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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| Zoo Animal Experts | Essential Question(s): Where can I learn more about zoo animals? How can I get information beyond just information text? The essential element of this project was 1.) students would learn about an animal they will find at the zoo and 2.) students would learn how to get information from photographs and beginning non-fiction text. | K | |
| Plagiarism: Avoiding Accidental Internet Plagiarism | In this lesson in the research paper unit, students will learn why cutting information from the Internet and pasting it into a research paper is plagiarism. They will learn how to properly paraphrase and cite their sources to avoid the consequences of theft of intellectual property. The essential questions for this lesson include: Why can't I cut and paste information from the Internet? How can I report my research without risking a charge of plagiarism? | 11, 12 | |
| 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? | K | |
| 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? | 5, 6, 7, 8 | |
| Whose Lucky Day Is It? | Essential Question: How do we use clues in the text and our background knowledge to make predictions about what will happen next in the story? The educators demonstrate making predictions from print and illustrations and provide students with practice and support for making predictions. Educators will model citing evidence in the text for their predictions and recording evidence on the graphic organizer in notemaking format. | 2 | |
| Nouns and Verbs in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | Following a class discussion of nouns and verbs in the story, students will go to a computer to locate and print photos to illustrate one noun and one verb of their choice. Essential questions: What is the function of a noun? What is the function of a verb? How can pictures be found with a computer? | 3 | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | 4 | |
| 5 Types of Literary Conflict | Students will identify the five different types of conflict shown in literature through an examination of books. Books will be grouped according to their specific type of conflict, but unlabeled so students will have to use their previous knowledge and previewing skills to identify the type of each group. Essential Question: What are the five basic internal/external conflicts that are found within literature? | 8 | |
| 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? | 7 |