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Discovery Education

The Time of Our Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mammals are some of the newest organisms to appear on Earth. Young scholars complete an activity that results in a timeline showing the appearance of different types of living organisms. Provided with a list that spans from prokaryotes...
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Visa

Buying a Home

For Teachers 7th - 11th Standards
What is the difference between buying and renting a home? Learners become more informed consumers and financially literate adults after developing foundational knowledge of the home-buying process. 
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Curated OER

Microscopic Water Life

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use a light microscope to observe the organisms living in a sample of ocean or fresh water. Students create a drawing of the organisms that they observe. Students then discuss the different body plans of the organisms and the...
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University of Northern Iowa

Additional Folklife Information

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Use a packet packed with ideas for how to celebrate the traditions of your country, state, community, and pupils's families. Suggestions for how to draw on oral and material traditions, customs, beliefs, music, and stories all find...
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Wells Fargo

Hands on Banking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Encourage middle schoolers to be proficient and knowledgeable in the economic world with a series of personal finance lessons. Focusing on banking, credit, budgets, and investing, the activities guide learners through financial...
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Science Matters

That’s An Otter Story

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scientists discover how sea otters' habitats have changed due to human impact. Through conversation, video observation, and story reading, scholars identify how human interactions change a specific ecosystem in both positive and...
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BioEd Online

Butterflies in Space

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
How does gravity affect the life cycle of a butterfly? Learn first-hand what types of investigations astronauts perform in space by following along with one of NASA's experiments. Create butterfly habitats in the classroom with specific...
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EduGAINs

Data Management

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Using a carousel activity, class members gain an understanding of the idea of inferences by using pictures then connecting them to mathematics. Groups discuss their individual problems prior to sharing them with the entire class....
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Centervention

Halloween Worksheets: Emotions Jack-O-Lanterns

For Students K - 5th
Scholars give life to a pumpkin as they design a Jack O'Lantern that exudes a certain emotion. Participants choose one of nine feeling words, or add up to three that aren't listed, locate and cut out face pieces, then glue them to the...
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Curated OER

The Cycle of Life

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders search for rites of passage in their own lives and study rites of other cultural groups in Louisiana and around the world. They assess how to recognize moments of importance in people's lives and find meaning in the stages...
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Curated OER

Hopper Hunt: IPM Decision-making in Alfalfa

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe migrations and life cycle pattersn of a key alfalfa pest, the Porato Leafhopper. They define the Economic Inquiry Level and Economic Threshold. Students evaluate data in relation to profit as it applies to IPM. They...
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Curated OER

Butterfly Bonanza

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students describe life cycle of the butterfly after reading and singing about butterflies.
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Observations and Inferences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners examine coral skeletons. For this science lesson, view real coral skeletons. Students explain the differences between an observation and an inference. Learners draw a coral skeleton.
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Curated OER

The Giving Tree Gives

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study both poetry and science in this language arts activity for early elementary, Special Education, and LEP students. They listen to Shel Silverstein's, The Giving Tree, and discuss its contents. They graph apple types, make...
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Curated OER

Help! I Need Five Minutes to Study

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students learn to use a time grid or a calendar to increase productivity of their studying.  In this studying instructional activity, students record how they spend their studying time and then adjust as needed.  Students...
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Curated OER

World Map and Globe- Introduction to Symbols

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate picture symbols. In this symbols instructional activity, students define symbols and discuss symbols that they see in everyday life. Young scholars identify symbols on maps by using post-it notes.
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Curated OER

Introduction to Law of Sines

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students solve problems using the law of sines.  In this sines lesson, students work in groups and individually to solve problems using the law of sines.  They identify real life problems that require the use of the law of...
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Curated OER

The Business of Interest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about finance and money management and use math to solve problems, communicate, and explore real life situations as they deal with banks. In this financial management lesson, students apply their math skills to real life...
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Curated OER

Financial Plans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore financial planning. In this financial plan lesson, students read real-world problems from a current newspaper. They discuss methods for paying off debt, consolidating debt, computing net worth, and increasing cash...
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Curated OER

Fashion Sense and Dollar Wise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers work in groups to show understanding of the relationship between fractions, decimals, percentages, and the application of ratios and proportions. In this decimals, fractions, and percents lesson, students use real life...
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Curated OER

The Practice Interview

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study the interview process by interviewing each other in pairs using a name game. They formulate and ask effective interview questions and practice interviewing skills. They invite a guest to their classroom or go outside the...
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Geometry In Space

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students Fulfill the requirements of Texas Standards as it relates to math and science. In this circle lesson, students identify the arcs and angles of a circle as it relates to Pi. They solve real life scenarios using space as an example.
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Gravity, Angles, and Measurement

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students relate math to real life scenarios. In this geometry lesson, students launch a ball tracking each launch using a graph. They analyze their data for speed, angles and distance, trying to improve on each launch.
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Curated OER

Skateboards

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine two plants that make skateboards. They practice converting fractions to percents in real life applications.

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