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Dr. Seuss and Read Across America The essential question, What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement in America? This lesson is designed to teach students to analyze the life and works of Dr. Seuss and to infer why he was important to the Read Across America movement. Students will use note taking skills to write their paragraph from reliable, teacher selected sources. 5, 6
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Food Webs As a connection to a unit on ecology, fourth grade students are given the opportunity to create multimedia projects in which they use digital images and text to illustrate food webs. The essential question is: How do food webs work? 4
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Career Options: Which One Is Right For Me? In their career explorations, students assess the usefulness of a range of resources including print, online, and human sources. They retrieve information from different sources including interviews and workplace observations. Students address the following essential questions throughout the project: What career paths have I explored? Which career appeals most to me and why? How can I find out more about this particular career? How do I know if I am suited for this career? 11
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What Were They Thinking Then, What Are We Thinking Now? In the library students compare primary sources from two time periods relating to an issue in their novel or play. Students compare how the issue was perceived by characters in their work to how it is perceived by individuals today. The essential questions for this lesson are: Have the ideas and perspectives about the main issue of the novel or play changed with time? To what extent has the issue been resolved? 10
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Old Ironsides In exploring a unit on Poetry, students will research the USS Constitution and construct a guide that a tourist could follow while taking a walking tour of the vessel. The students are asked to consider the following essential questions: What are some present day uses of the USS Constitution? What is the significance of the naval vessel to Massachusetts, Oliver Wendell Holmes and his poem, Old Ironsides? 10
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U.S. Westward Expansion Students will explore the significant changes that people experienced during the westward expansion of our country. We will discuss the many areas of people's lives that were different from what we currently experience. This includes: food, clothes, travel, houses, entertainment, landscape, wildlife etc. We will discuss why we are even talking about these things. Essential Question: Is it important for us to know about people and things that came before us? 5
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German Cities Travel and leisure activities are popular conversation topics in many cultures. Opinions of leisure and travel activities vary with each person's interests and previous experiences. In this lesson, the learners are asked to create travel advice articles about German-speaking cities. 9, 10, 11, 12
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