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The Methane Circus
Step right up! An engaging research-centered lesson, the third in a series of six, has young archaeologists study the amazing animals of the Cambrian explosion. Working in groups, they profile a breathtaking and odd creature and learn...
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Analyzing Character: Louie Zamperini
Let's talk! Scholars create discussion appointments using map locations. After completing their appointment books, readers look closely at a few Unbroken pages. They use sentence strips to record details from their readings that help...
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Mystery of the Maya
Pupils examine a piece of pottery and make conclusions about the culture. They demonstrate the skills used in digging at a dig site. They also make inferences about the responsibility archaeologists have when excavating a site.
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the Declaration of Independence Lesson
Learners demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Henry Ford Lesson
Students demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Susan B. Anthony Lesson
Students demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Thomas Jefferson Lesson
Students demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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George Washington Lesson
Students demonstrate comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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The Vast Ocean
Students explore oceans, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Space Adventure
Students demonstrate comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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What is Light?
Students explore different types of light, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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All About Reptiles
Students examine different kinds and characteristics of reptiles, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Birds Nesting Habits
Learners explore nesting habits of birds, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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All About Birds
Students study different kinds of birds, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Habitat Lesson
Students students explore animal habitats, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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COMING TO AMERICA:A PILGRIM STORY LESSON
By completing this lesson, students demonstrate their reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Fossils
Pupils act as paleontologists to discover who a mystery guest to the classroom was. They do not know the identity of the guest but infer the identity from items left behind in the classroom. They make inferences from dinosaur fossils.
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Civil War: The North History Lesson
Students demonstrate their reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Organizing Data Using Tables and Graphs
Learners create graphs and tables, as well as interpret and make inferences from the data shown to determine when and where graphs and tables are most useful.
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Feathered Feeders
Pupils investigate variation in bird beaks and the interrelationships of form and function by classifying birds with similar beak shapes, inferring about the possible bird foods based on beak shapes, and locating and identifying possible...
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Whose Clues?
Students investigate interrelationships between animals and their environment by observing clues to wildlife activities, and inferring about the types of wildlife present in an area and their activities.
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Human Populations Studies: the Ghost of Populations Past
Students compile data on population distribution and develop survivorship curves using information from cemetery tombstones and obituaries. They develop inferences on the changes in population age distribution in their area over time.
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Fish Parasite Survey
Students count nematodes, cestodes and crustaceans on approximately one-hundred and fifty fish. They fill out autopsy reports for external and internal parasites then complete and discuss guide questions to make inferences about parasite...
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Modeling the Greenhouse Effect
Students simulate the greenhouse effect and draw a model of what he/she thinks is happening. They draw inferences from the model and from other resources to determine possible outcomes of increased earth temperatures.