TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get the Word Out at Mc Donalds!
Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
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The Process of Research Writing
This online book outlines a process for teaching research and writing in ways beyond the traditional, one-time, massive "research paper" Lots of food for thought. The chapters take you through the writing process and more. Click on the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Field Trip)
An adult-led field trip allows students to be organized into investigation teams that catalogue the incidence of plastic debris in different environments. These plastics are being investigated according to their type, age, location and...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: What's the Problem?
The aim of this unit is for students to develop their persuasive writing and information gathering skills using various forms of information and communication technology. It is hoped that the context of 'teenage problems' will provide an...
Can Teach
Can Teach: Letter to the Editor
"Students will analyze and interpret letters to the editor, and use this information to write their own." Lesson plan indicated for 6th grade, could be adapted for Elementary School.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Speaking and Listening: Formal and Informal Speaking
This Skillswise site focuses on formal and informal speaking. Included are a video about how to decide whether to use formal or informal speech, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write an organized expository text in five lessons: Introduction, The Type of Burger: The Controlling Idea, Toppings: The...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Synthesizes Ideas
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to bring ideas together in an expository text in four lessons: Introduction, Analyzing Our Sources, Pulling Out the Major Points...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Poetry Writing
This site comes from the Scholastic website and provides a teacher's guide to writing poetry. This lesson plan is put together very well and provides an outline of the project, learning objectives, assessment information and much more.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Writing a Letter
This Skillswise site focuses on letter writing. Included is a video about why it is important to learn about letter writing, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Designing Effective Poster Presentations
Contains plans for six or seven lessons that teach young scholars to create and present effective poster presentations. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: Improving Society
Complete teaching unit for 8th Grade Argumentative Writing Unit: "Improving Society." Students will read six texts about problems in society. Throughout the unit, 8th graders will gather information from their readings in a graphic...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Introduction to the Nature Journal [Pdf]
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian in Your Classroom: Introduction to the Nature Journal [Pdf]
Smithsonian in the Classroom presents "Introduction to the Nature Journal." Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students will practice and develop their skills of writing observations and making hypotheses....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Mapping the Data)
In a student-led and fairly independent fashion, data collected in the associated field trip activity are organized by student groups to create useful and informative Google Earth maps. Each team creates a map, uses that map to analyze...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Discovering Memory Li Young Lee's Poem "Memonic" and the Brain
Contains plans for eight cross-curricular lessons that teach about memory and the brain using Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic." In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"
Learners are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge
This lesson introduces the MRI Safety Grand Challenge question. Students are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they will need to answer the question. The ideas are shared with the class and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Simulating Human Vision
Students are introduced to the Robotics Peripheral Vision Grand Challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they require to answer the question. Their ideas are shared...
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Author's Purpose 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-activity unit on author's purpose. In the first activity, students practice identifying the author's purpose as to entertain, to persuade, or to inform. In the second activity, students use...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] An inference is a guess based on the information within a situation. It is valid if the guess is logical. This lesson teaches you how to check a completed draft for relevant...