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Exploratorium

Bird in the Cage

For Teachers 5th - 9th
When your life science class is learning about the eye and how it works, you can add this activity as a demonstration of how the retina holds an afterimage. After staring at a red, green, or blue bird shape, pupils glance at a cage and...
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Lesson Plan
NortheastLeaders.org

The Ingredients of My Leadership and Serving Up the Ultimate Leader

For Teachers 5th - 9th
What qualities make a good leader? The activities in this packet are designed for a convention of recognized school leaders but could easily be adapted to any classroom. Groups generate a list of qualities they believe are essential for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Penny and Cup Game

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars perform activities to discover if one eye is better than two. They test their sense of sight with both monocular and binocular vision. Students drop a penny and see if it lands in the cup of water. They rely on their sense...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Utopian Visions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine Sir Thomas More's Utopian vision. In this philosophy lesson, students read Utopia and determine the pros and cons of Utopian societies. Students then create and present monologues of residents of the Utopia.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

The Five Senses: How They Relate to our World

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the five senses and the significance of each sense. In this five senses and diversity lesson, students listen to You Can't Smell a Flower With Your Ear by Joanna Cole and take a walk observing opportunities to use all...
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Curated OER

Activity Plan 5-6: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students become entomologists for a day. In this life science lesson, students go on an insect hunt and investigate insects and their homes. This leads to the creation of an insect by each student. Lesson includes a take-home activity...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bunny See, Say, Write and Read!

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Develop the reading, writing, and spelling skills of young learners with a simple worksheet. To begin, children practice reading and writing the words see, in, bunny, and hat, before reading a series of three short sentences using these...
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Organizer
Curated OER

20/20 Worksheet

For Students 7th - 12th
In this eyesight worksheet, students figure out their vision in both eyes and the vision for their classmates. Students determine the average eyesight for their class. This worksheet has 5 fill in the blank, 3 short answer, and 1 graphic...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sight Words

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students access a variety of sight word related resources on the Internet. They play concentration, read online books, play sight word bingo, and view various sight word lists and illustrations.
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Curated OER

Sight Word Soup

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore language arts by completing a vocabulary activity. In this sight words lesson plan, students discuss the commonly used words that are seen often in writing and define 10 new words each week. Students utilize flashcards,...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Dolch Sight Word List

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
In this Dolch sight word worksheet, students are given a list of sight words, ranging from pre-primer to third. There are no associated activities, worksheet is a word list only.
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Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Geometric Figures

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Logical thinking is at the forefront of this jam-packed lesson, with young mathematicians not only investigating geometric concepts but also how they "know what they know". Through each activity and worksheet, learners wrestle with...
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Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Module 3: Numbers and Operations

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Bring some concrete reasoning to the skills of multiplying and combining terms. Using various strategies, the six activities in the module provide practice for the skills of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and diving polynomials. The...
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Curated OER

Do Touch!

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of touch. They investigate unknown solids using the sense of touch. Pupils use their senses of touch to match feely gloves. Students explore body parts, by tracing their hands and feet on paper. They create a...
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Activity
Curated OER

Inspire a Life of Reading

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Making letters out of goop, sight word bingo, tic-tac-toe vowels. Download this packet loaded with activities designed to engage beginning readers. Although designed for adults, many of the activities are appropriate for any age group.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Your Five Senses

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
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Perkins School for the Blind

Mix and Match

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Sorting and matching are skills that have all kinds of applications. Learners with low, but useable vision work to match an object to an object, an object to a picture, and a picture to a picture. This will help them identify objects...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Going to the Doctor: Vocabulary Cards

For Students K - 6th
Flash cards are a great tool for kids with autism; use them to build a functional vocabulary.  This set of nine flash cards focus in on vocabulary you'd use at the doctor's office. Consider providing sentence frames for your learners to...
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Unit Plan
Mathematics Vision Project

Module 4: Linear and Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Sequences and series are traditionally thought of as topics for the pre-calculus or calculus class, when learners are figuring out how to develop limits. But this unit uses patterns and slopes of linear functions in unique ways to bring...
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Learning
Curriculum Corner

Sports of All Sorts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Do your students love sports? Do they love math and reading? If the first answer is yes and the second is no, a resource with sports-themed math and literacy games may change their minds! Learners move through stations to practice...
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Study Guide
Reed Novel Studies

Pictures of Hollis Woods: Novel Study

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Scholars read about Hollis, an orphan in Pictures of Hollis Woods, and complete worksheet activities. Activities include using vocabulary words to complete sentences, answering comprehension questions, and writing poetry.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, I Read, You Point

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners read as many high-frequency words as possible in a given amount of time. Peer one reads a word from a list, and peer two points to the corresponding word as they are seen on the table. This activity is timed and peer evaluated.
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BioEd Online

Good Stress for Your Body

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Stress the importance of the different types of pressure our mind and body experience in a lesson about how certain types of stress are actually necessary and good for our bodies. As astronauts and people with injuries can attest, not...
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Baylor College

Heart Rate and Exercise

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teach your exercise enthusiasts to read their pulse rate at the radial artery and multiply by four to calculate beats per minute. Learners perform a variety of activities, recording their heart rates after one minute of each. Though this...