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Push/Pull factors in Immigration
Students explore the push/pull factors experienced by immigrant families. They interview a parent and an American about their family's immigration history. Students write a summary of the interview and compare the push/pull factors of...
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We're Going to the Zoo!
Students write and publish a poem as part of a class poetry collection after analyzing the poetic structures of haiku, limericks, sound poems and free verse. After viewing a multimedia demonstration of the poetic structures, and after...
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Cinderella Stories
Students explore their creative writing skills. For this Cinderella writing lesson, students compare perspective as they read and discuss 2 versions of the "Three Little Pigs." Students then watch "Cinderella" and use their creative...
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Theocracy, Then and Now
Students search the Web for resources to use in preparing the project, make and defend judgments as to the authority and appropriateness of resources they include or exclude from their projects, and write clearly in the expository mode.
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Note Taking
Students discover how to transfer information from highlighted articles to note cards. Providing students with an organized system to collect and record data provide them with a lifelong skill.
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Liberty Defined
Fourth graders express their views of liberty through creative writing. They view video segments about the history of the Statue of Liberty.
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The Power of Persuasion
Ninth graders examine the use of corporal punishment in Canada. In groups, they make their own advertisement trying to persuade others to support or disagree with the practice. They also write a persuasive essay and draw an image...
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Information Fluency Unit
Fourth graders, after defining the task and searching for some creative strategies, role play being a Park Ranger who tries to save Big Bend from being removed from the National Park system in Texas. They support the keeping of Big Bend...
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The Giver: A Research Unit
Eighth graders complete a reading of Lois Lowry's, The Giver, and determine a social problem the effects the "utopian society." They research information about the social problem using a number Internet, print, and media resources. They...
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Weaving Technology into Thematic Units
Eighth graders are taught to give an understanding of an author's time period and life.
Teachers support the writing process and research techniques with technology and research books. Alternative assessment is used for evaluation.
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Total English Intermediate: Can You Remember the Word?
In this key vocabulary crossword puzzle learning exercise, students practice key vocabulary as they read the 10 clues to correctly fill in the word puzzle. Students also use the answers from the crossword to write 10 sentences.
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We the People. . .
Learners explore the United States Constitution. In this government lesson, students write newspaper editorials that reflect their opinions about Amendments.
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Short Vowel I Activity #2
In this short i worksheet, students circle the word in a pair that has the short i sound, then write the word on provided lines. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Tall Tales
Students read tall tales and then write their own tall tales. For this tall tales lesson plan, students read tall tales, write their own, produce plays, and watch videos of their tall tales.
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Color Coding Richard III
Tenth graders use color-coded annotation or text-marking to analyze a passage from Richard III. In this text analysis lesson, 10th graders read a passage from Richard III and use colored pens to analyze the text. Students then devise a...
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Bahamian Coral Reef Development
Learners study tourism and conservation. In this coral development lesson students view a PowerPoint presentation and write a report.
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Native American Legends
Students create a "legend" about an animal. In this Native American legends instructional activity, students define the purpose and importance of Native American legends. Students read "Why the Possum's Tail is Bare" and...
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If These Walls Could Talk: Seeing a Culture Through Human Features
Young scholars read Talking Walls and discuss the walls presented and their importance to the culture. In this geography lesson, students locate and label each country/continent discussed in the book on a world map. Young scholars take a...
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Women in the War
Students make decisions about how best to deal with or resolve dilemmas during the Civil War. In this women in war instructional activity, students word in groups to discuss how a given dilemma could be handled. Groups elect a...
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Act it Out
Students discuss racial stereotypes. In this racial stereotypes lesson, students develop a character from information given to them on an index card. Students give their character a race different from their own and write a...
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The Battle of Stones River: The Soldiers' Story
Learners organize items in a "doohickey kit" distributed by the teachers, creating categories using classification schemes. In this classification lesson, young scholars compare systems within groups and write questions that could be...
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Character Traits and People in Black History
Third graders, after reading a one-page biographical essay, write in paragraph form how an African American has demonstrated a certain character trait.
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The Elf Project
Third graders research elves and create their own elf description which they use to write back to the first graders Santa letters.
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Thoughts to Page: Explorations and Expressions
Young scholars are introduced to the correct techniques to use for proper writing. In groups, they practice the use of clustering to help them organize their thoughts and identify the main idea of their paper. To end the lesson, they...