+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sharing Beauty Through Song

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars perform a song for their school community. In this music lesson, students sing the philanthropic song See Me Beautiful by Red Grammar and reflect upon the lyrics. Young scholars perform the song for their school community.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Poetry Pals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create the components for a slideshow featuring their own poetry, illustrations, and music. This lesson uses auditory, visual and kinesthetic (signing and clapping) learning styles.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Personal Patriots

For Teachers 1st
First graders review the Pledge of Allegiance and symbols of America. Students discuss the sequence used to say the Pledge of Allegiance. They practice reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Students view symbols of things they know and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Que Llueva! It's Raining, It's Pouring!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn to sing a song in another language.  In this music instructional activity, students learn a song about rain in English and Spanish.  Students listen to the song Que Llueva in Spanish and It's Raining, It's Pouring in...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Transportation Unit

For Teachers K
Students maintain a journal and write about various types of transportation.  In this transportation instructional activity, students write using flash cards to describe vehicles. Students listen to stories and sing a song...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animal Alphabet Book

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify each letter of the alphabet. They listen as the teacher reads an animal alphabet picture book. Students listen to the alphabet song. They create their own movements for the alphabet song. Students are asked to name...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Who Fed the Chickens?

For Teachers K
Students use the Ella Jenkins' song "Who Fed the Chickens?" to study the pronouns I, you, we, she, he, and they. After singing the song a few times, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain practice with pronouns, and...
+
Interactive
Curated OER

House and Furniture

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this house and furniture learning exercise, students fill in the blanks to a song about a house and answer yes or no questions about names of furniture. Students complete 21 problems total.
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Writing Strategies: A Writer's Notebook

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this writing worksheet, students read 12 strategies for keeping a writer's notebook. Worksheet is designed to be signed by student and parent when completed.
+
Lesson Plan
Japan Society

Akutagawa Ryunosuke and the Taisho Modernists

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Japan's Taisho Period was a time when authors like Akutagawa and other Japanese modernists began to experiment with point of view and literary form, making the literature produced during this time period a natural choice for teaching...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Easter Sunday

For Students 5th - 10th
All questions in this Easter Sunday worksheet involve the religious significance of the holiday. Students complete twelve activities such as phrase matching, fill in the blanks, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Conventions - Punctuation Research

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Study unusual punctuation marks in this punctuation lesson. Young grammarians work in small groups to research one of the unusual punctuation marks (semi-colon, colon, dash, comma, ellipses, or quotation marks) and discuss how the mark...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dance, Dance, Dance

For Teachers K - 2nd
Use dance and song to help your charges in adding whole numbers to 10. In this adding to 10 instructional activity, learners become the manipulatives as you add them.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dalai Lama Peace and Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the Dalai Lama teachings on peaceful conflict resolution. They discuss how actions and words affect others. Students sing action songs about peace. They create a stick puppet to enhance discussions about conflict...
+
Lesson Plan
University of Northern Iowa

Additional Folklife Information

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Use a packet packed with ideas for how to celebrate the traditions of your country, state, community, and pupils's families. Suggestions for how to draw on oral and material traditions, customs, beliefs, music, and stories all find a...
+
Organizer
Curated OER

Britney Spears: Famous People, ELL Assignment

For Students 7th - Higher Ed
If you teach English learners and want a thorough assignment that addresses reading and listening comprehension, speaking skills, vocabulary acquisition, and more, a high-interest content worksheet on Britney Spears may be useful. It...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this literature worksheet, students read the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli and then answer ten comprehension questions about the novel.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

6-8 Meter Madness

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students identify time signatures, the down beat, and begin to understand conducting patterns. In this meter patterns lesson, students identify the signs for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 and play an excerpt from a song. Students use tennis balls to...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Cat Ate My Apple

For Teachers K - 1st
Students recognize the phoneme for the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through a variety of activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter...
+
Worksheet
Curated OER

Spectacular Speeches

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, learners answer the 6 questions with the help of the Internet websites with the focus upon famous speeches.
+
Writing
DC Vote

One Kid, One Vote

For Students 7th - 11th Standards
Learn about why the citizens of Washington, D.C. feel unrepresented in Congress with an article about D.C voting rights. Individuals read about the movement toward congressional representation in Washington, D.C., before answering...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Understanding History, Religion, and Politics in Jerusalem and Beyond

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the reasons behind the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Exploring multiple perspectives, they discuss the concepts of peoples' rights and justice in the area. They practice applying conflict resolution principles as well.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's Being Done?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of animal welfare. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine legislation that supports animals in their state as well as the role of the  American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals....
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oh Say Can You See?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover the meaning of patriotism through literature, songs, and poetry. They also identify patriotic symbols and activities such as the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Star Spangled Banner, the bald eagle, and monuments.