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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Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes!
K
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This lesson encourages young students to see themselves as writers with a message to convey. Three types of reports are provided to show what kindergartners and emergent writers can do.
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Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
9 - 12
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In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
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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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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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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.