Curated OER
How To Use the Internet To Make Student Glossaries
Students use an internet dictionary to produce a glossary of words related to a particular subject area being studied. They choose the correct meaning of the word for their glossary, based on it's relationship to the subject matter being...
Curated OER
Researching Alternative Energy
Sixth graders investigate the concept of energy using a hypothetical story. The power goes out in their house and they no longer can play your videogames. Students must create your own alternative power source. This story sets the stage...
Curated OER
Expected Value
Students explore expected value, are introduced to the concept of varying payoffs, and have used a computer simulation of a "real world" example where expected value is used
Curated OER
Wind and The Airline
Fifth graders attempt to solve a problem related to an airline accident. The accident appears to be weather related. They analyze and research the effects of wind and turbulence in order to prevent future accidents.
Curated OER
Spaghetti Measure
Students receive a copy of a "Spaghetti Measure" task sheet along with the scoring rubric. Students preview the task and the rubric prior to starting the task. tudeThey determine the circumference of a circle of spaghetti that will...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Introduce Reading Connected Text
An exciting introduction to reading! The instructor writes a simple, one-line story on the board from literature, and the students learn to sound out the words.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sentence Scramblers
A great exercise to help students practice reading fluency by using sentence strips and games.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Building Toward Fluency
The purpose of this task is to promote certain addition strategies that will help students learn to fluently add and subtract within 20. Students will use a number line or magnetic cubes to solve addition problems. Students will be asked...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for Ell's
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Star and a Wish
In this lesson students will use the game "A Star and a Wish" to help develop better fluency in reading. After practicing the game as a whole group, students will be divided into pairs to continue playing the game and have the...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Reading Lesson Idea: Reading Fluency
This lesson plan has students practice two methods to become more fluent in silent reading.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Emergent Readers With and Emergent Reader
Students will sequence story events with the teacher and read an emergent reader in a guided setting. The chosen book, "Pilgrims and Wampanoag: Together They Were Better", has high use of sight words and high levels of picture support...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dividing Words Into Syllables
Students will develop reading fluency using vocabulary from the book Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears by Leo and Diane Dillon. Students will participate in reading the story using the reader's theatre strategy. After being introduced...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Hitting the Target Number
The purpose of this task is to help students develop flexible strategies for adding and subtracting within 20. Students will pick 5 number cards from pre-made cards labeled 1-10. Then, another student will pick a "target number" between...
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Other
Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.