Smithsonian Institution
Lexington and Concord: Historical Interpretation
Learners view and analyze three different images related to the Battle of Lexington and Concord. They also answer a variety of questions in a graphic organizer to help keep the information straight.
Film English
Theo’s Story
Encourage your class to consider a beautiful short film about a boy named Theo who happens to be visually impaired. Over the course of the lesson, pupils work in pairs, discuss their ideas and the film as a class, view the film,...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Historical Climate Cycles
What better way to make predictions about future weather and climate patterns than with actual climate data from the past? Young climatologists analyze data from 400,000 to 10,000 years ago to determine if climate has changed over...
Curated OER
Clock Face
In this math worksheet, students learn to tell time by constructing a clock. Students cut out the clock face and hands and fasten them with a paper fastener. There are no directions on the page.
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Max's Math Adventures
In these telling time worksheets, students read the rhyming poem about the snowball. Students keep a log of the activities they do in one hour and how many minutes each activity takes. Students then draw the hour and minute hands on the...
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Draw Hands On the Clock: Nearest Five Minutes
In this telling time worksheet, students analyze the digital times under 9 clocks with no hands. Students draw the hour and minute hands on the clocks to show the correct time to the nearest five minutes.
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Math Online Exercises
In this online math exercises learning exercise, students complete a variety of activities including four marbles and division math problems, telling time on four clocks and the shading of clocks to show specific times. Students check...
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Experimenting With Time
Learners experiment with time. In this time lesson, students discuss the importance of time and clocks. They use a timer to find how long it takes to complete activities.
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Every Building Tells a Story
Examine images from past that depict buildings and towns from their own communities, and compare images with photographs taken at present locations, interview local architect and compare role of 19th Century architect to 21st Century...
NPR
Young And Brave Lesson Plan
Honor brave young women with a lesson that showcases 30 individuals who's achievements made a lasting impression on our country's history. Here, scholars randomly choose a person to examine from an interactive myseum exhibit then share...
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Once upon a Time in the 1800's
Young readers examine the details in an 1821 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting two sisters who are exiled princesses. They read a tale about the Brothers Grimm, who were writing fairy tales during the same time period that these...
Film English
iDiots
Mobile phones have become an integral part of many people's lives. Examine the role and impact of technology through a short video and related activities. Pupils share what they use their phones for before viewing the film. Class...
Curated OER
Pumpkin Time
Students visit a pumpkin farm and discuss the characteristics of a pumpkin and how they grow. They create a class story about the trip to the farm with each student supplying a sequence for the story.
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Using a Graphic Organizer to Research a Question
Is Pluto still a planet? Using this popular question, kids are introduced to graphic organizers as a writing tool. As a class, they watch a demonstration on how to use them and work together with a partner to research whether Pluto is a...
Computer Science Unplugged
Sharing Secrets—Information Hiding Protocols
Did you know that you can find the average age of a group of people without anyone having to real their age? This resource provides directions for way to do just that. After the activity, class members read a short passage...
Curated OER
Time in a Capsule
Students analyze the meaning and process of categorizing items, people and events as 'the best.' students then defend pieces of literature, images, and sounds that they feel most represent 'the best of the 20th century.'
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Coordinates Time Game
In this coordinates worksheet, students solve the time problems in the box that is called out by the coordinate. Students complete 16 problems.
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Time Expressions
In this time expressions worksheet, 1st graders read eight sentences and practice filling in the blanks with time expressions to complete each sentence.
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Playing the Cards of Place Value
Third graders explore place value to the ten-thousands place. In this amazing, 21-page place value lesson, learners represent numbers in standard and expanded form, and use technology to represent numbers to 9,999.
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Changing Planet: Black Carbon - a Dusty Situation
Introduce your young meteorologists to black carbon produced by the burning of fossil fuels by showing the video, "Changing Planet: Black Carbon." Viewers discover that deposition of this carbon on polar ice impacts the absorption of...
Curated OER
Do You Dare to Dream?
Third graders discover the meaning behind dream catchers. In this themes and symbols in art activity, 3rd graders discuss the meaning of Native American dream catchers. Students use paper plates, beads, and feathers to make the dream...
Curated OER
How Many in a Minute
Students estimate what they can accomplish in a minute. In this estimation lesson, students guess how many jumping jacks or stars they can draw in a minute. They get timed and see how close they are to their prediction.
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Draw The Hands On The Clock To Show The Time (Analog Clock Faces - St. Patrick's Day)
In this telling time worksheet, 2nd graders draw the hands on 6 analog clock faces to the nearest 5 minutes. They see each clock decorated with a St. Patrick's day motif.
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Make a Sundial
Students explore space science by conducting a sun experiment in class. In this time telling lesson plan, students discuss how the sun sits in our sky at exact times each day and how astronomy is based on our perspective of the solar...