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Insects Lesson Plan for K-2

Submitted by Ellen on Tue, May 18, 2010 - 10:01am
  • activities
  • bugs
  • elementary
  • free
  • hands-on
  • insects
  • kindergarten
  • lesson plan
  • nature

Ideas and links for little ones wanting to know more about bugs.  Includes tie-ins to more basic scientific concepts like classification, and habitats.

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Cyberguides: free web-based literature units for k-12

Submitted by Ellen on Wed, May 5, 2010 - 8:59am
  • elementary
  • free
  • high school
  • lesson plan
  • literature
  • middle school
  • Unit Study

Offered by the Schools of California Online Resources for Education, these are free lesson plans based on high-quality literature, and grouped by grade-level.  Each unit includes several activities to extend the learning.  Unfortunately, the program has been unfunded for several years, and some of the links in the units are bad, but there are still lots of great ideas here.  A few examples (follow the link for more):

k-3 grade:

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World Wide Telescope: turn your computer into a planetarium

Submitted by Ellen on Mon, May 3, 2010 - 1:52pm
  • astronomy
  • elementary
  • high school
  • lesson plan
  • middle school
  • planets
  • science
  • stars

Offered free by Microsoft, this web-based software acts as a "virtual telescope" letting you and your homeschol students explore the night sky, and the planets.  The interface was not immediately intuitive to me, and so I'd recommend you begin with a tour (click on the "tour" option on the menu along the top of the screen.)  You can also use the lesson plan provided here: http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans/explorethestars.mspx

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Art-to-Go from the Baltimore Museum of Art (for all ages)

Submitted by Ellen on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 - 8:30am
  • art
  • elementary
  • free
  • high school
  • kindergarten
  • lesson plan
  • middle school

Every month in the school year the Baltimore Museum of Art picks a piece of art in their collection, writes up an art theory lesson for that piece, including an art project, and makes the lesson and a high quality photograph of the piece available for free download.  This is the third school year they've done it, and the archives are freely available.  The art they've chosen is stunning, and the projects tend to be managable at home, assuming you have or are willing to purchase materials when necessary.  The collection includes art from a wide range of locations and time peri

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"Storytelling: Tales of Everyday Life" A writing lesson plan for grades 4-6

Submitted by Ellen on Fri, Feb 26, 2010 - 9:12am
  • alaska
  • elementary
  • hawaii
  • language arts
  • lesson plan
  • writing

This creative lesson plan uses video of a Hawaii native's jounrey to Alaska in the 1850's to introduce the idea of journaling.  This is one of a series of 4 related lesson plans.  The others can be found:

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/echo07.lan.stories.lporaltrad/

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