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Nancy's Nice Nose
Students recognize the phoneme /n/. Through matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /n/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /n/ with its letter representation and identify the phoneme /n/...
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Icky Sticky!
Students recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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Using Oral History to Understand Immigrant History
Students use oral history to comprehend how life chaned for men, women, and childern when they immigrated to the United States. Students conduct interviews with immigrants in an attempt to interpret hardships, lifestyles, careers, and...
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Au!
Students describe the properties of gold. They analyze why gold has been valued throughout history. Students view the physical property identification and formation of gold. They view and analyze "pyrite" within the classroom.
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Using Land
In this land usage worksheet, students read about farmers in Bolivia are using a system called raised-bed agriculture to feed its people. Students complete 2 short answer questions based on what they read.
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Who's Hungry?
Students research the importance of a healthy diet and the world's nutrition. In this health and diet lesson, students discuss the foods animals and people eat. Students discuss the food chain and create a food chain. Students create a...
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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Presenting Information
Students develop a business card to market them. In this developing a business card to market them lesson, students design a business card to represent them. Students create a logo or graphic design that is professional and...
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Read Write Think: Persuasion Map
A printable graphic organizer for students to use when writing on opinion or persuasive essay. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas, lesson plans, and other resources are also...
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Read Write Think: Creating a Persuasive Podcast
This lesson unit has students research a local, state, national, or international issue of personal interest and create and share a two-minute persuasive podcast presenting their research-based opinions on the topic. It includes tools...
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Read Write Think: Mapping Characters Across Book Series
This lesson plan examines the changes and developments in characters which appear in a series. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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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.
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Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for students of all levels.
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Read Write Think: Critical and Analytical Thinking About Literary Characters
Contains plans for four lessons that use the short story "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry to teach about characterization using word maps. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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Read Write Think: Essay Map
A fillable essay map in PDF format with boxes for an introduction, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are...
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Read Write Think: Conflict Map
This graphic organizer focuses on conflict: identifying the conflict, listing possible resolutions, and determining the cause of the conflict. It can be used as a reading tool, a writing organizer, or solving a real-life conflict.
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, young scholars use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel...
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Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Circle Map
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Google for Education: Exploring Computational Thinking: What Is Ct?
Learn about computational thinking which involves a set of problem-solving skills and techniques that software engineers use to write programs that underlie the computer applications you use such as search, email, and maps.
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Read Write Think: Today Is St. Patrick's Day
A lesson plan celebrating Irish Folk Tales in commemoration of St. Patrick's Day. Includes student activities, questioning, story maps, and a bibliography. From March 17, 2007.
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Read Write Think: Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to analyze the characters in Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis in order to prepare for a press conference. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans...
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Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Flow Map
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Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Tree Map
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Class Flow: Thinking Maps Bridge Map
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Class Flow: Thinking Maps the Brace Map
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