This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This site provides science videos, lessons, quizzes and games about insects, spiders, centipedes. Games include labeling the life cycle of an insect, identifying insects, among others. Two also quizzes included. Videos should be viewed and evaluated for grade-level appropriateness before showing in class.

ELL students will discover how magnetic poles interact with each other and with other materials in this set of video. Close captioning and descriptions are available.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This page has numerous pictures showing complete and incomplete metamorphosis. Some of the organisms included are frogs, butterflies, and mosquitoes. The articles are available in Spanish, also.

This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners. This SIOP unit/lesson set contains instructions, pacing guide, slides, bilingual word cards and student activities. Students will study ecology and access the information in an appropriately modified format.

This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners. Students will study genetics and sexual v. asexual reproduction in this SIOP based lesson. The resource includes instructions, a pacing guide, slides, vocabulary cards, and student activities.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners. This website has lots to offer - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste. Students can click on any section of Recycle City that they want to tour, or click on the Dumptown Game. They can also create their own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area to see other ways they can explore.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This online book and interactive resource describes and illustrates the Sun's movement across the sky as observed from Earth during the day. Text and audio versions are provided so the book can be used with students individually or with large and small groups.

ELL students will learn the vocabulary needed to explain the water cycle. They can turn on audio and the descriptions button for additional help.

This resource supports the English language development of English language learners.This animation from NASA illustrates the steps of the water cycle. Through the processes of condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, transpiration, and evaporation, water continuously travels from the atmosphere to the ground and back again. The animation is available with an audio description- click on the right.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This website includes a two-part interactive game that introduces the concepts of interdependence and globalization. In the first part, students can see the ways in which their clothes and accessories connect them to people and places around the world. The second part will call on their critical thinking and geographic decision-making skills in an adventurous investigative journey.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students examine the roles of women in the Revolutionary War era. Working in groups, students work make predictions about the contributions of a specific female patriot. The lesson provides a graphic organizer, cooperative grouping, and a think-aloud to support English language learners. Then students write a paragraph to demonstrate their new knowledge.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students will identify clues to and ask questions about Rosa Park’s story from a sculpture and a primary source photograph. Students will then read more about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery County Bus Boycott. Then students will draw pictures and create skits to demonstrate their learning.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students describe the steps people took to eliminate segregation in U.S. schools. Students use a graphic organizer to analyze primary source photographs as a class, in pairs, and individually. After comparing their work in groups, students write a paragraph citing evidence from their graphic organizer to explain their understanding.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This online activity follows a young slave's escape from a Kentucky plantation. At each of the four "stops" on this journey, students can listen to audio support of the reading, read primary source quotes, listen to an audio slideshow of primary source images, and write about what they've learned. The teacher's guide provides background information, a Words to Know list, discussion questions, and extension activities.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson plan, students analyze visual and textual primary sources to determine the extent to which African-Americans freed themselves versus the extent to which Abraham Lincoln ended slavery. The site includes links to primary source documents (including one from North Carolina), analysis worksheets for each document, and graphic organizers to support the lesson. The lesson includes speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities.

Students will build speaking and listening skills through discussion, develop fluency and literary understanding, and will build skills in written expression.This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners. This is a full lesson plan focusing on the poem "I'm Nobody." The plan includes activities in all language domains with multiple opportunities for student interaction.

This article discusses explicitly teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills in the elementary grades and provides templates for classroom use.

Students work together to analyze an orally presented research study and provide a brief presentation on their findings to their classmates. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This PBL activity teaches young students about stranger safety. By bringing in a guest speaker to the classroom, having students create their own scenarios and responses, and having them write a letter to someone they want to thank for keeping them safe, this activity allows students to practice their writing and listening skills while learning an important real-life lesson about strangers at the same time.

This retelling of the Greek myth "Pandora's Box" includes accompanying audio and graphic illustrations. This resource can be used as scaffolding for reading comprehension, as differentiation for a multileveled classroom, and can build listening comprehension skills and vocabulary development. This resource supports English language development for English Language Learners.