Curated OER
Friction Faction
Students create an experiment. In this friction lesson plan, students review the concept of friction and complete a bottle roll activity. Students work in groups to create their own friction experiment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Water Cycle Animation (A lesson involving handheld computer/Palm Pilots)
Fifth graders animate the Water Cycle using Sketchy on the handheld computers. They write an expository paragraph about the stages of the water cycle using "Word-to-Go" on the Handheld computers.
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abcteach
Abcteach: Biography Research Form [Pdf]
Good printable worksheet that helps learners complete biographical research.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Quote Accurately
Learn about quoting accurately and making inferences on this site. A link provides a model with text and supported inferences.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Information Elimination: Lesson on Narrowing the Topic
This is a tutorial which focuses on how to narrow the topic for expository writing, how to determine what information to keep or eliminate, and what questions to ask yourself. Students respond to questions throughout. A comparison is...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Bibliography Blunders
This tutorial focuses on how to complete a bibliography using MLA style. It gives specific directions and examples for various types of entries such as magazines, books, encyclopedias, and web pages. It also gives specifics for the...
Other
National Scholastic Press Association
If you are involved in any way with a school newspaper, yearbook or other school publication, you should be familiar with the national Scholastic Press Association. Teachers or students with an interest in design, article ideas, or legal...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Researching a Topic: Teaching Students to Research Information
Students will conduct a short research project about a topic. This lesson focuses on how to find the information needed on their chosen topic.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details
Use this example to see if you understand how to pick out the main idea and supporting details to that main idea.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details
A reference article for students to learn about how to determine the main idea and supporting details from the text. Click on the Model for an example with explanation and then click on Practice for a practice exercise.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details: Model
An example to guide students in choosing the main idea and supporting details. Click Practice for a practice quiz.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: 4th Grade Use Details and Examples
When reading a story learn how to recall specific examples from the text to answer comprehension questions. In addition, you can also use story details to make inferences.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 1 Reading: Literature: 5th Grade Quote Accurately
An article describing the importance of making inferences while reading a story.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask young scholars to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
Contains plans for two lessons on locating supporting details that are part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like determining the most important information, using key words to identify relevant...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text
Reasons and evidence are given by the author to support topics or ideas. In this resource, learn about finding reasons and evidence in a text. Includes downloadable worksheet.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: "Cite Those Sources!"
Contains plans for two lessons about the research process. Learners discuss plagiarism, practice paraphrasing, and cite sources. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Basic Level Paraphrase and Summary Writing
Practice paraphrasing sentences and summarizing short paragraphs.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quotation Marks
Use this site to learn how to properly use quotation marks in stories, poems, articles, and speeches.
Other
Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Slideshow investigates how to find the main idea and key details of a story.
Read Works
Read Works: Fourth Grade: Two Lesson Unit: Fact and Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson plan unit on fact and opinion through which students identify facts and opinions in a newspaper article and understand how facts support opinions in an editorial. With free login, users...
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on main idea and details through which young scholars use the topic sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and categorize details as main idea or supporting. With free...
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Parts of a Newspaper
Students click through a lesson about the parts of a newspaper and answer questions about the types of articles found in each section, headlines, and captions that would go with photographs. Links to related videos are also provided.
University of Houston
University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk
This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.