Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups

In this lesson, students read Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco to identify words that are unfamiliar to them. Working collaboratively in small groups, they discuss the meaning of these new words, using context clues from the text, prior knowledge, and both print and online resources. Students then apply their knowledge of the new vocabulary to further their understanding of the text.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Peggy Harper

Active Reading through Self-Assessment: the Student-Made Quiz

This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They work independently to choose quotations that exemplify the main idea of the text, come to a consensus about those quotations in collaborative groups, then formulate "quiz" questions about their reading that other groups will answer.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Jaime R. Wood

Real World Writing Purposes - LDC

Students are introduced to the various purposes for writing informational text. Students use newspapers or online articles to identify examples that were written for each of the specific purposes and provide a summary.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: LDC-Aislinn K. Cunningham

Animate that Haiku!

After reading haikus and examining the haiku format in this lesson, students write their own haikus that they then animate using Animoto.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Kathy Wickline

1000 Images on the Tip of My Tongue (French and Spanish)

Search for idiomatiques expressions based on 11 themes including anatomy, clothing, colors, and so on. Search results include the expression in context with an audio recording in the target language and English translation if accessed by the user.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique

An Introduction to "Beowulf": Language and Poetics

This lesson provides an introduction to the language and poetics of the epic poem, "Beowulf." Although students read "Beowulf" in translation, they will be introduced to the five characters in the Old English alphabet no longer used. Students will translate a phrase from the Old English, listen to a passage read in Old English, then learn about poetic devices important in "Beowulf." Finally, students will compare the use of alliteration in Auden's poem, "The Age of Anxiety" to the alliteration and meter used in "Beowulf."

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: John Paul Walter

All About Alliteration: Responding to Literature Through a Poetry Link

In this lesson, students overcome their fears by using a traditional poem to teach students about alliteration. After reading the book, A My Name Is... by Alice Lyne, students use a variety of print and online resources to brainstorm their own alliterative word lists. They then create a poetry link that uses the traditional poem they have read together as a framework for their own poems.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Lisa Cranston

Vocabulary in Context - American Revolution

Students are introduced to content area vocabulary associated with the American Revolution.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth

What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: ReadWriteThink

Outwit-Outplant-Outlast

In this activity, students will play the parts of native plants, invasive plants, and herbivores in a game. They will quickly see the advantages that invasives have over natives. Students will experience the vulnerabilities of native species, such as competition, predation, and dependence on nutrients, water, and space.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Colorful Chemistry: Redox Reactions with Lollipops

In this activity, students use a vivid colour-changing demonstration to illustrate a chain of redox reactions, whereby electrons are transferred between different compounds and ions.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Archetypes in Literature and Media

This Powerpoint introduces archetypes found in literature, tv shows, and movies.  Brief explanation for each of the selected archetypes and examples are presented.  There is an application assignment where students will find additional archetype examples and write a brief essay demonstrating understanding of archetype.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Doug Chesnutt

American Indians and Buffalo Soldiers

This lesson was designed to help students gain social studies/history content knowledge by using textual evidence to answer text-dependent questions.In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Achieve the Core

Mission Possible: Energy Trade-Offs

Students will work cooperatively to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the energy sources used to generate electricity by developing energy plans for a fictitious country and presenting the plans to the class.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: NEED

100 Number Chart

For this interactive, students place numbers on the correct spot of the 100 chart. There are two levels of difficulty. Beginner-students are given one line of the 100 chart with two missing numbers at a time & advanced-students are shown the entire 100 chart with twenty missing numbers. Students receive a funny surprise at the end of the activity.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: ABCya.com

Multiplication Mash Up - YouTube

This resource aids in learning multiplication facts 0-12 and skip counting with trendy songs.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive

Author: McCarthy Math Academy

Find the Missing Number

This task asks students to solve addition and subtraction equations with different structures so that they are able to see the connections between addition and subtraction more easily.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Illustrative Mathematics

Invent Your Own Device to Battle Invasive Species

Students will learn how scientists are using a new invention, a lionfish zapping robot, to combat this harmful invasive species. Students will learn about the invention process, including researching an invasive species and designing their own invention to help deal with the problem.

100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras

This lesson plan provides 100 ways to use digital cameras in the classroom.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Gayle Berthiaume

All that Glitters is Not Gold

Students learn how to authenticate online information by comparing "facts" from the website entitled "All About Explorers" with more authoritative sources. (This four-lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teachers students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony, and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music videos and movies.)

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: MediaSmarts