Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure
This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result, or website is legitimate or phony and...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Recognizing Patterns
Learners learn to identify a variety of patterns using sequences and tessellations.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Fraction Conversion 2 (With Percents)
Learners learn how to convert from fractions to percentages.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Comparing Fractions
Introduces students to fractions and explores basic mathematical operations with fractions, comparing fractions, and converting fractions into decimals or percents.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawanoes
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawanoes by Edward Sylvester Ellis, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Fur Traders of the West
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication The Fur Traders of the West by Ernest Richard Suffling, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Jim
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Jim by Mary Emily Ropes, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Pierrette
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Pierrette by Marguerite Bouvet, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Margaret and Henrietta
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Margaret and Henrietta by Lydia Howard Sigourney, a nonfiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Memoirs of a London Doll
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Memoirs of a London Doll by Richard H. Horne, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Who Are Happiest?
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Who Are Happiest? by Timothy Shay Arthur, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Dream Chintz
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication The Dream Chintz by Henry S. Mackarness, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Dream Chintz
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication The Dream Chintz by Henry S. Mackarness, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Boy Crusaders
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Boy Crusaders, a fiction book for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Coming of the King
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Coming of the King by Florence Mary Seymore Scott, a fiction book for children.
Other
Literacy and Learning: The 1 1 1 Rule
A description of the 1-1-1 Rule (which is probably the only English spelling rule without exceptions), followed by examples.
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers
Canscaip: Kenneth Oppel
A short biography of popular Canadian children's author Kenneth Oppel and a list of his published works and awards are provided.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Games at Recess
Students use ratios to answer three questions based on a specific set of data in this performance task.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp the Escalator, Assessment Variation
Students demonstrate their understanding of the concept of ratio and unit rate association with a ratio.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Riding at a Constant Speed, Assessment Variation
Students use ratios to answer four questions about rate and distance in this performance task.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Pun Fun [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students choose three selections of interesting word play in a text and then work with a partner to discuss their choices. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Stop and Ask [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text stopping to answer questions as they read. Materials are included.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Kids Search in the Classroom
This is a technology-based lesson that will focus on using the Kids Search database in the Alabama Virtual Library. Students will work in teams to access information about animals. This lesson will allow students to research a particular...