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Star -Spangled Illustrations
Third graders create a PowerPoint presentation to show their patriotism and express their thoughts on the meaning of The Star-Spangled Banner with this exciting and creative activity.
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Up, Up, and Away
Fifth graders participate in a WebQuest that introduces them to a study on clouds and how they relate to weather systems.
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The Art of Paraphrasing
Tenth graders participate in an activity in which they practice paraphrasing sections of primary and secondary documents. They are to share their paraphrasing with the class to help with their confidence speaking in front of a group.
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Zulu King, Zulu King
Learners listen to story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, brainstorm everything they know about Mardi Gras, create pages relating to Mardi Gras for class book, type information on computer, play slide show, and take turns reading their books.
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Publishing an Alphabet Book
Pupils research, write and publish an A,B,C book based on research of their own.
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Hopi Culture: Parts of the Corn
Pupils identify the parts of the corn stalk in English and Hopi. They discuss the significance of corn to the Hopi culture, and examine a diagram of the corn stalk. They discuss the purposes of the parts of the corn stalk, then label a...
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Which reference book helps most?
Fourth graders utilize various reference materials to find specific types of information. In this library research lesson, 4th graders choose the best source of information from the library's reference collection to answer questions.
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Mother Goose Poetry
Students practice technology skills such as open, save, print,
type, font size, font type. They also do graphics, importing,text wrapping.Critical thinking,graphic design, presenting are other skills practiced.
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Rikki-Tikki Research
Fourth graders perform a search on mongooses on Internet Explorer and answer research questions.
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Reporting Live From...
Students examine the many disasters in West Virginia. For this US history lesson, students write about and give an oral presentation of one of the disasters as if they were reporters.
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The Talking Earth: a Research Lesson
Fifth graders read the book, "The Talking Earth" and research an animal that is found in the Everglades.
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Animalopedia Poetry
Students reseach animals while working in groups. They write poems to be included in a class Animalopedia book.
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Publishing a Group Book
Students examine various alphabet books. They write several sentences for their assigned letter of the alphabet, type them onto a word processing program, and create an illustration for a class alphabet book.
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Stylistic Aspects of Composition
Students explore verbs. They list and demonstrate verbs. Students discuss words that connote different meanings. They write paragraphs based on their word selection. Students share their paragraphs with the class.
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Ready Reference Treasure Hunt
Fourth graders complete an Internet treasure hunt. They define terminology related to the Internet and after reviewing the various ways to conduct an internet search, they complete an Internet treasure hunt provided by the instructor.
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Smoking and the Advertising Industry (Middle, other) SMOK_AD.DOC
Pupils study advertising techniques and the effects of smoking on health.
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Looking for Newton
Students discuss the rhyming pattern of various types of poetry. With a focus on limericks, they follow the specific rhyme scheme and create a limerick about Newton. They share their poem with the class and write another one related to...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Retain New Words
This lesson focuses on strategies to retain new words such as reading voraciously, use a good dictionary and thesaurus, use new words, and learn a new word every day. It also provides an annotated biography of resource material.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: Rather Unlikely Dictionary Entries
After studying dictionary entries including structure and writing style, create unlikely dictionary entries for things in your life. If you really can't think of any, press the button on the generator to get a few ideas. Do your best to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building Word Castles
In this lesson, students will explore unfamiliar words found in various picture books by Patricia Polacco. Students will discover the meanings of unfamiliar words by using a dictionary and find synonyms and antonyms with a thesaurus. The...