Informational texts, iPads, and interactive games, oh, my! Help students journey through multimodal texts to identify and solve real-world mathematics problems using writing and apps.
Show What You Know: Read, Write and Solve Math Problems
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Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
6 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
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| Unit
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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Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
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Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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.
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Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
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Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
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Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
3 - 5
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Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.
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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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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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Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
3 - 5
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People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
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Flip Book
3 - 12
Student Interactive
| Writing & Publishing Prose
The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
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The Barbie doll was unveiled in 1959.
7 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Students explore body image and advertising through an activity where they bring in pictures from magazines that they read and discuss gender representations in the media.
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The New York Times used the slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print."
7 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
After discussing newspapers and their different points of view, students choose a current event, read editorials on the event, and share them with the class to identify the editor's point of view.
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Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the US to earn a MD degree in 1849.
3 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
"Famous Firsts" are researched by students, followed by small group research and multimedia presentations to report research results.
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African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born in 1862.
7 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Author & Text
Students brainstorm a list of human rights issues, research their group's issue in depth, examine the way journalists cover a story, and create articles for a classroom newspaper.
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CNN debuted as the first television news network in 1980.
3 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Students brainstorm a list of modern news sources and from previous centuries. Groups then research one of these sources and create a timeline showing the evolution of news.
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Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
5 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Students learn about eyewitness reports through a lesson that is grade-level appropriate. Then, groups use primary source documents and research an event using eyewitness accounts.
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The RMS Titanic sank on this day in 1912.
3 - 12
Calendar Activity
| Historical Figure & Event
Students use the Internet Workshop model to explore web links about the Titanic disaster.
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Celebrate National Library Week!
K - 12
Calendar Activity
| Literacy-Related Event
Students learn more about libraries as part of National Library Week.