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Newscapade
Students work in teams to research specific eras of American history focusing on important events, sports, entertainment, music, games, books, famous firsts or quotes, science and technology or trivia. They prepare presentations for the...
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Perceptions of Asian Americans
Fourth graders examine their own perceptions of Asian Americans and the origins of these perceptions and gain factual information about the Asian American culture and experience through completion of a quiz
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A Series of Tragical Mirth
Students read and perform various scenes from the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. They perform each scene as both a tragedy and a comedy, then discuss the difference in the way the scenes were presented.
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Fish Food for Thought
Young scholars examine the role of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Clean Water Act of 1970 after reading Lynne Cherry's, A River Ran Wild. They decide if the goals of the act were met and create a fish cartoon that...
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Video On Integration And Quiz On Induction
Young scholars engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concepts of integration and induction. They view a video about integration and take a quiz on induction. Students use the resource links to view information added to the...
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Parabolas
Pupils review four types of parabolas. They discuss y=x^2-4x. Students practice working this problem by completing the square. They identify the vertex, focus and directrix of the parabolic formula. Pupils work several problems...
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Ellipses
Students analyze formulas for ellipses. They solve by completing the square. Students find the center of the ellipses. They listen as the teacher describes the eccentricity of an ellipse. Students work several problems independently.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom
This lesson plan explores the use of comics in the classroom as a gateway to genre study. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
Contains plans for two lessons that provide an alternative to the traditional book report: using comic strips and cartoon squares to respond to a written text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Comic Makeovers: Examining Race,class,ethnicity,and Genderin Media
Students explore stereotypes in the media and representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover."
Other
Comic Master: Graphic Novel Creator
This site allows students to create their own comic strips. Students will pick the characters, write their own dialogue, and develop a plot. Students can click and hear music as they are creating their comic strips. This site is...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom: Introduction to Narrative Structure
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students about narrative plot structures by using "The Three Little Pigs" fairy tale or a similar story. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Life: Kabam! Comic Creator
Students learn about making choices when dealing with bullies, peer pressure, and conflict, then create their own comics, using speech bubbles to write dialogue, in response to what they have learned. Requires Adobe Flash.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Understanding Comics
Using the book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud as the primary resource, this unit focuses on comics as a tool for communication. Students participate in activities which include journal and essay writing, a...
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Sequencing Using Comics
Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Examine Story Elements Using Comic Stri
Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel retells...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Zines for Kids Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to create multigenre zines for popular culture figures that include letter, persuasive, narrative, acrostic poetry, comic, and biography/autobiography writing. To accomplish this,...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Make Your Own Captain Underpants Comic
Create a Captain Underpants comic by choosing characters, dialogue, objects, and backgrounds on a series of four slides. Then view the comic and email it to a friend. Requires Adobe Flash.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children
In these activities, young scholars will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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Make Beliefs Comix: Create Your Own Comic
Create a three frame comic strip by choosing backgrounds, characters, and objects. Add original dialogue or thoughts, review the comic, and then print or email it to share.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: Opposing Points of View in History
After reading/listening to the picture book I am the Dog I am the Cat by Donald Hall in which two characters have opposing viewpoints, learners are asked to look deeply at opposing viewpoints of real people just before the Revolutionary...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Comic Book Show and Tell
This lesson plan deals with writing and revision in the genre of comics. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
Roble: El Lenguaje Del Comic
This is an approach to different techniques of animation to reading and writing from a playful creative point of view.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Responding to Comparison/contrast: 3 Voice Storyboard: Feeling [Pdf]
In this PDF lesson, students study topics on which people might have differing feelings; they then create three dialogue bubbles that represent three different viewpoints: one that loves the topic, one that dislikes it, and one with a...
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