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- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"fiction that sounds like fact. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
Creepy crawlers, hoppers, and fliers are the focus of this lesson in which students chorally read poems about insects and use the Internet to locate facts about their assigned insects. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Myth and Truth: Independence Day
By exploring myths and truths surrounding Independence Day, students think critically about commonly believed stories regarding the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the Independence Day holiday. - Classroom Resources | Grades 2 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Name Tag Glyphs
In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Native Americans Today
This lesson challenges students' views of Native Americans as a vanished people by asking them to compare their prior knowledge with information they gather while reading about contemporary Native Americans. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Research Building Blocks: "Cite Those Sources!"
Students learn the importance of crediting others for their words and ideas, and then learn the paraphrasing and citation skills necessary to avoid plagiarism. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
In this lesson from a research skills unit, students read informational text, looking for supporting details. They practice skimming and scanning print resources, and scrolling through electronic resources. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Skimming and Scanning: Using Riddles to Practice Fact Finding Online
Students will learn to skim and scan to make sure they don't flounder when they're surfing the Internet for facts to help them complete riddles about the United States.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 7 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.