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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helping Hand

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students discover ways to help others. They share ways they help their family and friends. Afterward, students trace hand prints on paper and then draw pictures and words to explain how the hands can be used to help other people. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helping Those In Trouble

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the importance of helping others. After reading a story about being helpful, students discuss times when they assisted others and then sing a song. In groups, students mime situations where they portray a good...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Working Together

For Teachers K
Students sit back to back with their legs straight out in front. They interlock arms and push against each other's backs to try to stand up. They discuss things they can do on their own and what kinds of things we need others to help.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helping Hands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss the needs of senior citizens. They assist them with basic household chores. They gain pride in helping others and reflect in their journals.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Help

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of visual aids. Students will be able to communicate their need for assistance with the signs included on these pages.
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: The Scoop on Gossip

For Students 3rd - 8th
We've all probably heard a bit of gossip, a story about someone we know that might embarrass him. Despite whether the information is true or not, the fact that it is being passed on to other people could be harmful for him. It may be fun...
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Website
Donald Clark

Big Dog, Little Dog: Leadership, Management, Command, & Control

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The pivotal elements of business and education are explored: leadership, management, command and control.
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Website
Other

My Hub: How to Create an Intranet: A Beginner’s Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide and tutorial for those creating a intranet. A full-service intranet resource offering such content as intranet links, intranet articles as well as a project planning tool.
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Handout
Other

Fas: Strategic Assessment: The Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
A strategic assessment of the role that the Internet is playing in the political process of America. The article looks at trends and makes predictions. Although geared toward the Department of Defense, the article is very comprehensible...
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Website
Other

General Anzeiger Online (Bonn)

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive information about regional news, sports, culture, economy, education, weather, etc.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Sequences and Series: Terminology and Notation

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains the basic terminology and notation of sequences and series, including summation symbols, subscripts, and indices.
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Handout
Luther Seminary

Bible Tutor: Psalms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Bible Tutor provides an excellent introduction to the Psalms that discusses their religious significance and categorizes them. Links are provided to several individual psalms as well.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: In a Wall

For Students 9th - 10th
This five-stanza poem shares a story of a boy helping his father retrieving a dog that had fallen down a well.
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Article
Other

Environmental Defense Fund: Tips to Fight Global Warming

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and take action to fight global warming with these 6 tips, complete with links and other climate change resources.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Helping List

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational passage shares a list of ways to be helpful. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
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Website
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Integrated Pest Management Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives general info on Integrated Pest Management. Along with news, IPM contacts, publications, and related links. Also lists various subject areas to look into.
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Website
Other

Pankpages

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains free downloadable graphics such as buttons and backgrounds, as well as tutorials which focus on Photoshop.
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Website
Other

Fire Wall Tool Kit

For Students 9th - 10th
The FireWall ToolKit (FWTK) is a set of proxies which you can use to build your own firewall. This site provides downloads, documentation, FAQ and patches.
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Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Roman Numerals

For Students 6th - 8th
Explains the basic rules for writing numbers in Roman-numeral format.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Bbc: Skillswise: Reading and Understanding: Teacher and Student

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Color photograph of a teacher and student sitting at a desk looking over a paper together.