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Fretful Over Fast Food

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders research fast food options and write an essay on the topic. In this fast food lesson, 5th graders pretend they are a babysitter and research fast food restaurant options to eat at while they are baby-sitting. Students write...
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Just Write It!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a planning sheet to complete a story focusing on details, good word choice, and transition words. They share their stories with the class.
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Limited Resources - Understanding Our Cultural Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and compare preserving natural resources and preserving cultural resources. They conduct Internet research on two topics, and write a position paper on whether cultural resources or natural resources are more important...
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My Town...From A Kid's View

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners decide what is important in a community and explore their particular community. In class, the students will discuss what each considers important in a community. Each student will identify something about their town that is...
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My Heritage Country Report

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list five food dishes that are part of their family's heritage. Each student then does research of a country and a recipe (possibly a family recipe). With the help of members of his/her kitchen group, the student prepares the dish.
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Presentation of Pilgrims

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are given a category to research (clothes, life before the New World, the voyage, etc.) about Pilgrim life. s Students, in groups, create presentations using software program such as PowerPoint.
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Art or Artifact?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze and discuss illustrations of the New World by John White. They examine the images, answer questions about each one, and write an essay.
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Amazing Speeches

For Teachers 5th
Students study the speeches of Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Joseph. Students write a story set during the Nineteenth Century Era. Students present their story to the class. Handouts and worksheets are included in the...
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Self-portraits: Integrating Arts And the Language Arts

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students look into a mirror and draw their own self-portraits. Then they write a descriptive essay, describing the portrait and the features of their face.
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read the book, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." Using the internet, 3rd graders research weather conditions, plants, animals and foods from different countries. After sharing information, they discuss similarities and...
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Job Interview

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders write a multi paragraphed, expository composition that explanins how one would conduct themself before, during, and after a job interview. In order to be prepared for the interview, 8th graders complete a thesis, have an...
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Exploring the History of Canyon De Chelly: The Navajos

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students are introduced to the novel Sing Down The Moon written by Scott O'Dell. Throughout the book, after each chapter is read, class discussions and journal writing is incorporated into the unit.
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Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the characteristics of a persuasive letter. They label each characteristic and they create a persuasive letter using the correct business letter format. Students recommend a school rule or change of a rule and justify...
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Farewell to the Former Library Media Specialist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write a letter to their former library media specialist incorporating brainstormed ideas of what they have liked about the library media center. In this way students let the teacher know about what has been done in the past and...
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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush: Native American Life

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read," The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush" by Tomie dePaola and discuss the way legends are passed down orally. They then create their own legend and illustrate it on a simulated "Buffalo Skin" made from brown paper.
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Writing Letters Using Appleworks

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover how to write letters using Appleworks. Following a demonstration by the teacher, they compose rough drafts of their letters. Working independently, students correct their drafts and type the final versions.
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The Thrill of Big-Wave Surfing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students view a PBS Nature program about big-wave surfing and participate in a class discussion about their experiences with surfing, body boarding, or body surfing. Students create a drawing based on a reading and post their art around...
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Internet Project - Project Groundhog

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils share weather and community information with other students across the continents. In groups, pupils collect details, pictures, and drawings about their community, its weather patterns, and school. They predict if groundhog is a...
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Alex: Narrative Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Students learn to use a one-main idea Think-sheet for producing a narrative paragraph. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Alex: My Story Quilt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will write narrative paragraphs about specific events in their lives. Then students will paint images and symbols from their paragraphs onto pieces of fabric, which will be used to make quilts.
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Alex: Glorious Sunflowers

For Teachers K - 1st
In this instructional activity students will identify, measure and graph seeds and other characteristics of sunflowers and write descriptive and narrative paragraphs about sunflowers. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Writing Fix: Organizing a Story With Purposeful Paragraphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students organize and design a narrative based on three developing ideas.
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Your Dictionary: 5th Grade Grammar

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This article focuses on the grammar learned in the 5th grade including writing narrative paragraphs, homonyms, synonyms, and irregular plurals.
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Class Flow: Expository vs Narrative Intros

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives examples of expository and narrative introductions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a

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