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7th grade writing-expository cultural activities $5-10
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind- A Complete Study
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Young Reader Edition is a compelling story about William who innovates an idea to help bring electricity to his small community in Malawi. His story is inspiring, and TRUE. This story is sure to touch the lives of your students! We have created EVERYTHING you need for a complete study of this book. This product includes:-An engaging virtual field trip-Chapter comprehension questions for each chapter-Three quizzes with answer keys-A comprehensive end of book exam wi
Grades:
6th - 9th
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All About My Country Research Project for Multicultural and ESL Classes
Are you looking for an engaging and culturally enriching project to help your middle and high school intermediate and advanced ESL students learn about their heritage? This All About My Country Project is designed with your students' diverse cultural backgrounds in mind, providing a comprehensive and interactive exploration of their heritage. In this month-long project, your students will go on a deep exploration of their country of origin. They’ll research, interview, present, and write an essa
Grades:
7th - 10th
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After Testing Activity: Create Your Own Island Project for Middle & High School
Are you looking for a fun project for after testing? This creative and enriching project will help your middle and high school intermediate and advanced ESL students solidify their understanding of the country they call home. This Create Your Own Island End of Year Project is designed with your students' diverse backgrounds in mind, providing a comprehensive and interactive exploration of their thoughts and ideas about their country. Great for social studies!In this month-long project, your stud
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Holidays Around the World Research Project for Multicultural and ESL Classes
Are you looking for an engaging and culturally enriching winter holidays research project to help your middle and high school intermediate and advanced ESL students learn about holidays around the world? This Holidays Around the World puts a twist on your typical Christmas Around The World idea. It's designed with your students' diverse cultural backgrounds in mind, providing a comprehensive and interactive exploration of Christmas and non-Christian holidays all over the world.✨Choices are, but
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Hispanic Heritage Month Biography Research Project for 6th, 7th, 8th Grades
Are you looking for an engaging and fun Hispanic Biography research project to help your middle, intermediate, and advanced ESL students learn about Hispanic Heritage and how they've influenced our culture? This Hispanic Heritage Biography Research Project for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grades gets your students to use their creativity, whether it's on paper or digitally. It's designed with your students' diverse learning styles in mind, providing an opportunity for your students to research, draw, writ
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6th - 8th
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Famous Black Americans Biography Research Project for 6th, 7th, 8th Grades
Are you looking for an engaging and fun Black Americans Biography research project to help your middle, intermediate, and advanced ESL students learn about black history and the civil rights movement? This Famous Black Americans Biography Research Project for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grades gets your students to use their creativity, whether it's on paper or digitally. It's designed with your students' diverse learning styles in mind, providing an opportunity for your students to research, draw, write
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Famous Women Biography Research Project | Women's History for 6th, 7th, 8th
Are you looking for an engaging and fun Famous Women Biography research project for Women's History Month to help your middle school students learn about women's history and the Civil Rights movement? This Famous Women Biography Research Project for 6th, 7th, and 8th Grades gets your students to use their creativity, whether it's on paper or digitally. It's designed with your students' diverse learning styles in mind, allowing them to research, draw, write, and/or create a digital presentation.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Piecing Me Together Research & Expository Essay
Students will use the guided research notes to find biographical information about artist Romare Bearden. Bearden is referenced in Piecing Me Together as a collage artist. Students will complete the notes using the Bearden website and write a 1-page expository essay about Bearden and his collage art.
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Frederick Douglass: A Powerful Engagement Activity
Last year, I was looking for a new way to engage students in Frederick Douglass's beautifully written slave narrative. I wanted them to understand Douglass's journey and analyze his powerful rhetoric, but I also wanted them to make connections to their own lives. I wanted to highlight the dignity, the eloquence, and the humanity of Douglass...all in the face of slavery...allowing them to know what they were also capable of achieving! When I found out that Douglass was one of the most photogra
Grades:
7th - 9th
World Famous Architecture: Research & Art Project
This project is perfect for cultural Social Studies units allowing for exploration and exposure to cultures around the world!These World Famous Architecture research organizers can be used to help gather, organize, and record information about iconic and cultural buildings around the world. Next, students can analyze and synthesize their findings by writing a final essay piece and presenting it with a beautiful art piece colored or painted by them. This research and art activity is engaging and
Grades:
3rd - 7th
The Civil Rights Movement Then & Now
Students will be able to compare and contrast the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s and the current civil rights movement of today. Using research techniques and provided resources, students get a first hand look at the similarities and differences between the two groups. Students will also conduct research and write an comparative essay to showcase the knowledge of their research project.
Grades:
5th - 12th
My Grandparents Booklet Computer Project
Hello and welcome to my Grandparents Booklet project in Microsoft Word. We have Grandparents Day at our school every other year and several years ago, I decided to create a memory booklet for the students to give to their grandparents. It was such a big hit that my principal has asked me to do it ever since.
