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Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Learning Directions on a Map (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This site provides a lesson plan in which students will learn to use north, south, east, and west to identify relative locations and provide directions.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature & Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides a collection of free downloadable graphic organizers. These graphic organizers address the following categories: character webs, responding to literature, reading analysis, story maps, cognitive bookmarks, and...
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools:more Graphic Organizers for Teaching Literature and Reading

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools collection provides graphic organizers for teaching reading and literature. Elaborate graphic organizers are provided for the following: story maps, character study charts, making text connection maps, conflict...
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Other

Marine Geoscience Data System: Tools: Create Maps and Grids

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Create your own custom maps and grids with the map tool available on this site.
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Graphic
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Cause and Effect Worksheet [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
This Cause and Effect graphic organizer helps students organize information from a text they are reading.
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Website
National Geographic

National Geographic: Mental Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Provides the text of Geography Standard 2 for fourth, eighth, and twelth grades along with relevant activities, lesson plans, and learning activities.
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Website
Mind Tools

Mind Tools: Problem Solving Article: Flowcharts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Information and a video [3:31] on the purposes of the different shapes in a flow chart, and tips on how to use a flow chart.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Informational Text 101

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
A five-part learning module on informational text including links to a video, images, and an assessment.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Dust Bowl

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that includes seven links to pictures, charts, and information about the Dust Bowl.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
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Handout
Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Medieval Literature

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
History for Kids presents information on literature of the Middle Ages including the mechanics of language and the alphabet as well as the stories that were popular. Includes links to activities, worksheets and quizzes.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Skills Inferencing

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos with information and examples of how to make inferences.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Descriptive Writing

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
An eight-part learning module with links to websites, texts, videos, images, and charts to use while learning how to write descriptive texts.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Informational Text

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, and charts that teach skills to build reading comprehension with informational texts.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Infographics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, a text, a video, and websites about infographics and how to design effective infographics.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Inference

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A fifteen-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, and texts to use while learning to make inferences.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Evaluating Websites

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning how to evaluate websites.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Note Taking for Social Studies

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers how to read a historical text and convert information into visual representations by taking notes. This strategy helps students to read a passage and determine the author's purpose.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Using Graphs in History Class

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the major types of graphs used in social studies such as bar graphs, line graphs, pie graphs, and pictographs. Information on graphs is followed by graphs dealing with salaries...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Geographical Development

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart useful for checking students' understanding of the issues and the vocabulary associated with their study of development in different groups of countries and of different industries.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Geography:resources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart useful for checking students' understanding of the issues and the vocabulary they need to demonstrate their understanding of the geography resources.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Geography 101

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart is designed to help students learn basic geography terms and skills. Included are definitions, examples, pictures, activities, and Activote assessment questions.