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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
   Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
   Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
   Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
   Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   I Wonder: Writing Scientific Explanations With Students
   Students choose a question to explore, research it using a variety of resources, organize their information on a TCF chart, and then collaboratively write a class scientific explanation.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
   Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
   Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Rain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
   Water is always moving in a continuous cycle from liquid to solid to gas and back again. Students study this never-ending cycle through shared readings, center activities, and experiments.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
   Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
    Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.

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