In this booklet, students will learn how to format and create a biographical booklet about their grandparents in Microsoft Word. The computer skills they will learn include Word Art, Clip A
Grades:
4th - 7th
Recipe Project: Digital Family Recipe Project
This family recipe project is such an empowering project for students to learn not only about their family recipes but also about audience, tone, and purpose, depending on how the instructor sets up the task. This project is also a great way to boost literacy AND culinary skills for all ages. Students can also build videography skills as well by making and editing a video of their cooking of their favorite family recipe. The exercise helps students use content specific vocabulary and use inform
Grades:
5th - 12th
Black History Leaders Biography Timelines Research Project
This expository writing project involves research and using Google Slides to create a Black History Biography Timeline. This project is great for 5th, 6th, or 7th grade.Students will research the life of one person from black history. Students will compile a timeline of that person’s life creating one slide for each event. It can be turned into a book or presented as a slideshow.Includes:- Easy to use teacher directions- Research graphic organizer- Example of the final draft- Rubric for easy
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Informational Writing Bundle
Rosa Parks Change Agent
Teach students about the Civil Rights Movement by understanding Rosa Parks as a historical figure and change agent. Help students think about how they can be a change agent within their communities. This research-based lesson plan uses hyperlinks to all materials. NO PREP and interactive.Students will explore, create and showcase about the following:How do we understand Rosa Parks as a historical figure?What do we know about and how do we understand the Civil Rights Movement?What are the charact
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Disney Pixar Coco Theme Analysis Paragraph
Students will use a template to write a paragraph describing the theme of the movie Coco. Students will use evidence from the movie to support their claim. Once students have completed the template, they should write their theme analysis on a sperate sheet of paper. This will be their theme analysis paragraph. An extension of this activity would be to have the students draw a movie poster promoting the theme they described in their analysis.
Grades:
4th - 8th
Novel Study Unit for "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
This Novel Study Unit was designed to cover Non-Fiction Text-Structure Writing while also exploring the history and culture related to this beautiful novel. Included are non-fiction resources about important historical figures, mangoes, links for related topics for students to explore, and a list of books students & teachers could use to compare & contrast experiences, religions, historical events, or character growth using the included graphic organizers. Included student activities are
Grades:
5th - 8th
Spanish: Produce Your Own Cooking Show
From Michele Jeanmarie, take your students on a journey in producing their own TV cooking show in Spanish. As you guide them through this lesson idea, students will learn about expository writing in a second language, Spanish. This step-by-step lesson will imbue camera shy students with the confidence needed for oral language communications, in Spanish. Students learn about the process of cooking, learn to say the words in Spanish as they produce their own TV show.
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Famous People in Black History Research Project
This choice board research project guides students through the writing process as they learn more about famous people from Black History. Students will research about Black History leaders, Black History inventors, and more to learn about this important part of history.There is a mini-lesson about reliable and unreliable resources. Students will also discuss what they already know about Black History and their historical figure. They will pick a topic to research and use the graphic organizer
Grades:
5th - 7th
Also included in: Informational Writing Bundle
Family Tree Heritage Tradition Culture Project
This projects includes three parts: a family tree (family is what you make it, so this is open to any interpretation), an interview, and a sharing of traditional foods, customs, or family mementos. This project can be used as an extension to any lesson. I have used it when reading short stories or novels connecting to families and traditions. This is a great lesson to use any time throughout the school year; however, I find it works great to use at the beginning giving students a chance to lea
Grades:
4th - 8th
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Trip Through Canada: Independent Research and Writing Project
Students will research the population, climate, and history of five regions of Canada in this research-based project. Students are given the task, timeline, project outline, graphic organizer for logging their journey, and a student-friendly rubric in one organized package. Whether you're looking to expand student knowledge of Canada, provide extension, or use as a research and writing tool, this Canadian research project will enrich student background while engaging them on a fun journey thro
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Grades:
4th - 7th
Our Community Issues, Their Global Implications, and Our Proposed Solutions
This packet serves as an investigatory lesson of the question "is the pen mightier than the sword?" In other words, This lesson walks students through a three part assignment: identifying a concern in their immediate community, thinking about the global implications of their chosen issue, and ultimately proposing solutions. This packet walks your learners through a multiple draft process (including self, peer, and teacher editing) of writing a cohesive three part essay.
Note on Pre-Activit
Grades:
6th - 9th
Jackie Robinson Celebration Lesson/ 42 Movie/ Writing Lesson
Jackie Robinson was not simply an American icon and athlete, he was a father, an activist, an entrepreneur, and a trailblazer. The 75h anniversary of his debut (April 2022) is a great opportunity to show students the film 42 and have students reflect on his legacy. This timely lesson can also work during Black History Month and any time of the year in ELA or History classes to practice Common Core Evidence-based Writing. This packet contains a brief synopsis of the film, special notes on Robinso
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Grandparents Booklet Computer Project
Hello and welcome to my Grandparents Booklet project in Microsoft Word. We have Grandparents Day at our school every other year and several years ago, I decided to create a memory booklet for the students to give to their grandparents. It was such a big hit that my principal has asked me to do it ever since. In this booklet, students will learn how to format and create a biographical booklet about their grandparents in Microsoft Word. The computer skills they will learn include Word Art, Clip Ar
Grades:
4th - 7th
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