Curated OER
Nouns
In this nouns worksheet, students use the following nouns to complete the sentences: lance, optician, nutmeg, clown, pen, trumpet, eagle, hoe, mechanic, and stetson. Students then make a list of all of the nouns in the second set of...
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Tile My Bathroom Floor
Seventh graders create a bathroom floor plan using measurement math. In this measurement lesson, 7th graders use measurement, proportionality, estimation, and area to design a floor plan. Students design floor tiles using centimeter...
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Breaking News English: Police to Charge Balloon Boy Father
For this English worksheet, learners read "Police to Charge Balloon Boy Father," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
Curated OER
My Top Interdisciplinary Social Studies Lesson Plans
Here are some top social studies lesson plans and activities which present concepts in a memorable fashion.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Works Everywhere: Tips for Starting a School Garden
Find a useful guide to help start a school garden. Kids will dig the class project!
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Garden, Garden, What Do You Do?
Students explore different gardens on our school grounds to investigate the natural world using inquiry and their senses. The students will take a guided walk from garden to garden using their observations to notice and wonder how...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's in Your Secret Garden?
After reading F.H. Burnett's The Secret Garden, learners create their own secret gardens and design a slideshow presentation of their gardens to share with the class.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Garden in Lawndale [Pdf]
"A Garden in Lawndale" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about an eighth grade class who planted a garden in a vacant lot by their school and maintained it to improve their neighborhood. It is followed by constructed-response...
Other
Hubbard's Cupboard: The Enormous "Kinder" Garden
In this unit from Hubbard's Cupboard, an elementary class will read several books together, each having a strong connection to the next. There are ideas for cross-curricular lessons, so this could be a site that shapes the next several...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Sensory Butterfly Garden
This activity requires a small butterfly garden. In this case, the class had created one. Student explore the garden and record scientific observations made using their senses.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Tundra Animals
Explore this comprehensive resource on the birds and mammals of the tundra. This resource features information such as diet, class, order, size, habitat, conservation range and the like.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Az Master Gardener Manual: Properties of Soil
Site provides a brief description of soil texture as well as discusses the relative size of soil particles.
Other
Earth Measure: Native American Geometry Designs: Mathematical Landscaping
If you want to plant a class garden, this is a great resource for combining geometry, Native American studies, and rocks.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Gardener
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a 4th Grade reading lesson for the Gardener by Sarah Stewart from the reading series by Harcourt.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Birds of Australia
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an Interactive guide featuring images and information about some of the birds of the Australian Botanical Gardens and their bird calls.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Where Is the Dirt? A Lesson in Hydroponics
This lesson will be developed around hydroponic gardening, the growing of plants without soil. Using the Internet, students will research hydroponics and share their knowledge with the class. A classroom hydroponic garden will be...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Growing in a Triangle
Middle school students explore the Pythagorean Theorem by measuring and calculating diagonal lengths using the Pythagorean Theorem. Students view an animated proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. They access an Internet site to view and...