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Glogging About Natural Disasters
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| Grades | 5 – 8 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Nine 50-minute sessions |
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Tolono, Illinois |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
Grades 8 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Responding to Tragedy: Then and Now
After reading several poets’ personal responses to the September 11th terrorist attacks, students write a "then and now" poem that puts their early memories of the event in conversation with their current understanding of and response to the tragedy.
Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
Grades K – 11 | Calendar Activity | August 23
The tropical storm that became Katrina formed over the Bahamas in 2005.
As a class, students explore weather-related and other natural disasters that their geographical area is prone to and review emergency preparedness and procedures.
STRATEGY GUIDES
Grades 3 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Using Glogster to Support Multimodal Literacy
Glogster, a Web 2.0 tool, supports development of students’ multimodal literacy skills. This guide outlines techniques for critical evaluation and creation of multimodal texts.
Grades 3 – 12 | Strategy Guide
Teaching With Glogster: Using Virtual Posters in the Classroom
Why stop at paper and markers? With Glogster, a free, web-based tool, students can develop virtual posters including audio, video, text, hyperlinks, and images, and share their creations electronically.