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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: California Public Media Education Service

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Public media stations across California have banded together to package a comprehensive set of broadcast and digital resources for teachers, students, and families for at-home learning. Drawing on our most popular offerings to teachers...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Who Will Choose the Sorting Rule?

For Teachers K Standards
A flip chart on the Promethean board and laminated shapes keep student engagement high as they demonstrate their sorting skills.
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Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Finding a Great Summer Program: A Checklist for Parents

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Early and sustained summer learning opportunities lead to higher graduation rates, better preparation for college, and positive effects on children's self-esteem, confidence, and motivation. High-quality summer programs keep students...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Music Conducting: Classroom Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An excellent lesson plan that helps students learn the role of a music conductor. Students will engage in various activities that allow them to have a hands on approach to conducting their classmates.
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Other

Teachers Network: Writing a Short Story Based on Kindred

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will engage in the technology, social studies, and language arts standards as students engage in reading by Octavia Butler's book entitled Kindred. Students will research tslavery. Students will keep a...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Based on the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming. Students must use the engineering design process to plan and build a barrier that will keep hungry bunnies out of a garden.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Effects of Tobacco

For Teachers 2nd
This instructional activity engages students in learning about the negative impact of tobacco. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing what they have learned on hearts that will be strung together and displayed. Students will...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Busy Bodies

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will engage in different activities to help them learn about physical skills. Students will play Busy Body Bingo, Movement Bingo, Silly Stretching, On the Move, Hullabaloo, Little Sliders, and Frog Pond. Students will keep a...
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Professional Doc
Buck Institute

Buck Institute for Education: Pblu: Schoolyard Habitat Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An example of a project-based learning opportunity that engages students in learning what a healthy habitat is by working within the school's campus to increase opportunity for animals to find food and shelter, maintaining plants, and...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: Lesson Plans in Ethics and Religion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A broad range of lesson plans designed to engage students in the ethical and religious issues of the day. Draws on selected stories from the PBS series "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly," incorporating online video and similar resources,...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Compare and Contrast Informational Text

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This third grade lesson plan engages students in comparing and contrasting paired informational text passages about frogs. Students will use a Venn Diagram to keep track of the information.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Camouflage Predation Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this simulation, learners will understand the role of camouflage in keeping animals from attracting attention of their predators. Using newspaper and patterned wrapping paper, students will construct two habitats. Learners will...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Causes of Pollution

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, the students will identify the types of pollution found in communities by viewing a video. After discussing the types of pollution, the students will discuss ways pollution can be controlled. Students will also explain...
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Mama Panya's Pancakes

For Teachers K
Students read and retell stories and fables from Africa to determine how the actions of the characters teach lessons about how to act and how not to act. Students learn about various character traits and their antonyms while keeping...
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Other

The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher Should Have

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Every single teacher is concerned about his/her teaching practices and the skills involved in this process. How many times have you wondered about a better way to teach the same lesson you have delivered to an eariler class? How often...