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I Love Navarre

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a research checklist to gather information for a brochure of their local area. students then use a Brochure Data List and Brochure Rubric to edit their brochure. They discuss and revise and create their final brochure.
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Using the News

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students give oral predictions to news articles. They discuss and revise their interpretations of the content material.
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People Do Not Live in Round Houses

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a computer as a research tool. They make note cards as they go and use their note cards to guide their word processing. They edit their papers and add artwork.
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Agriculture Counts

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils discuss ways in which agriculture impacts their lives on a daily basis. In groups, they brainstorm ideas that they could possibly write about. They write a rough draft, participate in peer editing and write a final draft of a...
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Creating a School Web Site

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create websites for their school. They work in groups as a web team and devise a self-management plan. As they work on projects reflecting school life, the team edits what may appear online as the school's web site. ...
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Limited Resources - Understanding Our Cultural Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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...
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Biographical Research Paper

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students choose a subject for a biographical research paper. They use books, the Internet, encyclopedias and articles to gather information on a determined subject then follow a rubric to write a research paper.
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Reading/English Language Arts/ Instructional Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given a line drawing that only that students sees. They are asked to describe the drawings to the reset of the class to see if they can draw it as the teacher describes it. Students work with a partner, and they are given a...
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Creating Hate: The Power of Words

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore why authors choose to use hate words in literature. In this power of words lesson, students complete group participation, journal entries, and written assignments to investigate the use of inflammatory...
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ACT College Readiness Standards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Here is a template offering a comprehensive outline of ACT skill categories, what standards are expected to be mastered, and blank spaces for you to include how you plan to address those standards within your curriculum.
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Tacky and the Winter Games

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Helen Lester's wonderfully wacky, Tacky and the Winter Games, is the core text featured in a resource packet that includes a prediction exercise, an activity menu, vocabulary flash cards, and book review worksheet. A great way to cheer...
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Journalism for Justice

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Roll the presses! Or at least have your class members participate in the time-honored tradition of the student press by creating their own newspapers or journalist pieces on a social problem. After conducting research and collaborating...
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Animals of Rhomaar

For Students 7th Standards
Investigate the growth rates of alien animals. Pupils study fictional animals from another planet to determine how much they grow per year. The investigators plot the growth of their animals over a period of time and then compare...
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To Whom It May Concern

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders produce and peer edit typed rough drafts of the business letters following the guidelines illustrated in the Eight Essential Parts of a business letter and save to disks. They complete the Where's the Math? scavenger hunt...
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The Research Paper - Searching for a Subject

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students research a website to look for potential topics for a research paper. They develop a narrowed prioritized subject list on an index card (3X5) using word processing program.
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Newspaper Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars cut out nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs from newspapers and create poems using words they have found.
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Keyboard Buddies in my Community

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders utilize Microsoft Word to create stationery and letters to send to other children in their school building, expressing experiences in their daily lives. As the unit progresses, they create documents to send to other second...
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Heading West

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study the concept of the westward expansion. In this exploration of the western U.S. lesson, students participate in different activities that explain economic hardships, jobs, and land opportunities. Students describe...
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The Color of Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars listen to a story about colors and then write their own color poems.
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Understanding Human Rights Through One Woman's Struggle: Aung San Suu Kyi

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students analyze human rights in the international community. In this human rights lesson, students explore the United Nations, and the Declaration of Human Rights. Students read about Aung San Suu Kyi and watch a video about human...
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The Poetics of Hip Hop

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers consider the role of rhythm, form, diction, and sound in poetry. In this integrated arts lesson, students discuss the attributes of poetry as they analyze Shakespearean sonnets, hip hop music lyrics, and poems by...
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Our School's News

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students work collaboratively in small groups to create and edit various publications to promote their school's activities and accomplishments. Groups work to complete these publications and publish or update them bi-monthly.
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The Witch of Goingsnake

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students write an essay comparing and contrasting Frank Parris and George Ballad. In this The Witch of Goingsnake instructional activity, students brainstorm vocabulary used to show comparison and create a model thesis statement....
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Language Arts: Character Analysis

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the character traits of Peter in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. They find quotations in the story that illlustrate the traits. Students use Kidspiration to write their reports on a template.

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