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High school informational text project pdfs
Be the Change: A Service Learning Research Project for Grades 7-12
Our students CAN make a difference in their own lives, their school, and their community, so why not challenge them to do so with a new project?BE THE CHANGE is your solution! Designed with the Genius Hour methodology in mind, Be the Change is an inquiry-based, research-driven long-term project in which students identify a problem they feel passionately about changing for the better. They then proceed to learn about the issue, write about the issue, share what they've learned with others, give
Grades:
7th - 12th
Infographic Project: Summative Assessment Projects
Infographic Project: Communicating Non-Fiction Information
This infographic project contains a two page teacher information sheet and five pages of student worksheets! Student worksheets include: a two page step by step "how to" on making a digital infographic, a project introduction page, a planning sheet and a project grading rubric.
About the Product
Infographics are a wonderful tool for analyzing and communicating information. This product contains materials for guiding students in usi
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5th - 9th
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Spring Break Project: Plan a Trip
Product Description: Plan A Trip Project Based Learning, Staycation or VacationResearch, organize, and plan a staycation or vacation. An eight step guide walks students through their project. Brainstorming, traveler interests, itinerary, expenses, web research, scoring guide, and awards are all part of this no prep unit. Unit culminates with a presentation on their planned trip, complete with award certificates for audience or teacher chosen favorites. Students can choose a driving vacation wi
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5th - 9th
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Slideshows That Don't Suck Mini Unit: Engaging, Visually Appealing Presentations
Are you tired of cringing at students' ugly font choices, plain white backgrounds, and overwhelming text? Are you bored listening to students read word-for-word off their slideshows? I was one more Comic Sans font from going crazy, so I designed this Slideshows That Don't Suck Mini-Unit to tackle the problem of boring presentations once and for all!In this mini-unit, students will examine examples of slides in a gallery walk, learn about elements of design in learning stations, and then they wil
Grades:
7th - 12th
Famous Artist Research Project
Famous Artist Research Template and Project: A fantastic research project for middle/high school students! Students will use the easy-to-follow research template to learn more about a famous artist. The student will research their artist and design a poster to use in an oral presentation in class. Grading rubric is included! You have the option to assign the artists or let each student choose their artist. Included with this resource:Student Assignment Handout (Project description/expectations
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5th - 10th
Also included in: Art Education Resource Bundle ( Buy all 3 -- Save Money )
Non-Fiction One-Pager Assignment - Informational Reading and Writing - Creative
Discover the perfect one-pager assignments tailored for non-fiction and informational texts right here! If you're in search of engaging activities that allow students to create visual summaries showcasing their comprehension of texts, your quest ends now.This resource includes:Teacher's Guide: Get the guidance you need to effectively implement these one-pager assignments in your classroom.Rubrics: Streamline the grading process with detailed rubrics to assess students' work.Project Guidelines: C
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6th - 9th
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College Pennant Research Project
This College Pennant Research Project allows students to choose a college that is important to them, research important facts about the college, and then decorate a college pennant to market it to others. Perfect to hang up to around the school for college awareness week in January or simply to promote college awareness campus-wide! This resource contains: ✔️ Teacher/sub pacing guide (entire project takes 4-5 days total)✔️ Blank college pennant outline (works best if printed on cardstock)✔️ Gra
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: College Bundle College Week Activities Counseling
ESL Hero Research Project Paragraph Writing and Oral Presentation
In this week-long project, Beginner to Intermediate ESL students write about and present their heroes. Their hero can be someone in their personal lives, like a family member, someone who is from their country, or someone who is well-known internationally. First, students read a text about Jesse Owens and identify the topic sentence, details, examples and concluding sentence. Students deconstruct the Jesse Owens paragraph in order to help them in writing their own paragraphs. Then, they conduct
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3rd - 11th
Crime Scene Investigation Common Core: Comparing Texts, Textual Evidence, Bias
***NOW DIGITAL FOR ONLINE LEARNING!!!*****TPT Favorite**This Detective Report is a FUN and engaging way to hit all of the major Common Core Standards at once!*GREAT way to introduce persuasive writing and research papers!*Fits with any text*Can be used in any subject area*Graphic Organizers can be re-used throughout the yearPerfect For:Comparing TextsCiting Textual EvidenceIdentifying BiasDetermining Main IdeaDrawing Inferences Identifying Point of ViewSummarizing Analyzing Credibility Also Incl
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6th - 12th
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Christmas Holiday Activities, English Lessons for Teens, BUNDLE
If you are looking for quick and easy activities that you can use in December to keep your middle and high school students on task and engaged, then look no more! Every classroom-tested lesson, designed to add rigor and meaning this Christmas season, in this bundle is standards-based, classroom-tested, rigorous, and grade level appropriate for high school level ELA students. This pack includes up to 2 weeks of materials depending on your class periods and how you use what's included.Student Expe
Grades:
8th - 11th
Informational Texts Close Reading Activity and Project
Need a meaningful, standards-based and engaging activity to make it to December break? The Holiday Hustle is the perfect project for Secondary ELA right before the Holidays! This three week unit teaches students how to deconstruct advertisements and informational texts as they study and analyze two different holiday ads and three informational articles about advertising. After analyzing ads and informational articles, students create two projects: a Deconstructing Advertisements Guide for Teens
Grades:
7th - 10th
Music Album Soundtrack & Cover Design Project
Summative Assessment Project: Music Album Soundtrack Project
This end of the unit project is great as a summative assessment for any content area! Students will pick "soundtrack" of songs and make a connection between the songs and the main idea of the unit! They will then design a CD album cover based on the big ideas of the unit. Students will utilize the planning sheets to identify the key themes and big ideas/essential understandings to include in their project. This project provides opti
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5th - 9th
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All About Me Puzzle Piece- First Day of School Activity
