Featured Resources
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.
