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Curated OER

Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Analyze the poetic devices used in Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" to those found in Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz." Critical analysts discuss poetic meter and rhythm and its relationship to theme. They compare and contrast...
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Curated OER

Animal Kingdom Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Pupils build their vocabulary and communication skills by describing animals found in nature. In this ESL lesson, students play a board game to compare and contrast animals. Pupils respond to icons, pictures and words to strengthen their...
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Curated OER

Sorting by Site: Missouri quarter reverse

For Teachers K - 1st
Lewis and Clark took note of the animals common to their home state. As they traveled, they noticed that different places had different types of animals. Your class will use this model to compare and contrast elements that make up their...
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Curated OER

Writing Exercises; Belief Systems

For Students 7th - 12th
This cross-curricular assignment could easily accompany a religious studies or imperialism unit. Prior research is required, as historians compare and contrast major religions and describe religious expansion with regard to contributors...
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Curated OER

Critical Thinking Strategies

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Teach your readers to be critical thinkers. A strategy is outlined that can be used to compare and contrast entities. An example lists four states. The learner removes one state that "does not belong" in the list for some reason, and...
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Curated OER

Is Bigger Always Better?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore rational numbers with the young mathematicians in your class. They will investigate decimals, fractions, and percents before ordering and comparing rational numbers. This multi-day unit includes differentiation activities and...
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Curated OER

Planetary Place Value

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third graders explore place value to the ten thousands place. This incredibly thorough, 24-page instructional activity has learners construct, order, and compare numbers to 9,999. This three-day instructional activity includes reteaching...
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Curated OER

Explorers in Kansas

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read cards about the explorers: Coronado, Lewis, and Clark, Pike, and Long. In this influential expeditions activity, 4th graders describe and observe explorers who came to Kansas. Students locate main reasons and details...
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Curated OER

Character Study

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders work in pairs to choose two characters and find their similarities and differences.  In this character lesson, 3rd graders compare characters by their actions and attributes.  Students individually complete a graphic...
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Curated OER

Equivalent Fractions and Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
How can you tell if fractions have equal value? Use various collaborative activities to demonstrate the ways to determine whether or not fractions are equivalent.
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EngageNY

Comparing Quantities with Percent

For Teachers 7th Standards
Be 100 percent confident who has the most and by how much. Pupils use percentages to help make the comparisons by finding what percent one quantity is of the other. They also determine the percent differences between the two quantities. 
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English Worksheets Land

Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Even though two passages discuss the same topic, they contain different facts and details. Scholars analyze two reading passages about the Gettysburg Address and list the ways they are the same and different.
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EngageNY

Analyzing Structure and Theme in Stanza 4 of “If”

For Teachers 6th Standards
Here is a lesson plan that provides scholars with two opportunities to stretch their compare-and-contrast muscles. First, learners compare and contrast their experience reading the fourth stanza of If by Rudyard Kipling to listening to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Comparing Growth, Variation 2

For Students 4th Standards
A twist on the first variation of the growth task, this task poses an argument on two explanations of which snake grew more, based on the idea that two is a larger part of six rather than 10.
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Arizona Department of Education

Introduction to Integers

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Welcome to the backward world of negative numbers. This introductory lesson plan teaches young mathematicians that negative numbers are simply the opposite of positive numbers as they use number lines to plot and compare single-digit...
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Social Studies Coalition of Delaware

Urban Mouse Rural Mouse

For Teachers K Standards
Explore rural and urban environments over the course of four days. Each day offers a new look into how both environment compare and contrast. Activities include the observation and analyzation of images, a read aloud and grand discussion...
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Civil War

Civil War Medicine: Fact or Fiction

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Young historians compare the presentation of medical care during the Civil War in passages from fictional and nonfictional texts. They examine passages from Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen, and...
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Fluence Learning

Writing About Literary Text: Pygmalion and Galatea

For Students 6th Standards
Is it crazy to fall in love with your own work, or is that the purest love of all? Compare two renditions of the classic Greek myth Pygmalion and Galatea with a literary analysis exercise. After students compare the similarities and...
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Curriculum Corner

Book Study: The Polar Express

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
All aboard! Pair a reading of The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg with a set of literacy activities. The packet of worksheets includes task cards, sorting activities, a synonym match, comparing and contrasting activities, writing...
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Main Memory Network

Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith" and Whitman's "Song of Myself"

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Although the work Americans do has changed over time, the plight of the American worker has largely remained the same. Facilitate a class discussion aboutAmerican workers using Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith" and...
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Math Antics

Working with Parts

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Get a clearer picture of working with fractions. While continuing to work with fractions as parts, the video shows how to use drawing to compare and add fractions. Worksheets then provide opportunities for pupils to practice comparing,...
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Printables
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Venn Diagram Template

For Teachers K - 2nd
Looking to compare and contrast three things? Look no further! Use this Venn diagram template by simply printing and copying as many as you need. 
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English Worksheets Land

Blaze a Trail

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Compare and contrast different ways that sources present information with a reading instructional activity. After readers view two short passages about blazing a trail, they note the information they found in each selection.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds,...

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