+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Design a Book Cover

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore character, plot, setting, symbolism, and conflict for a book that they are reading. Sample book covers are provided and students apply what they have learned by designing a book cover.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Story Mapping

For Students 1st - 6th
Help your learners map a story with a graphic organizer provided. Four squares for setting, problem, characters, and solution surround the circle for theme. Use this with any story you may be reading to go over important elements of story.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Line and Design (Advanced)

For Students 7th - 10th
As part of an exploration of line and design, students complete a variety of activities which include discussing a list of vocabulary terms, and learning about principles of design.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Organization Station

For Teachers 4th
After students complete an in-class unit on electricity they participate in making a hands-on circuit to create electricity. Then they use the computer program Kidspiration to create a graphic organizer of the content. They print their...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Business: Designing Business Cards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and create business cards using Adobe Photoshop. Once they have applied techniques of typography and layout design, students identify redesign aspects and its importance in the design process. In a slide show, completed...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technology: Recipes Around the World

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research international cuisine and create Web pages based on them. Once they have organized their findings, they demonstrate their research with a multimedia presentation. The project concludes with a party using food ...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphically Speaking

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover the links between population and Congressional representation. In this government lesson, students research population statistics and create spreadsheets that compare population to the number of Congress members per state.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Main Idea Details

For Students 3rd
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students find the main idea and details in a story by completing the spider map graphic organizer.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Chain of Events - Beginning, Middle and End

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students complete a chain of events charts. They fill in event 1:beginning, event 2: middle, event 3: ending by following the arrows.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

KWL Graphic Organizer

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students fill in a KWL chart. They organize information using the "what I know, what I want to know, and what I learned" sections of the chart.
+
PPT
jc-schools

The Expository Essay

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Did you ever create an awesome graphic organizer only to find that your class was completely baffled by how to use it? This resource not only provides you with a great graphic organizer for a standard five-paragraph essay, but also...
+
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Sound Spin

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a phoneme segmenting game which incorporates drawing for your more artistic learners. Assemble the spinner using a brad and lay out the picture cards face up. Partners take turns spinning to get either two, three, four, or five....
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Can We Learn From the Past?

For Teachers 7th - 11th
What would future archeologists learn from your scholars' personal belongings? Have them bring in a box of "primary sources" from their home. Discuss the difference between observations and inference, using some of your own items to...
+
Activity
BBC

Anglo-Saxons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This interactive web site invites exploration of Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and daily life. It is easy to navigate, has clear information, and nice features like pop-up definitions when the cursor moves over the highlighted...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Termination of Parental Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the causes for a juvenile court to terminate all rights of a parent to a child. They do case studies of a few examples of this scenario taking place. This lesson invites quite a bit of debate amongst the pupils, and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define elements of stories from around the world that include helpful animals. They explore animal character motivations and use graphic organizers to compare and contrast animal stories from different cultures.
+
Lesson Plan
Time Warp Trio

The Caveman Catastrophe

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young archaeologists study the development of human history, and work in groups to create a timeline that traces the development of humans. Additionally, the groups utilize a very clever graphic organizer embedded in the plan in order to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Get in the Newspaper Habit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Dive into journalism with your high schoolers! The resources provided here will help your learners write unbiased, clear, and succinct newspaper articles. First they spend time sifting through stacks of articles, filling out a graphic...
+
Lesson Plan
1
1
University of Arkansas

Assessment and Discussion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
"Without concerned citizen action to uphold them (human rights) close to home; we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. . ." Eleanor Roosevelt's comment is used to set the stage for the conclusion of a five-lesson unit...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Costume Exploration

For Teachers 10th - 12th
What a great lesson, upper graders are sure to love. They explore costume design and the relationships between theatre, culture, and history. They research three time periods, write a response about two of them, then create a composit...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Looking at Food Chains

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Looking at Food Chains learning exercise, students read about a food chain under the sea and underline important information. Next, students fill in a graphic organizer about food chains based on the information they just read.
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Formal and Informal Language

For Students 9th - 12th
ESL students use the graphic organizers to record different phrases of speech with an emphasis upon the use of slang.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet 3.5 Simultaneous Equations

For Students 8th - 9th
In this simultaneous equations learning exercise, students solve and complete 7 various types of problems. First, they solve graphically the system of equations shown. Then, students find the number of solutions that each pairs of...
+
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

What's Your Angle?

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Identifying types of angles meets real-world application in an excellent, hands-on geometry activity. Learners use pipe cleaners and a visual model to independently discover the acute, right, or obtuse angles in their classroom, which...

Other popular searches