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Curated OER

Launching Your Ship with Citizenship Lesson 4: Hoisting the Flag

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the U.S. electoral process and brainstorm solutions to increase voter turnout in their community. For this democratic citizenship lesson, students identify keywords in speech and video related to freedom of speech and...
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Curated OER

The Family

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate family organization and create a family unit. They decide the relationships, make ID's, and makes a family tree. They introduce their family units to the others in the class while the teacher takes family pictures....
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Curated OER

Self Portrait Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students review multiple ideas for creating a self portrait including abstract versions, PowerPoint presentations, sculptures, ceramic plates, photography and shadow boxes. They create self portraits.
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Curated OER

Visit to the Local Weather Station

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils understand the preparation involved everyday to present the day's forecast and how the instruments are used to create an overall model for predicting weather. They will understanding of the terminology and symbols used in...
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Curated OER

Child Labor Slide Show

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review ideas shared about the American worker while reading poems of Carl Sandburg. They now view a slide show of what they looked like. While students view the slide show, the teacher goes over information. A link is provided...
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Teaching Kids About Reflective Writing

For Teachers 1st - 8th Standards
This site offers ideas to encourage children to practice reflective writing and tips for teachers to teach it.
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Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Using Reflective Writing in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article discusses the use of reflective writing in class including the uses such as summarize what was learned, writing about what they read, and keeping a reflective journal and the benefits of reflective writing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Reflection Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on reflection papers; it defines them, provides common components and purpose, it offers ways to get at your feelings and organize your paper in a slideshow, and offers information about putting it all together and...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Learning From Mistakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource is a reflective writing activty. Students will write a reflection regarding a mistake they have made. This activity may be used as a simple writing prompt or as part of behavior management system.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Rethinking the Fabrics We Wear

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students examine natural and synthetic fibers. Students explore the photo essay in groups and discuss how the sheep farmer offers an alternative to mass production with a focus on the themes of resiliency and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: A Refugee's Story (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students watch a 19-minute documentary that tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014, who is now counseling newly arrived refugees. In this lesson, students explore through classroom...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning:american Literature:contemporary Prose: Project Requirements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson offers a list of creative projects for a student-selected novel/play assignment, as well as a reflective writing and a quotation analysis assignment. A rubric is also available.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Sports for Social Change

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students explore how participation in team sports can help empower youth in other areas of their lives. Students identify principles of how young people learn and discuss the ties between sports, civic engagement,...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Enlightening Explorations

For Teachers 6th Standards
This lesson plan engages students in making observations about different features of light. Students will circulate in different light stations, reflect on what they have observed, and then write about what they learned.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Novel That Confronts Bullying in Schools

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In a multisession lesson, students read The Bully in stages, discuss the story events and issues related to bullying, and complete graphic organizers to help them organize story information. As students read, they write reflective...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
For this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Personal Reflection Essay

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This four-page essay provides an example of a personal reflection essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay. W.11-12.3b...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Late to Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a graphic organizer. Students will be able to respond in writing to an explanatory writing prompt. This tool may be used as a reflective writing prompt for students who are late.
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Article
Leaf Group

E How: How to Write a Self Assessment & Reflection Paper

For Students 9th - 10th
This article by Kara Page explains how to write a self-assessment and reflection paper. W.9-10.9 Analysis/Reflection/Research
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Reading Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
An exercise consisting of three reflective questions that learners respond to after completing an assigned reading in any curriculum area. The task promotes skills in critical thinking and self-assessment.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Fire [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Chicago Fire" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the great Chicago Fire of 1871, which burned the city constructed of wood, and its rebuilding using brick. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Writing About Life's Lessons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After reading A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park students complete a writing assignments. The writer first completes a graphic organizer about a life-changing experience or an experience from which a lesson has been learned. The retelling...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Authentic Writing and Math Problem Solving Using Shopping Lists

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
We're going shopping in this integrated lesson. Students must make a budget, create a shopping list, and act out grocery shopping utilizing their problem solving and writing skills. A comprehensive lesson with printable worksheets,...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Rules and Things for a Funner Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Each writer will brainstorm experiences where he/she has learned some sort of lesson about life. Each will then come up with a personal list of "Rules and Things for a Funner Life," such as those shared in Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher...

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