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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Glogging About Natural Disasters
    After researching various natural disasters, students share their findings with each other using glogs, or through poster presentations.
12. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Activity & Project
    Go Wild with Webcams!
    Can't make it to a zoo? After reading a book about apes, observe animal habits and habitats using one of the many Webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world.
13. 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.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Integrating Literacy Into the Study of the Earth's Surface
    Water covers 71% of the earth's surface—does it get the instructional time it deserves in your busy curriculum? Students wade right in to the study of bodies of water as they read and discuss science trade books and work together to develop Readers Theater scripts based on selected titles.
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 5  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 11
    Jane Yolen was born in 1939.
    Students read one of Jane Yolen's books, retell the story in the form of a puppet show, research animals in the book, and document their findings with the Animal Study interactive tool.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Learning about Clouds with Haikus
    Using a mobile app or Interactive activity, students write haikus describing various types of clouds that they have studied.
17. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Let's Go On A Poetry Walk!
    The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and you're surrounded by brilliant shades of green! Observe and collect sensory images from nature and use the sights, sounds, smells, and textures to create original nature poetry.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
    Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 21
    Monarch butterflies begin their migration in the fall.
    After exploring the ways that monarch butterflies react to seasons, students complete an inquiry study to examine how other things change because of the seasons and create a class anthology.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
    Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"—fiction that sounds like fact.

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