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Help inspire tween boys to keep reading all summer long. There's something for everyone on this list of books reviewed by StorySnoops.com!
Contributed By: Jenna McWilliams
Project-based learning at its finest! Students are offered alternate, creative avenues for making sense of source texts. Utilizes Twitter and microblogging in character to affect their understanding of the practices of literary interpretation and appropriation.
Contributed By: Joel Duffin
A library of over 110 java applets for interactive K-12 teaching and learning. Applets are organized into content strands and grade bands. Instructions, activities, and teacher guides are included.
Contributed By: Chris Frey
A large collection of valuable resources for teaching about the death penalty. Highlights of the collection include interactive maps, an article on the cost of the death penalty, a fact sheet on the death penalty, and an article on America’s views of the death penalty.
This game is a fun way for students to practice integer addition.
Unit of lesson plans, study guides, and assessments for various short stories written by Ernest Hemingway. Students will understand the effects of war when they listen to this true account of the Blitz on London by a survivor.
This semester of science focuses on a linear exploration of our universe. Students begin by exploring the history of astronomical thought, our current understanding of the universe, the structure of the solar system, and ending with a study of our home planet, Earth. For use in grades 6, 7, or 8 to meet astronomy and earth science standards; integration with mathematics, history, and technology.
This unit for grades 3-5 will help students collect, nurture, pre-write, revise and edit, and finally publish a personal narrative or memoir.
This unit introduces grade 2 students to magnets through a series of hands-on experiments.
This unit teaches a variety of literary devices and is aligned to the Common Core State Standards. It includes the following resources:
- Literary device video
- Literary device scavenger hunt
- Literature resource list
- Literary device glossary
This comprehensive unit integrates literature, critical thinking, and features Elie Wiesel's Night as a shared text. It is also aligned to California and Florida State Standards.
This resource collection presents a workshop for implementing the Teaching for Understanding and Understanding by Design approaches.
Students analyze characters from short stories they've read with this worksheet. In the Thought bubble, students write things that the character thinks/ thinks about. In the speech bubble, things the character says or talks about. In the arrows, places the character goes. In the heart, things the character cares about. In the "explosion bubble," things the character does. In the octagon, a physical description of the character. This unit provides students with the opportunity to observe the life cycle of butterflies and moths. Although the title implies that moths will be studied, no moth larvae are sent with the unit. Methods of collecting moths and moth larvae are suggested. Students will compare and contrast the similarities and differences in the body structures of butterflies and moths. Humane treatment of animals should be stressed throughout this unit.
Students will use concrete pictorial models to represent fractions and mixed numbers; relate symbols to the models; compare fractions including equivalent fractions and mixed numbers; and explain the comparison.
This collection is a full course of material in the form of a textbook. The textbook is provided by FHSST (Free High School Science Texts). FHSST is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners. The project was initiated by young South African scientists, and now brings together scientists from around the world who are willing to contribute to the writing of the books.
This unit will introduce Grade 6 students to the world of print journalism, including the research process and the basic structure of article writing. The experience may also motivate aspiring young journalists to become part of the Global Voices Junior Journalism program where students experience writing as a powerful tool to be active global citizens and change the world. Students may also be inspired to start a class or school newspaper that focuses on social issues that matter to youth, both locally and around the world. Based on a generous grant from the Hearst Foundation, Curriki worked with 6 distinguished professors to develop this course on integrating open educational resources into the classroom. The course is broken into 6 chapters that cover an introduction to OER, licensing, searching/finding OER, creating your own OER, using OER in the classroom and mixing and remixing with OER. The chapters can be used in sequence or independently.
