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Curated OER

Personal Odysseys and Everyday Heroes

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study Greek Mythology, focusing on Gods and Goddesses. They compare the modern day hero with the classical hero and examine how individual characters are based on their own personal odysseys.
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Curated OER

Bon Voyage - Literature Travel Unit

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders locate and interpret information about the culture of another country using multi-media tools. Students read and interpret literature about characters and cultures from a foreign country. Students create a travel guide...
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Curated OER

Express Yourself!

For Teachers 1st
First graders work as a group to generate and play a game that displays an understanding of developmental level reading vocabulary based on a grade level checklist. This lesson really engages the creative side of your students!
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Curated OER

The Big Blue

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create paper mache globes with balloons. They label the 4 oceans on their balloons with reference to large wall map, classroom globe, and Encarta Virtual Globe CD-ROM projected on large screen TV with Tvator or other...
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Curated OER

The Flat Stanley Project

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read the book Flat Stanley. In this environmental stewardship lesson, students participate in earth-friendly activities based upon the book. This lesson includes ideas such as using recycled paper to make a "paper pal."
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Curated OER

Olympic Games Snowboard Design: Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Arts, Global Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students gather information about a country and work as a team. They use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represents the country they pick. They explore locations, languages, flags, and emblems for various countries.
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Curated OER

The Search for the Northwest Passage

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to lectures and research the motivations and history of the Spanish, French and English explorers searching for the Northwest Passage to India. They trace routes on maps and consider how these explorers helped shaped...
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Curated OER

Hamlet and the Pirates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use seventeenth century primary sources to understand the off-stage pirate attack that occurs in Hamlet. Students read and discuss Hamlet's letter to Horatio from the play, Hamlet. Young scholars analyze primary documents...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Martha's Stem Stories Activity Plan

For Students 1st - 3rd
Welcome to Martha's STEM Stories! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. You may already know that doing STEM means testing ideas, collecting data, making calculations, and drawing graphs and charts-but you...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Weird Animal Adventures: Tuesday

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
After reading the picture book Tuesday by David Weisner, students write stories about strange animals and their nighttime adventures. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student samples, an interactive idea...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Short Adventure Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Inspired by the interactive plot ideas here, writers will create an original three-paragraph adventure story. First, each writer will create an original adventurer. Next, each writer will place the adventurer in a brief, organized...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Adventurous Magic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This writing activity is inspired by Bruce Coville's Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, and learners will be asked to write about an original magical object that they have discovered in the "Elives' Magic Supplies," just as Jeremy does in...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Onomatopoeia Adventures

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this lesson plan, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, by Linda Williams, is used as a mentor text to highlight the trait of word choice. Onamatopoeia is the focus content for this lesson. After the reading of the text,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: An Ocean Adventure

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will listen to a story and then, using the writing process, write their own story using word processing software. They will then create an ocean picture to illustrate their stories.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Power First Paragraphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading an engaging paragraph from Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure by Robert D. San Souci and then work on writing good opening paragraphs for their own stories. Teacher and student instructions are provided along with student...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Cross Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Digestive System Adventure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson students adventure through the digestive system via the Internet. They then use their knowledge of the digestive system to create an original story about their favorite food's adventure down the digestive track.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Five Transition Adventure Planner

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, learners will use transition words and phrases to shift from one idea to another within a story.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, learners create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Flight From Bear Canyon Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Flight From Bear Canyon, an adventure novel written by Anita Daher, is set in the Nahanni River Valley of Canada's Northwest Territories. It tells the story of a young girl's experience as she flies a plane and helps to save the life of...

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