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EngageNY

Building Context for the Narrative: Slavery in America

For Teachers 7th Standards
Scholars use an Analyzing Images: Slavery in America handout to make predictions from pictures featuring slavery. They then discuss the pictures with partners. Learners further their thinking by close reading The Slave Trade and...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Mid-Unit Assessment: Using Evidence to Support Analysis: “Frederick Douglass”

For Teachers 7th Standards
Show what you know! Scholars complete a mid-unit assessment using text evidence from Frederick Douglass. The teacher then presents expectations for independent reading assignment. Leaving the class, pupils turn in an exit ticket...
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Organizer
Scholastic

Follow the Clues

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Invite your text detectives to bring their magnifying glasses to school to examine the clues in a text and make predictions. They write down three clues and a prediction on the graphic organizer.
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Lesson Plan
August House

Stone Soup

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Sharing and cooperation are difficult skills for kindergartners to grasp. Using the story Stone Soup and a series of activities, kids learn about the benefits of working together, categorizing and comparing items, and eating healthy foods.
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Down on the Farm: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 8)

For Teachers K Standards
Down on the Farm is the theme of this series of ESL lessons designed to support reading, speaking, and listening skills. Over three weeks, your learners will have the opportunity to sing songs, play guessing games, create masks, role...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Why Little Things Are Big

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Often our decisions are impacted by a fear of how others see us. That's the big idea in a two-day lesson that asks how false assumptions, how our fear of how others may see us, impact how we act. After watching a video about such a...
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Activity
Digital Public Library of America

Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Frederic Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, although dissimilar in their backgrounds, were united in their views about slavery. A set of 14 primary sources permits scholars to examine the views of these two powerful men.
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Unit Plan
Trinity University

Introduction to Poetry

For Teachers 4th
Introduce fourth graders to poetry with a three-week unit that has them examine the structural elements of poetry, analyze poems, and craft their own original poems rich in sensory details and other poetic devices. Young scholars study...
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Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

Examining The Boston Massacre Through Primary Sources

For Teachers 5th
The Boston Massacre is the focus of a lesson that explores primary sources. Scholars examine two primary source images and discuss the different perspectives on the historical event. After groups read a researched account, they perform a...
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Lesson Plan
K20 LEARN

Show and Tell Museum - Investigating Primary Sources: Read and Interpret Primary Sources

For Teachers 3rd
Scholars become detectives in a instructional activity that focuses on primary sources. Learners practice their observational skills by examining the teacher's artifact and visiting the Show and Tell Museum that highlihgts items from...
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Interactive
Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Distinguishing Between Inductive and Deductive Reasoning (English III Reading)

For Students 11th Standards
Is Sherlock Holmes an inductivist or a deductivist? Users of this interactive to distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning. They consider in various situations whether it is better to list evidence and then introduce a claim...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Education in Colonial New England

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine schooling now and in New England Colonies. For this compare and contrast lesson, 5th graders describe schools of the present to schools of the past. Students also investigate the goals of schooling and the part...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Estimation and Your TV Diet

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop estimation skills by using real life situations. For this estimation lesson students collect data about their television watching habits. They make hypothesis about the number of hours they watch, how many commercials,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living Conditions in Victorian Homes

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars analyze a piece of artwork to draw conclusions about life in Victorian Britain. In this British history lesson plan, students use a painting to determine who could have lived in the house, why the house was built in its...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Arriba Amigos!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore how culture effects our world. In this culture lesson, students work in groups to do a web quest. Students gather and analyze information to decide if Mayan ruins should be destroyed to build a shopping center. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing Data

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a survey, gather data and describe the data using measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and spread (range, quartiles, and interquartile range). Students use these measures to interpret, compare and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living in a Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore animals that live in trees. In this nature and biology lesson, students go outdoors and make observations about animals and their unique body parts that help them to live in trees. Students create drawings as they...
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Curated OER

History: Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts

For Teachers All
Students read a letter by Shaw to his wife after the Union raid at Darien, Georgia; then will draw conclusions about it. Students debate about the Emancipation Proclamation as well as the possibility of allowing blacks to serve in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Experimentation With Plants

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders experiment with different varieties of plants and draw conclusions after performing a series of lab activities. A very helpful student worksheet is given. This is a nicely done introductory lesson plan for life science.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

More Power to You

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore renewable and nonrenewable energy sources and develop a documentary that explores multiple energy sources and draws conclusions about their uses.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Meet Your Partners

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students become student scientists and work with Internet partners to collect, share, and analyze data needed to draw conclusions about the Waipi'o Valley Stream Restoration.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Measuring the Impact of Exercise And Body Position (laying Down, Sitting And Standing) on Heart Rate

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders gather data on heart rate during exercise and at rest in three different positions. They compute male and female averages for each different heart rate and graph each and draw conclusions based upon the data about the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Earth and the Compass

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders construct a water compass to investigate the effects of Earth's magnetic field and other sources of magnetism. They predict, observe and draw conclusions from their investigation.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Hair Raising Experience

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders conduct an investigation using glass, metal ,fur, latex balloon, plastic bag and hair to generate static electricity of varying amounts. They predict, observe, make comparisons, and draw conclusions about static electricity...

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