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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo
   Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Careers Using the Internet
   Doctors, astrophysicists, and daycare providers are only some of the careers that will be explored in this lesson in which students research careers and publish occupational summaries about them.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions
   Cooperation and critical thinking are the name of the game as students use baseball facts they find online to create trivia questions for a class Jeopardy game.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
   Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
   Students use word webs to choose synonyms for generic adjectives and to learn to adjust their word usage for different contexts.