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| Explorers Project | Students will apply the research process for this multiple class unit. They will read about a particular explorer, learn about their aims, challenges and accomplishments, and will trace the routes they followed on maps. As a group, they will generate questions to use during the "Interview with an Explorer" section. Students will gain practice in writing skills to communicate effectively as they create a journal from the Explorer's point of view. | 1 year 33 weeks ago | mstaton | |
| Zoo Animals | Students address the following essential questions in this unit: What are reptiles? What are mammals? What are birds? How are these animals alike? How are they different? | 1 year 34 weeks ago | patricialouis | |
| Idea-Noun Definition: Source Searching | This lesson is designed to teach students the location and how to access their sources. This lesson falls under step three in the Big6 Research Process. Students will review the various sources available to them and the specifics for access and searching within those sources. Students will find three sources related to their research task (selected idea-noun) and cite them correctly. Essential Question: How does this source change/support/influence your definition of _____ (student's idea-noun focus)? | 1 year 34 weeks ago | jaercook | |
| Hooks with Books: Never Judge a Book by its Cover | Students will identify hooks and analyze what makes them effective. The SL will use a PowerPoint to introduce the idea that hooks in books are as important as hooks in writing assignments. The various hooks from selected YA fiction will illustrate techniques professional writers use to grab their reader's attention. Essential Question: Why is a good hook important in writing? What techniques do writer’s use to grab a reader’s attention? | 1 year 34 weeks ago | scarn004 | |
| American Revolution | Students will research an event from the American Revolution and gather information about the event’s impact on American life at the time. They will prepare a presentation addressing the event and focusing on the essential questions: How did that event impact American life today? How would American life be different today if that event had not taken place? | 1 year 35 weeks ago | bvancil | |
| US History Researched Debate Project (Atomic Bomb) | Essential Question: Was it ethical for President Truman and the US military to drop the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II? | 1 year 35 weeks ago | jdyra | |
| Yearlong History Paper-What are my resource options? | This lesson is designed to teach students research skills to search print, periodical, and Internet sources. | 1 year 41 weeks ago | kmanno | |
| Community Helpers | In a theme unit on community helpers, Kindergarten students will name a range of community helpers and be able to describe how they perform their major roles. The essential questions for this unit include: Who are community helpers? How do they help us? | 1 year 43 weeks ago | MelissaJ | |
| Famous African American Research | Students will apply the research process in a major project that involves several lessons. The students will read about and describe the lives of historical figures and their place in history. The student can use knowledge of the conventions of language and texts to construct meaning for a range of literary and informational texts for a variety or purposes. The students will use the writing process to construct meaning and communicate effectively. | 1 year 43 weeks ago | MelissaJ | |
| Community history | Seventh grade students conduct a community history investigation that centers on the essential questions: How has our community changed over time? What caused or influenced these changes? How can we find out? | 1 year 43 weeks ago | vharada |