Curated OER
Make Way for Wild Migrants
Students discuss the threats facing migratory species and track the seasonal journeys of wildlife in real space and in cyberspace. Once they have gathered information from several sources, they create a portfolio to share with others...
Curated OER
Value: Truth, Topic: Accuracy
Sixth graders listen to music as they reflect on a time they told the truth without hurting anyone. Students listen to a story about a person who falls from a roof and breaks his leg. The person lies about how it happened. Students...
Curated OER
Media Collage
Students create "media Collages" out of labels from boxes, bottles, and cans, and other found objects in this Art lesson for all ages. Adaptations are included for younger and older students. Lesson also includes a writing option for...
Curated OER
The Book Boy by Joanna Trollope
Students read, analyze and critique the novel, "The Book Boy," by Joanna Trollope. They brainstorm if you can tell a book by its cover, construct a character map, explore cultural differences and investigate how a family hides a family...
Curated OER
The Games Divided
In these Olympic history worksheets, students read about the ancient Olympic games and the modern games. Students complete a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the past and present Olympic games.
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Other
Habitat for Humanity: At Home Around the World [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students read about types of housing in different nations, the housing issues faced in these areas of the world, and how Habitat for Humanity has been able to help. Students conduct online research and work in groups...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Run Around the World
Lesson where students utilize Google Maps and Google Earth to create a three mile running course from their houses, addressing any safety concerns that arise (large intersections, availability of sidewalks, etc.). Detailed instructions...
Other
Whyville
Your students can become a citizen of Whyville, an on-line town. They can build a face, build a house, and build a business. There are tons of science experiments for them to try as well as art games at the Getty Museum. This is a great...
Tech4Learning
Pics4 Learning: Images for Education: Houses
A large photo collection of various homes from around the world. Click on an image to enlarge it and read a brief description.
Curated OER
Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Becoming Visible: Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller is presented in this biography for his plays revolving around post-World War II America, paying particular attention to the middle class and effects of Communism. See "Arthur Miller Activities" for related materials.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Chinese to Go [Pdf]
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Ingles Para Llevar [Pdf]
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Italian to Go [Pdf]
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Japanese to Go [Pdf]
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Portuguese to Go [Pdf]
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Russian to Go [Pdf]
This is a traveler's pocket phrase guide. It includes hundreds of essential words and phrases for every situation. Keep it with you so it will help you getting around town.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Living Language: Easy English Vocabulary [Pdf]
These are 14 lessons to help you learn hundreds of useful words, phrases, and phrasal verbs in English. There are also audio files available for the following lessons: Lesson 12: Around the HouseLesson 13: Activities and InterestsLesson...
Other
Cal Earth the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture
Founded and directed by the internationally renowned architect and author Nader Khalili, this institute works to create homes from the earth using such materials as sand, clay, and dirt. Its mission is to create tree-less places for...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Rooftop Gardens: Are They a Cool Idea?
Around the world, rooftops are being transformed into living green expanses. Besides beauty, rooftop gardens have a number of advantages, including growing food and taking carbon dioxide out of the air while releasing breathable oxygen....
Other
International Committee for Egyptology: The Global Egyptian Museum
The Global Egyptian Museum is an ambitious, long-term project that intends to eventually gather digitized versions of artifacts from Egyptian history that are housed in museums around the world. This amounts to 850 collections and 69...
Other
Minecraft Edu
Created by teachers for classroom use and officially supported by Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, MinecraftEdu contains a set of powerful yet simple tools to fine-tune the Minecraft experience for learning. Teachers in over 40...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: The Best Place
Second graders explore different types of houses. They study the differences between a house and a home through various texts and learn that a home doesn't have to be a physical place. Students consider how children in various parts of...
A&E Television
History.com: 9 Lucky New Year's Food Traditions
Champagne, noise makers and confetti are all New Year's Eve staples. But, in some parts of the country and the world, so are black-eyed peas, lentils, grapes and pickled herring. Hailing from the Low Country of South Carolina to Japanese...