Researching Animal Facts with Jan Brett Books
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn how to do basic research on animals that they have read about in a Jan Brett book.
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Students will learn how to do basic research on animals that they have read about in a Jan Brett book.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Literature circles are a way to engage students in reading by selecting texts to read and discuss with peers. Instead of traditional literature circle roles, use question stems as a way to spark discussion. These question stems build in the complexity of thinking required. Reflection questions are included for debriefing after the small group discussion.
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I use this with upper elementary students to have relevant examples of how plagiarism is happening in current times and we discuss the lawsuits that came from the copies.
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This is a short video introduction for students about what makes up a fairy tale and fractured fairy tale. The website PBS Learning Media has several resources including games and videos of fairy tales and fables.
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Students will learn how to do basic research on animals that they have read about in a Jan Brett book.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Material Type: Lesson Plan
VLab: Stream EcologyInvestigate how pollutants affect a stream's temperature, dissolved oxygen, and inhabitants.
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Students distinguish between "hard" and "soft" skills that are needed in the workplace and engage in activities that help them practice those skills. They then create a handbook of rules for the workplace for peers.
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Students find patterns in the numbers of the Twelve Days of Christmas and then figure out how much all the gifts of Christmas cost in 2019.
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Students will discover the differences in musical tempo between fast and slow. Students will learn to use the correct musical terms to describe the tempo of each piece. Students will use streamers and their bodies to show at what tempo each piece is played.
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3 x 3 Vocabulary Challenge Use within any subject Need a bank of at least 10 words from a similar subject. Students will put 9 words randomly in the 3x3 grid. Challenge: Make a sentence using each word in row 1. Challenge students to make sentences for each row and column in the 3x3 grid.
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Teachers: Learn to create a Hyperdoc to differentiate your instruction or target individualized intervention skills.
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This 5-E lesson introduces the use of nonfiction materials from the library with a maker component. Students willexamine nonfiction materials,draw diagrams,make models,ask questions of others,and explain their work.
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Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for students to keep track of citations to their articles. When students are using Google Docs to write their papers, they can easily link and cite the articles used for references.
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In this lesson, students will take control of the Artist to complete drawings on the screen. This Artist stage will allow students to create images of increasing complexity using new blocks like `move forward by 100 pixels` and `turn right by 90 degrees`.
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This lesson will give students an idea of what to expect when they head to the computer lab. It begins with a brief discussion introducing them to computer lab manners, then they will progress into using a computer to complete online puzzles.
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Using Scrat from the Ice Age franchise, students will develop sequential algorithms to move a squirrel character from one side of a maze to the acorn at the other side. To do this they will stack code blocks together in a linear sequence.
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Building on the concept of repeating instructions from "Getting Loopy," this stage will have students using loops to help BB-8 traverse a maze more efficiently than before.
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In the preceding stage, students used loops to create fantastic drawings. Now they're going to loop new actions in order to help the harvester collect multiple veggies growing in large bunches.
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