Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization of an Ecosystem Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Biological Classification: Organization of All Living Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
All living things can be identified by their placement in a biological classification table. Students will investigate the organization of all living things and learn how to classify through the process of classifying their own shoes....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson discusses the organization of descriptive papers. It reviews descriptive papers, lists the three most common organizational patterns: least to greatest, greatest to least, and chronological. Determining which order...
Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Descriptive Writing

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
This is a comprehensive article about what descriptive writing including what it is, why to teach it and strategies to teach it. It also features two videos Five Senses Graphic Organizer and Writing Poems as well as an annotated list of...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Traits of Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos, images, and a rubric about the six traits of writing: ideas, voice, organization, word choice, fluency, and conventions.
Primary
Yale University

Charter of the Organization of American States, 1948

For Students 9th - 10th
The Avalon Project of the Yale Law School here provides the text of all 112 articles of the OAS charter, adopted at the Bogota Conference of American States, March 30-May 2, 1948.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Cause and Effect Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A screencast lesson [5 mins, 53 secs] explaining how create an outline to plan the organization of a cause and effect essay. Following the lesson, a printable document provides an outline format for students to follow when writing their...
Handout
Colorado State University

Colorado State University: Writing @ Csu Writing Guides

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a fairly sophisticated series of writing guides. It assumes that users already have a solid grasp of spelling, grammar and mechanics, so it focuses more on organization and types of presentation than on more basic skills....
Handout
The Write Place

Literacy Education Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
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Other

Friends University: Patterns of Organization and Their Clue Words [Pdf]

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Chart lists patterns of organization with their corresponding clue words.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This effective tool for teaching persuasive writing contains thorough lesson plans which encourage students to take a stance and create arguments to support their position. Contains printable worksheets, rubrics, a PowerPoint...
Professional Doc
Other

Writers Guild of America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is the Writers Guild of America homepage. It is an organization for writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries. In addition to other services, the site provides a mentoring service for its members.
Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Little Toy Friend Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson students will create a poem from the viewpoint of a lost toy.
Handout
Boise State University

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing assistance offers help in the writing process, grammar and mechanics, usage, and four different types of essays, as well as help on deciding what and how to document.
Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This University of North Carolina writing tutorial gives examples and how to use transitions and stresses the importance of organization. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans, W.11-12.1c...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pingus Penguins: Writing Good Instructions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
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...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this lesson, students will use the song "The 3 R's" by Jack Johnson to develop ideas about how to "green" up their own classrooms; they will learn two songs (written to the tune of old classics) that will inspire them to brainstorm...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust the organization of your essay to make it appropriate for different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Purpose, Audience, and Context

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay, including purpose, audience, and context.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Analytical Writing in the Content Areas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Because writing is thinking, the organization of students' writing reflects both the structure of their thinking and the depth of their understanding. Students should be writing in all their classes, explaining what they know and how...
Activity
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argumentative Papers: Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the organization of argumentative papers and developing an outline for them. It begins with topic, stance, and thesis statement; next one lists each claim in order of appearance in a paper and two different...