We hear the word ecosystems in the news and at school but just what are ecosystems? It turns out there are lots of ecosystems. You might even learn you have some inside you! Also in: French | Spanish

This ice breaker activity fosters community in the classroom by asking students to find classmates who match the information noted in the boxes. The unique tidbits of student information in each box are based on notes taken by the teacher during Ice Breaker #1 (Interview a classmate and present the classmate to the class) from the first day of class. Ice Breaker #2 - Find Someone Who is a timed activity which affords students approximately 15 to walk around the room to talk and find signatures for their boxes.

A sample template is provided to offer ideas about what sorts of information can be included for the activity. A blank template with the title, directions for the activity, and the number of boxes needed to match the number of student in a given class can be created in Word using the table feature.

To use the template the instructor needs to type information for each student in the class into the boxes, save it, and then print one handout for every class member. As an optional addition, the teacher can include one box with her/his personal information and do the ice breaker with the students. The template can be saved and used semester after semester with new information for each class.

This game allows students an opportunity to identify different kinds of rocks based on an actual photograph of the rock as well as characteristics of the rock, which are also shown.

Every media source has a story to tell--a driving purpose. The media that people consume largely shapes their world views. The US public is becoming more divided partially due to the consumption of increasingly biased news. As a critical consumer of media, It is important to be able to separate fact from opinion. In this unit, adapted from the high school version, students will become critical consumers of news, by identifying media bias in order to become better informed citizens.  NOTE: This unit has been adapted for use at the middle school level from the resource Identifying Media Bias in News Sources by Sandra Stroup, Sally Drendel, Greg Saum, and Heidi Morris.

In Their Moccasins is an online narrative branching (choose your own adventure style) game designed to build capacity for empathy for Indigenous students’ lived realities. Many Canadians think of Indigenous issues as a thing of the past, yet the horrors of colonization continue to have an impact. Nevertheless, Indigenous students display a great deal of resilience in navigating their day to day lives. This game, designed by Indigenous students, will be a helpful tool for educators and folks looking to build their Indigenous knowledges skillset.

This OLogy activity gives kids a chance to test their investigative skills while learning about daily life for the Incas. Inca Investigation begins with an introduction to archaeologist Craig Morris and the ancient Inca city that his team excavated in the Andes mountains. Detailed directions are given for how to play Inca Investigation, which includes tips to help them better examine evidence. Each time they correctly identify a place, they are awarded an Inca Chronicle. They have the option of reading the chronicles online or printing their collection of chronicles.

Subject/Course: English
Topic / Unit: Games and Hobbies
Grade: 5
Duration: 10
Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to recognize indoor and outdoor games

"Infinity and Beyond" is a board game developed to contribute to the third goal of sustainable development, which is good health and well-being. We aimed to address this goal by focusing on reproductive health and sex education in Asian countries. The game is designed to be played with family, friends, or classmates and can engage players in joyful and beneficial conversations about reproductive health and relationships.

** This resource is published by GoogleReality River is a part of google's Interland Series  Be Internet Awesome curriculum which teaches the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety online. 

Internet Polyglot is a one stop free shop service that provides an enormous list of verbs, adverbs, and vocabulary words that cover a diverse array of subjects. To ease and enhance the learning process, this service provides the following types of interactive games: typing, guessing, mix, and matching. By creating an account, users are able to play the games with the full set of vocabulary words; and are able to generate their own individualized and specific list of vocabulary words with which they can play the above mentioned games.

This OER lesson plan was created by Anita Saalfeld and as part of the 2024 World Language OER Summer work and training. Educators worked with Chrystal Liu, Nick Ziegler and Dorann Avey to create OER Learning Plans and materials. The attached Lesson Plan is designed for 9 - 12 World Language Arts teachers for Novice Learners of Spanish. Students will interpret sentences with direct object pronouns in varying word orders. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE World Language Standard(s): NE.WL.1.2.c.It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 20 minutes to complete.

This PowerPoint file contains a Jeopardy-style game suitable for use in an introductory financial accounting class. There are six categories: Short-term assets, Long-term assets, Liabilities, Equity, Financial statements, and Ratio analysis. There is a Daily Double question and a Final Jeopardy question. Audio is included in the PowerPoint file for optional use.

This lesson aims to teach students about invasive species, native species, and non-native species. The lesson also covers the potential damages that an invasive species can cause to an ecosystem.

This article highlights resources that can be used to supplement lessons on extreme weather, including games and video clips. The article appears in the free, online magazine for K-Grade 5 teachers Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The magazine focuses on the essential principles of climate science.

Ця презентація допоже дитині опанувати або повторити числа в межах 1000. Вона яскрава, зрозуміла, цікава та анімована.

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Irregular Word Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words.