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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Weather and Technology

For Teachers K
Students discuss daily weather change, that we live in a world of symbols and innovations. They recognize the use of symbols to replace language and the value of technological innovation to improving our lives.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Internet Field Trip: Simple Machines

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe and identify the types of simple machines. They conduct research and gather data to increase the comprehension of simple machines. Students identify and comprehend data to complete a graphic organizer and focus...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Life and Times of Tomie dePaola

For Teachers 1st
First graders research information about the author Tomie dePaola. For this author studies lesson, 1st graders use the computer to find information about Tomie dePaola's life and writing accomplishments. Students create booklet about the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Eloquent Speech

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover that oral and written communication can be improved, and made to sound more eloquent, when the following questions are addressed; Who? What? Where? When? Why? students use word processing to copy a poem using clip...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Make Stew!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students investigate how to create a vegetable garden and complete related activities. In this vegetable garden lesson, students receive agriculture notebooks to complete vocabulary for the gardening lesson. Students read 'Still-Life...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Greek Theatre

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a tableau for a Greek myth.  In this introduction to Greek theatre lesson, students discuss the history of Greek theatre and tableau and complete a handout.  Students work in groups to choose a myth and create a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Red Legs: A Drummer Boy of the Civil War

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils identify and interpret the life of a drummer boy during the Civil War as well as about a reenactment. Students listen to a fictionalized story or a Civil War reenactor and compare ot with the life of the drummer boy the story is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Post Office Stamps

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners research and analyze how communication has changed over time. They chart communication developments on a timeline, and create commemorative stamps depicting forms of communication.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Water, Water, Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore water by examining a terrarium.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Freckle Juice

For Teachers 4th
Working in groups of four, the students will use the computer to draw an imaginary potion that will cure other children their age from physical traits (they can not control) including all ingredients and one text box.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grunt's Little War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view a film about the role of the soldier during the Vietnam War. They discover what it was like to fight a war against a culture so unlike our own. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cloud Discovery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a slideshow that pictorially depicts a variety of cloud types. They research clouds, develop and present the slideshow and then evaluate their efforts based on a rubric for self-evaluation.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Country Picture Book

For Students K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Country Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by G. Routledge

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book The Child's Picture Book of Domestic Animals by George Routledge (1884), a nonfiction book about domestic animals.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Delightful Colored Picture Book

For Students 1st - 3rd
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of The Delightful Colored Picture Book, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: A B C Picture Book

For Students K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1850 publication of A B C Picture Book by Francis C. Woodworth, a nonfiction alphabet book for children.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Use Easy Nonfiction to Build Background Knowledge

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A Texas librarian shares his strategy of using nonfiction picture books to introduce new concepts to struggling adolescent readers and to build their background knowledge. Once students have been exposed to academic content in easy...
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Website
Other

Children's Books About the Holocaust

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An annotated bibliography of books about the Holocaust. Includes picture books, young adult fiction, and nonfiction including information about Anne Frank.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Pictures & Stories From Natural History by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Pictures & Stories from Natural History by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction, illustrated book about all types of animals including domestic, farm, wild, and...
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Activity
Other

Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a phenomenal resource. It allows the user to create a reading list of quality children's literature based of choices such as reading level, type of book, genre, ethnicity, gender, etc. In addition, one can determine if a book won...
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EL Education

El Education: Get a Clue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...
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eBook
Starfall

Starfall: Plays, Fiction, Nonfiction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An index of links to six fiction storybooks, eight nonfiction books, and three plays. Each book has pictures and audio that will allow students to click to hear sentences or individual words as they read along. Links to three different...
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A scanned copy of the 1875 publication of The Fifth Book of One Hundred Pictures, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Darton's Picture Story Book

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Darton's Picture Story Book, a nonfiction book for children.