This work, “Bobby’s Lost Toy", is a derivative of “The Lost Toy" authored by  Sam Beckbessinger, illustrated by Amy Slatem, used under  CC­-BY­-4.0. The text for the adapted story “Bobby’s Lost Toy” was written by a team of educators during a short course on “Application of Open Educational Resources” in May 2022. The course was developed and delivered by the USAID LAC Reads Capacity Program and hosted by the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

BookSpring, a 45 year old early literacy non-profit in Austin Texas, is providing rich digital content base on its time-tested educator kits online for families through 52 Weekly Themes for ages 3-5 and 6-8. Each week, a new theme related to early childhood curriculum is released with a video prompt to activate prior knowledge from Bibi the Butterfly, followed with a series of curated digital books in browser-based and downloadable pdf form. These resources are followed with reflection questions, suggested follow up activities, and additional resources to extend the learning at home. The materials are offered under a Creative Commons By-Share Alike license and available in both Spanish and English. The themes start in August 2020 and are planned to be completed in August 2021, and will be sustained online indefinitely. Plans for Toddler units (24-36 months) and older children (9-12) are being considered for future development. No log in is required, but donations are welcome and eligible as charitable contributions for the U.S. IRS. Aligned to multiple subjects in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for grades K-3, as well as the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines (not currently available on OER for alignment) https://tea.texas.gov/academics/early-childhood-education/texas-prekindergarten-guidelines

This article profiles Paul Siple, a Boy Scout selected to accompany Admiral Byrd to Antarctica in 1928.

 Free book for the teacher and class to read and interact.Bora must go to the doctor for vaccination.  Text to Self Connection, Probblem Solution, .

To reinforce the concept of tending to the child’s own emotions. Break cards are made to help the child address their emotions and choose the kind of break based on their emotion. 

Students will learn to know and list the difference between bugs and insects by playing a matching game for the first task and then watching and reading a video for the second task and listing 3-5 facts about something new they have learned. Students will also list 2 bugs and 2 insects, which will show their knowledge in the difference between the two. 

Build a translucent suncatcher to learn about light and the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque objects. 

Source set where students discover the lost coal mining community of Buxton, Iowa, a multiracial town of 6,000 people. Blacks and Whites lived in racial harmony and prosperity during the height of the Jim Crow era.

La historia presentada tiene la finalidad de mostrar parate las videncias del escritor.

This is a lesson designed to teach the very beginning of cvc words and how they work.

The necessity of teaching LGBTQ history has never been more apparent than in the current political climate. Over the past year, hundreds of anti-LGBTQ laws have been proposed across the country. Several have specifically attempted to prohibit teaching about these topics. California educators remain committed to an inclusive curriculum and continue to lead the charge modeling best practices in teaching LGBTQ history.

But, the path has not always been clear. When California educators started to implement this flagship law, SB48, otherwise known as the FAIR Act, which called for inclusion of LGBTQ Americans in U.S. history courses at the K-12 level, so many questions arose. Most of the discussion has centered around how to make our curriculum more inclusive while efficiently managing our limited instructional time.

One of the key issues has been about whether to create stand-alone or integrated lessons. Stand-alone lessons are significant because they allow students to do a deep dive into a specific topic. This can be useful when addressing big issues in the LGBTQ past. Here are a few examples of lessons that do just that:

Student Atlas of Oregon in English and Spanish
Atlas of Oregon Climate and Climate Change

A CHARACTER MAP is a graphic organizer that helps students learn about a character and how the character impacts

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Enjoy a sweet way to learn about opposites, and explore what is the same and what is different as you read, watch and play together.

This unit was written to be used by preschool or elementary teachers working with primary aged children.  The unit visits 'Cinderella-like' characters from China, Ireland, Egypt, Africa, Mexico, and the Ojibwa tribe.