This is an activity that I use with my 8th-12th grade severe special education classroom. This activity has students write, draw, type and find pictures on the computer. If you do not have access to the internet/computer students can just draw all of the pictures. I have some students who opt to do this completely on the computer using PowerPoint and copying and pasting pictures into the puzzle piece. This activity requires students write their name, favorite subject, favorite sport, hobby, favo
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1st - 12th
Infamous Criminals: A High-Interest Nonfiction Research Project
In this project, students will research the life of a famous criminal and compile a bibliographic research project to share with the class. The criminals included in this project range from fraudsters to gangsters and from pirates to drug lords. There are plenty of options here to captivate the interest of secondary students. After selecting a criminal, students will compile an annotated bibliography as they go through the research process while preparing to create their final projects. Stud
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9th - 12th
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Digital One Pager for Informational Texts and Nonfiction Analysis
Looking for a tech-savvy, convenient way for students to respond to informational texts? Try a digital one pager! Students can be creative and resourceful as they think about what they have read, incorporate elements that are relevant both to the text and their lives, and practice important technology skills along the way.DIGITAL ONE PAGER CONTENTS:A tech tidbits video to help students get started with Google Slides featuresA secure PDF version of the Google Slides included A link for a Google S
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7th - 10th
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Tragic Hero Research Project - Hero Archetype Activities - Choices Consequences
A tragic hero doesn’t just exist in literature! Supplement teaching hero character traits and Aristotle's tragic hero archetype with this modern research project! Perfect supplement for Antigone, Macbeth, The Great Gatsby, Oedipus Rex, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, or any other text featuring a tragic hero as a main character!The Modern Tragic Hero project examines notable people in our society who embody heroic traits. Just like the tragic hero archetype, however, the person made a mistake or had
Grades:
8th - 12th
Spring April Easter Egg Template Art Worksheets Word Search Bulletin Board Ideas
✨Easter Activity PERFECT for Upper Grades✨ This Easter project PBL is full of Spring Activities for your upper-elementary, (4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade) Middle school, & High School students! Introduce them to the rich history behind Ukrainian Pysanky Eggs in the Easter Reading Comprehension Passages. Students design a Pysanka Egg ( Middle School Easter Art Project ) I've even included my 100% Classroom friendly tutorial for making ACTUAL pysanky Eggs in your classroom. If you're looki
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5th - 12th
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Text Feature Application Activity | Creating & Adding Text Features
Are your students ready to move on from just identifying text features? Give them a challenge with this text feature add-on activity! Using several short nonfiction texts, students create a relevant Title, Subtitle, Heading, Subheadings, Sidebar Details, and Graphic Aids with Captions to enhance the design and layout of the existing article!Students start by marking the text to determine the article's main idea, subtopics, and potential keywords. They then use those annotations to chunk the rela
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6th - 9th
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RI.7.9, RI.7.8, RI.7.3., RI.7.1. - Solve the Mystery of Stuart Smally
This item is a project where students have to analyze conflicting texts to try to figure out what happened to Stuart Smally. The project addresses common core standards:
RI.7.1. - Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI.7.3. - Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
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5th - 9th
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13 Colonies Research Packet and Activity
This is a project I use with my special education class, but it could be used with any students. I took the state provided textbooks and summarized the information on each of the thirteen colonies into a single page about each colony. The information includes the geography, climate, founders, why the colony was founded, the first settlements of the colony, the hardships the original settlers faced, the economy and occupations of the original settlers, the religion of the colonists and other int
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2nd - 12th
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Can cultural lines be crossed in costume? {Argumentative Essay}
Every English teacher needs new ways to teach argument, rhetoric, and analytical writing. The Inquiry-Based Synthesis Essay is here to save the day!This argument essay is designed to help you out in a quick fix OR to teach in-depth rhetorical analysis. The essay can be scaffolded up or down, from highly difficult and challenging to ELL and SpEd friendly. In a nutshell: The essay question asks students to develop an argument about the question: does a #hashtag create real social change? Thei
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9th - 12th
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Hallway of Heroes - Human Rights Inquiry Research Project
Hallway of Heroes - Inquiry Research Project
In this engaging project, students:
- Pick a human rights hero
- Research and take notes
- Create a life-size poster of their hero
- Create a hallway/museum displaying their posters
When students have created their life-size posters of a hero, I put them up in a hallway at school. This creates a really inspiring space for other students to see!
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5th - 12th
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Serial Podcast Evidence Board Project
This resource provides teachers with two different options for Serial, Season 1 Final Projects . Both options address multiple CCSS and engage students by requiring them to listen closely, take accurate notes, develop theories, work together, organize their work, and present their findings to their peers. Option #1: Cereal Box Serial Analysis (rubric and example responses included)Includes evidence analysis, identification of important people, podcast evaluation, and argumentative writing promp
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9th - 12th
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Informational Text Lesson on Hot Topics: Vaping
Engage and motivate students with this informational, expository text close reading assignment. This easy-prep Hot Topics Info Text Lesson is the perfect ready-to-go resource to practice close reading skills and comprehension! This info-text mini lesson is the perfect ready-to-go lesson to practice close reading skills and comprehension. Your students will be engaged, informed, and ready to debate and discuss this hot topic (vaping) no matter their reading level or experience with close readin
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: Hot Topics Informational Text Lessons: BUNDLE, Set #3
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