Curated OER
Life in Ancient India
Students study Ancient India and the vocabulary, language, and everyday life associated with India. They build a time capsule representing their own world for future civilizations to discover. They create labels for each item, giving a...
Curated OER
How to keep a timecard in Excel
Students fill out a timecard of family activities in Microsoft Excel. In this Excel lesson plan, students use the program to fill in times they do various activities with their families.
Curated OER
Get Ready to Safely Transport
Fourth graders complete multi-curricular activities to learn about trucks and transportation. In this transportation lesson, 4th graders answer questions about specifics for the trucking industry including safety questions and...
Curated OER
Geometric Shapes at the OK Corral
Students explore geometry by utilizing computer software. In this shape identification activity, students define several geometric shapes by the characteristics that classify them. Students draw and cut out geometric shapes using their...
Curated OER
Work and Play
In this ESL work and play worksheet, students read a list of 24 activities. Students divide them into 2 lists with the heading of "Work" or "Play."
Curated OER
The Three R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Students understand conservation terms. In this three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) lesson, students understand the importance of preserving a clean world and reducing waste. Students sing a song which show importance of 3R's.
Curated OER
Natural Resource Management Course Outline
Gain skills in ecosystem evaluation including chemical, biological, and physical qualities. Students write a report on a local ecosystem.
Curated OER
Landfills: A Solid Waste Management Plan
Middle schoolers are able to list the types of household waste that they produce daily. They are able to describe some other types of waste that are produced by industry or agriculture to help maintain their lifestyles. Students are...
Curated OER
Different Tribes, Different Times
Second graders study the different types of Native American culture groups. They, in groups, visit four different work stations to examine various culture groups and complete a Corn Cycle worksheet.
Curated OER
Beautiful Butterflies - Activity Centers
Students describe habitats within ecosystems, describe how organisms modify environment to meet their needs, and identify characteristics for butterfly survival. In this butterfly lesson plan, students explore all aspects of the...
Curated OER
Harvesting the New World: Changing Land Uses and Contact Between Cultures in Colonial Times
Ninth graders differentiate the Native American and European values. For this world history lesson, 9th graders define colonialism in their own words. They study the effects of epidemics and other diseases to Native American populations.
Curated OER
Using Infinitives
Infinitives have multiple purposes. Introduce your Spanish class to the variety of ways to use infinitives other than simply conjugating them. Use the material and presentation included here to inspire and inform a lesson on infinitives....
Curated OER
Industrial Waste Management / Enforcement
Students discover the role of industrial waste enforcement units in the wastewater treatment process. They demonstrate active listening skills and produce a formal letter of thanks that addresses 3 points of information gained from the...
Curated OER
Budgeting & Checking Activity
Fifth graders role play office managers and prepare budgets for three given areas.
Curated OER
WorldWatcher Activity: Using Data to Investigate Issues and Solutions
Students use the WorldWatcher program to identify the issues affecting their country they have been using for these activities. In groups, they identify each issue and identify the solution or develop their own. They present their...
Curated OER
Using Active Learning to Reinforce Mathematics
Students predict, then measure how far a bug can travel on a "course" over a specified amount of time, then construct graphs based on the data they acquire.
Curated OER
Music Time
Students explore several different music-related jobs by role playing activities that portray each job. In this music careers lesson plan, students plan a performance where all of them have a specific music related job.
Curated OER
Managing or Meddling?
Students examine Bosnian and Herzegovinian society before and during American involvement, focusing on the successes in Brcko. They write a reflective essay considering the role of "helper countries" in foreign affairs.
Curated OER
Forests/Natural Resource Management II
Learners write about the importance of trees. In this natural resources lesson, students look at deforestation occurring across the globe and present what they learned to the class. As closure, all learners write a poem about the...
Curated OER
MANAGING THE SCHOOL FOREST
Students study how to plant a seedling, how to mulch the trees into the nursery bed, transplant seedlings to another site or school, and determine why we need to water and mulch trees.
Curated OER
Total English: ELL Activity
In this ELL activity, students fill in gaps in a conversation using words from a word box. Students also create a work schedule and try to arrange a meeting based on a given schedule.
Curated OER
Thermodynamics Problems for All of Us: Thermal Management
Pupils evaluate current literature on the Internet and in handouts about the energy considerations for the computer industry and calculate energy needs for real life problems. Working in groups, they present the problem they researched,...
Curated OER
Life During the Civil War for Women and Civilians
Students follow an overview of the American Civil War from a film, the text and/or teacher direct instruction. They create a timeline with a large map of the U.S. in the 1860's available for student reference as they do the spider activity.
Curated OER
Logistic Growth
Through the exploration of population growth of a bacteria population, high schoolers learn about and observe bacteria population over a 20 hour period. Students graph the population growth using a scatter plot and discuss its logistic...