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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Better Living Through Science

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, learners will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
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Article
Understood For All

Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
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Activity
Other

The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
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Unit Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Come Prepared for Discussions

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
This is a collection of 14 discussion opportunities. Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tourists!

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write a dialogue for the gulls, who appear to be having some issues with the humans cluttering their beach.
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Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Question Answer Relationship (Qar)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Question-Answer relationship (QAR) is a strategy to be used after students have read. QAR teaches students how to decipher what types of questions they are being asked and where to find the answers to them. Four types of questions are...
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Article
Other

Iseesam: Comprehension Questions

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This PDF explains what students are asked to do when answering Literal, Inference, and Evaluative comprehension questions.
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Article
Family Education

Family Education: Improving Your Child's Thinking Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
By asking the right kinds of questions, you can help improve a students thinking skills. This site lists several ideas and types of questions that can help develop a child's critical thinking skills.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Distinguish Facts From Opinions

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Learn how to distinguish facts from opinions by using a list of guiding questions.
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Other

Live Worksheets: Wh Questions

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
On this interactive worksheet, students will complete questions with the correct question word. Students will type in one of following words or phrases into each sentence: who, what, where, why, when, or whose Students will then submit...
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Article
Other

How to Study: Good Listening in Class

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Eight tips on how to improve your listening skills in the classroom so that you gain more from lectures and discussions.
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Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Twenty Questions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this instructional activity each student will have a turn in the "hot seat" where they answer class questions about a book they are reading including questions about the characters, setting, and plot.
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EL Education

El Education: Our Classroom Teacher Mrs. Wong

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Students learn to write and ask interview questions by interviewing their teacher. Students then write and illustrate the answer to each question to create a book about their teacher.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Questions and Statements

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify questions and statements (without the punctuation cue). They will also practice changing a question into a statement.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Cause and Effect

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explains cause and effect within the context of literature discussion. Activotes provide student interaction and assessment.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc Bitesize Revision: Dialogue and Description

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
As part of a revision and writing section of BBC Bitesize, this page provides several tips involved in writing dialogue and description for short story fiction.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Science Now! A Picture Is Worth

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A video clip asks students to explain how X-ray images communicate information. This is one in a series of creative writing prompts. [0:32]
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Article
Other

I Buzzle: Group Discussion Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Group discussion activities help at several levels, may it be professional or personal. The following article will highlight the importance of these activities and provide you with examples. The activities described can help with warming...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Listening Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Students will practice their ability to acknowledge new information expressed by classmates. A good lesson for the first day of school!
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Activity
Other

Skills Workshop: Listening for the Main Points [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A simple exercise where students listen to a reading passage read out loud and identify the key pieces of information.
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Handout
Other

Smart Technologies: Effective meetings.com: Are You a Good Listener?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
"A big part of being an effective team member is being a good listener." Here you'll find a set of tips, based on the letters in the word, "ladder," that will enhance your interpersonal communication. Cursor down to get the information....
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Professional Doc
Edutopia

Edutopia: Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community. Perhaps this is why the core standards...
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Professional Doc
Other

Fusion Yearbooks: Great Ways to Encourage Students to Ask Questions

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This article contains 9 ways that teachers can maintain and develop that pre-school curiosity as our children grow older by fostering question asking in the classroom.