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Visual Allegory: The Tale of Man
In this visual allegory worksheet, students complete the provided graphic organizer that requires them to list details about examples of allegory in paintings.
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He Had a Dream...I Have One Too!
What is your dream for a better world? After reading a short article about Dr Martin Luther King, kids identify something they would like to see changed, the steps that could be followed to make the dream a reality, and the effects these...
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Timeline
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students use the timeline graphic organizer to organize events from a text in the order they occur in the story.
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Inverted Pyramid of Ideas
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students use the inverted pyramid to help them organize ideas for a topic. Students write their ideas in the provided space.
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2 Column Notes
In this taking notes worksheet, students use the 2 column graphic organizer to help them take notes while reading. Students write the title and the two columns to organize their thoughts and quotes from the text.
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Timeline
In this timeline worksheet, students complete the graphic organizer that helps them organize the date or time of events in a story. Students also list a description for the events.
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3 Column Notes
In this note taking worksheet, students complete the 3 column note graphic organizer to help them understand a text and organize their notes about the text.
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For Sale! Part 1
Learners create a new document in a graphic organizer. They add main ideas to their document and reorder the items. They share their organizer with the class.
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Lighting in My Classroom Survey
How much energy does it take to light a room? Class members calculate the total wattage it takes to light the classroom. Through calculations, responsible scientists determine the cost of energy for the year, then figure out...
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Cyber Museum Page
Ninth graders create webpages similar to that of a local artist and then help fourth graders create artistically balanced webpages with colorful backgrounds, appropriate fonts and interesting graphics using Netscape Composer.
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Looking Back to 1980
Young scholars use clustering/mind mapping techniques to generate ideas, graphically represent inferences, organize their conclusions and write a report that presents conclusions the writer has reached, and facts substantiating those...
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Hyper for Expository Writing!
Fifth graders use the internet to research a plant or animal they read about in "The Talking Earth". Using notes, they develop a graphic organizer and use the main topics to create a HyperStudio stack. Using all of this information,...
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For Sale! Part 2
Students use storyboarding software to create a storyboard for a movie about selling their school building. They use the storyboarding software as a tool to organize the different shots or scenes that will appear in their movie.
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Tobacco: Exploring Tobacco Culture
Eighth graders are introduced to the tobacco planting process. Using primary sources, they identify the steps necessary to grow the popular crop. They create a flow map to organize the process graphically. They discuss the...
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Commercials
Students observe as the teacher demonstrates how to use a digital video camera. They experiment with the camera to get to know its features. Finally they create a video commercial and edit it, inserting sounds, titles and other graphics.
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Pictograph to Bar Graph
Second graders explore organizing data to make it useful for interpreting picture graphs and bar graphs. They use Graphers software to create a pictograph and a bar graph.
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Researching and Writing About Another Country's Holiday: Documenting and Communicating Information
This lesson is a culminating lesson which follows students researching, collecting citations, evaluating and selecting text, graphic materials and visual aids. In this concluding lesson, 5th graders discuss the assessment task and how to...
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Types of Forces
Students study scientific names and descriptions of forces. In this motion lesson students organize information into a graphic organizer then teach it to other students.
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Social Studies: Micronesian Independence Day
Students pretend that they are visiting a relative in Micronesia and compare its Independence Day with the U.S. holiday. They compare the two countries' flags while older students in grades three through five create travelogues. Younger...
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KWL on flags
Third graders engage in a writing activity in order to research and establish meaning for the subject of the American Flag. They use a graphic organizer known as a KWL Chart in order to progress through the lesson.
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Microsoft Excel Lesson Plan
Fifth graders collect, organize, interpret data. In addition, they compare different textures, color including graphical representations such as bar graph, line graph .Students also describe the uses of rocks and how to use that to...
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What Can You Find in the Cabinet?
Looking in the cabinet can be fascinating! Examine the various departments of the Executive Cabinet in this group research project, which jigsaws so each small group has a different department and presents to the class. Groups create...
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KWL Chart
Students use a KWL Chart. In this lesson, students will have a blank KWL, or what do I know, what do I want to learn, and what did I learn chart. Students get to there the other students in their class by filling it out the KWL chart and...
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The O Zone-Code Read Alert
What are the effects of an air quality alert? Expert groups receive one component of air quality information resources to study. Pupils then jigsaw into new groups and share their knowledge. Finally, they draft a statement of what they...