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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhole Lotta' Lava: Creating Volcanology Reports Modeled After Meteorological News Segments
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Geography, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the most recent research in the field of volcanol...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou're the Detective
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ThinkQuest resource features a collection of mystery stories for students to read. Some of the stories are story starters,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Cite Information Sources?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis page, from the Kentucky Virtual Library, discusses the importance of citing information sources, in order to lend credibili...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorkshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Professional Development, Writing StrategiesThis resource, from Learner.org, provides a workshop on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that off...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAt Home in the Heartland Online: Grades, Subjects and Activities
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Geography, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Literary Analysis and 2 additional..At Home in the Heartland has been written for grades 3 to 12. Text and activities are grade specific and have been organized by...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkwww.me.com
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Principles of DesignActivity in which students create an autobiographical comic book or graphic novel to go on a blog Web site.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWordle
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Technology, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, English Language DevelopmentThis beautiful web site takes text that you copy and paste into the application and creates a word art. The transition words ar...Contributor: Victoria WilliamsViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCulture Shock
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Geography, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson asks students to think about how cultural customs differ throughout the world. Students research a foreig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from EDSITEment, contains three activities for students to study the events of the Boston Tea Party of 1776 and ref...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students build a comparative frame to explore the creative processes of writing and art as c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read, write, speak, listen, and research as they interview a partner and write an a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading with descriptive writing. Students read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'Brien's "Z for Zachariah"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read the science fiction novel "Z for Zachariah," by Robert C. O'Brien. This book i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, employs scientific observation, descriptive writing, sketching, reading, investigation, and po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlliteration in Headline Poems
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to the term alliteration. They are given examples of alliteration and ask...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShe Did What? Revising for Connotation
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the simple sentence, "She walked into the room." Students act out ways that...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are introduced to examples of flashbacks and flash-forwards through the film "The S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students think critically about their interpretations of the events in an image and write about t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChoose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Technology, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, combines reading and writing in a collaborative, small-group learning experience. It utilizes ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students are exposed to wordless picture books, and they begin developing story lines orall...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0