EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 8
Lights, camera, action! Math educators consider how to improve their instruction by examining a model of the five-practice problem-solving model involving a movie theater. Participants examine cognitive demand in relation to problem...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson plan, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revise Your Writing
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to revise your writing for clarity. You will begin by reviewing some major considerations for revision: genre, purpose, and audience. You will...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 7:grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions
Students use the free computer game Pingus to learn how engineers, specifically environmental engineers, use their technical writing skills to give instructions and follow the instructions of others. Students learn to write instructions...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Revise and Revisit: Butterflies
Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing Our Sloppy Copies and Peer Editing Day 4 Honeybees
You mean I have to write my story again, have someone check to make sure it's right, and fix my mistakes? In this activity, students will peer edit each other's writing. They will use their five-star checklists (included) to make sure...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Introductory Prepositions and Series of Three
After giving students the writing topic "A Special Day that I Remember, give students ten to fifteen minutes to write on the topic. Then tell them they will be revising their "Special Day" prompt writing, but first they will listen to...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Glenco: Writer's Choice: Grade 8: Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Two interactive exercises where students retype three short paragraphs while making corrections in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and usage. When finished, answers can be displayed so students can check the accuracy of...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson
Lesson which allows young scholars to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing and Language Test: Standard English Conventions
On the SAT Writing & Language Test, you will encounter questions that will ask you to interact with and revise passages in different ways. Standard English Conventions questions ask you to make sentences consistent with standard...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Kinde R Revision
Six mini-lessons designed to teach beginning writers age-appropriate revisions they can make in their Writers Workshop pieces. Lessons include printable graphic organizers, revision sheets, student work samples, and more.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs
This instructional activity has students create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Makes Up a Color?
As a part of the research and revise step of the Legacy Cycle, this lesson provides students with information they will need later on to be able to average pixels to simulate blurring in the peripheral plane of vision. Students learn why...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Making Fertilizer
This lesson focuses on fertilizers including how they replace nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in the ground; how the plants get the nutrients; a table showing examples of fertilisers, their formula, and the essential elements they...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Appropriate Vocabulary
This page focuses on the choice of vocabulary in a paper: Is it clear and appropriate for the audience? Does the vocabulary fit the subject matter? W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Presenting Information on Computers
There are many different types of software and you have to decide which software is the best for you and your project. It's important to think about your audience who will see your final project. This tutorial looks at different ways to...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Mitosis and Cell Specialisation
This lesson focuses on cloning. Plants can make identical copies of themselves by asexual reproduction, for example by tubers and runners. Humans have been cloning plants for years and have recently started to develop techniques to clone...
BBC
Bbc Bitesize: Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are used to store information and data. Once we have our information in a spreadsheet we can run powerful calculations, make graphs and charts and analyse patterns.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Night Manager Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali
This lesson, based on the 11-minute animated story "The Night Manager" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children create or improve text by adding details or updating content. When a group of winter visitors arrive, Molly...
Read Works
Read Works: Predicting 2nd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to use textual clues and prior knowledge to make predictions and revise incorrect predictions. Lessons are based on the books The Stories Huey...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Spelling Circle
On this one page website use trial and error to find the words hidden in the spelling circles. Check your solution right at the website.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Money Bags
Practice your problem solving skills while you help Ram figure out how many pennies to put in each bag. The solution is right on this one page website.