Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Pictures and Text Work Together Too!
The class will read the informational text "Together They Were Better". As the teacher reads the book aloud, she/he will use the illustrations from each page to give students clues as to the text on the page, helping them to see the...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Science: A Work in Progress
The scientific method is more than just a series of steps to be followed like a recipe. It is a fluid, ever-changing process. This video discusses student's perception of the scientific method and how to make learning science in the...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: School to Work: Ethics in the Workplace
Students can become involved in "thorny scenarios" that showcase the need for various workplace ethics such as honesty, personal responsibility, positive attitude, teamwork, and professionalism. The site offers a video-based learning...
Other
Finance Authority of Maine: Manage: Making Your Money Work
PDF with ten sections that help students set financial goals, track expenses, and create plans to manage their expenses to help their future selves.
Other
Judging Student Created Web Pages
Some questions to think about when assessing student work in the form of Web pages. This information is taken from judges of educational web sites.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Give Every Student a Stake in Group Work
Can we organize group work so that every student has ownership over their learning? This is a collection of resources that highlight some tips on how to make students' group work more relevant and impactful for everyone involved.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The War Works Hard
A learning module that begins with the poem "The War Works Hard" by Dunya Mikhail, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Greedy Gordy Can't Decide Working With Venn Diagrams
Students have been working with pictographs and bar graphs. Now they take their learning a step further by working with Venn Diagrams.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Something's Fishy Working With Bar Graphs
In this lesson, students continue to build their graphing skills. This lesson also reinforces important mathematical skills like counting and comparing.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Bscs Helps Students, Parents, and Teachers Connect With Nature
BSCS Science Learning has developed this resource to help students, parents, and teachers get away from technology and formal learning and spend some time connecting with nature. Included are links to resources about the benefits of...
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Kids.gov: How the Supreme Court Works
Students will visualize how the Supreme Court works using the following downloadable infographic. Also included is an explanation of how cases reach the Supreme Court and lesson plans.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Everyone Works
Lesson that helps students understand the economic concepts of goods and services. Students categorize economic activities as goods or services, and discuss the goods and services exchanged in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Jaffe...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Far Out Food and Work in Space
Blast off! Take students on a journey aboard the space shuttle to learn about living and working in space. Meet astronauts who think healthy living is a must. See if students have what it takes to be a space cadet.
Other
Little Minds at Work: Persevere! A Lesson About Never Giving Up
How do you teach students all about this big word - perseverance? Young students need a visual lesson to be able to grasp this abstract concept. Watch this kindergarten teacher gives a demonstration to help her students learn about...
Morning Earth
How Life Works: Biosphere Is Process: Rock Cycle: The Marriage of Water and Rock
Students examine the biology topic of ecology. The tutorial includes definitions, questions, and pictures on rock cycles.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Dunlin
Learn more about the dunlin when you check out this educational resource. Students will discover information ranging from characteristics and range to diet and life cycle.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Bobcat
Explore this great educational resource. Students will find information on reproduction, habitat, diet, characteristics and more on this special cat.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke": Student Web Activity
Students will work online using the Coca Cola Company Web site to learn about global economics. They will find the regions where Coca-Cola Company operations take place, and what economic conditions have a negative impact on sales. They...
Other
4 Teachers: Using Digital Cameras for Classroom Projects
This article from 4Teachers.org details the many benefits of using a digital camera in the classroom, exciting ways to incorporate pictures into student work, and advice on getting started. There is also a handout you can use to...
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Lesson 3: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to sort items into student created categories using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy.
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Go, Dog. Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a fiction text.
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Read Works: Lessons:
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a nonfiction text.
Read Works
Read Works: Lessons: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students how to tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Forgetting the Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a fiction text about a boy named Andy who has a part in the school play and answer questions about comprehension, conflict, inferencing, main idea, literary devices, and more. Links to a...