US Geological Survey
Usgs: Learning Directions on a Map (Lesson Plan)
This site provides a lesson plan in which students will learn to use north, south, east, and west to identify relative locations and provide directions.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading
This resource provides a collection of free downloadable graphic organizers. These graphic organizers address the following categories: character webs, responding to literature, reading analysis, story maps, cognitive bookmarks, and...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
Other
Marine Geoscience Data System: Tools: Create Maps and Grids
Create your own custom maps and grids with the map tool available on this site.
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Cause and Effect Worksheet [Pdf]
This Cause and Effect graphic organizer helps students organize information from a text they are reading.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Mental Maps
Provides the text of Geography Standard 2 for fourth, eighth, and twelth grades along with relevant activities, lesson plans, and learning activities.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Problem Solving Article: Flowcharts
Information and a video [3:31] on the purposes of the different shapes in a flow chart, and tips on how to use a flow chart.
TES Global
Blendspace: Informational Text 101
A five-part learning module on informational text including links to a video, images, and an assessment.
TES Global
Blendspace: Dust Bowl
A learning module that includes seven links to pictures, charts, and information about the Dust Bowl.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Features
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Medieval Literature
History for Kids presents information on literature of the Middle Ages including the mechanics of language and the alphabet as well as the stories that were popular. Includes links to activities, worksheets and quizzes.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Skills Inferencing
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos with information and examples of how to make inferences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Descriptive Writing
An eight-part learning module with links to websites, texts, videos, images, and charts to use while learning how to write descriptive texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Informational Text
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, and charts that teach skills to build reading comprehension with informational texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Infographics
A six-part learning module with links to images, a text, a video, and websites about infographics and how to design effective infographics.
TES Global
Blendspace: Inference
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts to use while learning to make inferences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Evaluating Websites
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning how to evaluate websites.
TES Global
Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Using Graphs in History Class
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the major types of graphs used in social studies such as bar graphs, line graphs, pie graphs, and pictographs. Information on graphs is followed by graphs dealing with salaries...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Geographical Development
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart useful for checking students' understanding of the issues and the vocabulary associated with their study of development in different groups of countries and of different industries.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Geography:resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart useful for checking students' understanding of the issues and the vocabulary they need to demonstrate their understanding of the geography resources.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Geography 101
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart is designed to help students learn basic geography terms and skills. Included are definitions, examples, pictures, activities, and Activote assessment questions.