In this recurring lesson, students use an anticipation guide to preview and make predictions about texts. The lesson begins with teacher-directed whole-group instruction in which students are introduced to the concept of previewing and guided in completing a prepared anticipation guide for Teammates by Peter Golenbock. Students are then given an opportunity to complete a portion of the anticipation guide independently. In the days that follow, students work in both teacher-guided and student-facilitated groups to extend their use of the previewing strategy with other texts. Finally, students discuss as a class how using anticipation guides helped them better understand the reading.

This is a resource about putting hands in pants and why it is not okay. It talks about what might happen and how we sould react when it does. This is a downloadable resource that you can change and edit to your students individual needs. 

This resource outlines why we keep our hands out of our pants through a visual communication board. It is made for students with limited communication skills. 

In this lesson, students compare the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes to an episode of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer entitled "Hush." Both texts feature mysterious, silent men who come into a town and create literal and figurative nightmares for its residents. Students complete a chart and take notes from a powerpoint on the similarities and differences between the two.

This lesson examines Jay Gatsby from a different perspective than students are probably used to - as opposed to the loving protagonist, they will view him as the law-breaking criminal he is. Students learn about the prohibition-era setting of the novel and read several op-ed pieces related to the text.

The houses that Native American tribes constructed hundreds of years ago looked a lot different than the houses we’re familiar with today. In this informational text, Sarah J. Bell describes the different houses that Native Americans built. As studentsread, they take notes on how the environment affected the type of house Native Americans built.

In this lesson, students consider the importance of Howard Roark, an important character from Ayn Rand's seminal novel, The Fountainhead. Students discuss Roark after viewing a powerpoint presentation about him.

This activity is designed to guide students through a process-oriented lesson in analyzing data from the Tropical Storms - Esri GeoInquiries™ collection for Earth Science at http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries. Students will use storm tracking data from Hurricanes in 2005 to investigate the relationship between pressure and wind, as well as determine and explain the conditions that lead to the development of hurricanes and tropical storms.

This lesson was adapted from the resource:
"Tropical storms"
Author: GRACE
Project Provider: Michigan Virtual
Date Added: 11/21/2016
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
Language: English
Media Format: Text/HTML

Students will research how the American dream has been experienced throughout history and then create a comprehensive mind map illustrating their findings.

In this lesson, students read the poem "An Incident in the Rose Garden" by Donald Justice, then go through a series of activities to examine the use of figurative language in the text.

In this introductory physics activity, students will investigate the basic requirements for electricity. They will create a simple circuit for a quiz board that will light up when the correct matching pair is selected. Students will create six questions and answers for the quiz board, using electricity vocabulary terms.

In this lesson, mature students are introduced to The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Students view a powerpoint presentation with background information about the book before beginning the reading. This lesson also has helpful notes for the teacher about addressing the mature themes of the novel before beginning to read.

Students discover the island cultures of the South Pacific and their musical expressions with songs, crafts, and games. Lesson also uses recordings of Hawaiian slack key guitar, rhythmic games songs from the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea flute playing.

In this lesson, students are introduced to the book On The Road by Jack Kerouac. This page has information for teachers to help them decide what to focus on in the book, along with an introductory powerpoint and a test.

Students conduct Web searches on open-ended questions and draw on their experiences to develop guides to searching effectively and finding reliable information online.

In this unit, students will learn how to use inverse operations to solve equations/inequalities containing variables, write equations/inequalities to represent real life situations, and simplify equations/inequalities before solving.

In this lesson, students complete a series of activities in order to practice classification skills and learn about the differences between living and nonliving things.

In this lesson, students read The Open Window, a short story by Saki that features a twist ending not unlike a horror movie. Students also read The Possibility of Evil, by Shirley Jackson, then compare the texts and examine the different ways they feel about both authors' characters.

Learn to play and compose music with the mbira. Explore the use of the instrument in Zimbabwe to understand the relation of music to history and culture and its ability to incite social change. Lesson includes notations, historical background, and recordings and images from Smithsonian Folkways.

This lesson contains an introduction to The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story novel by Henry James. Students get background information on the novel from a powerpoint presentation before making some predictions about the text and the characters it contains.