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This is the abstract for the entire ELA 6th Grade Unit.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Date Added:
- 04/08/2015
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Welcome to our website full of fun online activities! ELM Interactives for Grades K-8 is designed to help young students develop and practice computer, online literacy and research skills. ELM Interactives for Students is a collection of instructional activities on the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) databases created by librarians in the Reference Outreach and Instruction unit of Minitex utilizing the Student Interactives hosted on the ReadWriteThink site and provided by the International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and the Verizon Foundation's Thinkfinity. Each set of ELM instructional activities and Student Interactives are organized by activity and grade level and intended to be teacher initiated and guided. However, any of the activities can be modified to fit any grade, student, or assignment. The Student Interactives highlighted on this website require Flash and are best used on a desktop or laptop computer. These instructional activities can be viewed and used on-demand, whenever they're needed.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- English Language Arts
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Diagram/Illustration
- Homework/Assignment
- Interactive
- Lesson Plan
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Author:
- Jennifer Hootman
- Minitex Reference Outreach & Instruction
- Date Added:
- 11/25/2014
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In this lesson, students examine voting rights in the early years of the United States and the causes and effects of the first major expansion of voting rights, which took place in the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain where various groups of Americans stood regarding the right to vote before the Civil War, and will hypothesize about what they expect happened next.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Provider Set:
- Learning for Justice
- Date Added:
- 10/21/2011
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This resource contains an overview of the resource, printable forms, and student samples.
- Subject:
- Elementary Education
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Stephanie Genco
- Date Added:
- 05/21/2019
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Emotions are important. Students will work in groups to come up with an example of how an emotion can help us in our daily lives and oppositely how an emotion could hinder us. Students will use chart paper to make a one-pager poster of their example. After, students can gallery walk and present their ideas.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language Education (ESL)
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Tamra Southerton
- Oregon Open Learning
- Date Added:
- 06/03/2022
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Designed for middle and high school teachers, we’ll consider how to tackle misinformation, how to analyze digital media, and why it’s important for your students. Robert Costa is the Moderator of Washington Week, the Peabody Award-winning weekly news analysis series on PBS. Costa is also a full-time national political reporter for The Washington Post, where he covers Congress and the White House and regularly travels the country to meet with voters and elected officials.
Led by PBS Digital Innovator All Star Leigh Herman and PBS Station Representative Mary Anne Lane this session highlights exciting resources and models that you can immediately implement in your classroom.
Prioritizing fun, engaging and accessible tools for your students, the series will highlight techniques for analyzing media, and amplifying student voice through authentic storytelling.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- PBS LearningMedia
- Author:
- PBS Learning Media
- Date Added:
- 01/31/2023
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In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride.
- Subject:
- Chemistry
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- PBS LearningMedia
- Provider Set:
- PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
- Author:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Walmart Foundation
- Date Added:
- 09/28/2011
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This approximately one-month long unit will encompass a variety of subjects mainly focusing on Science, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Art. Culminating in a field trip to a nature center. This unit is easily adaptable to an English Language Learner.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Arts and Humanities
- English Language Arts
- Environmental Science
- Mathematics
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Module
- Date Added:
- 08/10/2018
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A lesson plan based on a quick video overview of "The CRAAP method for evaluating sources of information" by Kallie Gay.
- Subject:
- Education
- English Language Arts
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Homework/Assignment
- Lecture
- Date Added:
- 04/22/2019
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Examine identity and assimilation with an activity that asks the essential question: Was there ever a part of your identity you had to hide?
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Ethnic Studies
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Provider Set:
- Learning for Justice
- Date Added:
- 07/06/2009
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Primary sources provide firsthand evidence and perspectives of historical events by the person writing them. Students will read various types of correspondence (letters, diaries, and postcards) and analyze their content. Students will then take on the role of a citizen and write a letter as if they were part of a major event of the Civil War.
- Subject:
- Communication
- Composition and Rhetoric
- English Language Arts
- History
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Lynn Ann Wiscount
- Erin Halovanic
- Vince Mariner
- Date Added:
- 07/14/2020
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It includes guidance on how the unit was structured and sequenced and can be used while interacting with the Ochre resources. The plan also allows teachers to see an example of planning for a sequence of lessons and
reflect on their own teaching and effective practice. The unit plan is annotated to explicitly show some of the decisions that are made during the planning process.
- Subject:
- Education
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Australian Education Research Organisation
- Author:
- Melissa Garstang-Leary
- Ochre Education
- Date Added:
- 06/26/2023
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Objective: Using Explora Teens through the South Dakota State Library, students will gather and cite information from multiple texts and diverse media and draw on information from multiple print or digital sources.Instructions: Use the Explora Teens BINGO card and one of the three worksheets to teach students how to use Explora Teens to find academic sources. The worksheet introduces students to the Explora Teens.1. Distribute the Explora Teens BINGO Worksheet for Grades 6-8.2. Encourage students to read all directions along with you first so you can help them understand.3. Demonstrate how to use Explora Teens to find sources and how to find citations.Pass out the BINGO cards. Explain how to get a BINGO. Tell students that they can choose any of the topics in the box as a search term when looking for that source. They can mix and match. In other words, a student can do a search for civil rights for B1 and suffrage for I6, or the student could do civil rights across the row.Time Required: Activities in the worksheet can be completed in 25-45 minutes.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- History
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Erin Nilges
- Date Added:
- 05/15/2019
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A checklist in teacher language used to assess middle school students’ expository writing as they work on projects.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- History
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 06/22/2017
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A rubric in student language used by students to create expository writing that meets high standards of quality.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 06/22/2017
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A checklist in teacher language used by teachers to assess middle school students’ expository writing as they work on activities and projects.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Date Added:
- 06/22/2017
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In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- PBS LearningMedia
- Provider Set:
- PBS Learning Media Common Core Collection
- Author:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Walmart Foundation
- Date Added:
- 07/05/2011
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Indiana Standard:
7.RN.2.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what a text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
7.RN.3.3 Determine an author’s perspective or purpose in a text, and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from the positions of others.
Common Core Standard:
Reading Standards for Informational Text Grades 6-12
1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Date Added:
- 05/06/2017
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This handout accompanies the lesson "Farmworkers and the Union." A Spanish version is included.
- Subject:
- Economics
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Provider Set:
- Learning for Justice
- Date Added:
- 07/17/2017
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The four lessons in this unit explore different aspects of gender for today’s girls and women. Each lesson identifies barriers that limit girls’ and women’s opportunities and asks students to explore how those barriers can be dismantled.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Provider Set:
- Learning for Justice
- Date Added:
- 03/30/2012