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Interactive
Curated OER

Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this Thanksgiving reading comprehension worksheet, learners read "How The Turkey Got Its Name," then complete 4 comprehension questions. Page contains links to additional activities.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Picture Dictionary - Quiz 3

For Students 4th - 5th
In this picture dictionary worksheet, students test their vocabulary skills in a picture dictionary vocabulary worksheet. Students answer 20 exercises.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dictation: Health

For Teachers 4th - 6th
For this English dictation worksheet, students take dictation from a passage concerning health.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discussion Questions: Youth and Old Age

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this youth and old age discussion worksheet, students answer questions designed to stimulate their thinking about age.  Students discuss honoring the elderly and disabilities, among other ideas relating to elderly people.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Skeletal System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
  Students discuss the need for humans to have a skeletal system and what would happen if we did not have bones.  In this skeletal system lesson, students label each bone in the human skeletal system as a group, and then...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: EU OKs Mobile Phones on Planes

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "EU OKs Mobile Phones on Planes," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: New Laws to Ban iPods on NY Streets

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English activity, students read "New Laws to Ban iPods on NY Streets," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: 2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read "2005 was a Second Longer Than Usual," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: BBC Nets Best Net News Award

For Students 4th - 8th
In this English activity, learners read "BBC Nets Best Net News Award," and then respond to 30 fill in the blank, 25 short answer questions about the selection.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Question Words

For Students Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students focus on words used to create questions.  Students complete 19 fill in the blank and short answer questions using words that are commonly put into question form when asking about photographs.
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Activity
Curated OER

Old Telephone Books: A Recycling Journey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read about old telephone books are being recycled to make new objects and then answer short answer questions about it. In this recycling lesson plan, students also look into their books to find information.
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Balancing Mobiles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson plan, middle schoolers will apply mathematical, science, and engineering concepts to experiment with balancing levers. They will learn to classify types of levers to design and build a simplified mobile. Students will...
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users

For Students 9th - 10th
This MIT course focuses on the challenges faced by the designers of mobile communication devices. Students are challenged to solve the problems and develop the next generation of mobile communication devices.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Bedtime Mobile Craft

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create a bedtime mobile to discuss healthy sleeping habits with your students! Site includes instructions for making the mobile.
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Lesson Plan
British Library

British Library: Dickens's Great Expectations: Social Mobility

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will explore this theme of social mobility through a reading of extracts from Samuel Smiles's Self-Help (1859), the handbook that many young men in 19th-century Britain turned to in seeking advice as to how to better...
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Activity
Math Cats

Math Cats: Virtual Mobile

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about mobiles, the artwork of Alexander Calder and balance. Read about the topic and then play the mobile building game where you have to balance different sized elements.
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Create a Butterfly Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides information on Alexander Calder, the inventor of the kinetic sculpture known as the mobile, as well as detailed instructions on how to create your own butterfly mobile. Included are "Tips and Tricks" to making "a more...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Nature Mobile

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is a pre-k or lower elementary activity. Students take a nature walk, collect things and hang them on a mobile.
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Lesson Plan
Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Albright Knox Art Gallery: Kinetic Art Mobiles

For Teachers K - 1st
Alexander Calder invented two new kinds of sculpture: mobiles and stabiles. In The Cone, he combines elements of each-a stabile, or non-moving sculpture, connected to a mobile, or moving sculpture. In this instructional activity,...
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Website
The Newberry Library

Women on the Move: Gender and Mobility in American Culture, 1890 to 1950

For Students 9th - 10th
Newberry Library learning module uses primary source documents and literature to explore the influence of gender on social and physical mobility and the concept of freedom in American culture from 1890 - 1950.
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Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Mobile Killing Units

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Units)

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the role of the euphemistically-titled Einsatzgruppen as mobile killing units by the Nazis, including both where and how they were employed.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Trigonometry via Mobile Device

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the relationships between angles and side lengths in right triangles with the help of materials found in the classroom and a mobile device.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Build Your Own Mobile

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students creatively construct mobiles to balance oddly shaped objects while learning about the concept of the center of mass.

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