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Building Relationships: The Orphan of Ellis Island

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Family and friendship are two very important themes of the historical fiction novel The Orphan of Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff. From video clips and writing prompts to reader's theater and family interviews, this resource...
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EngageNY

Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Analyzing an Interview with a Rainforest Scientist Part 1

For Teachers 5th Standards
What's it like to study snakes, reptiles, and turtles in their natural habitats? Serving as the mid-unit assessment, pupils read an interview with a rainforest scientist. Next, they analyze the text and answer text-dependent questions.
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EngageNY

Reading an Interview: “Sloth Canopy Researcher: Bryson Voirin”

For Teachers 5th Standards
It's time to slow down and learn about sloths! Scholars read the first few questions of an interview with a sloth canopy researcher, looking for the gist. Next, they create a glossary in the back of their journals to add new scientific...
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Curated OER

Interview! Magazine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars interview a subject and write a biographical sketch for a fictional magazine. In this interview lesson plan, students choose a person to interview and create two sets of questions. Young scholars conduct the interview....
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Curated OER

English - "What, Why, When, How, Where, Who?" - Framing Questions to Obtain Information

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore interviewing skills. In this interviewing skills lesson, students frame questions to obtain informative answers as they use what, why, when, how, where, and who questions.
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Curated OER

Career Bytes Interview

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct career-based interviews. In this career education lesson, students research careers and interview career professionals to produce a video that features ins and outs of the career.
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Curated OER

A Question, Mr. Lincoln!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners discuss Abraham Lincoln. In this social science lesson, students describe key events in Lincoln's life. Learners practice using interviewing skills to gather information pretending to be Lincoln.
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Curated OER

World War II Veteran Interview Project

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars learn interview skills by formulating questions and videotaping an interview with a veteran.
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Curated OER

Why Does Service Matter?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners determine how community members serve others. In this service learning lesson, students interview community members who volunteer by serving others. Learners then determine how they could serve their community.
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Curated OER

Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners write questions to elicit interesting and revealing biographies of other Students. They write their responses and illustrate some of them.
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Curated OER

Biography Chat

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students profile a mock television talk-show format to conduct mock interviews with famous people in history. Students read biographies of famous people in history. Students assemble questions for interviews.
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Story Corps

The Great Thanksgiving Listen

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
StoryCorp provides a resource that captures and preserves the remembrances of family or community elders. Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, class members select a person they want to interview, record the conversation, and then upload...
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Curated OER

Wise Spenders and Savvy Savers

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the business community in their own town. They design interview questions before interviewing business people. They look at what type of good and services are offered in their area. They design a multimedia...
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PBS

Family History: Those with Lofty Ideals

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Would you stand up for your beliefs, no matter the cost? Scholars investigate their own families to uncover examples of how and when someone stood up for their ideals. Using video clips, interviews, and eulogies, they come to understand...
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Curated OER

The Scoop on Local Business

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How do local businesses support their state or regional economy? The New York Times has prepared another great lesson for your class. They begin by listing products grown or manufactured in their state or region then write interview...
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Curated OER

Kids Making News

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders correspond with one another regarding interesting global topics. They swap interview questions and collaborate in the publishing of an online newspaper. This should be a highly motivating lesson which get kids writing!
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Stanford University

Voices of the Struggle: The Continual Struggle for Equality

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of the Civil Rights Movement from 1868 to the present, class members examine first person narratives, the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and other significant events in civil rights history....
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Teacher.org

The History of Thanksgiving

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The first Thanksgiving is the focus of a lesson that boosts reading comprehension and interview skills. Half the class reads about Pilgrims while the other half reads about the Native American, Squanto. After answering questions, pupils...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Gathering Information

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Before making important decisions, gathering as much information as possible is best. That's the take-away from the second instructional activity in the Decision-Making module of the Overcoming Obstacles course. Middle schoolers engage...
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Nebraska Department of Education

Work: Love It or Hate It?

For Teachers 9th
Future job seekers interview adults who love their work and ones that dislike their work. After reflecting on what they learned in a whole-class discussion, participants create a mission statement that details what they want and don't...
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Google

Music and Sound: Guru Introduction and Musical Talent Show

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Become talented in computer science. After interviewing a computer science guru, pupils work on individual projects related to a virtual music talent show. They learn how to use different code blocks in the Scratch programming language,...
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Free Library of Philadelphia

Resources for Ghost Boys

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Ghost Boys, wanted to bring the historical legacy of Emmett Till and the current topic of racial prejudice into today's young readers' mindsets. Use a reading guide and set of discussion questions to...
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Curated OER

Striving for Success

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore their own talents and create interview questions for a peer involved in a particular extracurricular activity. They write newspaper articles based on the interviews.
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Curated OER

Great Migration 2002

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders compose journal entries that relate to interview topics working in pairs interviewing each other. They create ten interview questions on their own as well as deliver presentations about their interviews of one another. Each...

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