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Lesson Plan
Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Stay on the Path Lesson One: Searching for Treasure

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Recognizing Patterns

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Learners learn to identify a variety of patterns using sequences and tessellations.
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Fraction Conversion 2 (With Percents)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners learn how to convert from fractions to percentages.
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Introduces students to fractions and explores basic mathematical operations with fractions, comparing fractions, and converting fractions into decimals or percents.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawanoes

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of Tecumseh, Chief of the Shawanoes by Edward Sylvester Ellis, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Fur Traders of the West

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication The Fur Traders of the West by Ernest Richard Suffling, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Jim

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Jim by Mary Emily Ropes, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Pierrette

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1896 publication of Pierrette by Marguerite Bouvet, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Margaret and Henrietta

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Margaret and Henrietta by Lydia Howard Sigourney, a nonfiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Memoirs of a London Doll

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Memoirs of a London Doll by Richard H. Horne, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Who Are Happiest?

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Who Are Happiest? by Timothy Shay Arthur, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Dream Chintz

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication The Dream Chintz by Henry S. Mackarness, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Dream Chintz

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication The Dream Chintz by Henry S. Mackarness, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Boy Crusaders

For Students 4th - 6th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Boy Crusaders, a fiction book for children.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Coming of the King

For Students 3rd - 5th
A scanned copy of the 1898 publication of The Coming of the King by Florence Mary Seymore Scott, a fiction book for children.
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Handout
Other

Literacy and Learning: The 1 1 1 Rule

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A description of the 1-1-1 Rule (which is probably the only English spelling rule without exceptions), followed by examples.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Text Structure

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Presentation explores what is text structure and the common types.
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Handout
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers

Canscaip: Kenneth Oppel

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short biography of popular Canadian children's author Kenneth Oppel and a list of his published works and awards are provided.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Games at Recess

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use ratios to answer three questions based on a specific set of data in this performance task.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp the Escalator, Assessment Variation

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students demonstrate their understanding of the concept of ratio and unit rate association with a ratio.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.rp Riding at a Constant Speed, Assessment Variation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use ratios to answer four questions about rate and distance in this performance task.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Words in Context: Pun Fun [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Stop and Ask [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text stopping to answer questions as they read. Materials are included.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Kids Search in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...