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The Lion King Scavenger Hunt

This is an online scavenger hunt for 6-8 students to explore and learn about Disney's The Lion King on Broadway.


Demand Shifters

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.




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Subtraction Poem

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.


Averages & Variation

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

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.


Magic or Science

More than a high school chemistry lesson, this resource challenges students to apply science concepts, language skills, technical skills, and safety rules.


Acids and Bases

Several labs and activities, as well as notes, help students to develop the knowledge needed to complete the final project, the poster.


Financial Crisis Glossary

To help students understand the current U.S. and global economic crisis.


A Photo Essay

A lesson that helps learners take a closer look at their community in pictures and in words


Article Reaction Assignment

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.


Civics Unit

This four-unit course covers the basics of American government, the Constitution, and governments outside of the United States.


Current Event Topics

In this exercise, students work in small groups to voice and express opinions on current events.


The Art of Invention

These resources teach students about artists who invented new tools to explore topics they find interesting.


Decimal Basketball

Getting students actively participating in learning is one teacher's strategy for teaching decimals.


Area of a Triangle

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.


Rational-ity

This collection contains chapters of a textbook about rational functions for high school.


Articulation Dice Practice Activity

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.


Antigone Unit

This teacher uses her collection of materials to teach Sophocles' play Antigone to her 10th grade English class.


Othello Activity

This is an activity for a class reading Othello to do to increase comprehension, work collaboratively, and actively engage in the play.


Teaching Satire in High School

A teacher in Minnesota has created a unit on reading and understanding satirical literature.


Teaching Holes in Middle School

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.


Unit on Things Fall Apart

This teacher shares her week by week materials to scaffold reading and get students writing about Chinua Achebe's popular novel.


K-3 Reading Comprehension Lessons

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


Taking Meaningful Notes

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.


Speech as Literature

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.