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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digitally Explaining the Immigrant Experience
   The United States has become the chosen home for many around the world. From the first explorers to the newest arrivals, each immigrant had his/her own reasons for traveling to America to face new challenges in this country. In this lesson after researching about particular immigrants, students will compare and contrast the immigrant experience. Together with a partner, students will create digital stories to share the experiences of two immigrants to encourage an understanding of the immigrant experience.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Digital Word Detectives: Building Vocabulary With e-Book Readers
   Students in grades 2-6 use digital dictionaries and other e-book tools to learn new vocabulary as they read e-books on digital reading devices.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
   Students in grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Entering History: Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King, Jr.
   Nikki Giovanni's poem "The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr." is paired with Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, taking students on a quest through time to the Civil Rights movement.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Examining History with Maya Angelou's Poetry
   To understand the historical background that influenced Maya Angelou's poems, students research events to produce trading cards using the ReadWriteThink Trading Card App or Trading Card Student Interactive. Through the sharing of these trading cards, students understand the historical background as they analyze Angelou's poetry.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Huge Mistakes that Led to Catastrophe: Learning about Human-made Disasters throughout History
   After researching various human-made disasters such as the BP oil spill, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great Chicago Fire, students share their research in oral presentations. Then students pair up to compare and contrast their disasters using the Venn Diagram Student Interactive or the Venn diagram Mobile App.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Learning about Clouds with Haikus
   Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Picture This: Using Instagram to Report
   After taking a field trip that students document using mobile app Instagram, students become new reporters as they use the interactive Printing Press to tell about their experiences.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
   What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Mobile Devices to Illustrate Literary Devices
    Using mobile devices, students capture images to represent literary devices. Students then reflect on why their images depict the literary devices.