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1. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Podcast Episode
   All About Elections
   This episode focuses on presidential elections.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Recipe for Writing: Fairy Tale Feasts
   After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 19
   Celebrate Juneteenth!
   Students use the Venn Diagram to compare Juneteenth celebrations to Fourth of July celebrations and hypothesize about the differences.
5. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
   Explore and Write About Nature
   In this activity, children look closely at living things in their natural environments and then make books about what they see.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Activity & Project
   Explore Summers Past and Present
   Have fun sharing favorite summer memories. In this activity, children think about their own memories and answer questions before asking the same questions of someone older.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Tip & How-To
   How to Start a Writer's Notebook
   Writer's notebooks allow children and teens to take in the world around them and document their daily lives. Use these tips to learn how to start a writer's notebook with your child.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 4
   It's Independence Day! Or is it?
   Students consider why there are so many different dates associated with the Declaration of Independence and why the nation's birthday is celebrated on July 4.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 15
   Latinx Heritage Month begins today.
   Students brainstorm all the various aspects of Latinx culture and compile topics to research. Groups then research topics and present their information to the class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Let It Grow: An Inquiry-Based Organic Gardening Research Project
    Students learn about organic gardening by developing their own research questions, conducting research, gardening at their school, creating signs about their plants, and presenting their research to the class.

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