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Analyzing Folklore: Redwall

For Teachers 8th
Brian Jacques’ novel Redwall provides the focus for a series of lessons involving the analysis of folklore. Adopting the persona of a character, groups write letters in the voice of their character, assemble a collage using Microsoft...
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Teaching Guide: Exploring Little Women

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a literary masterpiece as well as a timestamp of the formative mid-nineteenth century in America. Using a primary source set of photographs, letters, and portraits, readers discuss the ways...
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Play on Words Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a design of an image that combines two words to create an unusual visualization. They improve their drawing skills by completing a detailed, colored pencil rendering of the "Play on Words" they design. Using technology...
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Concord Consortium

Area Upgrade

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Imagine a world built of triangles. A performance task asks scholars to consider just that. They use their knowledge of special segments of a triangle to make decisions about the area of triangular plots of land.
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Figuratively Writing...It's for the Birds!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify and use literary devices such as personification, idioms, hyperbole, and metaphors. They identify one literary device and illustrate the meaning. They write a letter using correct letter format and incorporates literary...
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Put That in Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify life situations which require various writing responses, use the power of the written word to obtain results, practice writing responses to real-world events, and demonstrate the skills needed to recognize and create...
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Interactive
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Gas and Oil Royalties

For Students 5th - 8th
In this gas and oil worksheet, students read articles about the gas and oil industry and the royalties that are collected. Students then write a letter to their Senator about their feelings toward oil issues and answer short answer...
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Interactive
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Lead Pb Environmental and Health Issues

For Students 5th - 10th
In this health issues worksheet, learners write a letter to the President about the health issues that arise from metal and lead after reading articles about the dangers. Students read 9 articles.
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The Write Thing to Do

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine the proper way to write formal business letters. Students apply the skill to write letters to appropriate environmental protection agencies.
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Narrative Literature Response Letters

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write endings to a story that has already been written. They offer alternative endings in their version. The lesson includes a rubric that is to be given to the students in order that they know the requirements.
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Chemistry 116 Exam 1, Spring 2009

For Students Higher Ed
This five-page exam was designed for a biochemistry and organic chemistry course. It covers the molecular geometry and properties of organic comounds. Test takers identify compounds, functional groups, and isomers. They draw Lewis...
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Informal Amendment

For Students 10th - 12th
Informal Constitutional amendments are the focus of this review instructional activity, which covers the circumstances and methods by which Congress may informally amend the Constitution. The format of this instructional activity would...
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Dear Philanthropist

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students differentiate between philanthropists and celebrities. They brainstorm a list of philanthropists and write formal letters to them. They can write to past or present philanthropists from a teacher-provided list or the one...
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Summer Fun! Vacation Destination Postcards

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils design a postcard with a graph and text. They research their favorite vacation spot. Pupils write a friendly letter to their parents requesting to visit this vacation destination. Students use a Circle Map, to help fill in their...
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Government Reform - Term Limits

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners consider the need for term limits. In this U.S. government lesson, students read selected articles about the pros and cons of term limits. Learners then survey their class regarding their opinion of term limits. Students...
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Folk Tales Thematic Unit

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read different folk tales and discuss them. They are given a template of a letter and they are to write a friendly letter. Special education students are paired with advanced students to help them.
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"Environmental Activism and its Components"

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars explore how an individual has power and voice in all levels of the government as well as in the making of laws that involve environmental issues and regulations. They assess the steps involved in turning a bill into law....
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Polymers

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore online tutorial on polymers. For this chemistry lesson, they create two polymers in the lab and compare their properties. They write a sales letter about their new and improved polymer product.
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Arsenic Contamination: Natural Disaster or Human Induced?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list as a class the sources of arsenic contamination of water. They describe the major health effects of arsenic contamination in a letter. Students identify the regions that are affected by it.
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Pumpkin Writing Paper

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this writing worksheet, students use the blank lined paper with a colorful pumpkin border for any kind of writing: reports, poetry, stories or letters.
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Orchestra Tax Battle

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students read a newspaper article about the controversial taxation of an orchestra. They define vocabulary, complete comprehension worksheets, analyze the use of verb forms in the article and take a 'true or false' quiz.
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Using Writing to Make a Difference

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students change the lesson plan in order to make meaningful writing.
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Global Warming Statistics

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students research real-time and historic temperature data of U.S. and world locations, and analyze the data using mean, median, and mode averages. They graph the data and draw conclusions by analyzing the data. A spreadsheet is used to...
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Dear Sassy Successful Student

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the people who are responsible for their success and their current studying skills. In groups, they brainstorm helpful studying strategies and develop a creative way to share it with the class. To end the lesson,...

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