Curated OER
Briefing Book
Students prepare a briefing book highlighting important twentieth century events in Europe. The book lists and explains the major events of the twentieth century that caused separation and unification in Europe.
Curated OER
Local History
Students research the history of their own town. They post the findings in an iEARN on line forum. They practice research skills and gain an understanding of local history.
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Government and Parliament
Twelfth graders discover how the government works in the United Kingdom and the functions of the Parliament. They hold a mock election and campaign.
Curated OER
What is the Thermal Depolymerization Process?
Young scholars examine the differences between Boyle's Law and Charles' Law. They discuss the concept of thermal depolymerization. They answer discussion questions to end the lesson.
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Scientific Approach to Forest Management
Learners use wireless laptop computers to collect, store, communicate, and organize data from the 1999 Jasper Fire area. They collect data in the field and compare it to student-collected data from prior years to develop conclusions...
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Sustainable Forestry
Students explore sustainable forestry and its practices. They take a pretest and discuss concerns of sustainable forestry. Working in groups, they prepare questions to interview one anohter about their views of sustainable forestry.
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Break It Down!
Students practice the strategy of summarization in order to comprehend a text. They drill on how to delete unimportant information, repeated information and substitute easy terms for lists of items. Each student receives a copy of "The...
Curated OER
Reading to Learn Design: Soaring Through Summarization
Students are introduced to and practice techniques and strategies to master the art of summarization. They read, discuss and summarize chapter 3 in "Catwings," by Ursula K. LeGuin. Steps to follow for summarizing is included within this...
Curated OER
Examining The Scores
High schoolers investigate test scores taken to obtain academic strengths and weaknesses. They practice looking at the scores in order to interpret the results. Students use time for class discussion and planning study strategies to...
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Whose Business Is It?
Students read articles in The Times Business Day section and share their opinions on the articles. They search through the Business Day section of The Times to find items to complete a scavenger hunt. They summarize a teacher selected...
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Coral Reef Bleaching
Students explore the structural biology of corals. Working individually, students identify how corals become bleached and which conditions produce more and less coral bleaching. Students explore how this effects the environment and...
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Creatures That Glow In The Night
Young scholars investigate the different bioluminescent organisms. They use microscopes in order to make observations and draw what is seen. Students demonstrate they have studies the differences between the process of photosynthesis and...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Text Structures Informational Writing/mesopotamia Unit
This module provides an 18-day unit about Mesopotamia. Teachers of the unit will explicitly teach students about text structures, summary writing, reading informational texts, and writing a book about Mesopotamia.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing
Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lesson Plan for Writing a Movie Summary
This lesson plan focuses on teaching high school young scholars to write a movie summary that provides a plot summary without sharing too much of the storyline but includes the following: brevity, conflict, theme, tone, and persuades...
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Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Summary of Fiction and Nonfiction Text [Pdf]
This 31-page document focuses on teaching summarizing strategies for use with fiction and nonfiction texts. This series of lesson plans starts with fiction summarizing strategies such as "Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then" and "Story Arch."...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Additional Webs
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers. Students will be able to plan the writing of summaries, paragraphs, and literary responses.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Windmill of Your Mind: Distributed Energy Goes to School
Students research the feasibility of installing a wind-turbine distributed energy (DE) system for their school. They write a proposal (actually, the executive summary of a proposal) to the school principal based on their findings and...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping
Lesson that teaches students how to find important and significant information while reading text. After locating information through strategies, students learn how to summarize content-area text. A downloadable fishbone template is linked.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Mapping the Data)
In a student-led and fairly independent fashion, data collected in the associated field trip activity are organized by student groups to create useful and informative Google Earth maps. Each team creates a map, uses that map to analyze...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Expository Text Summaries
This resource presents instructional practices for writing summaries of expository text in English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies classes.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Tj and the Sports Fanatic Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Hazel Hutchins has written the TJ series of novels. This teaching guide for TJ and the Sports Fanatic, about TJ playing football, includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Tj and the Rockets Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Hazel Hutchins has written the TJ series of novels. This teaching guide for TJ and the Rockets, about TJ and his science fair project, includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Tj and the Quiz Kids Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Hazel Hutchins has written the TJ series of novels. This teaching guide for TJ and the Quiz Kids follows TJ as he joins a quiz club. It includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.