This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
A brief guide to engaging students in narrative writing by having them program robots to act out their stories.
Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from "attack" to "zap", reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
This lesson is based on the Annenberg Classroom video âA Call to Act: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.,â which tells the law-changing story behind the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Students gain insight into law-making process, consider how statutory decisions made by the Supreme Court can prompt better laws, and learn about the rights and responsibilities they will have when they enter the workforce.
The estimated time for this lesson is four days.
Students should have a solid foundation of the regional differences in the former colonies, now states, as well as an understanding of the ratification of the Constitution. This Lesson is best used after students have read The Constitutional Convention and The Ratification Debate on the Constitution Narratives in Chapter 3. The James Madison and the Bill of Rights Narrative in Chapter 4 can be used as background for the Lesson or can be assigned as homework after the Lesson to reinforce main ideas.
Scope & sequence for K-12 physical education will help teachers to develop physically literate students by using several PE standards.
The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Students can use this model to guide them through the research process. This resource is an article describing how to use a KWHL chart to help student through the research process.
This article provides suggestions for how to improve your active listening skills -- and that you could use with your students.
Active listening is really the application of the Golden Rule and perhaps the most critical skill for resolving conflict. To know how to listen to someone else, think about how you would want to be listened to. While the ideas are largely intuitive, it might take some practice to develop (or re-develop) the skills.
This article describes covert and overt active engagement strategies for use with elementary students. Find the Question templates are included for use with informational text.
This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
Website from the NCCSE to guide teachers to increase equity in recruiting students to CS classes.
Students will identify types of communication styles, explain active/effective listening skills, and demonstrate the ability to use active listening skills.
El Panel Nacional de Lectura (2000) identificó cinco áreas críticas clave para una enseñanza eficaz de la lectura. Esta guía le ayudará a asistir a su hijo a mejorar en cada una de las habilidades de alfabetización para que pueda convertirse en un gran lector y escritor. Usted desempeña un rol importante en este proceso. Esta guía le brinda algunas ideas sobre actividades que puede realizar con su hijo en casa para ayudarle a convertirse en un mejor lector. Las ideas incluyen descripciones detalladas de actividades basadas en evidencia y apoyos, así como una plantilla para practicar en casa. Además, para obtener más información sobre las áreas críticas de la enseñanza de la lectura, utilice los códigos QR.
In this lesson, students will learn about how Harriet Beecher Stowe fought against the injustice of slavery. They will also consider ways in which they can fight injustices in their own lives.
This article discusses the four forms of identifying similarities and differences: comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies and how these strategies can be used in an elementary classroom.
Selected resources provide three web-based activities to complement science lessons in an issue of Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The free, online magazine for Grades K-5 teachers explores the essential principles of climate literacy.
Fertilization is the combining of male and female sex cells. When a pollen grain touches the top of the pistil, called the stigma, it forms a tube through which male sex cells travel downward into the ovary. An egg is fertilized inside the ovary.
In the process of photosynthesis, plants take in carbon dioxide and water and using light from the sun, they produce sugar and oxygen.