Activity
PBS

Pbs: Teach Cooperation With Everyday Items

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Work together as a team to complete a puzzle or create a mural. Discuss ways to make the team work effectively.
Primary
Other

The University of Southern Mississippi: h.a. & Margaret Rey Digital Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The H.A. & Margret Rey Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the H.A. & Margret Rey collection at the University of Southern Mississippi. Items include illustrations, book covers, letters, photographs, and more....
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Robo Wheel

For Students K - 1st
Make your own Robo Wheel to race or do freestyle tricks using simple household items like paper bowls, string, and rubber bands.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Artifacts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the steps in the 5-step process that historians use when they analyze an artifact as you investigate what you can learn from Native American and other items.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 1: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 2: Sorting Into Predetermined Groups

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into existing categories using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy.
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Plan Your Spending

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site presents the budgeting process through a series of steps. This first page describes the first step, creating a spending plan of estimated expenses. This page also has a link to a downloadable spending plan that requires Acrobat...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

For Teachers K - 1st
Come and discover ways to see in the dark! Students will conduct an investigation on light and dark. The investigation will allow students to gather evidence on how items illuminate. Using cause and effect, the students will demonstrate...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Searching Solid Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for students to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....
Handout
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Commas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson illustrates where to insert commas in your writing.
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Flying High

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /j/ or /k/. An...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Morning Mania

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This printable consonant letter worksheet from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with with /m/. An answer...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Nuts for Ned

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This printable consonant letter instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /n/....
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Zoom!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This printable consonant letter instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /v/,...
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Rock ’N Learn

Rock 'N Learn: Crazy Corner

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This printable consonant letter instructional activity from Rock 'N Learn can be used as a reinforcement activity or as an assessment. Students will look at a picture with multiple items and then identify each item that start with /c/....
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Visuals: Graphs, Charts, and Diagrams

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article explains that graphs, charts, and diagrams are used to display information visually. The choice of what type of graph or chart to use depends on the information to be displayed. Software programs make these much easier to...
Article
Other

The New Economy: What It Really Means

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a commentary on the new economy from BusinessWeek and includes a link to view related items. It discusses concepts such as global shift, field test, new math, and wage squeeze. (Published Sept. 14, 2010)
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Silly Semi Solids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Groups of students make a polymer out of household items. They then experiment with the polymer to determine its various properties.
Handout
Other

How to Analyze a Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting approach to how to analyze a speech. Presents a rhetorical pentangle as well as a rhetorical triangle, where each of the vertices represents an item to analyze. There is also an outline of the different areas to examine in...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Data Collecting in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of two dozen questions students can easily ask eachother in the classroom to quickly collect data in hopes of using it in their study of making graphs. Some are opinion questions, while others require the counting of certain items...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Sort and Count I

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will have fun moving around the room and comparing items using sorting cards. They will become familiar with the math vocabulary more/less/same and most/least.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Team Up to Clean Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), ways and items to recycle will be explored. Young scholars will also decorate a recycle team badge. This lesson plan is one from the "Take Pride Statewide"...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Recycle to Renew

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson plan from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), recycling and ways to use recycled items will be explored. Learners will also recycle a bottle to create a piggy bank. This lesson plan is one from the...
Handout
The Dirksen Congressional Center

Congress for Kids: The Legislative Branch: The Veto

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the President's power to veto a bill, and understand how Congress responds when this happens.

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