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Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
Grades
3 - 5
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Standard Lesson
Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.
Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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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.

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