This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on the Acropolis, which has been inhabited by Greeks and foreign invaders for thousands of years. The Acropolis is a city in Greece known for its splendorous architecture.
This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher. Socrates' teachings and philosophy were an integral part of Classical Greek intellectual life.
This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great was born into royalty in Macedonia, educated by Aristotle, and would ascend to the Macedonian throne after his father was assassinated, building one of the largest empires of his time.
This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on the history and current state of The Great Wall of China.
This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on the Han Dynasty of China. The Han Dynasty brought the birth of paper and advances in writing and art until it lost control in 220 A.D.
This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. This video will describe the geography, history, and characteristics of the Mesopotamian civilization.
Steve Trash teaches kids about science with fun and magic. The show is filmed in Alabama
Join Steve Trash for a deep dive into the world of plants. Learn what goes on inside plants, how they turn sunlight into energy, and why they are SO important. After that, explore how sound moves from one place to another as Steve demonstrates the secrets of sound waves.
Steve Trash teaches kids about science with fun and magic. The show is filmed in Alabama.
You find water in oceans, rivers, lakes and ponds, in clouds and rain and snow. Explore how all of these are connected through a continuous cycle in the natural world. Then, Steve suggests ways to prevent litter and other destructive types of pollution. After all, it's no fun to play in the water if its full of garbage.
Steve Trash teaches kids about science with fun and magic. The show is filmed in Alabama.
Steve shares all sorts of magical ideas about wildlife and the wild critters, why they're important, and what things people need to do to protect them. Then, Steve explores the world of robots. What exactly IS a robot? What do robots do? Can robots think? Watch and find out!
Steve Trash teaches kids about science with fun and magic. The show is filmed in Alabama.
In this episode, Steve shares his knowledge about some of the coolest creatures on the planet: birds. Why are there so many different kinds of birds? Why so many colors? How do they fly? Then he shares one of his favorite ideas to think about: what makes a resource renewable or not renewable?
In this lesson, students observe symmetry, geometric shapes, and angles in two Early American dances, and then choreograph their own dances with symmetrical figures.
There are three options for this lesson, depending on class needs and time available:
In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades K-3, students watch the BrainPOP Jr. movie Emotions and explore related resources to learn how to recognize our own emotions, and how being mindful of them can help us. Students will then play a game of Emotion Charades to demonstrate that our nonverbal communication can indicate someone's current feelings and emotions. In conclusion, students will discuss how identifying our emotions can help us select strategies to work through the emotions in a positive manner and support others as they experience emotions.
This complete unit plan provides lessons on Ancient Nubia from the Pre-Kerma to the three Kingdoms of Kush eras. The lessons include information about the geography, economics, civics, and government of this time period and civilization. There are videos and additional student resources included, as well as answer keys for the educator. The unit plans include images of artifacts that students will analyze to better understand this time period and the Nubian civilizations.
This resource from the Holocaust Center for Humanity provides a step-by-step instructional outline to teach about the Holocaust to students in secondary grades. The instructional material incorporates various literacy skills into the social studies content. There are options provided for 1-2 weeks of instruction, 3-5 weeks of instruction, and complete units. All of the resources required to teach the lessons are included in this document. In addition, this resource provides a Best Practices document to support educators in teaching this difficult topic.
This graphic organizer will guide students through the process of analyzing a historical document such as a newspaper article, a report, a magazine article, a congressional record, a press release, a census report, an internet article, a map, an official memorandum, or an announcement. This worksheet includes guiding questions that will support students as they closely read and analyze a selected historical document.
This graphic organizer provides a structured method for students to analyze primary source visual image documents. By using this graphic organizer and the included guiding questions, students will analyze the source of the image, make observations about the image, contextualize the image within historical events, and corroborate the information they learn by identifying other sources of information.
This is a lesson plan from Google for Education, Applied Digital Skills. During this lesson, students use Google Sheets to create a fun word game they can play with a friend. Along the way, they will learn how to use formulas and functions.
It’s time to let your creativity shine with the Mood & Mindfulness Journal from On Our Sleeves! These fun activities for grades 3-5 will help you better understand why you feel emotions like happiness and sadness, and help you describe how you are feeling.
This journal includes the following:
It’s time to let your creativity shine with the Mood & Mindfulness Journal from On Our Sleeves! These fun activities for grades K-2 will help you better understand why you feel emotions like happiness and sadness, and help you describe how you are feeling.
This journal includes the following:
This is a lesson plan from Google for Education, Applied Digital Skills. During this lesson, students learn to identify and avoid online scams by analyzing a real-life situation in a group. Students will work collaboratively to identify online scams. They will analyze an online scam to identify suspicious behavior and warning signs. Then they will create a group document discussing an online scam and provide guidelines for how to avoid scams.
We all feel sad sometimes. Make a list of the things you love doing with The Mooderators, and next time you feel sad, you can try one of those things!
This video clip will help young students identify their emotions and learn to express them in a healthy, safe way. This video clip has an associated resource that students can use to identify strategies that will help them work through their feelings in a positive manner.
Feeling angry is normal, but sometimes we can do things when we’re angry that are not OK. That’s why it’s important to take a break with The Mooderators to feel a little bit better and make better choices.
This video clip will help young students identify their emotions and learn to express them in a healthy, safe way. This video clip has an associated resource that students can use to create a sign for their "Calm Down Corner," which indicates to others they need a break to practice their self-control skills.
