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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oklahoma's Berry Best

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Ask your learners to complete activities related to Oklahoma's agriculture, berries in particular. The lesson is cross-curricular and has class members investigate an article about berries, write an acrostic poem, and discuss new...
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

Jazz music, Dance and Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students view video and become familiar with the type of movement in jazz dance.  In this jazz dance lesson plan, students write a cinquain about jazz dance.  Students recognize the elements of jazz dance and the type of music associated...
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Curated OER

Video Biographies

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Who was Alexander The Great? How did Abraham Lincoln’s early life influence his political life? Learners select a historical figure to use for video biography. After developing research questions and collecting information, pupils search...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Light Is

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Learners explore the properties of light. In this light lesson, students investigate visible light by viewing a website, examining an electromagnetic spectrum chart, and observing light demonstrations. Learners write about their...
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Creative Educator

Sell It with Propaganda

For Teachers 5th - 12th Standards
Augment a unit on propaganda by prompting class members to create propaganda. Using Frames software, groups demonstrate their understanding of propaganda techniques by designing a new product, creating a commercial to sell their product,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Agriculture is a Cycle

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
What do a bicycle and the life cycle have in common? Cover this and more with the series of cross-curricular activities included in this plan. Learners do everything from making bracelets that represent the life cycle to checking out the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dirt Babies

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
What exactly is a dirt baby, you might ask. Look over the plan to find out! All of the materials and procedures necessary for creating a dirt baby, such as grass seeds, dirt, and nylon stockings, are listed, along with ideas for...
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Curated OER

Just Lookin' For a Home

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What is a boll weevil? Your class can find out that and more by following the activities included here. Pupils read an article, sing a boll weevil song, add to the song with their own original lyrics, illustrate the song, study the...
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Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Developing Ideas for Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment,...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing Fix Homepage

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have you ever needed someone to help you out with your writing? This site offers help to students and teachers. The lessons and resources are organized based on the 6 Writing Traits model. An especially interesting feature of the site is...
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Article
Other

National Writing Project: Collaborating to Write Dialogue

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, writing partners work together to develop a plot and characters. The lesson emphasizes the use of dialogue to develop the characters and plot of the story.
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Interactive
Other

Hemingway Editor

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you have ever struggled to write clearly and succinctly, the Hemingway Editor may be just what you need. Paste your writing onto the website and Hemingway will highlight parts that may need some clarity and score your text on its...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Leading to Great Places in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
We all know that the most effective way to teach reading is to start with reading. This activity uses that approach with writing story leads.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Scientists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
After students investigate a topic through research, hypothesizing, observing, and experimentating, teachers can use this lesson to help their students prepare short science reports and publish them online. The Writing with Scientists...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Persuasive Writing

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site has a great unit that leads students all the way through the writing process while composing a persuasive paper. Includes a teacher guide, mini-lessons, assessment rubric, and worksheets to help out at each step of the way.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Trailblazing Introductions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the introduction for an expository essay or research paper. It states the purpose of an introduction, what should be included, and ways to begin.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Speech Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Learn steps from the experts on how to write and deliver a great speech. There are tips and graphic organizers for writing. The final step is recording your speech on the Radio Hotline. Listen to other student writing as well.
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Rubric
Buck Institute

Pbl Works: Presentation Rubric Grades 3 5 Ccss Aligned

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This rubric helps teachers guide students in grades 3-5 in making effective presentations in a project, and it can be used to assess their performance. Alignment with CC ELA standards for Speaking and...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Introducing Text Structures in Writing 5th Grade

For Teachers 5th Standards
This instructional activity engages students in learning about text structures. Graphic organizers are provided to assist students in planning writings that have the following text structures: problem and solution; sequence; cause and...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Descriptive Sensory Writing

For Teachers 5th Standards
In this lesson plan, 5th graders will engage in descriptive writing. Students will improve a piece of writing by using precise word choices that are full of sensory word choices.
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Workshop 5 centers on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. As students explore different avenues for translating...
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Free Graphic Organizers for Planning and Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers that students can use to plan their written pieces. Graphic organizers for all modes of writing are provided.
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Professional Doc
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing a Series

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This resource is designed to enhance the teaching of grammar in the context of reading and writing by using mentor sentences. In this resource, mentor sentences, or sentences that highlight a grammatical point, were chosen primarily from...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Write Talks: Students Discover Real Writers/audiences/purposes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.