This 14 day Unit Plan integrates the Utah Core Standards for Language Arts and for Reading and Writing in History/Social Studies with the existing Utah Social Studies Standards. The students read, research, draw conclusions, and write beginning level argumentative essays comparing/contrasting major world religions. For a more thorough summary see the Background For Teachers section.

This activity will allow students to explore comparing and contrasting through movement and choreographic sequences.

A lesson plan for learning about nuclear weapons and nonproliferation agreements. Takes students through the process of comparing and contrasting various treaties and of evaluating their relative successes and failures. Includes a capstone assignment that requires students to apply what they have learned by composing their own treaty that addresses present-day challenges.

Students will compare an informational text versus a narrative text about Earth Day. Included in this lesson are videos and pictures of the lesson in action, a printable Earth Day Venn Diagram, and a recycling activity.

Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts about the polar habitats by using a Venn diagram. Included in this lesson are guided questions to use while reading, a printable Venn Diagram, and pictures of completed students' work.

Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. After reading and discussing books on the Arctic and Antarctic, they will use a Venn diagram and assorted images to compare and contrast the habits. Extensive resources are included such as worksheets, images, an assessment checklist, examples of student work, and video of the lesson in action.

Students cannot compare and contrast adventures and experiences in stories or explain differences between books without first understanding how to compare. In this lesson, students will learn how to use a Venn Diagram to compare two objects. Included is a printable template, and photos of the lesson.

This third grade lesson plan engages students in comparing and contrasting paired informational text passages about frogs. Students will use a Venn Diagram to keep track of the information.

What do inventors have that are alike? How are they different? Why do they invent? Learning about them may inspire you to invent new technology! In this lesson, students will compare and contrast key details in two texts on the topic of inventors. Pictures and videos of the students engaged in the lesson are provided.

The student will compare the text of Mason-Dixon Memory with the animation of the story. Included are an in-depth lesson plan, videos, and examples.

In this lesson, students will engage in a second guided reading of "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. Students will compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between two stories.

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast characters within the story "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi.

What an impact delivery can make! Students will compare the written and spoken version of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Included are handouts, examples of student work, and a video of the speech.

Students will be given poems by Dylan Thomas and Langston Hughes and will determine the differing structure, style, and content of each poem. Included are detailed plans, copies of the poems, and examples of student work.

In this lesson, students will listen to the story "Franklin in the Dark" by Paulette Bourgeois. Then students will compare and contrast its two characters and write about them.

Active, imaginative teaching with nursery rhymes takes advantage of how the brain learns best! In this lesson, students will use a Venn Diagram to compare "Little Jack Horner" to "Sing a Song of Sixpence"

School isn't always what we expect it to be! With teacher guidance, students will use a double bubble map to compare and contrast two similar characters from two books.

In this lesson, students are asked to compare the similarities and differences between two fables, "The Three Questions" and "Fu Finds the Way." Examples of students' Venn diagrams are provided.

In this lesson, students compare the video version of the teleplay "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" to the actual teleplay. (A teleplay is a play or script written for television.) The links to media in this lesson no longer work, but it could easily be adapted to a different teleplay or to a stage show contrasted with a movie version. The lesson materials include handouts, graphic organizers, and samples of student work.

Students will read an article by Byron Loosle on the meaning of Native American symbols and compare that to a video clip of an actual Native American explaining the symbols. There is a difference of opinion and students will weigh both arguments along with the importance of the source and write their own opinion on the subject.