Facing History and Ourselves
Socratic Seminar
New to the socratic seminar format? Check out a resource that not only provides the rationale for the procedure and step-by-step directions, but also provides a list of suggested topics, rules and model statements.
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Multi-screen Apps
Scholars continue their study of event-driven programming by creating a multi-screen app in the fifth instructional activity of the series. They incorporate previously learned elements and events in the mini-project.
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Reader's Theater: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The opening chapters of Mark Twain's masterpiece, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, can be daunting for some readers. A reader's theater assignment divides the second chapter of the novel into a seven-role script, allowing...
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Young People and Television
Students explore communication by participating in a role playing lesson. In this media analysis lesson, students answer surveys about their own television watching habits and compare them to the rest of the class. Students complete...
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Revising: Strong Conclusions for My Accessing Books Around the World Informative Paragraph
It's important that writers leave their readers with a strong and satisfying conclusion. Help your young writers develop the skills to compose a concluding sentence with the steps outlined here. After class members have had a chance to...
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The Crisis in the Ivory Coast
Through reading a variety of news articles and other informational texts, learners discover the political turmoil and intense ethnic and religious tensions that envelop the Ivory Coast today. Class members research the historical...
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Descriptive Writing Using the Book Rumpelstiltskin
Use the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin to teach your third grade class about descriptive writing. Following a teacher read-aloud of the story, the class brainstorms a list of adjectives describing the main character. Students use this list...
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The Horror! The Horror!
Gear up for Halloween by studying the horror genre with your class and analyzing films and texts to uncover the genre's traditional conventions.
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French and Indian War: Make A Map
Fifth graders create a map of the battles that occurred during The French and Indian War. In this history lesson plan, 5th graders read about the war in their text books, then divide into groups to create a detailed map of a famous...
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Reading Skills: Chunking
Prepare advanced English learners and low-level readers for the reading demands of post-secondary education with skill of chunking. Readers learn to make meaning from phrases rather than individual words, helping them to read more...
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Teacher of the Year
Now is the time to identify the great teachers in your school! Discuss the characteristics of persuasive writing and analyze an example. Then, each pupil chooses a teacher who they feel should be named teacher of the year. They plan and...
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Teaching Summarization
Examine the process of summarizing a piece of text using the book So You Want to Be a President? Kids review the definitions for main idea, topic sentences, superordinate terms, and supporting details. Next, they work in small...
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Goodbye snail mail, hello email
Sixth graders send a picture as an attachment in an email and define email vocabulary. In this email lesson plan, 6th graders learn how to properly send an email and the etiquette that goes along with it.
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An Air-Powered Car
Youngsters read text about an environmentally-friendly car. They try to figure out the meaning of the vocabulary in the text and discuss issues related to alternative energy sources. This thoughtful, well-designed plan has all the...
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Energy
Scientific terms can be difficult to remember. This resource suggests developing analogies as a way to make energy terms memorable. After listing new terms on the board, groups develop analogies based on restaurant words, and then share...
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Punctuation Theater
Break out the slide whistles, triangles, and tambourines. It's time for a punctuation lesson. This richly detailed plan is loaded with ideas and activities for using rhythm instruments to accent the punctuation in folk tales. A...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Transportation and Travel
Students, while defining an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, identify common signs and symbols that they may encounter when traveling or using some form of transportation (enter, exit, push, pull, men,
women, caution, no...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Literacy Foundations--LCP A
Students, after reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms, examine the proper ways to give accurate personal information orally and in writing. In addition, they practice writing with possessive adjectives.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Effective Interpersonal Communication
Students explore various ways to express likes, dislikes, feelings, and emotions when communicating between people. They model these ways via pictures of food, weather, music, sports, cars, etc.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics
Students analyze/recognize/identify basic body parts in connection to communicating productively on health and nutrition in the event that a need arises requesting medical attention.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics
Students, after encountering an intense vocabulary list of health and nutritional terms, examine basic health care requests and issues that might come up in every day situations.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Health and Nutrition
Students, while reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, identify basic personal hygiene products/practices along with daily grooming routines. They discuss the importance of these routines socially and health wise on a daily basis.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Effective Telephone Communication
Students identify and incorporate how to use a telephone book, a calling card and analyze their telephone bill and pay their telephone bill while reviewing the vocabulary list on the board. In addition, basic utilities are covered in...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Concepts of Time and Money
Students identify different denominations of United States currency and symbols associated with money and reading prices. In addition, in pairs they identify examples of currency from newspapers and magazines.