Curated OER
Dateline: El Niño
Students explore El Nino and take the role of a reporter gathering the facts for a news story. Reports are presented orally, like a newscast, written or in whatever form the teacher prefers.
Curated OER
Naming Roads
Students investigate the aspects of a historic map of roads and trails in the Southeastern United States. They explore reasons for giving roads certain names and decide on names for other roads themselves.
Curated OER
Think Green
Students experience and practice compositing and recycling through hands-on-activities. They distinguish between which items from their trash can be recycled, composted and reused. The process for making recycled paper is also covered in...
Curated OER
Great River Bend Adventure
Students use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
Curated OER
How Hot Is It?
Fourth graders practice estimating temperatures. They practice in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Other
Nearpod: Telling Time to the Half Hour
In this lesson on telling time to the half-hour, 1st graders explore analog and digital clocks by learning key vocabulary and exploring how they are the same and how they are different.
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Nearpod: Time: Fall Edition
In this lesson, learners will use the hour hand and minute hand to tell time to the nearest half-hour.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: It Is About Time
Second graders worked on telling time to the hour and half hour earlier in the year. Now they will apply their understanding of counting by 5s to telling time to the five minute interval.