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Glogging About Natural Disasters
Grades
5 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Glogging About Natural Disasters
After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.
Learning about Clouds with Haikus
Grades
4 - 6
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Learning about Clouds with Haikus
Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
Greetings from the Biomes of the World
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Greetings from the Biomes of the World
To share their research on biomes, students use iPads to create postcards from all over the world.
Getting Graphic with Alternative Energy Sources
Grades
7 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Getting Graphic with Alternative Energy Sources
After researching alternative sources of energy, students create online comic books to present their information.
A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry
Grades
11 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry
After researching the history and basic facts of a nuclear chemistry topic, students utilize the Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to create an electronic timeline that they use to present their research to the class.
Trading Information about Minerals Through Trading Cards
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Trading Information about Minerals Through Trading Cards
Using the free Trading Cards Mobile App, students create trading cards to share properties of various minerals with their classmates and connect the use of minerals to their own lives.
Poppin' Fun with Physical and Chemical Changes
Grades
6 - 9
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Poppin' Fun with Physical and Chemical Changes
Students will enjoy learning about physical and chemical changes as they turn their own photos into a narrated video using the iPad app SonicPics to illustrate (and eat) their results from a popcorn lab.
Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
Grades
5 - 9
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Professional Library
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Book
Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.
Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Grades
Grades
5 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Bringing Lessons to Life with Animoto
Using Animoto, a free Web 2.0 tool, students can develop short digital videos that include music, photos, video clips, and text as well as share their creations electronically.
Technology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Technology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Students research and report on instances of how copyright laws have adapted to encompass new technologies. They write articles predicting copyright issues that may arise with new and future technologies.
Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
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.
Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.
Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction

Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.

Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.
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.
Grades
K - 2
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.

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