Lesson Plan
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Using Story Structure to Enhance Comprehension

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In these story structure worksheets, students review story structure and learn how to use story maps to help with their reading comprehension. Students review an example story map and then study three different graphic organizer versions...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Philadelphia's Important Contribution to the Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students analyze a primary source document (Jefferson's secret letter to Congress) and identify its objectives through the aid of focus questions. They complete a graphic organizer and write an article summarizing Philadelphia's...
Organizer
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Comparing Concepts

For Students 7th - 8th
In this comparing concepts worksheet, students use a compare/contrast organizer to explore analogous and non-analogous characteristics of two concepts related to a given topic.
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Writing and Revising Our Texts: Using Peer Critique to Improve First Drafts

For Teachers 5th Standards
Mail me a postcard. Individuals design a postcard to show what Meg Lowman from The Most Beautiful Roof in the World might have written to her friends at home. They then continue to work on writing a science journal entry.
Organizer
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Key Idea Chart

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this "key idea" worksheet, students complete a "KIM" graphic organizer: key idea, information, memory clue. Students are given a sample organizer, then complete a blank one on as assigned topic.
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Mississippi Delta Blues Moves: Second in a Series of Three with Barb Hoffman and Steve Hoskins, MGM

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students complete a graphic organizer reviewing Barb Hoffman's prior lesson," Slave Songs (1840-1876)" as well as listen to and discuss Delta Blues music samples. Students research one Delta Blues singer and write a "color coded"...
Unit Plan
Newspaper Association of America

A Good Read

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Teach your readers strategies for breaking down informational texts. Pupils develop and implement the tools they'll need to decode texts for the rest of their lives with an informational resource that focuses on the structure and...
Lesson Plan
Ontario

Critical Literacy—Media Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Media texts convey both overt and implied messages. As part of their study of media, class members analyze the language, form, techniques, and aesthetics in a variety of media texts.
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The New York Times

A Guide to Political Donations

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Voters determine the outcome of elections, but campaign donors can influence the attitudes of those voters. Explore nine examples of donors and the amounts of money they want to contribute, and the legal ways the groups can or cannot...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Classify Rocks

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students classify different types of rocks. For this earth science lesson, students test different rock samples and construct a chart to record observations. They create a concept map that answers essential questions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Hamburger Essay - AKA The Sandwich Essay

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils discuss how a five paragraph essay has five basic parts. They compare this to a well-made hamburger. They create a mind map of a five paragraph essay using the graphic of a tasty hamburger sandwich.
Lesson Plan
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Patterns, Functions & Algebra

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students participate in numerous activities and games. In pairs, they play card games to find relationships between a random set of playing cards. After writing samples of Dear Abby letters concerning math problems, students create a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Problem and Solution Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore problems and solutions in literature. In this literature lesson plan, students identify problems and solutions in short guided and independent reading samples. Students also discuss characterization techniques used to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Brochure Writing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify the attributes of informative brochures. For this written communication lesson, students examine sample brochures to investigate the layout and the information presented. Students then select topics to create their own...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

SATP Basic Parts of an Informative Essay

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Pupils identify the elements of an informative essay. Through a teacher led discussion, students explore the basic parts of a five paragraph essay and , using a hamburger as an analogy, pupils label the pieces. They discuss the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating a Title Page, Organizing, and Writing the Research Paper

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a title page, organize information, and write the introductory paragraph to a research paper.  In this research writing activity, students discuss the elements of the title page and outline, then write one of their...
Lesson Plan
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Investigating Soil

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders swap local soil samples with another school and examine the differences. They research soil properties, identify organisms that live in soil, create and maintain a biome of soil decomposition and design a poster to present...
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Bioremediation

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design and conduct investigations that illustrate the effect bioremediation has on organic matter and determine environmental applications. They, in groups, present their findings to the class.
Lesson Plan
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data and graph or chart the information. For this data organization lesson, students poll their classmates about certain topics and chart or graph the information to show the results of their research.
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Translate and Evaluate

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Translate, evaluate, educate. Discover how to translate and evaluate expressions. Young mathematicians first review words and phrases that indicate operations and learn to write algebraic expressions from verbal descriptions....
Lesson Plan
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Outlining Main Ideas and Details Adapted from: Expository Writing by Tara McCarthy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils examine articles from a number of sources to determine their main ideas and details, and discuss them as a class. Using a worksheet, they practice outlining a report after watching a teacher demonstration of the outlining process....
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Equations

For Teachers 7th Standards
Science equipment can be handy for math class, too. Scholars learn to solve one- and two-step linear equations by using the concept of a balance. They solve real-world problems in a variety of contexts by writing and solving linear...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

It’s Your Birthday! – Conventions: Revision and Proofreading

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Happy birthday! Celebrate everyone's birthday with this writing activity, which prompts seventh graders to research historical events in a country at the time of their birth to create an essay. Working in pairs, they proofread each...
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Web Design

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using Microsoft Word, young scholars will construct a "web page" with hyperlinks to real sites. Students will learn Internet terminology, search strategies, and design techniques. Teacher may also use TechnoLink, an external computer...