This is a resource I made to be used in congunction with the Athenian Democracy activity by the Digital Inquiry Group to connect them with modern governments.

This is a resource I made to be used in congunction with the Athenian Democracy activity by the Digital Inquiry Group to connect them with modern governments.

Image Citation and license:    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEEDAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International This lesson is a lesson in Compare and Contrast. Students will first compare themselves to each other. They will then read a story and compare and contrast the characters in the story. They will use their iPads to take and edit a photo. They will also edit a Pages template to add show they understand how to compare characters in a story and how those characters change throughout the story.

Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.

This is a lesson that gives students the opportunity to compare and contrast using a Venn Diagram.  Students are also given the opportunity to create a Keynote presentation to demostrate mastery of the concept.   Thumbnail Image: https://publicdomainvectors.org/en/free-clipart/Castle-from-fairy-tales/86259.html

As native advertisements proliferate, students need to look beyond surface features like vivid graphics and learn to carefully evaluate sources of information. In this task, students are presented with two articles from the same online news outlet and asked which is a more reliable source. Students must identify who is behind the articles and consider potential conflicts of interest in order to successfully evaluate the articles. Note: A free educator account is required to access these materials.

Students compare military recruitment posters for African Americans used for both the Union and Confederate armies. They analyze how the language reflects differences is attitude and perspective.

Students will research different colleges they would potentially be interested in and then complete a college comparison worksheet.

This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders about comparing capacity with pictures (english units).

Using Google Sheets, students will use the Cultural Gram section in Utah Online Libary to predict, compare, and contrast facts about a country of their choice along with facts of the United States.  Then using Google sheets, the students will create graphs from the gathered information.

In this lesson on comparing decimals, students will learn how to comparing decimals to the thousandths place using place value.

Students create different versions of a known song and listen to contrasting recordings for musical differences and similarities.

Students create different versions of a known song and listen to contrasting recordings for musical differences and similarities.

Which side will win as students investigate both sides of the battle of using print versus online text for research as they learn about the lives of Civil War soldiers?

This task gives students an opportunity to work with exponential functions in a real world context involving continuously compounded interest. They will study how the base of the exponential function impacts its growth rate and use logarithms to solve exponential equations.

This task gives students an opportunity to work with exponential functions in a real world context involving continuously compounded interest. They will study how the base of the exponential function impacts its growth rate and use logarithms to solve exponential equations.

Students discuss and compare differing versions of Little Red Riding Hood and other tales about wolves in cumulative read-aloud sessions and text set explorations.

The purpose of this task is for students to compare fractions using common numerators and common denominators and to recognize equivalent fractions.

In this interactive activity adapted from Anneberg Learner’s Teaching Math Grades 3–5, compare fractions on number lines to determine which class of students wins bubble-gum-blowing contests.

This task is meant to address a common error that students make, namely, that they represent fractions with different wholes when they need to compare them. This task is meant to generate classroom discussion related to comparing fractions. Particularly important is that students understand that when you compare fractions, you implicitly always have the same whole.