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Common Core CCRA.R.8 research
National History Day Projects From Start to Finish 2023-2024
NOTE: Enjoy the NEWLY UPDATED 2023-2024 version (Turning Points in History Theme)! It has brand new materials related to this year's theme, and I also updated lessons to include a more comprehensive and integrated approach to using both primary and secondary sources.This is your one stop shop for all National History Day lessons and resources!National History Day is a contest in which student choose a topic, conduct in depth research, and create a project (5-6 project categories to choose from!)
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6th - 12th
How to Spot Fake News Websites Activity Cards
Equip your students with essential digital literacy skills using our carefully curated set of 15 interactive how to spot fake news websites activity cards. Designed specifically for elementary students, these cards will guide them in identifying and debunking fake news on the internet. Take the first step in combating misinformation and nurturing responsible digital citizens. Benefits:✅ Cultivate Critical Thinking: Foster a generation of critical thinkers who question information sources and mak
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Fake News Elementary Activity Cards & Worksheet Bundle
Internet Scavenger Hunt WebQuest Activity - Health - Distance-Learning
Students will improve their internet research skills by responding to enticing questions in this health inquiry-based learning resource. This internet scavenger hunt WebQuest activity helps your students learn important information about maintaining good health, including nutritional facts, fad diets, calories, macronutrients, micronutrients, and more! They'll learn how to answer a question and find reliable sources properly. Is this a resource for you?Distance Learning: As more schools adopt di
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Internet Scavenger Hunt WebQuest Bundle - Google Forms Version Included
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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How to Debate | Middle School Debating | Lesson and Assignment with Rubric
Students will learn how to run debates in a national style. This middle school language resource demonstrates how to debate in the classroom effectively. I created this resource because, well, teenagers are opinionated. I figured that we might as well try our best to channel their energy into insightful, meaningful debates! This resource is the perfect introductory lesson to debating. Ideal for in-class instruction, my debating resource will help your students practice their writing and verbal c
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7th - 9th
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3rd Grade Reading Projects, Weekly Enrichment All Year, PDF and Digital!
3rd Grade Reading Enrichment Research Projects for the Entire Year! Thirty-two weekly non-fiction reading enrichment projects in which students research topics and then answer the follow-up questions. The questions, not only check for comprehension of the topic researched, but review common reading text structures such as author's purpose, problem and solution, main idea, character traits, cause and effect, summary, theme and more. Aligned to most 3rd grade reading curriculum including STAAR/CCS
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3rd
Animal Research Reports
Animal Research Reports Made EasyThis informative writing and informational text unit is more than just templates, it includes everything you need for researching, drafting, and publishing rigorous animal reports. With the Common Core’s emphasis on informational text and informative writing, this unit will walk you and your young writers through the entire researching and writing process. Check out the preview to see everything included in this unit.Immersion•Text Features Help Me Understand•Ho
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2nd - 5th
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Finding Proof-Text Evidence-Inferencing-Reading Comp/Famous YouTubers/CCSS
The Prove It Or Lose It product line is perfect for your 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade ELA classes, as well as for providing support to your struggling 9th and 10th grade readers. This color-coded-text-evidence product teaches close reading and supports students in vocabulary development, making inferences, making predictions, finding text evidence, supporting their answers in using that text evidence, and synthesizing information without a lot of laborious writing, without inundating stud
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6th - 9th
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Middle School Reading Comprehensions and Activities - Bundle - 15 Vols
Are you a middle school teacher searching for captivating and engaging reading comprehension materials for your classroom? Look no further than our Growing Bundle: Interesting Reads resource! Each resource in this bundle has been meticulously designed to pique your student's interest and help expand their vocabulary with topical reading comprehension exercises.Engaging Topics for Middle School Students In this unique bundle, you'll discover a collection of intriguing readings on contemporary top
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6th - 9th
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Inferences, Evidence, Crime Scene Investigation
Students will find and record clues throughout 5 different stations that allow them to practice making inferences. This "real world" lesson asks students to become text detectives to find evidence that supports their inferences. Students must read through eye witness accounts, police reports, a media blast, observe a crime scene, and analyze some forensic evidence to collect information. At the end of the five stations, they must write up a police report. You will need to set up your crime s
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6th - 10th
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Credible and Reliable Sources Bundle - Source Credibility for Online Research
Are your students able to research credible and reliable sources online? These source evaluation activities and assessments will help 21st-century learners to evaluate online source credibility and bias through formative assessment, task cards, and a Google Form evaluation.*******************************************************************************Here's what you will receive in this resource bundle: ⇒ Website Evaluation Activity for Middle School and High School⇒ Source Evaluation Task Cards
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7th - 10th
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The Tree Octopus: Evaluating Internet Sources
Teaching our students to research is not enough. We have to make sure our students are savvy consumers of information. This lesson is one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITES to teach. It involves a completely unreal creature in a website that seems well-researched and documented. I present the new species of octopus to them as a research task before letting them in on the secret---it's completely make believe. This lesson includes the lesson plan, the research task (with a QR code link to the tree octo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Internet Scavenger Hunt WebQuest Activity - Mental Health - Distance-Learning
