Curated OER
Keep that Zip! Nutrients: Zinc, Iron, Protein
Middle schoolers explain the importance of zinc, iron and protein. For this biology lesson, students create a brochure containing information about the three nutrients. They share their brochure in class.
Curated OER
Outdoor Seed Sowing
First graders identify vegetables and flowers that can be grown from seed. For this seed sowing lesson, student learn the correct spacing and planting of various types of seeds. Students label plants.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Missing Comma Before a Question Tag
Rules and examples for using commas when writing a question tag at the end of a sentence.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma After Question Mark
This page explains how to puctuate a direct quotation that ends in a question mark or an explanation point. If the quote comes before the attributive tag, no comma is needed; if the attributive tag comes before the quote, a comma is...
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Tag Questions
An explanation and examples of a question tag and how it is structured. Links to additional information on positive and negative tag questions, answering tag questions, a tag question quiz, and more are available.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Commas in Dialogue, Tag Ques, Direct Address & Yes or No Responses
Find and use commas to set off dialogue, in tag questions, for direct address, and for yes-and-no responses.
PBS
Pbs: How to Use Commas for Yes, No, Tag Questions, and Direct Address
Models how to use commas with offset elements such as yes, no, or a tag question. Includes downloadable reference sheet, a short student exercise, and an answer key for the teacher.
Read Works
Read Works: Tag! You're Hit!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two boys who want to throw a birthday party for a friend. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Goodbye to Tag
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about one school that banned playing tag at recess. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Tag Questions Quiz
Choose the tag question to complete each of the ten sentences in this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.
Other
Crime Scene Investigation: Proper Tagging and Labeling of Evidence
What is the purpose of tagging and labeling items of evidence? What information belongs on the tag? These questions are answered in this concise but competent site.
Other
Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...
Read Works
Read Works: News Debate Out of Touch
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text debating the appropriateness of sports like touch football, soccer, and tag at recess. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Nanoos: Satellite Tracking [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, students will be introduced to satellite tracking data. This data allows students to track the movement of marine animals over time. By the end of the lesson plan, students will be able to answer questions related to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations
This lesson introduces the punctuation rules for including a quotation within a quotation. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow and provides review questions over the lesson's content.
Other
Book Units Teacher: Teaching Comma Rules
Lots of ideas for teaching Grade 5 students about commas. Includes an anchor chart showing the comma rules they need to understand, four videos, an idea for making a comma rules booklet, and links to additional resources.
Friends of Algonquin Park
The Science Behind Algonquin's Animals: Brook Trout
Learn about the Brook Trout's appearance, size, migration, food sources and breeding as well as the answers to other interesting research questions. Included is a video showing the capturing and marking of a Brook Trout and an...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Brief History of Graffiti
Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's raised...
Read Works
Read Works: How to Spy on Sharks
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists who use satellite tags to help them study different shark species. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab
The Smithsonian Learning Lab encourages the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials, more than a million images, recordings, and texts. Search results display pictures rather than lists to make it simpler for all users....
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
Curated OER
The Science Behind Algonquin's Animals: Brook Trout
Learn about the Brook Trout's appearance, size, migration, food sources and breeding as well as the answers to other interesting research questions. Included is a video showing the capturing and marking of a Brook Trout and an...