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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Researching Information: Comparing Electronic and Print Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
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TES Global

Tes: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Six lesson plans are provided that will help student compare the performance of Romeo and Juliet to the text of this drama.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Blood Cell Basics

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this lesson students learn about the circulatory system and how it relates to engineering. Then in a hands-on activity they create a model of blood. Students also act out cholesterol in a blocked artery and look at blood cell in a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Cars From the Future

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about air pollution caused by cars and what engineers are doing to try to help with the problem. Students then design their own environmentally friendly car and give a presentation to experience how engineers have to be...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Buoyant Boats

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about displacement, density and buoyancy then apply their knowledge to build a floating object.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building Roller Coasters

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this hands-on activity students learn about the laws of physics by creating a marble roller coaster.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Amusement Park Ride: Ups and Downs in Design

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This unit has students design and build foam tubing roller coasters. The design process integrates energy concepts as they test and evaluate their designs that address the task as an engineer would. The goal is for students to understand...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Mini World

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As learners learn about the creation of biodomes, they are introduced to the steps of the engineering design process, including guidelines for brainstorming. Students learn how engineers are involved in the design and construction of...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Jewish Immigration, Popular Culture, the Comic Book

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using primary source documents students look at Jewish immigration to the United states, popular culture of the time and the birth of the comic book.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Financial Institution Comparison

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The lesson plan investigates financial literacy. Teachers can use the lesson plan to help students learn how to choose a financial institution. Objectives, instructional procedures, and additional resources are included.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: The Great Gilly Hopkins

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site features the book "The Great Gilly Hopkins," by Katherine Paterson. This online resource offers discussion questions, a writing prompt and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Maniac Magee

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Have you ever read "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli? Use this resource to learn more about this book. An educational resource with discussion questions, extension activities and more.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide to the Novels of Pam Munoz Ryan

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This lesson plan site shares discussion guides for three books written by Pam Munoz Ryan. The discussion guides may be used with Esperanza Rising, Riding Freedom, and Becoming Naomi Leon.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Maniac Mcgee by Spinelli Review

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a good site for teachers. Find a review of Jerry Spinelli's "Maniac Magee" as well as lesson plans and activities for the book.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Lyddie

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What do you know about the characters and setting of "Lyddie," by Carol Hurst? Gain insight into the characters through the discussion questions found a this site.
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to use visual, meaning, and structure clues separately and together to determine the meaning of unknown words. Lessons are...
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Can Teach

Can Teach Lesson Plan: Graphing Constellations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson plan, students practice their graphing skills by following directions to recreate constellations.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Ordering and Computing With Negative Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan allows students to practice comparing and ordering rational numbers on a number line as well as computing with fractions and decimals. It provides an assessment plan and attachments for the lesson's activities.
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Other

Florida International University: Medina Aquarius Program

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site for an underwater ocean laboratory located near the Florida Keys. Information about the lab and its work, as well as ocean and coral reef info for teachers and students. Includes photos, lesson plans, and links to other...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Effects of Smoking on the Body [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars study the effects smoking tobacco has on the major organs of the human body. They also develop a presentation to persuade others to not start the smoking habit.
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Read Works

Readworks: Figurative Language 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity students learn to identify and interpret the meaning of hyperbole in a fictional text. The instructional activity uses the book My Dad by Anthony Browne. Example charts...
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Read Works

Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
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Read Works

Read Works: Predicting 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a instructional activity designed to teach students to make predictions based on relationships between characters. The instructional activity is based on the book Soupy Saturdays with the Pain...