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Curated OER

The Tiger!

For Students 2nd - 4th
William Blake's immortal poem "The Tiger!" launches a study of these magnificent creatures. After a close reading of the poem, class members compare his poem to Blake's artwork. Individuals then choose a favorite tiger species to...
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Worksheet
North Syracuse Central School District

Nutrition Label Worksheet

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
Nutritional labels are everywhere, yet so few of us take the time to use them! Here is a worksheet that learners can use to practice calculating such features as calories, carbohydrates, and serving size based on real examples of...
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Tech Know Teaching

6th Grade Constructed Response Question

For Students 4th - 6th
Graphs, charts, maps, diagrams. Reading and comprehending informational text is far more than just decoding the words on a page. Here's a packet that provides young readers with practice answering constructed response questions using...
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Interactive
Mount Vernon

George Washington's Mount Vernon Virtual Tour

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Take a tour to George Washington's Mount Vernon with the help of an interactive website that explores the property's ins and outs. Each stop offers an informational video, a detailed explanation, or a close-up image of the area in focus.
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Scholastic

Women's Suffrage for Grades 1–2

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Scholars take part in a grand conversation after they examine facts and stories about the Women's Suffrage Movement. Eight discussion questions bring light to influential women, the importance of voting, citizenship, and voting rights.
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Media Education Lab

Propaganda Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
In an age of fake news, alternative facts, and biased reporting, it is more important than ever that 21st century learners develop the critical-thinking skills necessary to recognize, analyze and resist the propaganda techniques used in...
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Kenan Fellows

A Farmer’s Challenge to Breed to the Greatest of Grapes

For Teachers 7th Standards
What does your class know about GMOs? Are they savvy to selective breeding? Challenge young minds to engineer the greatest crop of all time using a hands-on genetics unit. Learners discover the good and bad details of selective breeding,...
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Smithsonian Institution

World War I

For Students 5th - 12th Standards
How did World War I effect the United States' status as a world power? Pupils examine a website to learn many interesting facts about American involvement during World War I. They read passages and interact with artifacts in an online...
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Assessment
Kentucky Department of Education

Kentuckians in the Civil War Era: Constructed Response Essay

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
What part did Kentucky play in the Civil War? A constructed response essay assignment tests to ensure scholars understand the concepts and the arguments for the causes of the Civil War. Learners must read a primary source quote and then...
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California Academy of Science

The Heat is On: Cause and Effect and Climate

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
The higher the number of letters in the final word for the National Spelling Bee, the higher the number of people killed by venomous spiders. Obviously, those two facts correlate, but no causation exists. Scholars view data based on...
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EngageNY

Reading about Freaky Frogs: “The Glass Frog”

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Freaky frogs are the focus of a lesson plan designed to boost reading comprehension skills using text features and asking and answering questions. Informational text and a poem supply scholars with animal-related vocabulary and facts. A...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

The Power of Personal Narrative

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed Standards
Personal narratives are powerful things. Whether told from the first-person or third-person point of view, whether in the form of an essay, a short story, novel, or video, whether fiction or fact, they capture readers and give them...
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Health Smart Virginia

Ending the Silence on Mental Illness

For Teachers 9th
To end the silence on mental illness, groups research a mental illness. They then create a scene-by-scene script, cast parts, and record a video that details the symptoms, causes, and treatment of the disorder. They also include what...
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Website
ESRI

Juneteenth: An American History through Maps

For Students 6th - 12th
An interactive website traces the history of Juneteenth celebrations from their origin in Galveston, Texas, on June 19th to the present day.  Using interactive maps, learners can find information about the African-American population...
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K20 LEARN

Analyzing Literary Figures: Analyzing Literature

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
The author study gets an update in a research project designed for high schoolers. Scholars search for information about literary figures that connects them to their times, their works, their themes, and other writers. Researchers also...
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Curated OER

Wood

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice reading comprehension strategies. In this literacy and science activity, students read a non-fiction article about wood and locate main ideas and details. Students construct a card game using information taken from the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

America Attacked: 9/11

For Students 9th - 12th
In this America Attacked: 9/11 worksheet, students read the book America Attacked: 9/11 and complete fact and opinion, character detail, and short answer question activities. Students complete 26 questions.
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Curated OER

Slumdog Millionaire

For Students 9th - 12th
In this Slumdog Millionaire worksheet, students read the book Slumdog Millionaire and complete fact and opinion, character detail, and short answer question activities. Students complete 26 questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Beautiful Moon: Story and Comprehension

For Students 3rd
In this beautiful moon:  story and comprehension activity, 3rd graders read a one passage about moon facts, then answer 5 multiple choice questions, with answer key provided.
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Curated OER

Ellis Island/Angel Island

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research Ellis Island and Angel Island. In this library media lesson plan, 4th graders use resources from the library to locate facts about Ellis Island and Angel Island. Students construct a Venn diagram to compare and...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: On-Demand Informational Writing

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Lesson 7 focuses on building academic vocabulary and writing an explanatory letter with supported textual evidence. For the first five minutes of the lesson, the educator reminds the class of how to read and refer to the accordion...
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Curated OER

Media Literacy Skills

For Teachers 3rd
You're on camera! Third graders find a news story and research it to get more information. Everyone uses their found information to write a script and create their own news broadcast!
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Curated OER

Outlining Main Ideas and Details Adapted from: Expository Writing by Tara McCarthy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine articles from a number of sources to determine their main ideas and details, and discuss them as a class. Using a worksheet, they practice outlining a report after watching a teacher demonstration of the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fact-Based, Open-Ended, and Follow-Up Questions Worksheet

For Students 6th - 8th
For this classroom applications of fieldwork basics worksheet, students label 5 questions according to the type each one is and create 5 of their own fact-based and open-ended questions that may be used for interviewing purposes.

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