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The Second Draft of History
Young scholars draft entries about a recent historical event for a history textbook using two specific sources of information. They then compare their entries and examine the differences.
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Keeping Our Pets Safe in an Emergency
Students participate in a service learning project to benefit the members and animals in their community. In this animal welfare lesson, students review emergency preparedness. Students discuss animal safety in an emergency. Students...
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Tel-ing It Like It Is?
Pupils explore how television has changed over the last fifty years, focusing on how world events and societal trends affect (and are affected by) television.
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How Can I Contribute To A Better Neighborhood?
Students discuss their role in the community as a class. In groups, they evaluate what they like and do not like in their neighborhoods. They develop a solution for one of the aspects they do not like and share it with the class. They...
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Deportation in Narration
Students explore both sides of the United States immigration issue. Through research, they explore the increase in the deportations of undocumented immigrants over the last year, and the impact deportation has had on one immigrant...
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Historical Presents
Students research events, trends, and phenomena of specific years in the twentieth century, then design "time capsules" to commemorate those years.
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What's Fit to Print?
Students evaluate how newspapers are constructed and evaluate the extent to which newspapers serve their readers' interests.
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Aftershocks
Pupils explore how the recent earthquake in Pakistan has resulted in temporary diplomacy between Pakistan and India.
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Gaining Ground
Students explore African-American art by researching, preparing and presenting reports on particular artists. They analyze what they have learned through the lens of modernism.
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Prized Photos
Students study World Press Photo prize-winning photos in small groups and compare them with memorable personal photos.
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Reporting War: a Comparison of News Reports on Vietnam And Operation Enduring Freedom
Students research how television news shows reported on the War in Vietnam. They describe how television news shows reported on the Iraqi War and compare the two coverages. They contrast how are they similar and how they are different.
Scholastic
Scholastic: 31 Writing Prompts for the New Year
These 31 new year writing prompts will inspire your students to reflect on the past year, set realistic goals and resolutions, and look ahead to a bright future to make 2022 even more successful!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Rethinking the Fabrics We Wear
In this lesson, students examine natural and synthetic fibers. Students explore the photo essay in groups and discuss how the sheep farmer offers an alternative to mass production with a focus on the themes of resiliency and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)
Learners watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this lesson, students explore through classroom...
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...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Late to Class
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer. Students will be able to respond in writing to an explanatory writing prompt. This tool may be used as a reflective writing prompt for students who are late.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Scary Somethings
Dick Gackenbach's classic picture book, Harry and The Terrible Whatzit, is a wonderful story about a child and his fear of the Whatzit that he is sure lives in his cellar. The story shows how through determination and the desire to save...
Hopelink
Hopelink: Writing Lesson Idea: Keeping a Journal
Explore the world of journal writing with this valuable lesson plan filled with suggestions.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Learning From Mistakes
This Daily Teaching Tools resource is a reflective writing activty. Students will write a reflection regarding a mistake they have made. This activity may be used as a simple writing prompt or as part of behavior management system.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Narrative Writing Lesson: Here You Are
Inspired by Carly Patterson's song, "Here I Am," students will write personal narratives, focusing on one to three experiences in their lives which have shaped them. After filling out a survey about themselves and discussing some of the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing How to Deal With Anger
Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides students with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Poems About Ages and Stages
William Shakespeare's "The Seven Ages of Man" pointed out how life happens in stages. Modeling the Bard himself and Harry Chapin's "Cat's In The Cradle", which breaks a father-son relationship into four stages (verses), each student will...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...