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Activity
Curated OER

Forms of Government Project

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
From the United Kingdom's constitutional monarchy to the dictatorship of North Korea, this is a very simple project that will help your class members gain a better understanding of different forms of government that exist around the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Vitamin D and Me

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create a graphic organizer showing the importance of Vitamin D intake. In this Vitamin D lesson, Students list problems with Vitamin D deficiency and create poster boards in small groups. Individually, students will create menus...
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Curated OER

Statistics and Probablility

For Teachers K - 2nd
Statistics and Probability are all about collecting, organizing, and interpreting data. Young learners use previously collected data and construct a picture graph of the data on poster board. This stellar lesson plan should lead to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating a Classroom Constitution

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Youngsters identify and interpret the importance of having rules in order to maintain order at home, at school, in their community, and in the United States. They create a working Classroom Constitution that governs the classroom and...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter-Sound Correspondence, Photo Chart

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Have fun with student photographs in this phonics activity! Learners sort their classmates' photos by initial sound on a large poster board with the alphabet written vertically down the left side. Also provided are various pictures...
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Curated OER

Sim's Cities

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars investigate city management and government by creating a fictional city in groups.  In this civics lesson, students create rules and a mascot for their fictitious city which they create from poster board cubes.  Young...
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Curated OER

Homophone Cartoons

For Teachers 5th - 7th
A terrific activity on homophones awaits your youngsters. First, pupils access a website that contains lists of homophones. Then, it's time to get creative! Everyone gets a piece of poster board and they create a homophone cartoon -...
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Curated OER

Poster Board Lines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take notes on line types and directions and then apply that knowledge to create posters depicting the different directions of line. They differentiate between the four different directions of line and the feelings that each...
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Activity
Joy Uzarraga

Famous American Research Project

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Designed specifically for lower elementary pupils, this is a great biographical research project in which students research a famous American, and then design creative poster boards to help them "become" the famous American they have...
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Curated OER

Creating a Bill of Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Creating a Bill of Rights isn't easy! Help your scholars experience what the Founding Fathers did by challenging them to write a Bill of Rights. Groups pretend they are a new democratic country and proceed to create that country's Bill...
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Curated OER

Ocean Life Mural

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
How many oceans can you name? First, have learners try to name as many oceans as they can, and then have them locate and identify the oceans on a world map. They create a recognizable ocean animal using poster board and tissue paper....
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Curated OER

Flat Stanley

For Teachers 2nd
The geography of the United States is the focus of this lesson, as well as writing friendly letters. Your second graders read, "Flat Stanley," by Jeff Brown. They create their own Flat Stanley out of poster board, markers, crayons and...
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Lesson Plan
Nebraska Department of Education

Goal Maps

For Teachers 9th
High school freshmen are asked to think about their future goals and reflect on what they have learned about the barriers they may face and the resources they have to overcome these barriers. Individuals then respond to questions on a...
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Curated OER

All About Me

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Using technology, learners create and deliver a multimedia autobiographical presentation to present to the class. This ambitious activity has learners use a variety of sources both old and new; magazines, poster board, the Internet, and...
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Curated OER

Best Part of Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
After listening to the story, The Best Part of Me, learners will identify a positive physical feature of themselves, and create a descriptive poem about their favorite feature. Photographs are taken, and a nice final draft of the poem is...
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CK-12 Foundation

Tessellations: Lesson

For Students 6th - 11th
Build a pattern by rotating a figure around one of its vertices. A segment of an extensive playlist on basic geometry introduces the concept of tessellations through regular tessellations. The video shows how to create tessellations and...
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Assessment
Bowland

Smoothie Box

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Make it a tight fit. Given drawings of a smoothie bottle, pupils need to determine the size of a box to hold 12 bottles. Scholars draw a net to show the dimensions needed to create a closed box that would not allow the bottles to move...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Square Patios

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Build a patio from toothpicks and marshmallows to analyze functions! Learners look for patterns in the data as they create different size patios. As they discover patterns, they make connections between the different representations of...
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Curated OER

Creating a Virtual Tour of Oregon City

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research a famous person or building associated with Oregon City. In this local history lesson, 5th graders work in groups to research and create a poster board about a famous person or building found in Oregon City.
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Curated OER

Door Panels and Details: Renaissance Revival/Aesthetic Cabinet

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars investigate the history of cabinetry and furniture, specifically the Renaissance period.  In this art history lesson, students investigate photographs of the Renaissance Revival/Aesthetic Cabinet, and examine the small...
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Curated OER

Frame Yourself

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young ratio masters calculate and cut a frame (out of poster board) to accurately create an even frame around a picture of themselves. The frame needs to be proportional to the picture with constraints determined by the instructor. 
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Curated OER

Cosmic Mobiles: Recycled Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
If you have a little left over tinsel and aluminum foil, your class can create these fun moon and star mobiles. Poster board or recycled cardboard become your moon and stars; the tinsel gives them sparkle. This would be a great activity...
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Curated OER

Telling a Story

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Do your class members complain they don’t know what to write about? Give them disposable cameras and ask them to take pictures of 12 things that make them happy. After the pictures are developed, they are pasted on a poster board and...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Young Virginia Gardener: Create a Plant

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this gardening worksheet, students draw a plant on a poster board, cutting out pictures of vegetables from magazines and gluing them on the leaves of their drawn plant in the proper places: stem vegetables, fruit vegetables and seed...

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