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Curated OER

Comprehension

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify that comprehension is an essential component or reading and in order to be efficient and fluent readers. They interpret what they have read through various strategies. Finally, students use one of the strategies,...
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Curated OER

Sneaker Slap

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students develop agility while moving from the "ready position." students change directions efficiently in a game-like situation.
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Curated OER

Olympic Sprint Training

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work with a partner and observe and analyze their partner's form while running. They make recommendations from a list of eight cues to help improve both running speed and technique.
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Curated OER

The Thrill of Big-Wave Surfing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students go on a Wave Scavenger Hunt on the Internet.
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Curated OER

Ukiyo-e

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate and examine ukiyo-e, or Japanese woodblock prints, from the Edo period (1615-1868) in Japan and use this gained knowledge to compare Japanese culture to American societal trends.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Turn Reading into Watching a Movie!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice visualization by imagining what their favorite person looks like, what they are wearing and doing. They share their imaginings with a partner. Next, listen to a poem while visualizing. Finally, they read along as the...
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Curated OER

Being a Teenage Parent

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze their current daily schedule. They write about how their daily schedule would be different if they had a baby at this point in their lives. Students identify how their priorities and decisions would be affected if...
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Pulsating

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore how activity and lack of activity has an effect on a persons' heart rate. They receive instruction and practice in taking and recording their pulse rate. Students also incorporate a variety of music while taking...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

TOEFL Practice Test- Vocabulary #1

For Students Higher Ed
In this language arts learning exercise, students practice for the TOEFL test by answering 5 questions. Kids read the sentence that has one word surrounded by apostrophes. Students choose the word closest in meaning to this word....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: High Heels Shorten Women's Leg Muscles

For Students 5th - 10th
For this English worksheet, students read "High Heels Shorten Women's Leg Muscles," 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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Organizer
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Ingrid Betancourt Back in France

For Students 5th - 8th
In this ESL reading comprehension worksheet, learners read or listen to the passage, then complete a wide variety of warm-up activities, as well as before listening/reading, while listening/reading, after listening/reading, discussion,...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Study Doubts Aromatherapy's Effects

For Students 5th - 10th
For this English worksheet, students read "Study Doubts Aromatherapy's Effects," and then respond to 2 graphic organizers, 47 fill in the blanks, 7 short answers, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Movies Condone Drugs and Unsafe Sex

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English learning exercise, students read "Movies Condone Drugs and Unsafe Sex," 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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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Homeschooling Chronicles: Summertime Blues

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Homeschoolers may feel the onset of the summer time blues, but there are great ways to make learning fun.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Chemical Hair Relaxing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson we will be exploring the world of chemical relaxing. This lesson will serve as a basic guide to the process of using chemicals to permanently straighten the hair. Upon completion of this lesson, young scholars will be able...
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Unit Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Cuba and the United States: A New Chapter

For Students 9th - 10th
Current and relevant learning resource from Brown University in which students explore the changing relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, interpret political cartoons and monitor news media coverage of U.S.-Cuba relations over time....
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Stage Fright (And How to Overcome It)

For Students 9th - 10th
This video focuses on stage fright and how to overcome it. It discusses the Fight or Flight response and how it works in your body. He also discusses ways to overcome stage fright through practice and exercises to trick your brain to...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Quelling the Adrenaline Response: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand and be able to use basic techniques to reduce intensity of their own fight or flight reaction. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Quelling the Adrenaline Response."
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viscoelasticity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of viscoelasticity and some of the material behaviors of viscoelastic materials, including strain rate dependence, stress relaxation, creep, hysteresis and preconditioning. Viscoelastic material...