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Curated OER

Celebrating Saturn and Cassini

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use their notes from previous lessons to write a paper on Saturn or Cassini. They share their writings with the class. They discover how everyone has a different learning style.
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Curated OER

Making Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students make paper from recycled paper. The student estimates, counts, and measures he amount of paper consumed in a classroom daily. They discover that if we use too much paper, it fills up landfills. Some activities they are doing...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oregon Rainshadows

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students brainstorm list of possible highest locations in Oregon, identify and label places from list on map using color code, and discuss and identify causes of a rain shadow.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Entrepreneur: Anita Roddick

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discover how entrepreneurs make their living. As a class, they identify the characteristics of entrepreneurships and their attitudes. Using the internet, they research the life of Anita Roddick, who founded the Body Shop. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Here Comes the Sun

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders watch a video on the solar system and examine the role of the sun. As a class, they complete a KWL chart and make different color temperature pockets to use during their experiment. In groups, they make predictions about...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mass Transit

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore the world of mass transit and how it affects their community as well as how it attempts to reduce our pollution mass. Included as well are the environmental and social factors relating to mass transit. They read and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Investigating Haiti

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in a activity that is about the island of Haiti. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used in order to help students locate the island on a map. They answer questions while participating...
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Lesson Plan
National First Ladies' Library

Who Wants to be a Pioneer?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a story based on their research of the Oregon Trail. Using the Internet and traditional sources, they engage in research about pioneer's experiences on the Oregon Trail during westward expansion. Students write a story...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this biography worksheet, students read a factual biography of Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain. The students then answer 14 questions. Note: there is a grammar/spelling error in the title on this page.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Types of Transportation

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study different types of transportation including specialized trucks. In this transportation lesson, students look at a landscape picture map (not included) and identify all of the modes of transportation they see. They see...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Charge Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars observe the behavior of different charged objects. In this science instructional activity, students perform a series of static electricity experiments. They discuss their observations in class.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Grew to the West

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this westward growth activity, students use lyrics given to follow along with the song "Grew to the West," filling in blanks to answer simple questions throughout. Students then answer 10 additional questions about the song. Song link...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Leave What You Find

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore environmental awareness by participating in a role play activity. In this cultural analysis lesson, students discuss the importance of symbolism when referring to a tribe and create their own tribe based on a small group...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.
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Interactive
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Editorial Review: The Time Tribe

For Students 3rd - 8th
A review of the game "The Time Tribe." Four children, a wily bird, a devious enemy, a mysterious manor house, a magical key-ring, and an elevator that travels through time. Will you get lost in the sands of time?
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Website
Other

Alien Travel Guide: Elements of Music the Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
Fine site created for Canadian schools devoted to basic elements of music, including pitch, acoustics, time signatures, keys, and rhythm.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Time Travel: Learn to Tell Time

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
Students practice telling time by changing both a digital and analog clock to the correct time.
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Four Standard Time Zones Introduced

For Students 3rd - 8th
How and why did the United States come to have four time zones? Learn about how cities and railroad travel impacted the development of these zones. Includes video (requires RealPlayer).
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Interactive
Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum: Interactive Journey: Travel Back to Victorian London

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel back in time to the Victorian era in this interactive journey to help Ruby & Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house,...
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Lesson Plan
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Colonial Williamsburg: Travel in the 18th Century

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site has a lesson plan that contrasts the methods of travel during Colonial Times, with those of today.
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Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Games: Big Escape 4: Escape Through Time

For Students 3rd - 5th
Travel through time looking for Dr. Know It All. Look for clues, fill in the missing words in the journal to find him, and then solve some simple puzzles to follow the doctor through time.
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Unit Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: 3 M Young Scientist Lab: Travel Through Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel through the decades to learn about the innovations that shape your life. Use the Decade Navigator below to start exploring. Transport yourself through the last 100 years to meet the innovations that have shaped our world.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Estimating Distance and Travel Time

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad estimates how much air supply they will need to complete an underwater mission.
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Randall Davis

Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Bus Travel

For Students 3rd - 8th
This exercise for English language learners tests students' survival listening skills and their ability to interpret bus schedules. Students listen to several audio clips then answer true/false questions about destinations, arrival and...

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