The “Retail Quest” virtual field trip app allows students to learn about systems modeling by observing Point-of-Sale (POS) systems at the Mall of America and applying what they’ve observed to systems models such as use case and activity diagrams.  The app allows students to visit mall locations virtually or physically, whichever they choose. You can use the Retail Quest app in your courses by importing it into your Learning Management System (LMS).   Figure 1. Introduction Screen in Retail Quest App

This curriculum guide offers a list of Open Educational Resources (OER) that are arranged in a logical sequence for introducing polynomials with visual models, particularly using arrays and area models.

My central focus for this lesson will be to teach and review with students the meaning of 5 vocabulary words in a book we read together.

Jeopardy to review some vocabulary topics (A2 level). This vocabulary game is based on the open resource by Kate Borthwick and Alison Dickens: http://languagebox.ac.uk/1835/

This game is suitable for play both within and outside of the classroom, and although designed for children ages 9-13, it offers a fun, learning opportunity for the entire family. In addition to being a game, it is an eye-catching poster showing continents, oceans and all of the major ocean currents. On the reverse, there are black and white educational activities designed to be reproduced directly from the poster for use in the classroom.

A lesson on The Water Cycle for lower elementary students.  Lesson includes colorful pictures, a video, game, and assessement for teachers to use.

The water cycle game helps you learn how water molecules move through various places including rivers, the ocean, the earth’s surface, the atmosphere and clouds. Actions such as evaporation, runoff, condensation, precipitation, soil absorption and ground water expansion move water from one zone to another.

Learn how waves interact when Yard characters Jack and Francis find a mysterious wave combinator in the yard.
In this game players must learn about simple waves that can be described by their amplitude, wavelength and offset. This puzzle game allows players to combined two waves to form a new wave, following rules of constructive and deconstructive interference.

Wave Properties
Developing and Using Models
Amplitude, Offset, Wavelength, Frequency

This quiz evaluates the uses of Simple Present and Present Continuos in English to talk about the weather and clothes. It can be used for highschool students and above.

This offline OLogy game is a fun way to illustrate how all the organisms in an ecosystem are connected and depend on one another to survive. To play this game, you'll need at least six students and index cards, a marker/pen, and a ball of twine. A list of organisms to connect is included. As students toss the ball of twine to each other, they make connections between the organisms they are linking. The game ends with a discussion about what would happen to the "web of life" that's been created if an organism left the ecosystem.

This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they take a close look at the interdependence of all living things in the Dzanga-Sangha. The site opens by introducing kids to BaAka, a young girl who will guide them through the site. In the Connect the Dots, an interactive game, kids learn how the people, animals, and plants depend on each other to thrive three in habitats: Forest, Bai, and River. In Visiting Dzanga-Sangha, kids get to meet six people who have visited the rainforest as part of their work: an ornithologist, artist, historian, video maker, anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist.

This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they take a close look at the interdependence of all living things in the Dzanga-Sangha. The site opens by introducing kids to BaAka, a young girl who will guide them through the site. In the Connect the Dots, an interactive game, kids learn how the people, animals, and plants depend on each other to thrive three habitats.

This lesson plan is focused on learning and understanding the meaning of personality adjectives, which are widely used when describing people’s characters. Being aware of what kind of a character a person has can help communicating people to be tolerant, patient and empathetic to each other. Keeping in mind that all people are different leads to critical thinking without harsh judgement that is included into a civil discourse.

Blooket is an amazing online trivia/review game for students of all ages to use as a tool in their classrooms. It is an engaging and fun game to play in the classroom. With thousands of already made game, teachers are able to use pre-made Blookets or create their own Blooket to review with their students. You will not regret introducing Blooket to your students. 

Invisible ink playing cards is kind of cards tricks marked cards. You can see the cards' suit and value from the back of the cards with luminous contact lenses and sunlasses

A number guessing game with options to guess up to 10, 20, and 100.

An interview with biologist Gro Amdam, one of the members of the group that brought us the bee genome. Hey just what is a genome and could bees hold the answer to aging? In this show we learn the answers to these questions and why researchers are buzzing around bees.

 The attached lesson is designed for Grade 5 English Language Arts students. Students will be able to define a homophone, give examples, and use homophones correctly according to their definition.  Students will practice differntiating between two homophones and using the correct one in a sentence. This lesson addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.5.b, NE LA 5.1.5.c, NE LA 5.1.5.d, and NE LA 5.1.5.e.It is expected that this lesson will take students 90 minutes to complete.

An educator's guide to pollination and pollinator conservation written by Mary Hannah Lindsay and Chanda L. Cooper with Richland Soil and Water Conservation District in South Carolina.