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Exploratorium

Cellular Soap Opera - Soap Films Can Behave Like Membranes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Soap, suds, and cell membranes. Pupils create a model of a cell membrane by using soap films. They experiment with trying to pass different objects through the film without popping it. Using a tube, they create a passageway through the...
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Lesson Plan
Serendip

Soap Opera Genetics – Genetics to Resolve Family Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Did she cheat on her husband? Did the hospital switch the babies? Should they have children? As much as this sounds like the plot for a soap opera, all of these questions fit into a single lesson on genetics. Scholars read about three...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Soap Operas

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine American culture through research on various soap opera websites. They access a soap opera website, participate in a chat group, evaluate the contents of the website, and write a summary of a character and plot.
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Curated OER

Soap Opera Unit of Work: KS4

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view an episode of "Eastenders." They look at how the programme is structured in terms of individual scenes. Students view the opening of the soap and the significane of the theme music. They look at the characters and trace the...
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PPT
Curated OER

The Tudors: Who, What, When and Why

For Teachers 6th - 8th
It may sound like the making of a daytime soap opera, but it isn't. It is a timeline that describes the many wives, struggles, kings, queens, and explorers that made up the Tudor Dynasty. You can click on the timeline to progress through...
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Curated OER

Don't Touch That Dial!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the affects, both positive and negative, that television has had on society in the past half-century. They read the article "Inside the Soap Opera of Television's Early Days."
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Curated OER

Story Time

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders watch soap operas online.  In this English lesson, 9th graders explore the story elements of the soap opera.  Students write a journal on their own interpretations of characters. 
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Curated OER

Mythological Soaps

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology. In groups, they use this information to participate in skits as they role-play the gods and goddesses. To end the lesson, they draw their own caricature of their...
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Activated Story Theatre

Orpheus- A Greek Myth: Reader's Theatre Script

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Is this any way to treat a Greek Myth? By all means, turn the tale of Orpheus into a reader's theatre exercise.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Interactions of Living Things

For Students 6th - 8th
Is it a producer, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, or decomposer? Different relationships among organisms are explored here. It is a simple, multiple choice assignment. Use it as a quick warm-up or quiz.
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Curated OER

Disasters (Natural & Man-made)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars chose a natural or man-made disaster, such as a tornado or an oil spill, to research using the assigned web sites. They choose a presentation type from a list which includes poetry, radio broadcasts, and safety brochures,...
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Curated OER

Pride and Prejudice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your class recognize classic literature with universal themes. They will demonstrate their familiarity with Pride and Prejudice by updating a selected scene from it to the 21st century. Tip: Bring in a modern movie clip that shows...
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PPT
Curated OER

Great Depression: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Add this presentation to your unit on the Great Depression as a strong informational supplement. With clear learning objectives, details on the 1929 stock market crash, and the effects of the Great Depression (though it's spelled...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Worksheet-Gustar and Similar Verbs

For Students 8th - 9th
This quick practice is perfect for your beginning Spanish speakers. There's a short section dedicated to object pronouns and another one for simple -ar and -ir verb conjugations.
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Learn NC

A Christmas Carol Chronology

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Which comes first? The Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, or Future? What clues can readers use to establish the chronology of A Christmas Carol? The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Marley, and Tiny Tim provides the text for an activity that...
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Worksheet
Palomar College

Making Yes/No Questions in the Present Tense

For Students 7th - 12th
Does your class need some practice with writing yes or no questions in the present tense? This worksheet offers learners some choice as they pair activities with subjects to form questions. Pupils also write a quick response to each...
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Simon & Schuster

Curriculum Guide: The Scarlet Letter

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
The Scarlet Letter may be a classic, but keeping high schoolers engaged in the reading of Hawthorne's vocabulary, syntax, imagery, and historical references presents it own set of challenges. Here's a guide that offers readers...
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Teach with Movies

Teaching Students to Write a Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Encourage narrative writing with a clever exercise. Class members watch episodes from movies and describe what happened to a character, including details about the setting, plot, and characters. Writers then craft a narrative about a...
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Shmoop

ELA - Literacy.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Do your pupils know what a primary source is? How about a secondary source? Provide them with the information here about different types of documents and then test their knowledge with a brief quiz. The quiz is made up of two documents....
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Organizer
Curated OER

Total English

For Students 4th - 6th
In this using prefer learning exercise, learners rewrite sentences using prefer, ask personal preference questions and write responses using prefer. Students write sixteen short answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Nouns Used Correctly

For Students 8th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students change any incorrect underlined words to their correct forms on the lines provided in twenty sentences. Students place a c in the blank if the underlined word or words are used correctly.
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Worksheet
Chomp Chomp

Word Choice - Exercise 12: To, Too, and Two

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A twenty-question worksheet provides practice using the commonly confused to, too, and two. Meet Common Core standards with the help of this resource in your fourth grade classroom. Use as homework or an assessment.
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

Teaching Mythology Lessons in a Creative Way

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The key to understanding mythology can lie in finding lesson plans that hook students on this fascinating part of history.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making a Case for Beginning Wigh Suprasegmental Features in Pronunciation

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore the ways in which voice quality and intonation can convey meaning.

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