Other
Writing Instructions Sample: How to Raise Potatoes
A good example of a piece of writing which instructs the reader. Good for students to use as a model for instruction-writing essays.
Other
Mo Dept. Of Ed.: Give and Read Multi Step Directions
Lesson plan designed for eleventh graders. Learners discuss giving and reading multi-step directions while drawing simple pictures of dogs and cats. Includes student handouts and a scoring guide. It comes from a thematic unit on challenge.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Writing Effective Instructions
Students will distinguish effective from ineffective approaches to writing instructions.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Follow Directions and Draw
In this lesson plan students will practice and understand the importance of giving and listening to clear and concise directions. Lesson plan indicated for 3rd grade and above.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Understanding Maps and Directions
Extensive site for teaching Spanish speaking ELL. The theme of this unit is the directions - An "e-mail" is presented, giving directions to a house party - Interactive exercise follows, asking comprehension questions - A guided writing...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Instructions
Explore this helpful Skillswise English resource and get some hints on how better to follow instructions. Includes games, videos, worksheets, and more.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Vanished: Inside the Jet Stream: Giving Rise to the Jet Stream
Explore what generates a jet stream, and discover why they flow from west to east. A link is offered in this site to a helpful animation describing the jet stream process.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: A Little Help With Capitals
This Purdue University lesson explains capitalization rules by giving simple examples. L.11-12.2 Cap/Punc/Spell
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Online Writing Lab
A great resource for middle-school, high-school, and college writers, with worksheets, articles, model papers, and presentations that will help you with research, grammar, style, job-search and professional writing, and more. Includes...
Other
Ello: Listening Games
Listening games based on a range of every day, "authentic" themes: making a sandwich, hair, getting and giving directions, taking a phone call, holidays, etc. Listen to an audio description, then pick the picture that matches it. Geared...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Speechwriting
Learn speechwriting tips and strategies from this site which provides direction for writing and practicing a speech. As a final step, Scholastic News Radio Hotline provides an opportunity for you to record your speech and listen to...
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Writing
The BBC offers quick (bitesize) activities, revision options, and quizzes on a variety of writing skills, covering writing arguments, writing factual documents, and writing stories.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
EL Education
El Education: Instruction Manual for the Gh Monoscope
This instruction manual for a GH Monoscope was created by 4th grade students. Students created this manual as a way to introduce other students in the school to this new piece of equipment. Although the equipment did come with...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Secrets of the X Chromosome
The sequence of DNA that we inherit from our parents encodes directions for making our cells and giving us specific traits. Robin Ball explains how the secret lies in X chromosome inactivation.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Moment of Inertia
A collection of video lectures from a moment of inertia course taught at East Los Angeles College. The course teaches moment of inertia explaining the theory and giving examples with nine lectures. Lectures vary in length.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Electric Force
Need to review electric force? This collection of eight video lectures focuses on electric force. Lectures vary in length giving examples of problems to help with the understanding of electric force. Lectures are from a physics course...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: River Basins of Asia, 1912
A map from 1912 showing the various drainage basins across the Asian region. This map is color-coded to show watersheds draining to the Pacific Ocean in pink, to the Indian Ocean in green, to the Arctic Ocean in purple and inland basins...
Curated OER
Etc: Battle of Mukden, Feb 22, 1905 March 10, 1905
A sketch map of the Manchurian battle site of Mukden, the last major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). This map is mislabeled, indicating the battle timeframe was April 22 to March 10, 1905. The dates should read...