Scholastic
Study Jams! Plants without Seeds
Non-vascular plants do not develop seeds in order to reproduce. There are also some vascular plants that do not put out seeds. By viewing and reading through these six slides, green thumbs learn about mosses, liverworts, and ferns. They...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Vertebrates
Your back will be covered when you use this presentation to introduce beginning biologists to phylum chordata, the vertebrates. Five classes are defined: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals throughout the eight vibrant slides....
Scholastic
Study Jams! The Senses: Smelling
It makes sense to sniff out a good lesson on the sense of smell. Here is a six-slide presentation that can be a strong component to that lesson! With photographs and expository graphics, life scientists find that smell is the detection...
Curated OER
Oral Presentation
Practice public speaking in this oral presentation lesson plan. Middle schoolers list the characteristics of a powerful speaker. They watch a video of two speakers, compare them and discuss the qualities of a good speech. Afterwards,...
Common Sense Media
Cyberbullying: Be Upstanding
Peers discuss cyberbullying and how they can defend their friends that may be bullied online and offline. They discover the value in showing empathy for those who have been cyberbullied. Class members then generate multiple...
Common Sense Media
Identifying High-Quality Sites
Use a Huffington Post article focused on false pictures of Hurricane Sandy to launch a discussion about the reliability of online information. Groups compare and contrast how print and broadcast media regulate...
Curated OER
Fruit or Vegetable?
Watermelon is a vegetable? A tomato is a fruit? Believe it or not, this debate is decades old. Groups examine rulings by the US Supreme Court, the USDA, and state statutes before developing their own criteria to use when labeling...
Curated OER
Lesson One: Characterizing Philanthropic People
Familiarize your class with philanthropy and involve individuals in philanthropic activities. First, determine the traits of philanthropic people. Class members attach sticky notes with character traits written on them to each side of at...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for students of all levels.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rephrasing the Question
This lesson explains how to rephrase reading questions into statements to improve understanding of what is being asked and provides examples. This information is offered in text and audio formats.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Answering the Question Completely
This lesson explains the importance of answering questions completely and how to do so; it provides this information in both text and audio formats.
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Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Lesson Plan: How to Analyze the News [Pdf]
Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: 5 Core Concepts of Media Literacy
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple parts of a lesson that guide students to uncover many levels of meaning in media messages. Discussion questions and a slideshow presentation are parts of the lesson that address the...
Other
Association for Educational Communications & Technology: Learning From Tv
Research regarding what is internalized and learned from television and the responsibility parents and educators have helping students to decipher between reality and fabrication. Media literacy, or how a viewer perceives what they are...
Education Development Center
Tv411: Reading: Parts of a Newspaper: Activity 3 of 3
This newspaper activity is to look at the pictures provided, read what the stories are about, and select captions that would fit both the stories and the pictures.
Other
Lumen Learning: Memorandums
This site discusses the purpose and format of a memo and helps understand effective strategies for business memos.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluating and Interpreting Media
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] When people talk about media literacy, they are talking about learning to understand what these messages really mean. This lesson will help you take a closer look at a few...
PBS
Pbs: Empire of the Air: Power and Impact of Radio
Students will listen to historic news events as broadcast on radio, view current news coverage on television, and compare and contrast how those events were reported on both media by developing an essay which addresses the question "Is...
Other
Media Literacy Clearinghouse: Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War
Was it possible to manipulate photographs during the Civil War? Teach your young scholars about critical viewing through this innovative lesson and engage them in discussion, analysis and research to explain their findings.
National Science Teachers Association
Nsta: Science & Engineering Practices: Obtaining, Evaluating, Communication
This site from NSTA includes a progression of the Science and Engineering Practice for obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information. In addition, thereare performance expectations that make use science and engineering practices.
US Department of Education
Literacy Information and Communication System (Lincs): Signal Words
This resource page provides twelve long lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers signal words for continuation, change of direction, sequence, time, illustration, emphasis, cause of condition or result, spatial,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Cities in Mesopotamia: Understanding a Complex Text
In this lesson, 6th graders use details from a nonfiction article to create a visual representation and then, from that visual, provide evidence that demonstrates their understanding of the text. Includes samples of student work and lots...
iCivics
I Civics: News Literacy
Use this library of mini-lessons to teach students to recognize high-standards journalism so they can make informed judgments about the information coming at them and to help them identify and deal with misinformation, bias, opinion, and...