Curated OER
Aesop's Fables
Regale your class with renditions of Aesop's fables from the engaging, and beautifully illustrated book by Jerry Pinkney. Guide discussion to practice prediction, compare and contrast various stories, explore the connections between the...
Curated OER
Bocce ball - Lesson Plan
Bocce ball is a lifelong sport that can be taught to many different age levels. This is only one page of a pretty comprehensive unit. Click the link at the bottom of the page and take a look at the entire unit and adapt it to meet the...
Curated OER
October Lesson Plans
Students engage in a lesson picked by the teacher in the month of October. The lessons are available to be browsed according to title. This is a resource that is a comprehensive list of lessons.
Curated OER
Goals And Objectives for Units of Study And Lesson Plans
Students determine the role that goals and objectives play in lesson planning. They identify the difference between goals and objectives.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
"In this unit, students explore the artistry that helped make Irving our nation's first literary master and ponder the mystery that now haunts every Halloween -- What happened to Ichabod Crane?"
University of Virginia
Uva: Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture
This site contains extensive information about the text of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and the historical context in which it was written. Includes three different modes of browsing the site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media
PBS's source for teachers, covering all subject areas. This is a site that has so much wonderful information as well as interactive activities that you are sure to find something that would be useful in your classroom.
Other
National Arbor Day: Educational Resources
This collection of resources provides Arbor Day classroom activities for students in areas ranging from science to the arts. Students can learn plant identification, write poems or plays and quiz each other on tree facts.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Coyote Dreams
This site contains a wealth of useful information for teachers using this book! Includes discussion questions, activities, related books, and links to additional information.
Other
Internetwijzer Basisonderwijs Pols Netwerk
A comprehensive resource for educators. Find lessons, activities, and experiments for all school subjects and other topics of interest to teachers
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed
Access to resources and materials intended to improve science education through the development and implementation of high-quality, freely available science instructional materials.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Author and Narrator
The National Endowment for the Humanities offers a lesson plan exploring the use of narration in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Provides objectives.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: The Moral of the Story Is...
The site provides ten trivia questions about fables. Fables from Aesop and from The Holy Bible are included in this quiz.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Then and Now: Public Health From 1900 to Today
This project has young scholars research and present findings on various diseases as they relate to public health and historical significance.
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Introductory Exercises on Exponents
Site provides five different learning exercises dealing with exponential functions. Students can look up answers or get hints to the problem.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment/lessons
This National Archives and Records Administration site briefly discusses the background of the 19th Amendment and offers primary sources, activities, and links to related web sited for educators and students.
Other
Harmonica Info and Tips
Gives basic information about the harmonica in addition to tips for purchasing and playing one
Other
Beloit College: K 12 Geology
This is a good source of basic information about density currents in water. It includes simple activities you can do to demonstrate these currents.
Other
Oregon Children's Theatre: Charlotte's Web Study Guide [Pdf]
This study guide is a helpful tool for studying E.B. White's classic, Charlotte's Web. Background information about the story and play are provided, as well as lesson ideas.
Other
Awesome Library
Awesome Library's searchable database is full of resources in all subject areas. It also provides information to parents, students, teachers, principal, family, and community.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Emma
These lesson ideas are designed for younger reading Emma by Carol Hurst.
Other
E Tutor, Inc.: Headless Horseman, Heady Author
This lesson for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" explores the author's use of figurative language and includes follow-up activities and additional resources.
Other
My Schoolhouse Interactive Learning
Math and reading lessons, with automatic online correction, allow you to set your own pace.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Proud Flight [Pdf]
"A Proud Flight" is a one page, Greek myth about Icarus and Daedelus. The father and son were imprisoned, and in order to escape, Daedelus made wings using bird feathers covered with wax. He warned Icarus not to get too near the sun or...