This unit will introduce students to Native Americans. It will provide an overview of various Native American groups in different geographical locations across America. The unit will progress into an in-depth study of the Wampanoag Indian Tribe, including an examination of daily family life and how the tribe met their basic needs. Furthermore, the unit will cover the Wampanoag’s role in helping the Pilgrims and celebrating the first Thanksgiving. Students will understand that different Native American groups lived in different parts of the country, becoming familiar with their ways of life and family structure. Students will also learn how Native Americans met their basic needs (food, clothing, shelter) with hunting, growing crops, and building. In addition, students will understand contributions that the Native Americans made to our country. Finally, students will gain an appreciation for cultures other than their own.
Classroom plants introduces elementary students to the life cycle of plants through observing, growing, and caring for common plants under a variety of conditions. Opportunities are provided for plants to be grown from seeds, cuttings, and roots. This collection is available as downloadable PDFs, but portions of the content are found in wiki format (see WIKI Learning Experiences and Resources) which can be edited or built up with other materials on the same topic by members of the Curriki community.
Students will be exposed to the exceptional writing of Natalie Babbitt while reading the novel, Tuck Everlasting. Various activities will be provided to reach the needs of all learners, including gifted and RTI students. Students will work on comprehending texts while applying metacognition to their work through questioning. With interactive work between students in each text, children will gain a better understanding of the text and truly experience a more well rounded novel study. This project allows students to understand the value of reading, as well as gain a better understanding of a text through the application of question answer relationships. All too often students just read a text and really never delve in deep; however with this novel study students take their comprehension to the next level. Students will be exposed to new vocabulary, writing activities, character development, and questioning strategies. With a wide variety of activities to stimulate all learners, students will walk away with an abundant amount of skills to help them fine tune their reading abilities. A unit of materials to support the teaching and reading of the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The unit includes a suggested reading schedule and unit plan. pre-reading assignments and worksheets, during reading questions, graphic organizers and lesson plans, and after reading assessments and writing extensions.
This unit provides centers-based differentiated lesson plans that have been structured using brain research principles. In this unit you will find teacher tips to help with the transition to centers-based teaching. Each lesson within the unit comes with: a complete lesson Plan, a lesson presentation for Smart Boards (pdf provided as well), a student packet for recording and assessing student work, files with all teacher-made materials for centers activities, and answer key. This unit should be completed within six 90-minute block classes or twelve 45-minute classes.
NASA Kids' Club has educational games, engaging multimedia and visuals, and educational activities to cover K-4 students' developmental and learning abilities as addressed in national education standards in math, science and technology. The skills levels provide a natural progression through the site that allows users to find games that are best suited to their varying abilities. Developmentally appropriate content is based on national education standards and benchmarks per grade level. Content is written within the K-4 reading levels as determined by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score, a tool available in Microsoft Word.
A fun geometry problem that takes a little creativity to visualize. Students investigate the length of a crease that is formed when you fold a piece of paper corner to corner.
This course is intended to prepare high school sophomores for continued study in college preparatory work, often AP English Language or Literature. The course can be taught over one year on a 7-8 period day or one semester on a 4-period day (for which it was originally intended).
This curriculum is meant for students who have already progressed through some earth science classes. There are many lessons within the collection that can be pulled out and used separately from the curriculum as a whole.
A diverse collection of materials that help to illustrate and explain systems and events that occur here on earth, in our solar system, and the universe. Provided by Marshall Cavendish Publishing.
The Go For Broke National Education Center Digital Curriculum is a series of interactive, multimedia lesson plans that take advantage of new learning technologies. Using the Digital Curriculum, teachers can teach entire lessons via a computer and projector or interactive whiteboard. Using multimedia in the lessons engages students more than lessons that use static words and pictures, while making the lessons interactive allows students to become more actively involved in the learning process. The National Education Center will continue to evolve the Digital Curriculum to take advantage of the latest classroom technologies.
This module includes four lessons: Working with Fractions, Fraction Operations, From Fractions to Decimals and From Decimals to Fractions. All the lessons on Fractions are aimed at grades 5-6. Those students in grades 7-9 including students with disabilities, who are in need of more experience or practice can benefit from these lessons.
