Curated OER
Be a Sourceerer's Apprentice
Students examine and discuss various primary and secondary sources. They bring in an example of a primary source, explain how it is a primary source, and complete a worksheet about interviewing a primary source.
Curated OER
Japanese Society
Students conduct research into the life of being a person who is Japanese. The activity uses essential questions in order to guide the research. Classroom activities are used to encourage discussion.
Curated OER
Michigan's Lumbering history: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Fourth graders explore lumbering in Michigan. For this lumbering lesson, 4th graders examine the life of a modern day lumberjack and how technology can interfere with natural ecology. Students create a list of products from...
Tech4Learning
Tech4 Learning: Creative Educator: Character Scrapbook
When we read novels, authors provide details about the main character through descriptive sentences, events that directly involve the character, and what other characters think and say about the main character. To show what you know...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Scrapbook Book Report
After reading independently a novel or biography, students in this creative writing activity demonstrate their understanding of characterization and point of view by creating the main character's personal scrapbook.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Environmental Issues Scrapbook and Podcast
Over the duration of a semester students will collect newspaper and magazine articles related to environmental issues. Students will compose a scrapbook of articles. Students will choose two topics to record and share with the class.This...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Wacky Geography Scrapbook
Inspired by Barry Lane's book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports, in this cross-curricular lesson students learn how to summarize properly.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Digital Scrapbook: Symbols in the Scarlet Letter
Students will be given a list of symbols from the novel and then be asked to photograph images they think represent those symbols.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Digital Notebook to Visualize Thematic Links
Young scholars will work in groups of two or three to produce two pages of a digital scrapbook covering a thematic element from Macbeth. The pages will then be assembled into a visual review of the play's themes and character motivations...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Days of Our Medieval Lives
This project is designed for a class on block scheduling with class times ranging from 60-96 minutes. Middle schoolers will be assigned a character in feudal society. Through this character, students will immerse themselves in medieval...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Constitution Lives
As part of the study of the Constitution, students will do research on and create a Constitutional scrapbook and multimedia presentation on the Bill of Rights. Students will use various media print resources as well as the Internet to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Ballistic Statistics!
Students will collect examples of various statistical instruments and form an electronic scrapbook. These materials will be gathered from electronic sources in addition to periodicals and other print resources.