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Chicago Botanic Garden

Understanding the Greenhouse Effect

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Dive into the power of the sun with a two-part lesson. Budding scientists model the greenhouse effect in a hands-on activity, and then participate in a skit that explores the earth's energy balances and what really occurs in the...
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K12 Reader

Alphabet Collection: Adjectives

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Grammar enthusiasts show what they know with a practice page that challenges scholars to list an adjective for every letter of the alphabet. 
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Purdue University

Light – Just Right!

For Teachers 4th Standards
What does it mean to be resistant to electricity? Scholars answer the question in a six-part STEM lesson on electricity. They begin by assessing the conductivity of several different materials and progress to designing their own circuits...
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Teaching Tolerance

Consuming and Creating Political Art

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A picture is worth a thousand words, but political art may be worth even more! After examining examples of political cartoons, murals, and other forms of public art, class members create their own pieces to reflect their ideals and...
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News Literacy Project

Story Explorers: Evaluate News Coverage

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
What makes an issue or event newsworthy? Scholars complete a K-W-H-L chart based on a recent news event. As they complete the chart, small groups collaborate to analyze coverage of the story or event.
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Bonneville

Introduction to the Photovoltaic Effect

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Let a video light the way to a better understanding of solar energy. Scholars first learn vocabulary terms related to the photovoltaic effect, solar cells, and electricity. They then watch a video to learn why silicon is often used as a...
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Simon & Schuster

Curriculum Guide to: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Great Expectations can prove to be a challenge for instructors who choose to use Dickens's novel as required reading. Here's a curriculum guide that includes lessons that address some of these challenges. The first lesson in critical...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Hardship and Hope: Teaching Amanda Gorman's "New Day's Lyric"

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Class members come together to study Amanda Gorman's poem "New Day's Lyric." After a close reading of the poem, learners watch a video of Gorman reading her poem, and then craft additional lines for the poem where they offer suggestions...
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Where I'm From: Symbolism in Paint and Poetry

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
After a review of symbolism, class members use the provided worksheet to first list the objects they observe in Arnold Mesches' painting "Coney Island" and then suggest possible symbolic meanings for each of the objects. A second...
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Curated OER

Sorting words (four-block)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders each receive an index card with a word written on it. They look for spelling patterns such as "oi." Students sort the cards according to spelling pattern, and practice spelling words with the snap, clap, slap hand motions.
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Curated OER

Social Studies Word Cards

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this social studies worksheet, learners cut apart 50 word cards. All have words which pertain to citizenship and living in a community. There are no definitions provided.
Interactive
Curated OER

English for Law

For Students 5th - 7th
In this law worksheet, students match words with definitions about the law and complete a crossword. Students complete 2 activities.
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Curated OER

Stand Up for Spelling!

For Teachers 1st - 4th
In this interactive spelling lesson, students participate in a multi-modality activity that involves wall words. Half of the students are assigned the vowels and the other half is assigned to stand up for the consonants.
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Curated OER

Listening Skills

For Students 7th - 10th
In this writing worksheet, students fill in six blanks with the prepositions on or in and then listen to fifteen sentences read and circle the words that they hear.
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Curated OER

Fun with Droofus the Dragon: Book Activity

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners decide on the best word to replace a bold word in a sentence showing their understanding of the meaning of the word. Students complete this vocabulary worksheet after reading the book called Fun...
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Curated OER

Worksheet 7: Housekeeping Activities

For Students 3rd - 4th
While only having a few questions, this activity could be a good review of vocabulary in the lower grades. Learners fill in 6 fill-in-the-blank spaces with the correct vocabulary word. There are pictures to aid in understanding.
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Curated OER

Who Am I?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students complete an acrostic poem and use digital photo activities for the poem. In this acrostic poem and technology lesson, students use Word Art and digital cameras to create a technology integrated acrostic poem.
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Curated OER

Find the Hibernating Animal

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this word search activity, students find 6 hibernating animals in the word search. The names of the animals are located in the word bank at the bottom of the page.
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Curated OER

Cells Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 6th - 7th
In this cells vocabulary worksheet, learners draw lines to match 12 words pertaining to cells to their meanings. Prior knowledge is assumed.
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Curated OER

The Adverb

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this adverb worksheet, students circle the adverb in each sentence and draw a line to the word it modifies. Students complete 20 sentences.
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Curated OER

Adjectives: Witch

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this adjectives practice worksheet, students use the 8 adjectives in the word bank to fill in the blanks in 2 paragraphs in order to make the descriptions more interesting.
Interactive
Curated OER

Permanent/Temporary: indicating long or short term activity

For Students 5th - 10th
In this permanent or temporary worksheet, students choose the correct verb tense for the words in the sentences about doing something temporary or long term. Students complete 6 sentences.
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Curated OER

Teddy Bear Vowel Combinations

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students examine teddy bears with 28 vowel combinations. No words are written on these posters, just letter combinations such as oa, ee, oe, ai. No directions are given but these could be used as part of a word...
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Curated OER

Mira, Mira on the Wall: Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate and perform reflections and symmetry. In this geometry lesson, students compare and contrast the relationship between reflections and symmetries.

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