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It's Your Birthday! Expository Writing Unit 2
Students create an expository essay. In this writing lesson Students are assigned a country and must conduct research surrounding a historic event that occurred in that country at the time of their birth.
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Through My Eyes
Fifth graders read the book Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges. In this segregation lesson, 5th graders read Ruby's story to find out what happened in her life. They write their own narrative about what 'first' they would most like to...
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Box O' Love
Pupils create a Valentines Day poem using an empty cereal box as their canvas. For this poetry lesson, students create their poems using rhyming words and create sentences.
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What's Fit to Print?
Students evaluate how newspapers are constructed and evaluate the extent to which newspapers serve their readers' interests.
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Using the News
Young scholars give oral predictions to news articles. They discuss and revise their interpretations of the content material.
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Where Are the MDG's?
Students read local and global media to bring awareness to the Millennium Development Goals. In this Global Awareness lesson, students read the Millennium Development Goals and identify them in news media (print or online). Students...
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Democracy: Participating in the Process
Students research all of the candidates running in an upcoming election. They interview them if possible and state their platforms. They organize a forum for the candidates to come and speak at their school.
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Newsinary
Students demonstrate dictionary and vocabulary skills. They create an index card book containing a page for each letter of the alphabet that includes a word, definition, and sentence.
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Using the News
Young scholars give oral predictions to news articles. They discuss and revise their interpretations of the content material.
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Reading for Information: Chinese Emigration
Students explore Chinese emigration and answer comprehension questions from the reading; students conduct interview with someone who has immigrated to the United States.
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Loud or Soft? Quick or Slow?
Students discuss storyteling ans what makes a story interesting to listen to. They listen as the teacher demonstrates reading expressively. Students work with a reading partner and practice reading with expression. They read from a...
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Explaining a Legend
Students explain the place of the legend of Herakles in ancient Greek life and compare ancient and modern legends in an essay.
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A Statistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet
Learners use a book or magazine to research the use of letters. They complete a worksheet and compare their results.
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Moving with the Marigolds
Students identify the basic needs and purposes of flowers. They differentiate between wants and needs of people. They participate in trust building exercises. They role play the movements of flowers.
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Race to the Eating Line Lesson Plan
Seventh graders participate in the building and racing of a vegetable and fruit race car.
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A Statistical Study on the Letters of the Alphabet
Students see that there are mathematical rules that can affect our use of the English language. Calculate the probability of picking any letter at random from a piece of English literature.
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When You Put It All Together!
Students review information from variety of news sources found on the Internet, and compare and contrast the information.
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Severe Weather is Spring Challenge
Students research storms and appropriate warning procedures in their home towns and conduct interviews to find out suggestions for students and others in their community to keep themselves safe. Afterwards, students write a news feature...
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Develop Journalistic Style--Birds
Students develop journalistic style of writing through considering selection and presentation of information. Students tie science with journalistic writing. Students summarize several science species.
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Brainstorming Solutions
Students discuss common problems and interests with their classmates as a vehicle for problem solving. After sharing their problems, students work in groups to brainstorm possible solutions to their problems. This instructional...
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What Causes AIDS?
Twelfth graders in an ESL classroom use the internet to research the causes of AIDS. As a class, they discuss the topics mentioned in the various websites and determine if they are viable causes for the disease. They create a...
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Primary Grade Historians
Students read and analyze books about elders and develop a set of interview questions. They define respect and ways to show respect to elders and conduct an interview with elders. Finally, students write an oral history of a senior...
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Breaking News English: Israeli Troops Kill Aid Activists
In this English learning exercise, students read "Israeli Troops Kill Aid Activists," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.
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Breaking News English: Lonely Planet Travel Guide in Fraud Scandal
In this English worksheet, students read "Lonely Planet Travel Guide in Fraud Scandal," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, 2 graphic organizer, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.