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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
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Boggle's World: Creative Writing Worksheets

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
A large collection of downloadable writing prompt worksheets to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Includes a variety of themes and some on special celebrations, such as Christmas and Halloween.
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University of Oregon

Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Diamante Poems

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing diamante poems. Examples of diamante poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Designing Museum Exhibits for "The Grapesof Wrath"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Integrating various creative formats with solid, researched fact, allows students to show what they have learned. The resulting "museum" can be shared with an audience in any of a number of ways. Includes handouts, rubric, and...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Write in the Middle: Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Workshop 5 centers on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. As students explore different avenues for translating...
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant: Occasions for Informal Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What are the occasions for informal essays? Use this informative site to learn more about when and how to write these types of informal essays.
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REMC Association of Michigan

Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 17. Creative Communications

For Students 9th - 10th
Communication involves listening and speaking as well as reading and writing clearly and creatively, and technology provides opportunities for expressing yourself digitally. In these Quests, students learn about different software...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Outlining?from Freewriting to Formalizing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to write literary analysis essays about Edgar Allen Poe's ?The Fall of the House of Usher.? In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
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Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Healthy Humor

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students will enjoy these activities that promote a "Pro-Laughter" campaign using their creativity while exploring the physical and emotional effects of laughing.
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Washington Calligrapher's: Calligraphy Typeface Design

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief page from the Washington Calligrapher's Guild gives several illustrations and explanations of calligraphy, lettering, and design. Teachers could use this as a short reference with examples.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Survival of the Fittest

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will gather, select, record, interpret, and present information on survivors and their survival strategies gained from reading the novel Hatchet and true life survival biographies. They will produce a piece of comparative...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Hsa ced.a.2 Create Equations in Two or More Variables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose from a variety of creative problems (tasks) to teach how to create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities and graph equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales. Explanations and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Barbara Park Classroom Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A classroom activity concerning the life and works of the "Junie B. Jones" author Barbara Park. Includes creative discussions and processes, web links, and an annotated bibliography. From ReadWriteThink's calendar on 4/21/07.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Dice Addition 1

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will practice counting, adding, and writing numerals with this activity. This would be an ideal independent activity for centers. An example of student work is included.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.ee Sports Equipment Set

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders write and solve an inequality to solve the problem.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Many Ways to Do Addition 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will learn that there are multiple ways to solve math problems, such as drawing a picture, using counters, using fingers, using a number line, and memorizing facts. The teacher writes a simple addition problem on the whiteboard...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7 Sp Mr. Brigg's Class Likes Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A multi-step performance task word problem: In a poll of Mr. Briggs's math class, 67% of the students say that math is their favorite academic subject. The editor of the school paper is in the class, and he wants to write an article for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Boys and Girls, Variation 2

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Learners are asked to solve a word problem with both addends unknown. They will write an equation and draw a picture to use to explain their answer.
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California State University

California State University, Northridge: Amazing Egg Drop

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teams must protect a raw egg from an eight feet fall with a container they designed. To construct the container teams must use only materials given to them in a bag and must do it in an allotted time frame. Lesson plan includes a...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Md.2, 5 Sounds Really Good! (Sort Of)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A friend of yours, Phil, writes to you asking about a new scratch-off lottery game. It costs $10 to play this game. There are two outcomes for the game (win, lose) and the probability that a player wins a game is 60%. A win results in...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Defining Parallel Lines

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Alex and his friends are studying for a geometry test and one of the main topics covered is parallel lines. They each write down what they think it means for two distinct lines in a plane to be parallel. Learners are asked to analyze...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Carbon 14 Dating in Practice Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This problem introduces Carbon 14 dating which is used by scientists to date certain organic material. This version is based on the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12, which decreases at a constant exponential rate after an organism dies....
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf,if the Canoe Trip, Variation 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task about canoeing, learners must analyze paddling speed and current speed, which are working against each other, to determine how long a canoe trip would take. They write expressions and analyze characteristics of the graph...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf,if the Canoe Trip, Variation 2

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task about canoeing, paddling speed, and current speed, students examine how long a trip would take at different speeds. They write a function equation, graph their equation, and explain their thinking. The primary purpose of the...

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