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The True Story of Abbie Burgess
First graders read a story from their textbooks about women in the 1850's. They discuss what it was like to be a woman living in American during this time period. They brainstorm heroines of American history and then discuss woman...
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The Thrill of Big-Wave Surfing
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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Lideable Differences
Fourth graders read, "Beat the Story Drum," and compare and contrast two of the characters using a Venn Diagram.
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Organized Centers
Students are challenged to make three-dimensional time lines of story events from stories they have read. They practice sequencing events and writing sentences correctly. In addition, they write sentences that correspond with pictures...
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Tribal Restoration & Reorganization
Young scholars list the main events in historical sequence of tribal restoration and reorganization. They identify a present-day American Indian experience or phenomenon as a result of Tribal Restoration and Reorganization laws and...
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Tribal Termination & Urbanization
Students are introduced to new vocabulary words associated with tribes and relocation. As a class, they listen to their teacher read an excerpt on tribal termination and urbanization. To end the instructional activity, they identify...
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Tribal Termination & Urbanization
Students list the main events in historical sequence of tribal termination and urbanization. They identify a present-day American Indian experience or phenomenon as a result of termination and urbanization and refer to 'Navajo...
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Sectionalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Secession
Young scholars examine sequence of national events that resulted in the Civil War by using primary sources, and creating timelines and maps.
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A Photo Essay
Students explain the purpose of a photo essay, sequence a series of events, and explain the format in creating a photo essay, which includes a caption for each picture. They complete a photo essay as a creative activity.
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American Civilization
First graders research and examine various events during the American Revolution. They locate the thirteen colonies on a map, create Boston Tea Party boats, and construct Paul Revere paper lanterns.
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Identifying and Describing Story Elements
First graders examine how to identify the different elements of a story and how they fit in a definite sequence. The use of comprehension skills is essential to retell the story as desired within the lesson.
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Making Sense
Students use self-correcting strategies if they are stuck on a word in a simple sentence. In this reading lesson plan, students look at the covers of many books, and use the picture on the cover to help them figure out what the title...
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The Letter B (b)
Students discover words through text, audio and images that begin with the letter B. In this letter B lesson plan, students download an ebook and navigate through an interactive reading activity.
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The Secret School( Chapters 2 & 3)
Fourth graders read with a partner to practice reading. For this reading lesson, 4th graders will analyze the characters in the chapters of the book the Secret School. Students work on a list of important characters, complete a worksheet...
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Creating a Three-Dimesional Timeline
Students gather and order historical evidence surrounding the Silk Roads. They identify key people, places, and events in the history of the Silk Roads. They gain an understanding of the rich diversity of peoples and places found along...
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Making Meaning from the Past
Learners read Ella Lyon's autobiographical poem, "Where I'm From" as the impetus to critically reflect on key images, memories, and events from their own lives and communities.
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Where Am I? Determining Relative Location
Students use position words to describe where their teacher is sitting and read a story that makes use of position words. For this spatial lesson, students make a stick puppet and play Simon Says focusing on using position words in the...
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"What Do You Mean?" How Language Changes Over Time
Young scholars examine words used at Jamestown in 1607. They predict what the words meant in 1607, write sentences using three of them, then analyze the sentences after they have read the actual definitions of the words.
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Redesigning a Time Line
Students review how Ben and Jerry's ice cream is made to begin the activity. Using the internet, they view a timeline on the history of the company. They use a software program to make an ice cream cone and color the ice cream as they...
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All's Well That Ends Well
Students examine and discuss the parts of a speech and how to organize them. They read sample speeches, then write a short presentation to read to the class, identifying the beginning, middle, and ending of their speech.
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Using Story Structure to Enhance Comprehension
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...
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Historical Fiction - Based on facts or purely fiction?
Students, after reading an Accelerated Reader historical fiction book, research the actual historical time period portrayed in the book. Then, working in a cooperative learning group, they create a HyperStudio presentation.
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Recovering Under-examined Histories to Build Community
Learners read Diane Glancy's "Pushing the Bear" about the Cherokee Removal and respond online to a discussion board. They discuss responses in class.
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Unconditional Kindness
Learners express their feelings about their neighbors and how to be kind to others. Teacher and students discuss the meaning of philanthropy and how they can be kind to others. After reading a particular trade book, learners are assessed...