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5th Grade Rain Garden Design Challenge Handouts

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5th Grade Rain Garden Design Challenge Handouts

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These handouts accompany the 5th Grade Rain Garden Design Challenge Lesson Plan. The handouts give criteria for identifying areas of erosion and non-point source pollution entering waterways on school property, slope and soil suitability criteria for situating the rain garden, and data collection procedures for phosphate testing. The handouts also include guidelines and criteria for the final poster presentation design and Claim-Evidence-Reasoning, as well as rubrics for scoring and guidelines for peer feedback.

5th Grade Rain Garden Design Challenge Lesson Plan

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5th Grade Rain Garden Design Challenge Lesson Plan

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This lesson engages 5th grade students in identifying areas of erosion and non-point source pollution entering waterways on school property, making a claim on the most suitable site to locate a rain garden by conducting field tests on slope and soil type, and testing
for the presence of phosphates in waterways on school forest property. Students then compete in a rain garden design challenge using their data to create a poster presentation, including a map and claim evidence reasoning, for the best rain garden design plan, scored using a rubric.

Accessing Complex Text Through Structured Conversations

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Accessing Complex Text Through Structured Conversations

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In this lesson students use a structured format (an adaptation of Think-Pair-Share) to discuss and deconstruct complex text. The new core standards emphasize the importance of developing students' speaking and listening skills as well as helping them access complex text through reading, re-reading, re-thinking, and re-examining.The purpose of this lesson is to get the students to focus and stay on topic while they talk. As a result, students are required to think more extensively about a topic by repeatedly reading and discussing with others.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Fine Arts; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Utah Education Network
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story

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Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story

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Through a close reading of "Amelia Bedelia", students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists

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Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists

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Students explore and analyze the techniques that political (or editorial) cartoonists use and draw conclusions about why the cartoonists choose those techniques to communicate their messages.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

Applied Digital Skills: Create a Presentation

Applied Digital Skills: Create a Presentation

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This 45-90 minute Google Applied Digital Skills lesson includes videos, lesson plans, and rubric. It is appropriate for middle school and high school students. It teaches transitions and animation along with collaboration.

Subject:: Business and Information Technology; Career and Technical Education; English Language Arts; Information and Technology Literacy; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Assessment; Homework/Assignment
Author:: Jane Strong
Date Added:: 04/12/2018

Art, A/V & Communications Career Cluster Chart

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Art, A/V & Communications Career Cluster Chart

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Art careers can be found in more than just the Art career cluster! Click here to find Art, A/V and Communication-related careers in the attached Career Cluster Chart.

Subject:: Art and Design; Career and Technical Education; Dance; Fine Arts; Media Arts; Music; Performing and Visual Arts; Speaking and Listening; Theatre
Material Type:: Other
Author:: Lynn Aprill
Date Added:: 03/08/2023

Arts, A/V & Communications Career Resources

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Arts, A/V & Communications Career Resources

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Check out these links to various Arts, A/V and Communications resources that teachers can use as part of their classroom curriculum today. Disciplinary Literacy resources are included because reading, writing, speaking, and listening in this content area are critical skills for students to master if they are pursuing careers in this content area.

Subject:: Art and Design; Career and Technical Education; Dance; Fine Arts; Media Arts; Music; Performing and Visual Arts; Speaking and Listening; Theatre
Material Type:: Other
Author:: Lynn Aprill
Date Added:: 03/08/2023

Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Student Career Resources

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Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Student Career Resources

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Use the attached resources to research careers associated with this career cluster.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; English Language Arts; Fine Arts; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Other
Author:: CESA 8
Date Added:: 06/29/2022

Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth

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What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 02/01/2022

Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth

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Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth

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What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five

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A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five

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As a culminating activity for "Slaughterhouse-Five", students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel "Slaughterhouse-Five".

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

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Cardboard Boat

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Students will collaboratively design and construct a cardboard boat using a variety of tools and methods which will float and hold 1 human in the school pool.

Subject:: Character Education; Education; English Language Arts; Geometry; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan
Date Added:: 08/21/2019

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Cardboard Boat

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Students will collaboratively design and construct a cardboard boat using a variety of tools and methods which will float and hold 1 human in the school pool.

Subject:: Character Education; Education; English Language Arts; Geometry; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan
Date Added:: 09/16/2019

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Cardboard Boat

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Students will collaboratively design and construct a cardboard boat using a variety of tools and methods which will float and hold 1 human in the school pool.

Subject:: Character Education; Education; English Language Arts; Geometry; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Lesson; Lesson Plan
Date Added:: 09/16/2019

Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry

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Choose, Select, Opt, or Settle: Exploring Word Choice in Poetry

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Students investigate the effects of word choice in Robert Frost's "Choose Something Like a Star" to construct a more sophisticated understanding of speaker, subject, and tone.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

Choosing One Word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein's "Sick"

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Choosing One Word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein's "Sick"

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Students select what they believe to be the most important word in a text that they have read and justify their choice using examples from the text.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

Communication in the Real World

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Communication in the Real World

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Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies is adapted from a work produced and distributed by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition includes information about communication, perception, verbal and nonverbal communication, listening, interpersonal communication processes, culture and communication, preparing and delivering a speech, small group communication, and leadership, roles, and problem solving in groups.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Date Added:: 11/18/2021

Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation

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Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation

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Students will really get into the swing of things as they analyze the text and film versions of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017

Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies

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Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies

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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.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan; Unit of Study
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 10/10/2017