In elementary school, someone may have taught you to “hook a reader” …
In elementary school, someone may have taught you to “hook a reader” by starting an essay with a definition. This has become pretty cliched and not engaging. But readers do need to have things defined for them. And while definitions may not help us start a piece of writing, they can help us structure a writing by bridging the introduction and the body. In this video, You’ll learn a move writers in all genre use -- the definition hinge structure -- to provide crucial context for readers while moving them from the introduction into the main ideas of your writing.
Through listing and observation, students identify the many texts that they read …
Through listing and observation, students identify the many texts that they read and compose: including books and magazines, television shows, movies, audio broadcasts, hypertexts, and animations.
This is a lesson plan to end a unit on Narrative. During the …
This is a lesson plan to end a unit on Narrative. During the unit, students came up with a time in their lives that was significant ("a defining moment") and will tell their stories digitally -- through a photo journal using Google docs. The lesson is a remix of Google's Applied Digital Skills lesson "Create a Photo in Google Docs".
Savagery, treachery, lost innocenceÉ "Lord of the Flies" is rife with character …
Savagery, treachery, lost innocenceÉ "Lord of the Flies" is rife with character development. Use this lesson to help students chart the character changes of Ralph and Jack, both in groups and individually.
In a series of three brief clips, Larry Kramer, Dean of Stanford …
In a series of three brief clips, Larry Kramer, Dean of Stanford Law School, provides some insights into understanding and teaching various details of the constitution.
Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed …
Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed end, and an open middle. This means that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problems. Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding.
Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed …
Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed end, and an open middle. This means that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problems. Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding.
Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed …
Open Middle provides math problems that have a closed beginning, a closed end, and an open middle. This means that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problems. Open middle problems generally require a higher Depth of Knowledge than most problems that assess procedural and conceptual understanding.
In this lesson, students will learn about the effects of deforestation and …
In this lesson, students will learn about the effects of deforestation and why people cut down trees. The will transfer the learned knowlede into a paragraph that includes a topic sentence, facts and details from the resources, and a concluding sentence.
In this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a …
In this video segment, the ZOOM cast is challenged to keep a ping pong ball in a funnel while the funnel is held upside down, seemingly defying gravity.
In this Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Kristy Louden offers some practical suggestions …
In this Cult of Pedagogy podcast, Kristy Louden offers some practical suggestions for teachers to use as they give feedback to student writing throughout the writing process. The goal in delaying the grade is to help students apply feedback rather than see it as a final assessment of their work.
In all, 70 delegates were appointed to the Constitutional Convention, but out …
In all, 70 delegates were appointed to the Constitutional Convention, but out of that 70 only 55 attended, and only 39 actually signed. Some simply refused, others got sick, still others left early.
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