Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
What do cowboy hats have to do with fairy tales? Two traditional fairy tales and their Texas-based counterparts set the stage for five different ways to respond to text.
What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
This lesson introduces the concept of Ňglance mediaÓ through an analysis of billboards. Students apply design concepts by creating a slide presentation to accompany an existing historical speech.
Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
Students work together to create classroom rules by brainstorming why they are at school and what they need while they are there.
Students interview family members, and then create graphic family timelines based on important and memorable family events.
Students explore the motivation behind charactersŐ actions in "To Kill A Mockingbird" by creating psychological profiles for characters from the novel.
This series of activities is designed to teach research strategies. Students use KWL charts to guide their inquiry and publish their results in a collaborative question and answer book.
Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.
Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
Students publish their work in an electronic portfolio, which enables them to respond to each other's content online.
Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
After reading a short story, students use freewriting as a catalyst for a literary analysis essay.
Using books by Ezra Jack Keats as inspiration, students explore problems and solutions through read-alouds, discussion, and an interactive bulletin board.
Students are exposed to wordless picture books and begin developing story lines, both orally and in writing, using an online, interactive story map.
Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.