This resource was created by Jenny Bauer, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

This lesson may be used with Launguge Arts, Writing, and Social Studies.  The students will learn about various people who were influencial in changing the world through civil rights. They students will write a dream about something they would like to do to make the world better.

This resource was created by Brandon Horst in collaboration with Tina Williams as part of the 2019-20 ESU-NDE Digital Age Pedagogy Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Lesson Plans promoting both content area and digital age skills. This Lesson Plan is designed for K-4 Technology/Language Arts.

This lesson may be used for language arts and writing. The students will listen to a variety of tall tale stories, learn the characteristics that make up a tall tale, and identify hyperboles in the stories. The teacher will check for understanding by having the students list the hyperboles found.

This How To Do Research Unit Guide provides a lesson-to-lesson foundation for teaching:● What primary sources are● Real vs. fake information (evaluating sources)● Document analysis● Different ways to obtain information● How to formulate research questions● How to find answers to research questions● The hows and whys of citations (annotated bibliography)By the time students get to high school, they should have a basic understanding of how to effectively do research. Considering that there are so many steps involved in the research process, the earlier these necessary skills are taught, the more time students will be able to devote to theiractual projects. Moreover, in today’s world, information literacy needs to be achieved at an earlier age, so students can learn to be smart consumers, responsible sharers, and presenters of information. Throughout the research process, students will learn that there will be dead ends, questions that are too broad or too narrow, questions that do not have answers. This is an accurate reflection of what their experiences will continue to be as they move into higher level research projects in their educational careers. 

The students will reveiw the 4 types of sentences, identify sentences, and write a paragraph using all the types of sentences.  The teacher will check for understanding by reveiwing the assigned handout and discussing any problem areas with the student.

This resource was created by Jenna McAfee, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

 This plan was created by Jean Harper  as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE  Learning Plan Project. The attached plan is designed for Grade 4 English Language Arts students. Students will evaluate sentences, recongize and correct run-on sentences. This plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 4.1.6, LA 4.1.6dIt is expected that this plan will take students 60 minutes to complete.