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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Fact vs. Opinion | Students will learn to distinguish the difference between facts and opinions. They will practice identifying facts and opinions. Essential Question: What is the difference between fact and opinion? | 1 year 33 weeks ago | ckjimenez | |
| CCC: Credible Sources, Creative Commons Images, and Citing Your Sources | Concepts Taught: A good researcher and writer seeks out credible sources, uses digital images that they have permission to use, and gives credit to those who provided the information and images used in his/her final product. Essential Questions: 1. Why is it important to use credible sources? 2. Why is it essential to use Creative Commons images? 3. How do I give proper credit to the suppliers of the information that I'm using? | 1 year 33 weeks ago | msbecs | |
| News Reporting | Teaching students to brainstorm, create, and present news stories is a powerful and productive way to give them 21st Century Skills, as recognized by AASL and ISTE. Learning the techniques of researching, discussing, collaborating, writing, video recording, and reporting are important skills, which help students learn to study subjects in greater depth, which results in greater understanding. Student pairs will research a topic, which they believe will be of interest to their peers. | 1 year 33 weeks ago | mev2 | |
| Where can I Find it? | Essential Questions: Where can I learn more about the different functions of teeth? What is the difference between an encyclopedia and a dictionary? What is the difference between digital reference sources and print reference sources? What are the primary functions of the incisors, canines and molars? How can looking at an animal's teeth help us determine what types of food they eat? | 1 year 33 weeks ago | grubino | |
| What Makes A Snack Healthy? | Students are concerned about obesity and healthy eating habits. They want to know if all popular snacks are bad for you and how to determine the nutritional value of various snacks. They tackle the following essential questions in their study: What snacks do we like to eat? What’s in our snacks? How healthy are the snacks? What snacks might be healthier? | 1 year 33 weeks ago | vharada | |
| Horror Tales: What Makes Them Spooky? | The teachers and LMS tap students’ prior knowledge about horror fiction, why they read it, and what they particularly find fascinating about this sub-genre. Building on this prior knowledge, the LMS selects a wide range of fiction and promotes the stories through face-to-face booktalks and VoiceThread presentations. As students select stories to read and rate, they focus on the following essential question: What makes a powerful scary story? | 1 year 33 weeks ago | vharada | |
| Animal Research Project | The lesson is designed to teach students how to use the BIG6 graphic organizer so they will have a systematic way to approach research papers. The students will then have to look-up a book on the subject and retrieve the book form the shelf to show they can use the library online catalog system. A review on accessing databases from the school lab and home will be done. Student will choose topic. | 1 year 32 weeks ago | MWPopovich | |
| California’s Native American Tribes | In this session, students will be introduced to the importance of effective note taking. Using print reference materials and web resources, students will answer the essential guiding question, "How did the native Californians live in the past?". These notes will then allow them create a compare/contrast chart for their final unit project, a compare/contrast poster on their specific tribe. | 1 year 32 weeks ago | dtschudy |