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101. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues
     How can we convince others to agree with us on important issues? In this lesson, students explore relevant environmental issues and gather information to write persuasive essays.
102. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
     Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers.
103. 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.
104. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Poppin' Fun with Physical and Chemical Changes
     Students will enjoy learning about physical and chemical changes as they turn their own photos into a narrated video using the iPad app SonicPics to illustrate (and eat) their results from a popcorn lab.
105. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Protecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
     Students discover that they can make a world of difference when they participate in the online Earth Day bag program.
106. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
     Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
107. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
     Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.
108. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Research Building Blocks: "Cite Those Sources!"
     Students learn the importance of crediting others for their words and ideas, and then learn the paraphrasing and citation skills necessary to avoid plagiarism.
109. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
     In this lesson from a research skills unit, students read informational text, looking for supporting details. They practice skimming and scanning print resources, and scrolling through electronic resources.
110. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
     Sharing Information about Careers with Infographics
     Students research careers of their own choosing. Then using Piktochart, students create their own infographics to illustrate their research.

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