Curated OER
Secret Number Painting
In this art worksheet, learners make a folk-art style painting of a room in their home. Students select a room. They choose a secret number and draw items in sets of the number they selected. Learners are directed to keep their painting...
Curated OER
Make Your own Treasure Hunt!
Students participate in a variety of treasure hunts to promote critical thinking skills. In these problem solving lessons, students go on a photo hunt, scavenger hunt, clue hunt, and map hunt, looking for specific treasures.
Curated OER
Quarters and Equal Amounts
In this counting coins worksheet, students learn to count with quarters to find the equal amounts. Students solve six counting coin money problems.
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Sharing
Students solve problems based on sharing scenarios. In this sharing lesson plan, students listen to a book on sharing and answer questions. Then the teacher presents different scenarios to the class and they have to problem solve to come...
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Being Thankful
Students generate words and pictures to show their thankfulness. In this Thanksgiving art lesson, students draw various circles, labeling and illustrating the things for which they are grateful.
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Conflict Resolution
Learners demonstrate conflict resolution skills. In this character education lesson, students read the book Oh, Bother! Someone's Fighting! and sing a song which models a conflict resolution strategy.
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I Thought That I Was Crazy
For this music poem worksheet, students spell out the music words using the music notes instead of alphabet letters. Students determine the 10 note names and write them in the blanks so solve the puzzle.
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Christmas Morning Surprise
Students "plant" mints for Christmas. In this Christmas lesson, students "plant" starlight mints in the ground. You switch the mints with candy canes, so when the students come out they think their mints have grown.
Curated OER
English Exercises: Present Continuous-Advanced
In this present continuous activity, students read about the usage of present continuous, then correctly fill in blanks in sentences. Links to additional resources and audio are included.
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Sand Castles: Pre-engineering 101
Students examine how soil holds together and what the effect of particle size and water content is on soil. For this engineering lesson students complete a lab, record their observations and discuss what they learned.
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NFE Christmas Quiz
Sixth graders explore the details of Christmas. In this Christmas history lesson, 6th graders participate in a bingo quiz on Christmas. Students complete a worksheet after the quiz.
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Where is Agriculture?
Students study agriculture. In this agriculture instructional activity, students investigate how agriculture helps to meet a family's needs. Students identify things in their home that began as agriculture.
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Ow Sound
First graders write words containing the "ow" sound and use those words to write sentences. In this simple language arts instructional activity, 1st graders view models of sentences written by their teacher which contain examples of the...
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Simple Horse Care
In this online quiz learning exercise, students answer a set of trivia questions about simple horse care. Page has a link to submit answers for review.
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Dog Aggression
In this trivia quiz, the information focuses on dog aggression. Students respond to 10 multiple choice questions and submit answers electronically via this interactive website.
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Dog Breeds A-Z
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of questions about breeds of dogs. Answers may be submitted for review by clicking a link at the bottom of the page.
CNN
Cnn: Toys to Tackle Climate Change: A Young Inventor Wants to Inspire Kids
This article profiles a young woman named Ann Makosinski who has been hailed as a 'child prodigy' for her toy inventions that use renewable energy. She earlier invented, for example, a flashlight that is powered by heat from the hand and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Build a Toy Workshop
Working as if they are engineers who work for (the hypothetical) Build-a-Toy Workshop company, students apply their imaginations and the engineering design process to design and build prototype toys with moving parts. They set up...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Want to Be an Activist? Start With Your Toys
McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13, Pope started an online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: My Toy Abc
A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of My Toy ABC, an alphabet book with the theme of toys.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Live Toys or Anecdotes of Our Four Legged Pets by E. Davenport
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Live Toys, or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets by Emma Davenport (1864), a collection of stories about pets.
Other
Dog Breed Info Center: Toy Poodle
Affectionately called the French Poodle, here is a darling picture of two little ones plus a good description of temperament, height, weight, origin and more.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering in Reverse!
Students learn about the process of reverse engineering and how this technique is used to improve upon technology. Students analyze push-toys and draw diagrams of the predicted mechanisms inside the toys. Then, they disassemble the toys...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Runaway Train: Investigating Speed With Photo Gates
Students conduct an experiment to determine the relationship between the speed of a wooden toy car at the bottom of an incline and the height at which it is released. They observe how the photogate-based speedometer instrument "clocks"...
