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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Get the GIST: A Summarizing Strategy for Any Content Area
    GIST is a summarizing technique that can be used in any content area. Students will learn and apply the strategy while doing online research and writing activities on news stories.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
    In this lesson designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.
    
33. 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.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 4
    Google was formally incorporated this week in 1998.
    Students are guided in an exploration of search tools and have a discussion about the purposes, benefits, and disadvantages of each.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Greetings from the Biomes of the World
    To share their research on biomes, students use iPads to create postcards from all over the world.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
    Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Mobile App  |  Writing Poetry
    Haiku Poem App
    Students can learn about and write haiku using this app that guides them through the writing process.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Inquiry & Analysis
    Hero's Journey
    Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise with Pop Culture Dictionaries
    Students compose dictionary entries for words and phrases from pop culture texts (e.g., television shows, movies, lyrics, YouTube videos), connecting their definitions to their personal use of the terms.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Huge Mistakes that Led to Catastrophe: Learning about Human-made Disasters throughout History
    After researching various human-made disasters such as the BP oil spill, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great Chicago Fire, students share their research in oral presentations. Then students pair up to compare and contrast their disasters using the Venn Diagram Student Interactive or the Venn diagram Mobile App.

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