Your middle school students will improve their internet research skills by responding to enticing questions in this mental health inquiry-based learning resource. This internet scavenger hunt WebQuest activity helps your students learn about mental health! They'll learn about various disorders, stigmas, and misconceptions through fact-checking prompts and questions. They'll learn how to answer a question and find reliable sources properly.According to Education World, ''Internet scavenger hunts
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Internet Scavenger Hunt WebQuest Bundle - Google Forms Version Included
Line of Reasoning Digital Activities Cancel Culture AP Language Seminar
Line of Reasoning overview and activities designed specifically to help students understand and apply this sometimes elusive concept.Hot Topic for practice: Cancel Culture. Can be used as an accompaniment to an argument, rhetorical analysis, synthesis, or thematic unit. Perfect for AP English Language and Composition and AP Seminar courses - both of which use LOR concepts in daily practice and test mastery in the end-of-course exams and for AP Seminar, the performance tasks. Help your students i
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Podcasts For High School: Imagined Life, Scattered, Radiolab, Poetry Unbound
Use these ready-made plans for podcasts for high school students to allow your students to develop active listening skills while deepening their understanding of literary techniques. Whether you're new to using podcasts in your classroom or you've already tried it out, these no-prep full unit plans, mini unit, and bell ringer activity will help you on your journey to using podcasts effectively!Research shows that listening comprehension actually leads to better reading comprehension, which means
Grades:
9th - 12th
Social Justice Project for Middle School
Where is the love? That question and many more will be answered by the time your middle school students, grades 6-8, complete this highly engaging, rigorous, impactful, and I dare to say life changing 4-Week Social Justice Project. Inspired by the song "Where is the love?" by the Black Eyed Peas, this social justice project not only helps students grapple with the many social issues our world is facing today, but it challenges them to solve those very social issues we see on the covers of newspa
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: Social Justice Activities for Middle School Bundle
AROUND THE WORLD RESEARCH UNIT MEGA BUNDLE Writing Skills Report Present Theme
***BUNDLE & SAVE 40%!*** Teach informative research writing in a way that is engaging and memorable with this no-prep 568-page Around the World Research Unit MEGA BUNDLE-Writing Skills Lessons, Research Report, Presentation Project, Party, and Theme Day. Use this thematic unit to celebrate diversity, and culture, while students practice research skills, report writing, technology skills, manners, presentation, speaking, and listening skills! First, students will learn and practice a variety
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3rd - 8th
Student Run Newscast PBL (5 lesson plans, 5 news segments, 23 student jobs)
Student Run Newscast Project Based Learning This resource is a bundle of my 5 New Segment Project Based Learning Enrichment Packets, complete with job descriptions, graphic organizers and the writing process. Each one is centered around completing a news segment that when put altogether, creates a complete classroom news broadcast. Each segment includes engaging tasks, graphic organizers, informative writing lessons and research strategies that give students a voice and choice in their i
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2nd - 8th
Climate Change: Who Should You Believe?
Many teachers avoid teaching about climate change because the issue has become politically charged. This activity invites the students to investigate which organizations accept that climate change is exacerbated by human activity versus those that present climate change as part of a natural cycle. Individual teachers should feel free to add additional organizations. This chart includes a dozen organizations and their stances on climate change. Students research the mission statement of each org
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9th - 12th
Independent Study Research Project
We all know there isn't always enough time to answer every student's burning questions in class. That's where the Independent Study Project comes to the rescue!An Independent Study Project is an excellent way to engage all of your students in your content. This project is completed individually, mostly outside of class time, and—best of all—focuses on a topic of interest to the student! The Independent Study Project is typically used in GATE classrooms, but because of its open nature, it is comp
The Tell-Tale Heart — Guilty or Not Guilty Trial Activity using Textual Evidence
Guilty or not guilty?! Let your students decide the fate of the narrator from The Tell-Tale Heart!This activity requires research, critical thinking, close reading, literary analysis, and finding textual evidence to justify responses. Students will research the different degrees of murder in the United States. Then they will take on the role of the judge for the trial against the narrator in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Students will use both critical thinking skills and e
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7th - 11th
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Also included in: The Tell-Tale Heart Reading Comprehension Activities BUNDLE
Researching and Writing a Biography Nonfiction Unit Scaffolded CCSS Grades 3-6
This Biography Research and Writing Unit is tailored to meet the diverse learning needs of students in general education, Special Education (SPED), and English Language Learner (ELL) programs. Using a scaffolding approach, this unit sequences content, materials, and tasks to enhance understanding and engagement. Each key term is clearly defined, allowing for a smooth progression through the unit.Unit Features:Easy-to-Follow Teaching Directions: Ensures easy implementation in the classroom.Anchor
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Writing Bundle CCSS Grades 5-6 Print and Teach
Holocaust Research Essay: Step by Step Writing Guide - Print & Digital
This step by step writing guide is designed to introduce students to the skills of researching and writing a research paper. The resources can be printed, used digitally, or a combination of the two. A print ready PDF is included as well as Google Drive resources (Docs, Slides, Forms, etc.). Included:*Step-by-step checklist for the research and writing process (PDF and Google Doc)*ELA Common Core standards (PDF and Google Doc)*Reading & writing objectives (PDF and Google Doc)*Note taking pre
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Holocaust Resource Bundle for ELA, History - Print & Digital
Finding Proof-Text Evidence-Inferencing-Reading Comp/Anime Shows/CCSS
The Prove It Or Lose It product line is perfect for your 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade ELA classes, as well as for providing support to your struggling 9th and 10th grade readers. This color-coded-text-evidence product teaches close reading and supports students in vocabulary development, making inferences, making predictions, finding text evidence, supporting their answers in using that text evidence, and synthesizing information without a lot of laborious writing, without inundating stud
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6th - 9th
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