Finding Background Information Lesson Plans

Students discover the use of steamboats in North Carolina. After reading background information, they take notes on their reading and participate in a class discussion. They complete a KWL chart and share what they have gathered in small groups. They use a map to trace possible routes of the steamships.

Students discover the relationship between tectonic plate boundaries and the communities of life that thrive at such boundaries. In this biology lesson, students find that methane from oxidized carbon in sediments provides nutrients for deep ocean communities. This lesson includes an experiment, vocabulary, extensive background information, and multiple web resources.

Students report\ on the definition of Taliban, a description of what it is like to live under Taliban rule, background information on the Taliban leader, Osama Bin Laden, and an explanation as to why America (and other nations) are at war with the Taliban

Students understand how Nevada became a state and the role of Abraham Lincoln in Nevada's statehood. For this Nevada statehood lesson, students listen to background information, primary sources and research about Nevada's statehood. Students write letters, and demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary. Students separate truth and falsehoods about Nevada statehood.

Students create an all-natural water filtration system. In this lesson on natural water filtration, students build upon prior knowledge to build a filtration unit made of plants, soils, sand, pebbles and rocks that can purify contaminated water. This lesson includes extensions, experiments, and a web-link which provides necessary background information.

Intended to inform a general audience on why birth defect happen, they take on the role of epidemiologists. They will read background information, conduct internet research, and compile the information. A mock investigation and diagnoses concludes the lesson. This lesson is about birth defects and is not intended for use with a special ed class.

Students explore what it's like to be a teenager living today in an Islamic country in the Middle East. They gain background information by using the PBS series ISLAM: EMPIRE OF FAITH and other resources.

Students form groups to help each other read, analyze, and conduct research on important background information about Jews and their assimilation into modern American society. They write their own stories of assimilation.

Students examine the use of imagery to hold a reader's attention in an excerpt from John Deever's memoir "Mr. John and the Day of Knowledge". They are introduced to background information about the Ukraine and create original imagery.

Young scholars design and construct a gliding aircraft. They use the Internet as a research tool to gain background information about specific flight principles.