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Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt: Researching Nutrition to Advertise for Health
Grades
6 - 8
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Unit
Grocery Store Scavenger Hunt: Researching Nutrition to Advertise for Health
After researching nutrition and analyzing food advertisements, students work in cooperative groups to create their own advertisements for food products.
Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
Grades
6 - 8
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Unit
Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
Students explore a variety of resources as they learn about the Holocaust. Working collaboratively, they investigate the materials, prepare oral responses, and produce a topic-based newspaper to complete their research.
Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.
Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
Students attend a 19th Century Victorian party to celebrate Scrooge's new outlook on life. They research characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and assume those personas for the party.
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.
Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
In this lesson, students use a scaffold to help them compile information to write a solid research paper.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation
Classroom biography study offers high-interest reading with a purpose, as students begin with inquiry and research, summarize and organize their information, and prepare oral presentations to share with the class.
Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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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.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Let It Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project
Students learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, gardening at their school, creating signs about their plants, and presenting their research to the class.
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.
Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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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.
Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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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.
Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.

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