Join our young host as she interviews children's poet, Bobbi Katz. MEET ME AT THE CORNER is a series of kid-friendly video podcasts for children ages 7-13. This a dynamic, interactive site, which encourages individual expression and participation through video submissions from children worldwide. Through these video pod casts, the site creates a community of children who learn the art of self-expression and storytelling through video. The site is free of charge. MeetMeAtTheCorner.org currently offers more than 50 three-to four-minute episodes. Recent additions include interviews with famous artists and writers, trips to New York City, San Diego, and Colorado, and introductions to unusual hobbies. New trips are added every three weeks.
This is a collection of interactive lessons from a Grade 4 Math course developed by Winpossible - the course uses an innovative instruction format by combining an engaging animated character's visual and voice with Winpossible’s unique ChalkTalk™ technology (patent pending) in order to replicate the "classroom experience" for students.
This document serves as background information for those teachers who are new to teaching science, as well as for any teacher that feels he or she needs a little reminder about the goals and terminology of the scientific process. Curriki community members are encouraged to edit this resource to include their own expertise!
This poem will assist students in remembering the rules for regrouping with double-multi-digit numbers. It is colorful and lends itself to wall decor.
A high school probability and statistics unit on averages and variation.
Some of the documents that this member uses at the beginning of the year and an introduction to lab safety.
Our Changing Earth: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis is a 6th grade Science unit to teach students how these three events have changed and still change and shape our earth. This unit is inter-disciplinary covering math, science, language arts, and technology.
More than a high school chemistry lesson, this resource challenges students to apply science concepts, language skills, technical skills, and safety rules.
Several labs and activities, as well as notes, help students to develop the knowledge needed to complete the final project, the poster.
To help students understand the current U.S. and global economic crisis.
A lesson that helps learners take a closer look at their community in pictures and in words
This assignment and rubric are designed to help students complete an essay about an article. The teacher should select an appropriate article and use this assignment to help students respond to what they have read.
This four-unit course covers the basics of American government, the Constitution, and governments outside of the United States.
In this exercise, students work in small groups to voice and express opinions on current events.
These resources teach students about artists who invented new tools to explore topics they find interesting.
Getting students actively participating in learning is one teacher's strategy for teaching decimals.
This lesson walks students through a classic optimization problem involving building the maximum area of a triangle, expressed in terms of an angle. The lesson uses a worksheet in The Geometers Sketchpad.
This collection contains chapters of a textbook about rational functions for high school.
In this activity appropriate for elementary level listening and speaking classes, children role dice to govern how many times to practice their word or phrase.
This teacher uses her collection of materials to teach Sophocles' play Antigone to her 10th grade English class.
This is an activity for a class reading Othello to do to increase comprehension, work collaboratively, and actively engage in the play.
A teacher in Minnesota has created a unit on reading and understanding satirical literature.
One teacher shares her roadmaps and reading logs from the popular novel Holes by Louis Sachar. Fee's collections also include Holes vocabulary activities and materials for other great middle school books.
This teacher shares her week by week materials to scaffold reading and get students writing about Chinua Achebe's popular novel.
The unit includes key comprehension skills, such as Main Idea and Making Inferences. Each concept has a series of three lessons: Introduce, Reintroduce, and Build Mastery. There are also useful graphic organizers to go along with some lessons. This collection is shared by http://www.freereading.net
This unit teaches students how to take notes from a lecture or from text. It includes seven lessons to teach what is necessary and what is not, how to use several graphic organizers, how to abbreviate, and how to write questions that count. Several blank graphic organizers are available for copying.
Students will study Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and discuss the rhetorical influences on King's speech, the oratorical devices that King uses in delivering his speech, and how a speech is similar to/different from other literary forms. A lesson plan from PBS' NewsHour Extra.
This is an online scavenger hunt for 6-8 students to explore and learn about Disney's The Lion King on Broadway.
In this lesson students learn about demand and factors that cause demand for a good or service to change. They also learn to recognize factors that influence their behavior as a consumers.
