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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All Together Now: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 1)

For Teachers 1st Standards
All Together Now is the theme of this series of extra support lessons. The collection aids the instruction of blending sounds and reading high-frequency words through writing and reading sentences. Support also engages pupils in...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound Devices in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine the impact of sound devices in poetry. In this poetry lesson, students read the listed poems and identify uses of alliteration, repetition, consonance, rhythm, rhyme, and slang. Students discuss how sound devices enhance...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Sound All Around

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how sound waves are effected by frequency and pitch. They conduct experiments using tuning forks, rubber bands, balloons, and water, and answer questions about the experiments.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Doppler Effect Lab

For Students 6th - 8th
In this Doppler effect instructional activity, students read information about the Doppler effect. Students answer questions as it relates to the pitch and wavelengths of a demonstration simulates what happens with the Doppler Effect.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Using Starfall to Review the Short A Sound

For Teachers K - 1st
Students read a story with the short a sound. The story is about a rat. They access Starfall and select the story called Zac the Rat. They read the story out loud as a group then the students answer comprehension and skill questions...
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Organizer
Curated OER

How Do Sounds Change?

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this sounds worksheet, students compare how different pitches and volumes of sounds are created. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Vibrational Nature of Sound

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore the vibrational nature of sound. In this science lesson plan, students gain an understanding of sound frequency, pitch, and conduction using the string telephone, tuning fork and musical glasses experiments.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound Vibrations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear. Students experience vibrations using several of their senses.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Short 'A' and Phoneme Blending

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Have your class explore the short /a/ sound. They will pronounce isolated consonant and short /a/ sounds and then blend the sounds to make a word.  An assessment sheet is provided.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Music Reader

For Students 4th - 6th
Music aficionados hone their skills by listening to music and then answering several questions intended to guide their experience. They analyze sound rhythm, pattern, and volume.
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PPT
Curated OER

Big Business & Industrial Cities

For Teachers 4th - 7th
This is a true gem. This PowerPoint is well-organized, has bullet points you control (which gives you time for discussion), has sound effects, and covers several aspects of American industrialization after 1900. The presentation begins...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Your Way Around the World

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students plan a trip around the world and create a PowerPoint presentation of the journey. In this map, atlas, and technology lesson, students plan a trip around the world in which they avoid using an airplane. Students will consider...
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Interactive
McGraw Hill

Doppler Shift Interactive

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Ever wonder why a siren sounds different when it's coming toward you than when it's going away from you? It all depends on the motion of the sound waves! The interactive activity demonstrates how the Doppler effect impacts the motion of...
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Activity
Candace Fleming

A Reader's Theater Script for Clever Jack Takes the Cake

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Breathe life into a reading of the children's story Clever Jack Takes the Cake with this Reader's Theater script. Offering speaking roles for nine students plus a sound effects chorus, this is a great activity that engages the whole...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Voice of History

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Way before the digital age radio was the medium of popular culture. After listening to excerpts from radio programs (easily available on the Internet), participants return to the radio age by creating a two-minute sketch based on a...
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K12 Reader

The Coat Got Soaked on the Boat

For Students 1st Standards
This silly story of a family, their pet goat, a coat, and boat will capture your pupils' attention as they work on the long /o/ sound, the oa digraph, and reading comprehension.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sound Recording Analysis Worksheet

For Students 8th - 9th
In this sound recording analysis worksheet, students listen to a sound recording and analyze it in order to gain more information about the recording's subject.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sounding Off About Impeachment

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Help your middle and high schoolers reflect on the responsibility of newspapers to act as a vehicle for 'everyday citizens' to voice their opinions. Then, using an article about the first day of the Senate impeachment trial of President...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an 'Ordered Place'?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe Faulkner's use of time to structure the plot of The Sound and the Fury. They discuss the differences between first and third person narration and its effects on the novel. Discussion of the overall meaning is...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hold Off on the Headphones

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore hearing loss caused by sound waves. In this physical science lesson plan, students will start by learning about waves and wave characteristics and move into sound waves. Students will study how sound effects their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sound: Are All Sounds Loud?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore physics by utilizing education software. In this sound properties lesson, 1st graders discuss the different sounds associated with different materials and perform an object dropping experiment in class. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Class Rules: Walking Feet

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Set the stage and ground rules for your classroom with this charming presentation. Young learners will love the friendly animation and sound effects that explain to them of the rules they are to follow during the school year. Note:...
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PPT
Curated OER

Tic Tac KNOW: Heat and Light

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This is a very developed interactive tic-tac-toe game, with 29 separate game slides.  To place a mark on the grid, learners must answer a question correctly.  When the grid place is selected the energy, heat and light questions appear on...

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