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Curated OER

Life and Landscapes in the Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Celebrating Robert Frost's birthday by engaging students in the sights and sounds of his lyrics
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Celebrate National Financial Literacy Month

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Boost achievement and engagement with real-world financial literacy lessons!
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Council for Economic Education

Sand Art Brownies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Which is better, Coke or Pepsi? Pupils analyze the concept of substitute goods as they investigate the choice to purchase alternate products for better prices. Fun and practical, the engaging shopping exercise helps savvy scholars get...
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Curated OER

Be the Change: Core Values

For Teachers 7th - 12th
How do core values and identity contribute to citizenship and leadership? After engaging in a series of activities that explore core values, writers craft a children’s story that focuses on one value. They arrange to read their story to...
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Worksheet
The New York Times

Should Anthony Weiner Resign?

For Students 8th - 12th
The news regarding congressional representative Anthony D. Weiner's scandalous online communications was a hot-button topic in public media in 2011. Use this article to review the timeline of events surrounding the situation, and then...
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Curated OER

A Twist On Teaching Affixes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Engaging your class in prefix and suffix instruction with these helpful ideas.
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Challenge Your Middle Schoolers with Mathematical Strategy Games!

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Help learners develop the ability to think logically and mathematically, in a really fun and engaging way.
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Let the Olympic Games Begin!

For Teachers All
Identify your class' favorite Olympic sporting events and engage in a series of interesting and meaningful activities.
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Grandparents Day: Make a Grand Connection!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Help your class celebrate National Grandparents Day by engaging in these special family activities!
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Curated OER

Learning with Roald Dahl

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Engage critical thinking, comparison skills, and 21st century learning while celebrating a beloved author. Each idea found here provides ways to incorporate beloved Rol Dahl titles and new learning mediums.
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Geo Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Invite your first graders to compose and decompose two and three-dimensional figures with this fun, hands-on lesson. They investigate and predict the results of putting together and taking apart two-dimensional shapes with rubber bands...
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Curated OER

Night and Day: A Digital Art Lesson based on Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Think about your favorite place ... now, think about what it looks like at different times during the day. How does the change in lighting affect the colors you see? Young artists explore the tools available in digital art software to...
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Curated OER

Night: Directed Reading Thinking Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
As part of a reading of Elie Wiesel's Night class members engage in a directed reading/thinking activity that includes crafting predictions, verifying these predictions, and interpreting portions of the text.
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Curated OER

The Lightning Thief: Directed Reading-Thinking Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Before diving into the engaging tale of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, conduct this directed reading and thinking activity. Assess your pupils' knowledge of Greek gods and mythology through a knowledge web, and...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Tunes for Bears to Dance to: Graphic Organizer Strategy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"What are Henry's options?" "What do you think Henry will do?" To better understand the central conflict for the main character in Robert Cormier's Tunes for Bears to Dance to, class members engage in a compare-and-contrast activity that...
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Curated OER

How to Celebrate Digital Learning Day

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Leverage technology to boost student engagement and achievement.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Soak in the Fun with Rainy Day Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Rain-themed crafts and activities that will engage and enthrall little learners.
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: Why Do Workers Strike? (Chapter 11: "Los Aguacates/Avocados")

For Teachers 5th Standards
Make connections between Esperanza Rising and human rights with the activities outlined here. The instructional activity starts out with a brief quiz and review of the novel. After that, pupils circulate and share quote strips that you...
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Activity
North Carolina State University

Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Expose youngsters to 3-D objects in a hands-on learning activity involving marshmallows and toothpicks. Engage your young mathematicians by introducing them to 3-D shapes by means of a story book. Explore 3-D shapes by manipulating...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Seven to the What?!?

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Sometimes what seems like the easiest problem is really the most difficult. Your class is first going to reach for their calculators, but will realize the number is too large to evaluate. Now what? This is where the fun and the logical...
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Curated OER

You are the Archaeologist

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Kids can practice their observation and evidence-based argument skills with a fun and engaging look at artifacts. With a given set of objects, each child will sketch and describe the object, then partners work together to determine...
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App
Mind Snacks

Learn Spanish - MindSnacks

For Students 1st - Higher Ed
Cómo se dice 'fun' en Español? After playing a few of these engaging, vocabulary-centered games, your young language learners will be able to tell you! This is sure to become a favorite app in any Spanish class.
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Lesson Plan
ARKive

Nocturnal Animals

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
How do those nocturnal animals see in the dark? This perplexing question does have an answer. First, little ones use their sense of touch to determine the name of a mystery object, then they listen closely to identify various animals by...
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Study Guide
Mind Snacks

SAT Vocab - MindSnacks

For Students 6th - 12th
Who knew learning and practicing vocabulary for the SAT could be this absorbing? With 500 words to learn after an upgrade, and nine different games for practice, users are sure to feel prepared on testing day!

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