Curated OER
Mariposas
Students examine how animals use camouflage for survival. In this investigative lesson students define vocabulary words and see how it is the environment that controls which adaptations will help in survival.
Curated OER
Caterpillar Camouflage
Students list animals, plant parts, and reasons for caterpillars to camouflage themselves. For this animal and plant adaptations lesson plan, students also play a game where they use colors as camouflage.
Curated OER
Post-Cold War Europe
In this online interactive world history worksheet, students answer 20 matching questions regarding post-Cold War Europe. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Living on a Cotton Farm: Mexican Americans Life In Texas
Seventh graders are introduced to the processes of cotton farming in the early 20th century. In groups, they examine the role of Mexican Americans on the farms and the impact of a boom and bust economy on cotton. They identify the...
Curated OER
Yulia Tymoshenko
For this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Yulia Tymoshenko and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches,...
Curated OER
Lowell and the Factory System
Students examine the efforts of early American manufacturers to implement the factory system on a large-scale in the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. They examine the idealistic goals of the industrialists who financed and built the...
Curated OER
The Customer Service Chain
Students identify and interpret the importance of customer service.
Then they identify the concept of customer chain and the meaning of the quality paradigm. Students also identify and define the role of quality in competitiveness and...
Curated OER
Private Sector Enticing Public into Final Frontier
Learners study entrepreneurship in space. In this space science instructional activity, students discuss an article provided and explain why their senses are important to finding opportunities. Learners list three possible opportunities...
Curated OER
Minerals, Crystals, and Gems
Students discover the relationships between minerals, crystals and gems. They bring in rocks that they find at home, in the schoolyard, etc. and examine them and attempt to identify them. They set up a classroom exhibit that includes all...
Curated OER
RUNAWAY JOURNEYS MIGRATION
Students analyze the influences on urban life in the early and late 19th century, different economic, cultural, and social characteristics of slavery after 1800, the rise of racial hostility, and the ending of the Atlantic slave trade.
Curated OER
Lesson 3. No One Spared
Eleventh graders, in groups, explore the devastation that World War I inflicted on millions of people around the world. They write a first-hand account of the impact of World war I.
Curated OER
Local and Global Sustainability Unit
Students examine the characteristics that define a sustainable community at the local and global level. They create and prioritize a list of traits, read and discuss a magazine article, and create a poster.
Curated OER
Classroom Content
Students examine the roles that scientists and government agencies play in protecting citizens from commercially produced chemicals. They watch a video, conduct Internet research, and prepare a media presentation.
Curated OER
Evolution of Biotechnology Timeline
Students explore how present biotechnology has evolved. They create a timeline is included referencing major scientists and major events in history which have led to our current understanding and use. A teacher time line is included.
Curated OER
Post- Modernism
Students participate in a lesson that investigates post-modernism in American literature. They conduct the lesson with the help of reading "America" by Ginsberg to create context. Then students define the genre and the culture that has...
Curated OER
Socials Word Search Puzzle
In this language arts activity, students study 32 words in a word bank, then locate them in a word search puzzle. There is no apparent connection between the words and the meaning of the title is not known. Note: Several words in the...
Curated OER
Archaeological Study
Students analyze the difference between archaeology and anthropology while studying the evolution of different products. In this archaeology and anthropology lesson, students trace the progression of a certain tool or product and come up...
Curated OER
Chapter 16 – The 1920s
In this 1920's America worksheet, students read assigned textbook pages about the decade and respond to 47 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Thomas Jefferson
In this online interactive history worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about the accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson . Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
Curated OER
Slit the Width
Students calculate the circumference and diameter of a circle. For this geometry lesson, students construct a circle and calculate the distance of different sizes of circles. They define the relationship between the diameter and the...
Curated OER
Bill Gates
In this Bill Gates worksheet, students read about the life of the businessman, then complete a variety of comprehension activities. An answer key is included.
Curated OER
Change: Just a Matter of Time
Students analyze the Declaration of Independence and primary sources to explain civil rights. Then, students write a Declaration of Change to express the grievances of African Americans, and their desire to participate fully in the...
Curated OER
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Young scholars use events of the time to illustrate the significance of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March.
Curated OER
Presentation of Pilgrims
Learners are given a category to research (clothes, life before the New World, the voyage, etc.) about Pilgrim life. s Students, in groups, create presentations using software program such as PowerPoint.