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Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World
EDSITEment
In this EDSITEment lesson, which is centered on poems about the natural world, students are encouraged to make the reading of poetry a creative act, and to appreciate familiar literary devices in their functions as semaphores or interpretive signals. Several pieces of literature appropriate for use with this lesson are suggested.
Grade: 6 | 7 | 8
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Asteroid Deflection
Science NetLinks
In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about how a new research center will develop ways to neutralize threatening asteroids.
Grade: 6 | 7 | 8
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Degrees of Change: Conservation in My Community
Xpeditions
This "Six Degrees" activity introduces students to the concepts of climate change. They can learn the causes and consequences of global warming, and discuss how climate affects daily life in their areas. The lesson includes an activity where students can learn about global warming and their community's conservation efforts. Students develop and complete a project documenting, via reporting or photography, a local conservation effort.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Degrees of Change: Conservation in My Community Photographer's Workbook
Xpeditions
This "Six Degrees" handout supplements the Photographer's Project activity. It can help students to organize their photography projects, take better pictures, and structure presentations and layouts.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Green Roof Design
Science NetLinks
This lesson from Science NetLinks engages students in making design decisions that affect the transfer of energy between a building and the outside environment. It helps students identify and consider the types of decisions involved in improving a building's energy profile. To analyze the green roof option in economic and community terms.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
ReadWriteThink
In this lesson students learn how to use comprehension strategies involving a sequence of planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating. Once students learn the strategies, they read a variety of hoax websites and evaluate the content. They then demonstrate their learning through the creation of outlines for hoax websites.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Make a Splash! Using Dramatic Experience to "Explode the Moment"
ReadWriteThink
Engage your students in using descriptive language. After hearing vivid sensory language from popular literature and participating in a staged dramatic experience, students are encouraged in this lesson from ReadWriteThink to use a graphic organizer to detail what they saw, felt, thought, did, said, and heard during the memorable moment and to elaborate or "explode" the details using descriptive writing.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5
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Marketplace: Price Increase or Price-Gouging?
EconEdLink
Students learn about price-gouging. Using a hypothetical post-disaster example, they will learn more about supply and demand, as well as the complexities associated with price increases in a supply-constrained market
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Marketplace: School Competition
EconEdLink
In June 2002, the Supreme Court ruled that Cleveland's system of giving students vouchers to attend private or religious schools did not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. In this lesson, students listen to an audio file about school vouchers creating market competition for public schools in June 2002. Students will identify the story's major concepts and their supporting details using an interactive note-taker.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Matching Side Effects
Science NetLinks
In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about how drugs that share side effects also may have similar benefits. Science Updates are audio interviews with scientists and are accompanied by a set of questions as well as links to related Science NetLinks lessons and other related resources.
Grade: 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Modeling Academic Writing Through Scholarly Article Presentation
ReadWriteThink
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students use an online database to access an appropriate article of literary criticism connected to a work of literature they have already read as a class assignment. Students then prepare the article for presentation by highlighting key elements of its structure and content and present the article to their peers.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Moving Toward Acceptance Through Picture Books and Two-Voice Texts
ReadWriteThink
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read "Whoever You Are,' "Weslandia" and "Insects are My Life" as a starting point for discussing diversity. They compare the situations in the books to their own school. Students then study, create, and perform two-voice texts that show how they can move closer to the ideal of accepting all types of diversity.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5
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Persuading the Principal: Writing Persuasive Letters About School Issues
ReadWriteThink
This ReadWriteThink lesson, "Persuading the Principal: Writing Persuasive Letters About School Issues", gives students the opportunity to examine opinion editorials and write their own letters on school issues that they believe deserve action plans.
Grade: 6 | 7 | 8
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Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
ReadWriteThink
In this lesson, "Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books", students begin by reading alphabet books about a variety of cultures, including "D is for Doufu: An Alphabet Book of Chinese Culture". They then select a culture to study and work in groups to conduct research into the history and symbols of their selected culture. The lesson includes tools for conducting primary interviews and other research techniques. The project culminates with each group writing and illustrating a cultural alphabet book based on their research.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5
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Reporter's Workbook
Xpeditions
This "Six Degrees" handout supplements the Reporter's Project activity. It can help students with building good interview questions. The handout can help students organize their ideas and structure their report.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
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Semicolons and Swift: Analyzing Punctuation and Meaning
ReadWriteThink
Encourage students to learn about punctuation and its influence on meaning. In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students identify and categorize different ways Jonathan Swift and those who have edited his text since its initial publication used semicolons in the essay, "A Modest Proposal." They compare these uses with rules for semicolon use as indicated in online guides, theorizing about uses that do not follow the rules. Following this analysis and theorizing, students use what they learn about punctuation and its influence on meaning to write insightfully about their findings, using semicolons as they do so.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Sprinter Advantage
Science NetLinks
In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about why Olympic runners closest to the start gun may get a slight advantage. Science Updates are audio interviews with scientists and are accompanied by a set of questions as well as links to related Science NetLinks lessons and other related resources.
Grade: 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Sunburn, Sunscreen, and Cancer
Science NetLinks
In this Science NetLinks lesson, students explore the link between exposure to the sun's ultraviolet radiation and the chance of getting a sunburn. The lesson includes a student sheet, a teacher sheet, and an e-sheet.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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The Ecology of Your Skin 1: Bacteria That Live on the Skin
Science NetLinks
In this lesson, the first of a multi-part unit from Science NetLinks, students explore the diversity of normal bacterial activities on the human body.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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The Ecology of Your Skin 2: The Microbial World Is an Olfactory World
Science NetLinks
In this lesson, the second of a multi-part unit from Science NetLinks, students are introduced to the olfactory world of our bacterial symbionts.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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The Ecology of Your Skin 3: The Body Food Connection
Science NetLinks
In this lesson, the third of a multi-part unit from Science NetLinks, students understand that many bacteria found in and on humans also are participating in making some of our most flavorful foods and drinks; it isn't just a coincidence but rather an unavoidable consequence of our relationships with bacteria.
Grade: 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
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Thoughtshots Can Bring Your Characters to Life!
ReadWriteThink
Engage students to add detail to their stories in the form of "thoughtshots": flashbacks, flash-aheads, and internal dialogue. This lesson from ReadWriteThink has students identify and discuss thoughtshots in "The Old Woman Who Named Things" by Cynthia Rylant. The teacher models how to insert thoughtshots into a text, using "An Angel for Solomon Singer" (also by Rylant). Students then write their own thoughtshots to add to their writing.
Grade: 3 | 4 | 5
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Weather 1: Weather Patterns
Science NetLinks
In this lesson, one of a two-part unit from Science NetLinks, students understand how the weather changes some from day to day.
Grade: K | 1 | 2
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Weather 2: What's the Season?
Science NetLinks
In this lesson, one of a two-part unit from Science NetLinks, students understand how weather can change from season to season.
Grade: K | 1 | 2
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William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings
EDSITEment
In this EDSITEment lesson, students focus on the characters from A Midsummer Night's Dream, in order to describe and analyze their conflicts, and then to watch how those conflicts get resolved.
Grade: 6 | 7 | 8
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