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Common Core SL.9-10.4 webquests
The Great Gatsby Themes Research Activity - The Roaring 20s and Organized Crime
Explore the "Roaring 1920s" and the theme of organized crime in The Great Gatsby with this collaborative research activity! Students will research the history of the 1920s and prominent historical figures, inviting them to analyze characters within The Great Gatsby and think critically about the potential allusions to real-life figures.Included with this The Great Gatsby Themes Research Activity:✏️ WebQuest Handout and Research Activity Instructions - Digital & Print✏️ Vocabulary Terms Wor
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8th - 11th
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Transcendentalism and American Romantic Poetry Webquest
This Google Slides Webquest is provides an opportunity for groups or individuals with a mini-research component, as well as excerpts from Walden, Self-Reliance, and poetry from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Also included is a creative writing final assessment project related to either Transcendentalism or American Romantic Poetry. Three expository writing prompts are also included with the poetry. This assignment is intended to engage students with challenging topics and literary works throu
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature: Transcendentalism, Poetry, and Short Stories
Introduction to Poetry - Whole Unit - Over 20 Poems!
Corresponding PowerPoint Presentation Saved to Google Drive!Daily Step by Step Lesson PlansPerfect for Distance Learning or Printable PacketsPoetry allows for a unique format of written word that can be accessed on a variety ofplanes. As such, it allows us as teachers to correct that false notion that many students hold toward reading: it's boring. Over the course of my years, I have told many students that if reading is boring, they are doing it wrong. It was with that idea in mind that I creat
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7th - 10th
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Earth Day Webquest: Young Climate Activists - Middle & High School
This Earth Day, students can learn about young climate activists that have been fighting to protect our planet. This webquest contains five tasks with online sources to complete questions about the environmental work of Greta Thunberg, Leah Namugerwa, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Jerome Foster II, and Ayisha Siddiqa and then choose one of these activists to complete a profile on to present to their classmates.This resource downloads as a PDF document and there is a link to a Google Slides version of th
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6th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar: Who Should Be on American Currency?
The images we see around us daily have a subtle yet profound effect. In this Socratic seminar, students consider American currency and consider: should the faces on the bills be changed or stay the same? The learn who is featured on currency now and think on who could be. This activity can be used during an American History course as students learn about figures like Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman, or can be used as a general debate in any Social Studies or English-Language Arts classroom.
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8th - 12th
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Disease Detectives Webquest
Lesson plans for a 3(-4, with options) day investigation of the way scientists discovered germ theory and learned to control some of the worst epidemic diseases. The lesson plan for day 1 introduces epidemic diseases and research with 2 short videos on smallpox and the transmission of cholera and a reading selection on the conquest of yellow fever.Day 2-3: instructions for a webquest: small groups of students each investigate and make a presentation on a specific scientist (starting with two sug
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7th - 10th
Renewable Energy Around the World: Interactive Map & Research Activity
With this Google Slides activity, students will conduct research about various renewable energy resources used in 8 different regions of the world. The first slide of this slideshow is an interactive map of the world; the 8 regions are clickable, directing students to more region-specific information. On the region-specific slides, students choose from articles provided or research their own about energy generation from renewable resources in specific countries in that region and summarize the i
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-ESS3-1
, HS-ESS3-4
Designing Temporary Shelters: A STEM Design Team Project
Designing shelters to provide safety to those in harm’s way.Temporary Shelters is a design team project that supports critical thinking and collaboration as student teams make decisions about how to solve the critical need for temporary shelters. Each team will focus on one need for temporary shelters by randomly selecting from the provided Challenge Cards. They will be guided on a design path to learn about the specific need for shelters, analyze current solutions, and decide how to improve upo
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5th - 9th
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MS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Pre-Reading for ANY Thriller or Adventure Novel - Escape Plan Presentation!
Get students immediately engaged and prepped to read your next adventure novel with this Escape Plan Presentation. This editable Google Slides Presentation covers all of the pre-reading activities to prepare your students to feel immersed in the world of your novel. This primarily works with an adventure novel or any novel that involves a character needing to escape. For a little added fun, we let loose on the various ways we can escape!In this presentation, students will need to create an escap
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6th - 12th
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YouTube Deep Dive Presentation: A Mini Research Project on a High Interest Topic
In this high-interest research project, students will conduct an analysis on the popularity, appeal, and revenue of a YouTube channel they enjoy. They will present their findings in a short presentation with a clip that shows the typical channel content. In addition to presentation skills, this project will ask students to read and view media critically, use math skills, and use some of the more advanced features of Google Slides. An example project is included, as well as a page of teacher and
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: YouTube Research and Presentation BUNDLE!
Macbeth: Web Research
This activity can be used to help build prior knowledge for students so they will better understand the culture and events that occur in Macbeth. This activity can easily be differentiated for students.Students will:Be assigned one of four topics (superstitions and witches in Macbeth, women of Shakespeare's time, fate/the great chain of being, and Scotland during the 11th century)Research the topic they are assignedSummarize their topicCreate a Venn Diagram that compares life the topic to life i
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9th - 12th
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The Outsiders WebQuest
Students will work in groups (or tweak to have them work individually) to search the Internet for background information before reading The Outsiders. I had the students collaboratively work together to create one Google Slides presentation.
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7th - 12th
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