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Curated OER

Soak in the Fun with Rainy Day Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Rain-themed crafts and activities that will engage and enthrall little learners.
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Lesson Plan
Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Angles on Kandinsky

For Teachers 4th
Not only is Wassily Kandinsky fun to say, his art contains tons of angles. Learners discuss Kandinsky's music-inspired abstract art and four types of angles. They search one of his paintings for obtuse, right, straight, and acute angles,...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Mask Symmetry

For Teachers 2nd
When you engage learners in creating symmetrical objects you are also building their vocabulary and math sense. Kids discuss key words such as, asymmetrical, symmetrical, balance, tint, and shade. They use these elements of design to...
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Railroad Tracks

For Teachers 5th
Ahhh the vanishing point! Sounds ominous, but it's not. Fifth graders analyze the use of perspective in Renaissance art. They practice using linear perspective to draw railroad tracks that seem to go on forever. Tip: Make this...
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AMCO

Whimsical Figures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Clay is a wonderful and expressive medium for learners of any age. Kids get creative as they make whimsical figures out of clay. A hyperlinked materials list, images of each step in the process, and helpful tips makes this a great art...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Practice: Using While Loops

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Test your knowledge of loops with this short online quiz about using the while statement in JavaScript code. Get five questions correct in a row and you're done!
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Fed's Role in Making and Setting Monetary Policy: Part 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
How does the Federal Open Market Committee work to formulate the nation's monetary policy in the United States? As the second segment of a lesson on the role of the Fed in setting monetary policy, class members will learn about open...
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Lesson Plan
National Gallery of Canada

Make a Pinhole Camera

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Introduce your class to photography by asking them to construct their own pinhole cameras. After putting together their own devices, pupils take and develop pictures and analyze the results. The plan provides step-by-step instructions...
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TPS Journal

Sourcing a Document: The First Thanksgiving

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
How reliable is a painting of the first Thanksgiving if it was created 300 years after the fact? Learners assess the validity of a primary source image to determine what it can actually reveal about this event. 
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Nebraska Department of Education

Activities for Numbers

For Teachers K - 10th
Looking for ideas for teaching numbers to your Spanish class? Try out one or all of these 16 activity ideas! 
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Dick Blick Art Materials

Ball Point Engravings

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Turn simple pencil sketches into colorful engravings. After first creating hand-drawn pictures, young artists then trace over them will ball point pens, etching the images into cold press illustration boards, before rubbing...
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Library of Congress

Determining Point of View: Paul Revere and the Boston Massacre

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
If you're teaching point of view, this is the lesson for you! First, decipher the writer's point of view from a primary resource, then compare and contrast the primary source with a secondary source to explore the Paul Revere's...
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E Reading Worksheets

Tone Worksheet 5

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A speaker's attitude toward his or her subject matter determines the tone of a piece of literature. Interpret the tone of four different poems, as well as their meanings, with supporting textual details.
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Curated OER

Forsyth County Architecture

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What features mark a building as belonging to a particular culture, time, and place? Class members investigate the architectural movements represented in structures built in Forsyth County, North Carolina from 1880-1980 by examining...
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Worksheet
Math Wire

SnowDaySnowDaySnowDaySnowDay...

For Teachers 6th - 8th
How many times can you cheer about a snow day before you get to the 100th letter? Find out with a creative word problem that challenges young mathematicians to determine what the 100th letter will be in a sequence of letters.
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Lesson Plan
Cornell University

Building a Compound Light Microscope

For Students 9th - 12th
What better way to learn how to use a microscope than building your own? A lab investigation has scholars use lenses from magnifying glasses and sheets of cork to design their own compound microscopes. They calculate focal length...
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Handout
University of Virginia

Illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Historical illustrations reveal more than what they are meant to portray. After reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, high schoolers view a series of illustrations, movie posters, photographs, and book covers that exemplify...
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Digital Writing and Research Lab's – Lesson Plans

Teaching Close Reading through Short Composition/Revision

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This activity may have writers evaluate short compositions, but their subjects are quite tall: great Americans. Pupils read one another's compositions and closely examine how specific phrases and diction contribute to shaping American...
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Activity
Library of Congress

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Fugitive Slave Act

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
From the time of its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin has been controversial. To better understand the debate, class members first examine a broadside decrying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and then two newspaper reviews of the...
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Unit Plan
Jazz Academy

Let Freedom Swing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Three lessons in the Let Freedom Swing concert tour resource guide packed with information, materials, and activities that provide the context for any study of American history.
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Civil War Photographs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
One of the first photographed images of the Civil War give historians a glimpse of the realities of war. By viewing images from the war—including pictures of those killed in the bloodiest battles—learners experience the war's impact...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

What Do You Know About PaleontOLogy?

For Students 6th - 12th
Believe it or not, some dinosaurs are not extinct. Discover this and other interesting facts about dinosaurs in a 10-question online quiz. As individuals answer questions, the resource provides them with feedback and additional facts...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using the Verb 'would'

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students review how to interpret the verb would and tell whether four sentences mean willingness, refusal or a request. Students also make contractions in five additional sentences.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Must Not vs. Don't Have to

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar worksheet, students write fifteen complete sentences from a variety of prompts of things one must do and other things one does not have to do.

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