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Curated OER

Ripped Paper Art - Snowmen, Mountains and Evergreens

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students discover depth in photographs or paintings by creating a picture from scrap paper.  For this art analysis lesson, students practice creating depth by placing different elements higher or lower on a picture.  Students...
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Curated OER

Paul Gauguin Art: Opposite Colour Masterpieces

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners discover new art techniques by examining the work of Paul Gauguin and his use of opposite colors.  In this art analysis lesson, students investigate the different perspectives and colors used in classic post impressionist...
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Curated OER

Native American Glossary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars develop a glossary of English language words with Native American origins. They discuss a list of words, look up the words in a dictionary, and compile the definitions in alphabetical order in a class glossary.
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Curated OER

In Our Own Voice

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students, after being introduced to poetry in the language arts class, prepare to produce a product by identifying and writing a variety of different types of poetry. They utilize digital cameras, camcorders, computers and the multimedia...
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Curated OER

Can We Switch Genders of Story Characters?

For Teachers K - 6th
Young scholars read and review the main elements of a story. In this language arts lesson, students predict what the story read to them would have been like if the genders of the characters had been different. Young scholars...
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Curated OER

Using Adjectives

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
In this language arts lesson, students listen to the book "Many Luscious Lollipops," in order to become familiar with adjectives. Students create four comic strip squares, using five adjectives in each square, after hearing the book....
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Curated OER

Mission Assignment: Create a Sustainable Car

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students find their dream car by looking in car brochures and magazines. In this language arts lesson, students discuss what their dream car is. Finally, students get into small groups and rank their group's dream cars from highest to...
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Andrews McMeel Publishing

Charlie Brown and Friends

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Charles Schulz' Charlie Brown and Friends, a collection of Peanuts comic strips, provides young readers with an opportunity to engage in full-class discussions, work in groups to examine how Schulz develops his characters, and...
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Project Noah

Writing Goes Wild

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young scientists develop their observation and writing skills as they craft and then post a detailed description of a plant or animal they have spotted and photographed.
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Curated OER

Homophones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a terrific instructional activity on teaching homophones to your upper graders! In it, homophone word cards and homophone bingo cards, which are embedded in the instructional activity, are used in a game format which reinforces...
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Curated OER

Read All About It! California History of the 30s and 40s

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the Great Depression! Discover the challenges people experienced during the time period. Learners investigate photographs from the Dust Bowl and WWII era and create a story line about the photographs, writing a newspaper article...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

When We Are A Story

For Teachers 4th
Drama and story elements go hand-in-hand. Have the class dive into a dramatic play to show character intention, conflict resolution, main events, and the dialogue in a Hawaiian folk tale. They read the story, then group-up to...
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Curated OER

Writing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review the writing process by using the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They examine a piece of writing for the key elements of composition. They help to make the writing pieces more interesting by correcting...
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Curated OER

Writing Lesson 2

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the English Language Arts Writer's Checklist. They practice prewriting techniques and use clustering as a prewriting technique. They follow specific rules in order to complete this lesson plan.
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Curated OER

Horse Character: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Animals oftentimes elicit various characteristics which make them symbolic or representative of human feeling, action, or emotion. The class creates horse characters out of clay to show character action and symbolism. This is a great...
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EngageNY

Learning About Farms in Colonial America: Explicit vs. Inferred Information

For Teachers 4th Standards
Aid your pupils in understanding the terms explicit and inferred while teaching them about colonial farmers. The third activity in the module builds off the previous activity and focuses heavily on inference. Learners analyze a...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Inferring with Pictures and Text

For Teachers 4th Standards
Mark the mid-point in the module with the authentic assessment described and provided here—the assessment and the unit focus on inferring using pictures and text. Pupils are given an image, a graphic organizer, and an article and must...
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EngageNY

Planning Ideas: Developing a Colonial Character Profile

For Teachers 4th Standards
The second lesson in a historical fiction series encourages pupils to develop a character profile of a colonial person using research acquired in the previous unit. Learners prepare their historical fiction narrative by responding to a...
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EngageNY

Practice Planning a Historical Narrative: The Wheelwright

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders use a four-square graphic organizer to plan a paragraph writing about a wheelwright. Using gathered research from the previous unit, young writers discover how to organize a plot in preparation for writing a historical...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Drafting a Historical Fiction Narrative Based on Expert Trades

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young historians use their planning graphic organizer to prepare a personal narrative draft on expert trades. Since the instructional activity is considered the mid-unit assessment, learners respond to a writing prompt related to the...
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EngageNY

Drafting a Historical Fiction Narrative: The Wheelwright

For Teachers 4th Standards
Young writers use the four-square graphic organizer to draft their historical fiction narratives' first, second, third, and fourth paragraphs on the wheelwright. The instructional activity promotes discussion and modeling of what makes a...
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EngageNY

Planning a Historical Fiction Narrative Based on Expert Trades

For Teachers 4th Standards
Pupils plan for a historical fiction narrative based on their previous research on expert trades from the Colonial Era. Individuals use the four-square graphic organizer to organize the information they want to be detailed in their four...
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EngageNY

Revising for Organization: Timely Transitions

For Teachers 4th Standards
During the eighth lesson in a historical fiction unit, pupils practice thoughtfully transitioning their ideas sequentially. After the teacher models how to add these transitions using the Wheelwright draft created in a previous lesson,...
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EngageNY

Revising for Organization and Style: Bold Beginnings

For Teachers 4th Standards
Get young writers thinking about how to write a great beginning for their narratives. After examining examples of solid beginnings in literary text, young writers discuss the criteria for a compelling introduction. Then, independently,...

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