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Teach Engineering

Making Moon Craters

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Create an egg-citing study of energy. Pupils investigate the effect of height and mass on the overall amount of energy of a falling object. The fourth segment in a six-part series on energy uses a weighted egg falling from different...
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University of North Carolina

Word Choice

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Words matter, particularly in academic writing. Issues such as vague language, wordiness, and cliches make it difficult to get a point across. Part of a larger series to improve writing skills, the handout on word choice shows writers...
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EngageNY

Grade 11 ELA Module 1: Unit 2, Lesson 10

For Teachers 11th Standards
To write an essay or not to write an essay—that is the question! Scholars complete a mid-unit assessment based on their study of Hamlet. They write essays analyzing how Shakespeare develops Hamlet's character about other characters.
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EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: Small-Group Work to Learn More about the History of Wars in Vietnam

For Teachers 8th Standards
Scholars take a close look at "The Vietnam Wars." They answer questions and discuss in groups to conclude that the author respects the Vietnamese. They participate in a modified jigsaw discussion and end the exercise with a quick writing...
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NASA

Water Filtration Challenge

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Can the class think like the scientists on the International Space Station? Engineers design, test, collect data, and improve a water filtration device similar to a system found on the ISS. Participants use pH strips, optional...
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Livaudais-Baker English Classroom

Kindred Unit Project

For Students 11th Standards
To conclude a unit study of Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, groups use MovieMaker or the class website to publish an original story about slavery in America. The detailed project assignment sheet includes a list of possible topics,...
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K20 LEARN

Speak Your Truth: Techniques in Spoken Word Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of Spoken Word Poetry, class members watch a series of performance videos and note where poets get their ideas and the performance techniques used by the poets. Pupils then draft and share their poems.
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Curated OER

Rain Forest Research

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the Rain Forest. In this research lesson plan, 2nd graders go online to gather information about Rain Forest animals. Students print and use the information to write about the many parts of the Rain Forest....
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Curated OER

Life Skills Lesson Plans

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Sometimes the most important things teachers can teach their students are life skills.
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Curated OER

Estimation and Your TV Diet

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop estimation skills by using real life situations. In this estimation lesson students collect data about their television watching habits. They make hypothesis about the number of hours they watch, how many commercials,...
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Curated OER

Your Story

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars discover ways to learn about the past. In this writing activity students use a writing web to organize their ideas about how we learn about the past. The young scholars then start a time capsule about their lives.  
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Curated OER

Organizing Life

For Students 7th - 12th
For this taxonomy worksheet, students learn about Linnaeus' system for classifying living things. Students complete 2 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions based on what they read.
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Curated OER

Exploration of Utopias and Dystopias

For Teachers 11th Standards
If you are considering adding or expanding a unit on utopian and dystopian literature you simply must check out this fabulous resource. Packed with plans, activities, project-based and 21st century learning opportunities, the unit uses a...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.
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Iowa Department of Education

Iowa’s Social-Emotional Learning Competencies

For Teachers K - 12th
Whether new to social-emotion learning, or familiar with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning competencies, this packet is a must-have. The resource contains detailed information about the purpose of the...
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Curated OER

Organization 1: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize that organizing things can make it easier to find things later.
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Curated OER

Organization: Look at What I Organized!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore organization by participating in an object sorting activity. For this indexing lesson, students examine their classroom and identify materials that should be organized in order to make the room more efficient. Students...
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Curated OER

Class, At-ten-tion!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners explore alphabetical and chronological organization through geography. For this lesson on ancient India, students use computers to create and publish autobiographical time lines to illustrate important events in their lives....
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Curated OER

Just the Facts, Ma'am

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars use tables of content, chapter titles, and key words as a strategy for organizing non-fiction information. They write a paragraph with a partner using information from a graphic organizer.
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Curated OER

Organizing Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read given information and identify the main ideas and specific detail of the story. In groups, they read a historical title and create a "book talk" for each one, summarizing the story. In addition, students create a...
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Curated OER

Geography for Life: Using Five Skills

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students use the five skills of geography to reflect on a favorite learning activity. They consider if the activity had all five skills and if it didn't what could have been done to include those that weren't in it. The five skills are...
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Curated OER

Balanced Literacy Project

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders review all the materials they've studied about the rain forest and begin to organize their research paper by choosing a topic. They begin by rereading the introductory book, "The Great Kapok Tree," by Lynne Cherry as well...
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Curated OER

Civics

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study community organizations and learn about the types of power used to create change. In this community study instructional activity, students learn about the three sectors at work in a community, public, non profit, and...
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Curated OER

Maps and Lines

For Students 5th
In these organizing data worksheets, 5th graders complete four worksheets of activities that help them learn maps, graphs, and lines. Students then study images of maps, lines, and graphs.

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