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College of St. Benedict: Lecture Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information on taking notes during lectures and gives signal words to listen for during the lecture.
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Taking Notes

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides essential and additional information concerning note-taking skills, in settings such as lectures, discussions, and research papers.
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Frontiernet.net: Note Taking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from Frontiernet.net outlines the reason why educators prefer to "lecture" students, as well as the best ways to take notes during these lectures.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Snowball Note Making and Summarizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will engage in this post-reading strategy for a nonfiction or a fiction piece. Each student will take notes on a four-square square graphic organizer about something they already knew, something they found...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Changing America" by Barbara Radner

For Students 4th - 6th
This is an informational article about how Martin Luther King Jr. worked toward changing America in the 1950s and 1960s. It includes a short bio of Dr. King and a reading purpose: As you read, take notes on the problems that African...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Benedict Arnold: Two Sides of a Bitter Coin by David White

For Students 7th - 8th
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) was an American general during the American Revolutionary War. He originally fought for the colonists' Continental Army but later defected to the British Army. Today, the name "Benedict Arnold" has become...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Is It a Moth or a Butterfly?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this lesson, students will explore the differences and similarities between a moth's life and a butterfly's life. Students will be given the opportunity to improve upon their note-taking skills during a virtual museum tour....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Waves and Wave Properties

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the types of waves and how they change direction, as well as basic wave properties such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude and speed. During the presentation of lecture information on wave characteristics and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to over 250,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In this speech, King discusses racial...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Crispin/medieval Manor

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students will read the novel Crispin by Avi. Students will collect notes about social classes that were present during the Middle Ages. Students will take notes, analyze the content of their notes, and then design a map for a manor.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, students will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of customizable graphic organizers. Students will be able to engage in "during reading" strategies and writing process graphic organizers.