Students examine how films and media affect their body image. They identify their own definition of body image and research the topic. They discover the importance of using both fact and opinion sources.

Students discover how media influences body image. They identify how the media creates an ideal beauty. They answer questions after watching "Dying to be Thin".

Students discuss body image as a group. They discover how the media affects how one sees their body. They analyze different media messages about this topic.

High schoolers use discussion and activities to create a message about body image. They discover their voice in the media and discover how the production process affects the final message from the media.

Students expand their knowledge to not focus on stereotypes. They practice using new vocabulary words and analyze different media for the use of stereotypes.

Students identify media messages about gender and body image. They discuss how they can change these messages. They create their own media message about gender and body image.

Students analyze media clips and discover how the media helps us form ideas about men and women and their roles in society. They discover some of their own preconceptions about these roles and answer questions.

Students research the life of athlete, actor, singer, cultural scholar, author, and political activist, Paul Robeson. They answer the question, "Which was most important to American culture -Robeson's work as a scholar, a performer, an...

Students examine whales that live off the coasts of Canada in several different suggested activities using a poster Whales of Canada from "Canadian Geographic". Many activities have links to additional resources.

Students work together to research one area of history that is of an interest to them. Using primary sources, they examine photographs and disuss what they already know about the topic. They present their images and information to the...

Students continue to examine the conditions students work in throughout the world. Using photographs, they discover the similarities and differences in regions throughout the world. They relate their own experiences to the child laborers.

Students analyze how the parts of a system go together and how these parts depend on each other. They comprehend the forces in terms of strength and direction. Students observe, measure and describe weather indicators.

Second graders complete spelling activities for compound words. In this compound words lesson, 2nd graders put words together to make compound words.

Learners study the three environmental issues facing New Zealand today. For this ecology lesson, students brainstorm some solutions to these environmental issues. They share what they have written in their journals.

Contains plans for three lessons to improve reading comprehension using a visualizing strategy called sketch-to-stretch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...

This guide includes an introductory section about visual evidence, a general overview of how to use this strategy with many science texts, and a plan for teaching how to use visual evidence to make inferences with the Seeds of...

This site features family reading activities that will guide parents with their children's reading development.

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Contains plans for three lessons that introduce a nonfiction prereading strategy with the acronym THIEVES, which stands for Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and vocabulary, End Questions, and Summary. In...

This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review the reading strategies of imagining and visualizing to assist with interpreting stories' characters, events, and settings. Students are given an explanation of the strategies and examples...

In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...

To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and...

How can you develop reading fluency in your students? This site offers insight into the direct and indirect approaches to teaching reading fluency. Come and check it out.