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Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary

From Ben’s Pen to Our Lives

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What would Ben do? Jumping off from the pseudonymous letters Ben Franklin fooled his older brother into publishing when he was still a teenager, young literary lovers dive into acting, writing, and addressing a local issue with wit and...
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Energy for Keeps

The Energy Times

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Extra! Extra! Read all about past and present energy use in a classroom-made historical newspaper. Useful as a cross-curricular assignment between science, history, and language arts, the project is sure to get young journalists...
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Center for Civic Education

To Amend or Not to Amend, That's Been the Question...Many Times

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Looking for some ideas for how to celebrate September 17, Constitution Day? Check out a packet that focuses on the factors that are considered in the amendment process. Class members examine the amendment process and the types of...
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Pearson

Past Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How do you talk about things that have already happened? What about things that happened in the past and are still happening? Explore past, past perfect, and past progressive verb tenses in a helpful slideshow presentation.
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Media Literacy

Once Upon a Time

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Robert Munsch's The Paperbag Princess and Jon Scieszkafrom's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs launch a discussion of the role of stereotypes in stories and movies.
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BioEd Online

Good Stress for Your Body

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Stress the importance of the different types of pressure our mind and body experience in a lesson about how certain types of stress are actually necessary and good for our bodies. As astronauts and people with injuries can attest, not...
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NASA

Lost in Space: Bone Density

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you don't use it, you lose it. Groups work together to compare bone loss on Earth as opposed to bone loss in space. They determine the equations that model bone loss and make calculations to determine the amount of bone loss for...
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EngageNY

Sampling Variability

For Teachers 7th Standards
Work it out — find the average time clients spend at a gym. Pupils use a table of random digits to collect a sample of times fitness buffs are working out. The scholars use their random sample to calculate an estimate of the mean of the...
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PBS

Family History: Treasure Troves

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
It's time for show and tell! Scholars investigate historical artifacts to determine what secrets they reveal about the time periods they represent. They then research their own personal artifacts, as well as those from World War I. 
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Alabama Department of Archives and History

The Great Depression - Hard Times Hit America

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
To gain an understanding of how the Great Depression affected everyday citizens, class members examine letters written either to the president or to the governor of Alabama asking for assistance.
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BioEd Online

The Skeleton

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Don't be chicken to try a lesson plan that compares the anatomy of birds to humans. Read the background information so you don't have to wing it when it comes to the anatomy of a chicken. Prepare cooked chicken bones by soaking them in a...
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Statistics Education Web

Text Messaging is Time Consuming! What Gives?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The more you text, the less you study. Have classes test this hypothesis or another question related to text messages. Using real data, learners use technology to create a scatter plot and calculate a regression line. They create a dot...
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Glynn County School System

Light, History, Gravity, Distance, Relativity, and Space-Time

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Let the star's color be the guide! The color of a star indicates its temperature and its mass and distance affect the gravitational force. The lesson presentations address these concepts as well as how the theory of special relativity...
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Curated OER

Later and Earlier

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this time worksheet, students study 20 different clocks. Students write the time each clock shows now, the time it would show 25 minutes later, the time it would have shown 55 minutes earlier, and the time it would show 2 hours 35...
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Curated OER

Analog Clock Faces: Drawing Hands on Analog Clocks Telling Digital Time in 5 Minute Intervals

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this telling time worksheet, students study 9 blank clocks with a digital time written below. Students draw the hands on the clocks to match the times that are to the nearest 5 minutes.
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Curated OER

Digital To Analog

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math worksheet, students learn to look at a digital time and show it on an analog clock. Students draw the hands to show the time (to five minutes) on 20 clocks.
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Common Core Sheets

Creating Clocks (Half Hour Increments)

For Students 1st Standards
First graders create clocks by adding hour and minute hands pointing to the given time. All times are to be written in 30-minute intervals.
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Curated OER

It's Time to Wrap-Up the School Year!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
As the school year rapidly comes to a close, don’t forget to collect feedback to improve your teaching.
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Common Core Sheets

Reading an Analog Clock (1 Minute Increments)

For Students 3rd Standards
Third graders read analog clocks and tell time to the nearest minute. AM and PM do not matter in this exercise.
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Curated OER

Twice Upon a Time: Multi-Cultural Cinderella

For Teachers 3rd
Engage your learners in a cross-cultural study by having them read, compare, and contrast various Cinderella stories from different cultures around the world. From this exercise, they will learn that plot element can seem different, but...
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Curated OER

Winter-time Temps

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students measure temperature and become aware the the temperature above and below the snow is different.  In this winter temperature instructional activity, students measure temperatures to find variation based on how the snow is packed....
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

What Percentage of Time Do You Spend Doing Daily Activities?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Engage your kids with an intriguing, real-life exploration that covers several areas in math, and allows for natural academic differentiation.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

EarthViewer

For Students 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Can you imagine Washington DC and London as close neighbors occupying the same continent? Learners will be fascinated as they step back in time and discover the evolution of the earth's continents and oceans from 4.5 billion years ago to...
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Curated OER

Castle Builder

For Teachers 5th
Discover a wonderful series of lessons on castles, life during medieval times, and finish by having your learners actually construct a castle. First, they look at the importance of castles during medieval times. Next, they study certain...

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