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Illinois State Bar Association

Mock Trial Teacher Training

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Whether you are new to the mock trial format or have extensive experience with the program, you'll find much to learn from this teacher training manual that includes strategies for teaching the various aspects of court room trials.
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E Reading Worksheets

Tone Worksheet 4

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A poet's word choice can be the difference between a poem that is merely sad, and a poem full of heartbreaking regret. Middle schoolers discern the tone in four different poems, noting the relevant textual evidence that supports...
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Mathematics Vision Project

Module 3: Polynomial Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
An informative module highlights eight polynomial concepts. Learners work with polynomial functions, expressions, and equations through graphing, simplifying, and solving. 
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Constitutional Rights Foundation

History of Immigration From the 1850s to the Present

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The Statue of Liberty may embrace the huddled masses of the world, but has American society always joined in? After young historians read a passage about the history of American immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on...
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Gobal Oneness Project

Sports for Social Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After watching a short online film about a soccer player Nolusindiso Plaatje and his help with the Grassroot Soccer program, a community education effort aimed at spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention, use a lesson...
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Curated OER

The Energy Equation

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore human energy components. In this personal health lesson, students determine how food, sleep, and exercise impact human energy levels as they play BAM! Body and Mind  interactive games. Students create motivational...
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Curated OER

The Mayor Speaks to the Class About City Government

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate politics by speaking to the Mayor of their city. In this local politician instructional activity, students listen as the Mayor speaks in front of them in their class and ask the Mayor questions about his daily...
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Curated OER

Rules and Responsibilities: Youth and the Process of Change

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze politics by participating in a class rules lesson. In this democracy lesson, 1st graders identify several class and school rules they dislike and conduct discussions to examine if they should be changed or not....
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Curated OER

2002 Memorabilia and Mascots

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students calculate costs and determine change in scenarios where they buy 2002 Olympic Winter Game memorabilia for themselves, family and friends.
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Curated OER

Social Studies: Your Family Does What?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compare and contrast their own personal culture with that of Japan. They fill out questionnaires, compile the results, and match them with Japanese answers to the same forms. Students create a Venn diagram of the...
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Curated OER

February Friendship Bugs

For Teachers 1st
First graders select five behaviors from a class web that promote kindness and strengthen friendships. In this random acts of kindness lesson, 1st graders create friendship bugs with corresponding Kindness Tasks....
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Curated OER

Volleyball Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore their physical abilities by participating in a sport. In this volleyball lesson, students discover the different techniques and skills needed to play volleyball by moving from different stations with small groups....
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Curated OER

Jumping Addition

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students add and jump using a number line. In this jumping addition lesson students solve addition problems. Students work with a partner to solve a series of addition problems.  
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Curated OER

The Million Man March

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners investigate the founding and applications of having The Million Man March while writing about the founder Louis Farrakhan. They communicate the intentions of the march that included the responsibility men are to take for the...
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Curated OER

What We Learn From Women and Girls

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Role models are all around us! Young learners celebrate Women's History Month by selecting two female role models in their lives, and writing or drawing a short description about why they admire that girl or woman.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Times of Shakespeare

For Students 4th - 6th
In this listening comprehension interactive worksheet, students watch the included video about Shakespeare and complete a cloze listening activity. There are eighteen fill-in sentences to complete.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Vocabulary Worksheet

For Students 4th
In this interactive vocabulary learning exercise, 4th graders complete 20 multiple choice questions based on their knowledge of...
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Water Web

For Students 5th - 8th
In this water web worksheet, learners explore, analyze and discuss how weather stations interact with maintaining weather conditions and answer two essay questions and ten multiple choice questions.
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Curated OER

Identification of Career Choices

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student examine gender in career choices. For this career lesson, students are given a list of careers and asked to put them in groups of male. female, and neutral. Students also look through magazines and cut out pictures of people in...
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Curated OER

Fencing

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students practice fencing skills. In this physical education lesson, students develop fencing skills. Students watch a movie clip that shows fencing and then they begin their lessons. Students discover the rules and proper positioning...
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Building Sensitivity and Awareness

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize the needs, disabilities and attitudes of seniors. In this sensitivity awareness instructional activity, students work with residents of a senior citizen residence and build a relationship with a senior. Students...
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Curated OER

Show Me the Halite!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Introduce middle school mineralologists to halite. The opening of the lesson involves a video and worksheet to which there are no links. However, you can replace the video with any informational clip that you can find online about halite...
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Study Guide
Penguin Books

Teacher’s Guide: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A 10-page guide to John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men includes a brief plot summary, information about preparing readers for the language in the novel, pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading questions, essay prompts, and project...
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Curated OER

MND Sound Ball Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are introduced to Act II, scene 1, lines 188-244 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They explore and analyze how dramatic lines can have varied interpretations by playing a game of sound ball utilizing a list of vocabulary words...

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