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Curated OER

B is for Blue Jay: The Letter B

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this letter b worksheet, students move a computer mouse over sample upper and lower case letters for guidance, then practice printing the upper and lower case letters.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Red, White, and Blue Holidays Timeline

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a time line listing six national holidays in chronological order of occurrence. In this historical events lesson, 5th graders research holidays and write a paragraph summarizing each one. They then place each holiday...
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Curated OER

Blue Planet: Seas of Life

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners study coral reefs and marine communities.  In this investigative lesson students get into groups and are assigned a subject.  In their groups they create a poster about their assigned topic. 
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Interactive
Curated OER

ESL Blue: Present Tenses

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive ESL activity, students respond to 20 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of present tense verbs. They choose between simple present and present progressive forms. Students may check their answers with...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Beginning Sentence Completion: 1

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sentence completion worksheet, learners fill in the blank for the correct word for each sentence. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions. Click on "show all" to see the rest of the worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
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Echoes of Blue and Grey: Weekend Warriors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers view a video about the Civil War and then describe famous battles from the perspective of either the Union or the Confederate side.
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Unit Plan
Pearson

Langston Hughes

For Students 7th Standards
An author study provides learners the opportunity to explore in depth the life of, the influences on, and the works of a single literary figure. Introduce middle schoolers to Langston Hughes with a unit that models how to approach an...
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Curated OER

Carbon Dioxide - Sources and Sinks

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Where does all of the carbon dioxide come from that is supposedly leading to climate change? Earth science pupils test animal, plant, and fossil fuels as sources in this investigation. Using an indicator, BTB, they are able to detect the...
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Printables
PreKinders

Nursery Rhyme Posters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Ideal for coloring, class decoration, or a language arts center, these nursery rhyme posters are a great addition to your kindergarten class. Each poster provides the text of the nursery rhymes as well as a cute illustration.
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Curated OER

Restaurant

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young learners love to pretend and role-play. Here is a lesson that allows them to do both. They get to pretend they are going to open and operate a restaurant. They set up menus, gather restaurant props, and role-play the jobs of...
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Curated OER

Learning About Mail Carriers

For Teachers Pre-K
Here is a wonderfully simple instructional activity for preschoolers. It's all about the postal service, and the magic of the mailman. Learners discover how to use stamps, see that evelopes have different weights depending on their...
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Curated OER

The Color of Success

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars participate in an activity in which they share with each other what success means to them. They are given bags of crayons and blank sheets of paper and create an image that displays what success means to them. Bags of...
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Curated OER

Researching Polar Animals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the questions about polar animals and use the Internet to perform a search for the answers to the questions. They click on the blue links to go to the particular website with the answers and then print off their sheet.
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Curated OER

Putting On Armor

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are read the story "EMS Code Blue" and asked to share what they would do in the different situations. As a class, they discuss the importance of getting help for mental or social problems and are given a list of resources...
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Curated OER

Castle in the Sky

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research trends on housing, including predictions about environmental factors, population growth, technology, and their effects on housing in the future. They become familiar with the work of Maxfield Parrish and his use of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Life on the Ocean Floor

For Students 7th - 10th
Why would water 2700 meters deep suddenly become warmer? Explore this and other ocean floor discoveries through this reading response worksheet. Scholars read information about the organisms discovered by Alvin, a deep-sea submersible....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What Color Are Your Eyes?

For Students 6th - 8th
In this color of eyes activity, students conduct a survey to determine the number of students who have brown, hazel, blue or green eyes. The information is collected and then the data is organized. Students may use the data to create...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Color Word Matching

For Teachers K
In this color worksheet, students draw a line to match the clip art pictures with the color words that correspond with them. They match 12 items which include a sun, a blue balloon, a red bow tie, and a green lizard to the color words...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Common and Proper Nouns

For Students 2nd - 6th
This worksheet helps young learners differentiate between common and proper nouns by coloring each of the examples on the page in either red or blue, depending on the type of noun.
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Worksheet
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Flag Day Theme Paper

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Flag Day worksheet, students use this colorful decorated writing paper for a story or essay about Flag Day. The paper has an American flag, stars, and a dove with a blue oval background.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

A Word Path

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this sorting words worksheet, learners read 30 words in a grid. Students color red all things found in a cupboard, blue all things found in a castle, and green all things found in a forest.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Short Vowel A: Circle and Print

For Students 1st - 2nd
Study the letter a and the sounds it makes. With this worksheet, youngsters focus on the short vowel a sound like in bad, fat, and ran. Then, they read the words in the blue box, identifying which ones use the short vowel a sound. 
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Curated OER

Hues and Bridges: Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners investigate the artistic work of Claude Monet.  In this art analysis lesson, students observe Monet's painting Waterloo Bridge, while identifying the blue hues used throughout.  Learners create their own painting of a famous...
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Curated OER

"Knot" the Whole Truth: Writing a Modern-Day Story with a Tall Tale's Voice

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Beyond Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, tall tales can be a great way to teach young writers about word choice and voice in their writing. Using Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee  and the Six-Trait Writing process, they begin to write their own...