This is an interactive 3rd grade lesson plan to reinforce 3.MD.5, 3.MD.6, and 3.MD.7 the concept of area. This lesson will most likely span over the course of a couple of days. Thumbnail "farm scene" by Christian Collins, Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Global Issues in Context, Gale's InfoTrac Newstand, and Gale's Science in Context to help students learn about acid rain and how humans can make better choices about our global environments. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale Reference Collection, World Book Encyclopedia, eMedia, EBSCO, and Library of Congress to help students learn about Alexander Graham Bell. 

3.2.4  Students will compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals.3.2.2  Students will differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle.Created by: Shellet Rowley.  Picture taken by: Shellet Rowley

This is a lesson plan to introduce research and writing informational text based on this research.Example of openly licensed Citation: "Animals - Cute Zoo" by Lesya Skripack from Russia is licensed under FreePik. Image Created by: Lesya Skripack 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Reference Collection, Gale's Global Issues in Context, and Gale's Biography in Context to help students learn about Antarctica. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Soundzabound to help students learn about the Birth of the Baby Boomers.  

This blended learning lesson plan is a hyperdoc that students can work through individually to learn what a prefix is, practice identifying prefixess in words, understand the meaning and how it changes the word to mean something new. Students will work through this hyperdoc with required assignments/ tasks, these include instruction through videos and practice. The rest of the hyperdoc students can pick and choose what they want to do with a required limit of acitivites. They will be assessed throughout the hyperdoc to check their understanding and at the end they will complete a worksheet based on their level of understanding to turn in for the teacher to have as evidence of their understanding.  HyperDoc Template by Amy De Friese Adapted by Amy Filiaga Adapted by Angela Citte

This resource is a Language Arts student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, the three Gale databases (Kids InfoBits Grades K-6, Research in Context Grades 6-8, and Reference Collection Grades 9-12), the Library of Congress (located in the section called General Resources), and eMedia - to help students research and read about Booker T. Washington.

This lesson Plan is for Financial Literacy and Budget Planning.  The Standards were not listed in the Resource section so they are as follows:Standard 1Analyze the role of cultural, social, and emotional influences on financial behavior.Evaluate the role of emotions, attitudes and behavior in making financial decisions.Recognize that individuals are responsible for their own financial decisions and for subsequent positive and negative consequences.Standard 2Define a rational decision-making process and the steps of financial planning.Define opportunity cost (tradeoffs) and their role in decision making.Describe a rational decision - making process.Identify short- and long-term financial decisions and the impact they have on financial planning.Define the elements of a financial plan.Standard 1Identify and explain the process of budgeting based on calculated income.Develop a budget.Identify and prioritize fixed, fixed variable and variable budget categories.The Image for this Budget Planner was created by myself, Sharon Pinkerton. 

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids Infobits Grade K-6, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, Gale's Reference Collection Grades 9-12, and EBSCO's History Reference Center to help students learn about the Buffalo Soldiers. 

"Children's Books" by lydia_x_liu is licensed under CC BY 2.0.Standards:Reading: Literature Standard 3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.Reading: Literature Standard 5Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Research in Context Grades 6-8, Gale's Info Trac Student Edition, Gale's Student Resources in Context, EBSCO's Explora - Elementary, Middle, and High School, and World Book Encyclopedia to help students learn about The Battle of Bull Run. 

This is a lesson plan regarding middle school research. Students first complete their career research (different lesson plan). Next they complete this lesson which is completing a biography on an important person in their chosen career.  Picture taken by Jann Leishman  

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Explora Elementary in EBSCO - to help students learn about the characteristics of rocks.

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits and EBSCO Explora Elementary - to help students learn about classifying spiders. 

This resource is a Science student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, Gale's Kids InfoBits and Student Resource Center - Junior - to help students learn about clouds.

Students will learn to compose shapes using 2D shapes.Picture from: Pexels by Magda Ehlers

This resource is a Social Studies student activity that utilizes Utah's Online Library resources - specifically, World Book Encyclopedia (World Book Discover) and eMedia to help students learn about continents. 

This lesson plan will help students learn how create a podcast about their topic for National History Day, incorporating music clips found on Soundzabound from Utah's Online School Library.Image by: Internet Archive Book Images. Modified by Opensource.com. CC BY-SA 4.0