Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Researching With the Alabama Virtual Library
After an introduction to the Alabama Virtual Library, students use the available resources to research and present information about a United States president.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Rookie Project
This is a three-part writing project which includes a research paper, a creative short story, and a movie review inspired by the movie, The Rookie. The lesson is easily adapted to other appropriate films of similar themes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Harlem Renaissance Unit
This unit on the history and contribution of the Harlem Renaissance combines research and creative presentations in the form of slideshows, a timeline, and desktop publishing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am a Fish
This cross-curricular lesson combines research on an ecological issue with creative writing. After conducting research on an important environmental issue, middle schoolers will present their findings from a different point of view.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Primary and Secondary Sources
Fourth graders will be learning about the difference between a primary and secondary source.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup
A lesson plan in which students complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Molecular Targets of Antiretroviral Therapies
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz related to the viral life cycle and antiretroviral therapies for HIV/AIDS.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 1.5 Basic and Applied Science
Get an overview of applied science where people use and apply information obtained through basic science.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Deliver a Presentation
Students deliver presentations to express understanding of a chosen topic based on a culminating task rubric. This is the second part of a task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Draft a Presentation
Students work through drafting a presentation.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare for a Presentation
We will review expectations and then draft our presentation of our culminating task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application: Students Create a Final Draft
Ninth graders create a final draft of a culminating task product.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Deliver a Presentation
Gather and organize a culminating task tool, presentation materials, and any technology needed to deliver a presentation.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application: Students Deliver a Presentation
Students deliver their presentation to share their research and product and explain how their task connects to learning earlier in the course. They also reflect on their work, the work of their peers, and the course.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Create an Outline
Students continue conducting research. They also brainstorm and create an outline for their culminating task product. They also work with a partner to evaluate the content and ideas of their outline before they create a draft of their...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Application Guidebook Goals
Students learn about the specific goals of the Application Guidebook where they will select a task and begin conducting research for their task.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application: Student Selected Task Overview
Select a task that is related to one or more of the units studied in the course. Conduct research to extend our understanding of the texts and/or topics of one or more units. Express your understanding by creating a product and...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Teen Decision Making and Behavior
Students research an age restricted privilege/right such as driving, drinking, and voting. Students conduct research to answer questions including: Why was the age limit for your privilege determined? When was it determined? Students use...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the section diagnostic. This will help you understand the writing task.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Have a Babushka?
This lesson will familiarize young scholars with the author Patricia Polacco. Students will use appropriate resources to gather information about Polacco, categorize the information, and record it in a graphic organizer (concept map).
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Trade Secrets: Classroom Content: Lesson 1
Trade Secrets reveals how the public's right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been compromised. This lesson focuses on the processes of designing and interpreting results from health-related studies.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Art History Learning Stools [Pdf]
Fourth graders will learn about the art that documents our world via art history, genres, and master artists. They will select an era or artist that inspires them, research it, and create an artwork using collage, painting and drawing...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Un Partition Plan, September 1947
This authentic UN map depicts the political lines to be drawn to partition Palestine as established in 1947.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Partition Plan
The background for creating a plan to partition Palestine, as well as the details of the plan itself and its effects are discussed.