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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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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 | |
| Simple Machines | Students will use five pre-selected websites to define types of simple machines and gather examples. They will evaluate the websites as part of this lesson to determine which provided the best information, was easiest to navigate, and most understandable. Following this lesson, students will create a scavenger hunt and video to teach other students about simple machines. | 5 | |
| Building a Greener Community | Students delve into different areas of community life and the importance of using existing resources in effective and efficient ways. They also consider alternatives to creating greener environments that may be innovative approaches. In their investigations, they address the following essential questions: What does greening a community involve? How green is our community at this time? How can we build a greener community? | 8 | |
| Find the Figurative Language | Fifth grade students identify figurative language and demonstrate their meaning in a multimedia project. Essential questions are: What is figurative language? How does it enhance our understanding and our enjoyment of reading? | 5 | |
| Rock Star Road Trip | Just what is there to do and see in this country anyway? We don't often ask students what their interests are. Through personal choice in music, this activity encourages students to visit other cities, apply real-world tools, and discover just what there is to do in other places. May be conducted collaboratively with music (genre), social studies (geography), and Math (economics)or may be taught in isolation. | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | |
| Literary Text vs. Informational Text | The librarian will use the SmartBoard and books to actively engage students individually, in pairs, and in a large group setting. Esssential Questions: What is literary text? What is informational text? | 1, 2 | |
| My Personal Wellness | Students answer the essential question(s): What do I need to know and do to live a balanced and healthy life? What do I need to know and do to become a life-long learner? They design advanced research strategies to access, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information from appropriate sources to construct understanding and to become health-literate. They research a wellness concern and create an evaluative annotated bibliography to demonstrate creativity and productivity. | 9 | |
| In Case of Emergency | Fifth grade students will investigate local natural disasters, specifically focusing on the preparedness for natural disasters, and produce a news broadcast based on their research for school's morning announcements. The students will use various resources to locate necessary information in order to answer the essential question: How should you be prepared in the event of natural disaster? | 5 | |
| 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? | K | |
| 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 |