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Curated OER

Trail of the Cougar

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine cougar behavior, habitat, social organization, efforts to support their survival and the threats to it. They create posters to present information about cougars.
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Curated OER

The Iceman 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and analyze the Iceman found in Europe with all of his organs preserved along with his personal artifacts. Students identify then about North Native Americans and write an essay defining their differences.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Slavery in America at the Time of the Civil War

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create simple html pages as a vehicle for presenting the Inspiration web.  In this American History instructional activity, 8th graders research slavery in the United States. 
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Curated OER

Wildlife Conservation (Senior, Science)

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore wildlife and the diversity that makes up the living part of the planet Earth. The exploration part of the assignment is done on the Internet using selected web sites.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Constitution and The Bill of Rights

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Studnets learn about The Constitution and The Bill of Rights through a series on Internet pages that include such things as the framers, court cases and games.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat, "Trail of Tears"

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study Fulton and his Steamboat, the "Trail of Tears," the Oregon Trail, the Transcontinental Railroad and the Pony Express in this series of lessons.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Follow One Step Directions From Peers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice taking directions from their peers during group activities. With teachers, they practice the directions and then gradually start practicing with their mainstream friends. They are given marks on a chart noting how they...
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Curated OER

Sow the Seeds of Victory!

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use the National Archives and Records Administration's records to research the history of the U.S. Food Administation.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

D-Day Message from General Eisenhower to General Marshall

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students use documents in the National Archives of the United States to evaluate the effectiveness of D-Day.
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Lesson Plan
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Telegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research Senator Joseph McCarthy's February 9, 1950 speech, given at Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he claimed more than 200 State Department employees were members of the Communist Party.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Controlling Nuclear Weapons: Debating the Non-proliferation Treaty

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students brainstorm about their prior knowledge of nuclear weapons and answer questions related to nuclear weapons based upon this brainstorming.
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What We Leave Behind

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars analyze primary source documents from the 1830's. They examine how records, memoirs and artifacts preserve history and discuss what should be placed in a time capsule for future generations.
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Curated OER

What Is CLIVAR and EPIC?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners conduct Internet research to analyze climatic conditions. They answer questions by conducting Internet research about CLIVAR and EPIC and write an essay about why climate research is an international issue.
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Curated OER

ESOL Health and Nurtition

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students brainstorm a list of vocabulary necessary to request a doctor's appointment and the importance of having and keeping an appointment to see a doctor. They work with partners and role play patient requesting an appointment...
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Curated OER

Language Arts: A Hoe-Down Wedding Invitation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write wedding invitations for the fairy tale, Bubba, the Cowboy Prince. Once they assess the components of the original Cinderella story, they compare and contrast it with the fractured fairy tale. Students decorate their...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Active Transport

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this active transport worksheet, learners review the cellular process of active transport including the structures and functions of the cell organelles involved. This worksheet has 28 fill in the blank statements.
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Professional Doc
Austin Independent School District

Austin Independent School District: Independent Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
A guide explaining the importance of Independent Reading and providing several strategies students can use to increase comprehension while reading independently. Strategies include Reader's Response Journals, Quick Conferences,...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used as a response to informational texts. Students will write two topics from their informational text as a during or post-reading activity. Under each topic, students will list similarities and differences...
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when students complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Compare and Contrast

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify similarities and differences to compare and contrast objects and stories. Lessons are based on the provided text "My Brother and I"...
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Reader Response Quest. To Focus and Reflect on Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Daily Teaching Tools provides nineteen reading response prompts for fiction and six reading response prompts for nonfiction. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
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Other

Modern World History: African Response to the Scramble for Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
African leaders responded in diverse ways to European colonization. Armed resistance, trade embargos, and forming alliances with European powers are a few methods. Read the example of one African state (Ethiopia) that retained their...
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Handout
Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Fordham University provides the first Declaration in modern times which Jefferson read and used as a model for writing the Declaration of Independence - the Dutch Revolution encouraged the Continental Congress to act. Read...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The First Flag [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"The First Flag" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about the making of the first American flag in time for the first Independence Day. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence...