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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvaluating Eyewitness Reports
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Humanities, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from EDSITEment, offers students experience in drawing historical meaning from eyewitness accounts that present a r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Literacy in Cyberspace
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to transfer the analytical skills that they commonly use when reading traditional pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Made George Washington a Good Military Leader?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Humanities, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceThis unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, introduces activities in which students read the Continental Congress's resolutions ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBehind the Masks: Exploring Culture and Self Through Art and Poetry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink lesson engages high school students in an extended study of the relationship between masks and cultures. Stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFreedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: U.S. Constitution, Literature, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink lesson is based on a study of the Pledge of Allegiance. This lesson plan asks students to explore rote learn...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this EDSITEment unit of three lessons, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, "Narrative of the Life of Fre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Wright Way
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Engineering & Design, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students use Internet research, language arts activities, and visual arts activities to learn about Fra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions is a lesson plan in which students create their own multi-media epic poems abou...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCourt Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyThis lesson relates to two clauses in the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, which ensure Americans the right to assemble pe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFamily Life
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Philosophy, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, Mental, Emotional, and Social Health and 7 additional..In this lesson, students will compare their own definitions of family to a variety of dictionary versions. They will then discus...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVidal's History--and Yours?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: World History, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, History-Social Science and 3 additional..In this lesson plan, from the PBS American Masters Web site, students apply the Guided Reading approach to Gore Vidal s writin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentThe Junk Mail Explosion: Why You Buy and How Ads Persuade
Grades: 7 to 10Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from the Columbia Education Center, is designed to increase student awareness of persuasion tactics used in junk m...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCycling Through Controversy: Debating Values and Viewpoints
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Oral Presentations, Life SciencesThis lesson, found on the Journey North Web site, focuses on debating skills. While students track a selected migration in the p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFound in the Translation: Exploring Multilingual Communication on the Internet
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Foreign LanguagesIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the quirks of machine translation and explore the bar...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkData Processing: Exploring the Application of Geographic Information Systems in a Variety of Fields
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Geography, EconomicsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the application of Geographic Information Systems, or...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoices in Verse: Exploring Middle Eastern Interpretations of Palestinian Poetry
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: World History, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine Arabic poetry and how it is interpreted by people of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Write Response: Using Writing as a Way to Deal with Terrorism and Tragedy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn what impact the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToo Free, Or Not Too Free? Creating a School-Wide Poll to Examine Personal Freedoms
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, American Democracy, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, students will create a survey that examines what level of electronic surveillance might be acceptable to members...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Object Is Objectivity: Investigating World Reaction to the U.S. Strike Against the Taliban
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, World History, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students search for and read articles about the initial United States ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCritically Surfing the Web: Evaluating and Reviewing Web Sites in the Classroom
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Arts, Media, & EntertainmentIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students decide what they think makes a high-quality Web site. They th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0