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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   ABC Bookmaking Builds Vocabulary in the Content Areas
   V is for vocabulary. A content area unit provides the theme for a specialized ABC book, as students select, research, define, and illustrate a word for each alphabet letter.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
   Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
   Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
   Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 9
   Science writer Seymour Simon was born in 1931.
   Students select and explore a scientific topic in detail using Simon's nonfiction science books and then use what they learn to write original poetry on the topic.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 10
   The Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846.
   After exploring an exhibit online, students use the information they learned to write "A Day in the Life" narratives that tell about a person, animal, or object they saw in the exhibit.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Trading Card Creator
   This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.