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NASA

Exploration of a Problem: Making Sense of the Elements

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When given too much data to simply memorize, it helps to sort it into manageable groups. The second lesson in the six-part series of Cosmic Chemistry challenges groups of pupils to take a large amount of data and figure out how to best...
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LABScI

Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table of Elements: The Secret Agent Lab

For Students 9th - 12th
Food always gets attention! Model atomic structure using fruit loops to represent the subatomic particles. After building models, scholars create ionic bonds using their models. Finally, they use these concepts to create a periodic table.
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National Gallery of Canada

My Treehouse

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The lesson touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...
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Beyond Benign

Flame Tests and Emission Spectra

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Identify elements based on the color that they burn! Learners observe flames of various elements. Using diffraction film or a spectroscope, they assign a name to each.
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Handout
Curated OER

The Old Man and the Sea: Concept Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Use a helpful concept analysis guide when planning your unit on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. The resource covers plot elements, literary themes, and possible issues to address in order to make the work accessible to all of...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

What's This? Gold

For Students 6th - 12th
Cell phones are likely made of gold—at least part of them! An interesting lesson explains the conventional and not-so-conventional uses of the popular element gold. From the Inca empire to modern-day technology, learners discover gold...
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Curated OER

Points of View

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Cinderella is a classic love story when Cinderella is the protagonist—but what happens if a stepsister tells the story? Focus on point of view with a lesson about fairy tales and story elements. After reading a few familiar fairy tales,...
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Curated OER

The Martian Chronicles: Concept Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
If you're planning on including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles in your science fiction unit, use a concept analysis guide to frame your instruction. It covers literary elements such as setting, narrative voice, and theme, as well...
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Teacher's Corner

Dr. Seuss Story Map

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Guide young readers through their first book report with a story map designed for a Dr. Seuss book. After your class finishes their story of choice, they list the title, characters, conflict, and other elements of literature on the book...
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Have Fun Teaching

March Writing

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
How do you catch a leprechaun? Let your writers decide with a resource that has them thinking about story elements and writing creatively. Learners plan their writing in two graphic organizers—one with setting, characters, problem, and...
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Vanier College

Analyzing Short Stories/Novels

For Students 9th - 12th
Good questions can help focus readers' attention on the elements writers use to add depth to their stories. The questions on this worksheet do just that and encourage readers to think critically about a story and author's purpose.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Element Bingo

For Students 7th - 10th
In this elements worksheet, students are given a bingo card with twenty four symbols of elements and a free space. They try to get bingo knowing the symbol of the element.
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Curated OER

Elements and Compounds

For Teachers 7th - 10th
For this elements and compounds worksheet, students complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast elements and compounds. They show the similarities and what is unique to elements and compounds.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Story Elements

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this literature companion activity, students respond to 6 short answer questions regarding story elements about a story of the choice.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Recognizing Elements of a Short Story

For Students 6th - 8th
In this elements of a short story worksheet, students are given definitions and must choose the element being defined.  Students are also given a selection to read and answer questions about.
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Curated OER

Story Elements/ Setting

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice the story element of setting. In this setting lesson plan, students listen to the story Tulip Sees America by Cynthia Rylant. They discuss and describe the places that Tulip saw in the story.  
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Curated OER

Identifying Story Elements

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders explore story elements. In this language arts instructional activity, 2nd graders identifying characters, setting, and plot in familiar stories. Students listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Element Word Search

For Students 6th - 9th
In this elements worksheet, students are given forty elements from the periodic table to find in a word search either vertically, horizontally, backwards or diagonally.
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Curated OER

Lesson Six: Story Elements/Inferring

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice the use of various story elements. In this story elements lesson, 2nd graders listen to the story All I See by Cynthia Rylant and look for the problem and solution in the story. They reread the book to create...
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Curated OER

Story Literary Elements Worksheet

For Students 7th - 12th
In this literary elements worksheet, students read selected short stories and then respond to 5 short answer questions based on the stories.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Do Some Research- Chemical Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science research worksheet, students use the library or Internet to determine what the smallest unit of a chemical element is called. They write the answer on the blue line, write a short essay about the topic, and draw a picture...
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Curated OER

Story Elements: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this story elements worksheet, students respond after reading Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. Students identify the setting, main characters, problem and solution. Students write their notes in purse shapes.
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Curated OER

Periodic Table of the Elements: Noble Gases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research how neon signs are made and design their own. In this periodic table lesson, students familiarize themselves with the noble gases on the periodic table. They watch a video, research how neon signs are made, and design...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Elements Compounds and Mixtures

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students apply science basic knowledge of chemistry to the puzzles that are listed for the four parts of the sheet while focusing upon the identification of a metalloid.

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