Welcome to the world of Ammi—a mindfulness adventure series for young children. Ammi is a wise and gentle child who leads the way as we explore ourselves and one another through the natural world. Each story uses guided imagery to inspire inner connection and support emotional regulation. These simple meditations recognize the importance of imagination as a foundation for conscious creation in the world. They bridge the physical, the energetic, the emotional, and all the spaces in between. Whether in the home or classroom, you can engage in these special practices with children of all ages. Read them aloud together, listen to the guided meditation, and welcome the time to process and integrate the practice.
This resource will help young students learn mindfulness techniques, including practicing self-control and strategies for managing stress.
The Feelings Thermometer is a visual tool that can help students measure how they are doing emotionally and identify steps they can take to shift their mood when things are getting tough.
Like a temperature thermometer, the Feelings Thermometer shows when your emotional temperature is getting warmer and then hotter, to potentially dangerous degrees. It starts at blue – the calm zone and goes to red – the furious zone. Throughout the zones, it lists activities to feel less angry, frustrated, anxious, and sad. Research shows that just identifying a calming activity can reduce stress and anxiety.
This resource can be used in a variety of settings to help students name their feelings and identify methods to self-regulate their negative emotions.
Self-regulation is a critical skill for people of all ages. It is the ability that helps us to control our behaviors to make good decisions for the long-term, rather than just doing what we want in the moment. It’s also the skill that allows us to manage our emotions when we’re feeling angry, disappointed, or worried. These can be difficult for adults but are significantly more challenging for children and young adults, whose brains are still growing and developing.
There are huge benefits to helping kids and young adults improve their skills for self-regulation. These skills can help kids and young adults to complete their work and chores (even if they don’t want to), maintain lasting friendships, make safe choices when out with friends, stop themselves from breaking a rule, and work through challenges when they feel like giving up, and so much more.
This informational material presents over 15 strategies that educators can use to teach and build students' self-regulation skills.
This article provides information on branding and brand position strategies, focusing on identifying brand purpose and values. The report includes quotes from successful business people and business educators. The article provides "ten truths about brand purpose", and discussion points for students to apply this knowledge to themselves and other businesses. In addition, students can hover over the blue underlined terms for a video glossary that shows industry experts defining critical terms related to marketing and business.
Explore Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,“ in this video from the American Masters film Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive. Discussion questions, teaching tips, and a student handout ask students to analyze the work while also learning more about the art of writing a short story. Students are asked to consider why the story remains popular today, its connections to music, and how Poe hooks readers from the very first sentence. Students are also asked to identify the theme of the work. Students also analyze the author's word choice or diction.
These short, accessible, image-driven prompts invite students to pen short stories, poems, and memoirs; share experiences from their lives; analyze illustrations, graphs, and charts; and tell us their opinions on hot-button issues. This list from The York Times provides all the prompts that were published during the 2021-22 school year.
There are multiple categories of prompts that can be used for students to practice various modes of writing including:
What story does this image inspire for you?
Share experiences from your own life.
What do you think this image, chart or cartoon is saying?
What’s your opinion on this issue?
These prompts are intended to be used as skill practice after students have been taught the structure and mechanics of narrative, explanatory, and argumentation writing. The teacher should preview the prompts to ensure they are appropriate for the intended grade level.
Using shapes and patterns this activity morphs 2D shapes into 3D forms. This four page, printable exercise is designed to be completed independently and requires scissors and glue or tape.
This video explores 3-D shapes with Lily Fincher and Omar Etman.
In this Martha Speaks interactive story, students learn how the choices we make about our trash have different consequences for our environment. A discarded soup can can end up in a landfill, whereas a reused or recycled can could become something new! When used as a part of Martha’s True Stories Buddies Program, buddy pairs engage with the interactive story, then create an Advice Column that offers ways to reuse, repurpose, or compost old things. To familiarize yourself with the program, begin by reading the Martha's True Stories Buddies Program: Overview. At the end of the story, students can answer questions that assess students' comprehension and vocabulary acquisition
This resource includes an lesson, Martha’s True Stories: A Tale of Two Soup Cans. The resource also reads aloud to students and can be helpful for evaluating listening skills. Be sure to have the A Tale of Two Soup Cans Checklist for the partners to use. You can also review the PET part of the checklist in the PET Strategy Chart.
This intermediate low Spanish activity offers students an opportunity to experience regular preterit verbs in context. Students will use interpretive listening skills to gather information from an interview of a native speaker from Mexico. The vocabulary focuses on relationships as he describes how he met and proposed to his wife, providing students perspective on the idea of relationships within the target culture. Corresponding worksheets are provided to guide students as they identify preterit verbs used throughout the authentic resource. This resource offers a variety of ways for students to work with the preterit actions creating a timeline of events and writing a narrative that uses a variety of preterit clue words.
At a time when nationalism and extremism are on the rise, questions about the importance of understanding and acceptance raised in the “Hath not a Jew eyes?” speech from The Merchant of Venice are particularly relevant. In these videos from Shakespeare Uncovered, explore what it means to be an outsider and the impact of persecution. Support materials engage students with contemporary connections through discussion questions and a handout analyzing Shylock’s speech.
Be sure to read the Discussion Questions and use the Handout, along with the other materials under the Support Materials for Use with Students section to fully teach the standard.
Know when to use verbs in the active voice or the passive voice. The active voice shows the subject acting. The passive voice shows something else acting on the subject. Most writers consider the active voice more colorful and avoid the passive voice unless necessary.
In this activity from The Electric Company, students will review the value associated with each standard US coin, add coins, and solve word problems involving coins. Included are simple teacher-led activities and hands-on exercises for students.
