstorm ways to show integrity at home, at school, and in the community. Pupils participate...
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Cooperation and Teamwork

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
One of Aesop's fables begins with a lesson about cooperation and teamwork. Scholars listen carefully, taking note of the moral of the story. The class discusses their findings and why working with others makes work easier. Learners share...
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Handling Peer Pressure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Class members participate in a discussion to identify all types of positive and negative peer pressure and brainstorm strategies to not give in to negative peer pressure. Scholars create a T-chart to record their observations....

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