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.
Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
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Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
6 - 8
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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.
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Scaffolding Methods for Research Paper Writing
6 - 8
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In this lesson, students use a scaffold to help them compile information to write a solid research paper.
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A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
6 - 8
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Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
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Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
6 - 8
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Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
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Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past
6 - 8
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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.
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The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
6 - 8
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Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.
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In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
6 - 8
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Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" to help create a poem of their own.
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Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
6 - 8
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Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make textselfworld connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
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Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
6 - 8
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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.