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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to generate ideas and questions as a part of the writing process in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Writing the Persuasive Essay:...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies to help you generate questions and ideas about a topic.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generating Ideas and Questions About a Research Topic

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on creating a research question including determining the purpose and audience, brainstorming a topic, researching the question for information, and refining and narrowing the question. W.9-10.7 Research....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering Brainstorming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars act as an engineering consulting firm with the task to design and sell their idea for a new vehicle power system. During the brainstorming activity (Generate Ideas), students determine and comprehend what type of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Keepers of the Gate Journal and Brainstorm

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students journal their thoughts and responses to the questions associated with the grand challenge question presented in the associated lesson. For the Generate Ideas" step, they answer the questions: "What are your initial ideas about...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...
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Other

Infinite Innovations Ltd.: Free Brainstorming Training

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of free resources from a London-based developer of software that facilitates the process of brainstorming. Answers all the essential questions about brainstorming and includes many helpful brainstorming how-tos and sidebars...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prewriting: Dialogue

For Students 9th - 10th
A six-slide presentation introducing how to have a dialogue in order to brainstorm ideas during the prewriting stage of the writing process.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Heart to Heart

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. They brainstorm ideas that pertain to various heart conditions and organize these ideas into categories that help them research...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Fix the Hip Challenge

For Teachers 10th - 12th
This lesson introduces the Bone Module Grand Challenge question. Students are asked to write their initial responses to the question alone. They will then brainstorm ideas with one other student. Finally, the ideas are shared with the...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Where the Red Fern Grows" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 4th - 6th
Great reading guide for "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls. Provides pre-reading material, including an author bio, book introduction, background articles, and journaling activities, as well as charting and brainstorming ideas...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Shiloh" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore Phyllis Reynold Naylor's "Shiloh" with the help of this study guide, which provides pre-reading material (author biography, vocabulary, introductory article), reading activities, brainstorming ideas, and thought-provoking writing...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Nectar in a Sieve" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Kamala Markandaya's "Nectar in a Sieve" with the help of a vocabulary lists, pre-reading questions and activities, brainstorming ideas, and thought-provoking discussion and writing prompts. After reading the novel, draw...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Great reading guide for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. Provides pre-reading material, including an author bio, play introduction, vocabulary lists, and journaling activities, as well as charting and brainstorming...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Heart of Darkness" and "The Secret Sharer" [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore Joseph Conrad's novella, "Heart of Darkness," and his short story, "The Secret Sharer," with the help of this study guide. It provides pre-reading material (author biography, vocabulary, introductory article), reading activities,...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Call of the Wild" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Great guide for reading and exploring Jack London's "The Call of the Wild." Provides pre-reading material, including an author biography, book introduction, vocabulary lists, and journaling activities, as well as charting and...
Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Great reading guide for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. Provides pre-reading material, including an author bio, book introduction, background articles, and journaling activities, as well as charting and brainstorming ideas...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Live Like an Animal

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students design an innovative human shelter that is inspired and informed by an animal structure. Each group is assigned an animal class, and they gather information about shelters used by the animals in that class....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Teaching the Engineering Design Process

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students follow the steps of the engineering design process (EDP) while learning about assistive devices and biomedical engineering. They first go through a design-build-test activity to learn the steps of the cyclical engineering design...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Latex and Hybrids: What's the Connection?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An engineering challenge where students create small-scale models from which their testing results could be generalized to large-scale latex tubing for a hydraulic accumulator. They brainstorm ideas about how latex can be used in a...
Unit Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "Brothers Karamazov" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this study guide to enhance your understanding and exploration of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, "The Brothers Karamazov." Prepare for the text with an author biography, vocabulary lists, and pre-reading activities. While reading,...
Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Story Starters: Powerful Sentences

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students will click a button that will help them generate ideas for story development. Students can click several times, if needed, until one of the ideas is interesting to them. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Georgia Tech's Invention Studio: Live Exploration

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a special trip to Georgia Tech's Flowers Invention Studio with GPB Education! This interactive virtual exploration offers students an inside look at the world's largest student-run makerspace as they learn about the engineering...

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