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5th grade english language arts webquests for Microsoft Word
Anne Frank Webquest (Holocaust)
The assignment contains 30 questions about the life of Anne Frank. Students will watch a 3-minute video clip and use an internet article to answer the questions. I have included an answer key. Please message me if you have any questions. *Great lesson plan! *Editable document *The document can be uploaded to your website or Google Drive; however, please make sure it is password protected. Topics: Anne Frank's Childhood Germany Invades the Netherlands Adolf Hitler and the Nazis Germany Restricts
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5th - 11th
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Stamp Act Introduction Web Quest
I created this Web Quest to introduce my students to the Stamp Act. The Web Quest includes 1 video link with questions, 2 websites with questions, a link to an online quiz that follows one of the websites, and an optional essay that can be completed using the information found in the Web Quest. This could be a great stand alone lesson or as an introduction to the Revolutionary War. My students really enjoyed the web quest and better understood the feelings of the colonists and reasons for their
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5th - 8th
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Food and Culture - Interdisciplinary Research Project
This lesson helps students explore the effect of culture on a person's food choices. After discussing the dietary guidelines of the USA (MyPlate), the students will look globally to explore food guides from countries around the world, and how they are reflective of that culture. Additionally, students will employ the Columbia University Teacher's College method of "boxes and bullets" to practice writing main ideas and providing supporting details for their writing and research aligned with the C
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Indian Captive Primary Source Worksheet (French and Indian War)
Captured by Indians, 1758 (The Real Story of Mary Jemison Capture)This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about the French and Indian War. I use this worksheet to help students better understand the book Indian Captive.This activity is very easy to use. All you have to do is print off the primary source from the following website for classroom use or direct students to the website to answer the worksheet questions. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cap.htmClick
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â French and Indian War Lesson Plan Collection
WebQuest Figurative Language Poetry Station Simile Metaphor Hyperbole 5 6 7 8 9
Take your students on a journey through poetry! They will love searching on these kid-friendly websites to watch videos, read poems and navigate the examples of figurative language terms right before their eyes. This WebQuest offers just enough of a challenge to keep students interested.
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6 websites or "destinations"
14 great questions prompting students to find pieces of figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, repetition, alliteration and assonance.
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5th - 10th
Ancient China Spy Report
This activity is designed to allow students to write a five paragraph essay about Ancient China in a fun and creative way. Students will use the following website to gather information about Ancient China around the year 1200 A.D. http://www.china.mrdonn.org/This website is very student friendly. The student handout will guide students through the five paragraph essay format. Each paragraph will focus on different topics such as:GeographyGreat Wall of ChinaSilk RoadInventions/AchievementsPhilo
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5th - 10th
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Survival Expert Webquest : Lesson Plans
Students assume the roles of natural disaster experts, researching disasters occurring in nature in order to create a survival guide on one. Survival guides will be in brochure format and contain information, background and pictures on the chosen disaster.
This unit of lessons contains 17 pages of directions, Internet resources, sample brochures,handouts, and suggestions for successful implementation. Complete with an optional interactive online mountain climbing experience, this webquest has b
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5th - 8th
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Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom Activities and Interactives
This item includes activities to use with the book Moses: Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom. These activities would be perfect to use for Second Chance Reading. The activities include:
*Read Aloud / Think Aloud
-Focuses on inferring, asking questions, visualizing, and activating
prior knowledge.
*Vocabulary Words
-Vocabulary Activity
-Vocabulary Crossword
*Slavery Interactives (3)
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4th - 9th
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Erosion & Weathering Webquest
This webquest has students actively engaged in analyzing how erosion and weathering can change Earth's surface.
They practice computer skills by scrolling and locating details found within the text.
Students will analyze how Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon are involved in science!
For early finishers, there's an interactive erosion game link.
This activity can be used for differentiated instruction by working in groups, as a center, and scaffolded responses.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Ellis Island Interactive Webquest Research Writing Project
This webquest takes students on an interactive tour of Ellis Island. The first 3 pages of the webquest includes guiding focus questions for students to answer as they tour all the rooms of the main building of Ellis Island. Students will view photographs, listen to oral histories, and analyze data. A reflective essay is also included at the conclusion of the essay which allows students to use integrate and cite evidence from the webquest.
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4th - 12th
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5RI.8 Author's Points and Reasons
5 Day Shared Reading, Close Reading Lesson PlanPassage from National Geographic: Amazon River DolphinsResearch Structure for teaching academic vocabularyRally Coach Partner ReadingWebquest and organizer to find claims and text evidenceVisualizing the Text Evidence for Comprehension and alignment to standard
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4th - 6th
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Figurative Language Webquest
Students must navigate the web to find information on each website listed.
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5th - 7th
Ellis Island Web Quest
This web quest tours Ellis Island. The link is embedded in the introductory page (hence the word doc). I just trialed it (March 2024) with my students for our module on immigration and they loved it. It took 3 35-minute sessions to complete with time at the end of the 3rd session to review responses. See attached sample page to get an idea.
Grades:
2nd - 5th
Exploring the Mystery Genre as a Special Agent -Webquest
Students assume the role of special agents to explore the components of mysteries before creating their own mini mysteries. They visit the FBI website and create special agent IDs before reading, mapping and solving short mysteries in print and on the Internet. This simulation includes a list of short mysteries in print and an excellent set of websites for students to visit throughout the webquest. At each site, they collect a graphic and the site's web address to create a set of web stamps, s
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5th - 9th
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Cesar Chavez Webquest
The assignment contains 23 questions about the life and accomplishments of Cesar Chavez. Students will watch a video clip (4-minutes) and use the History.com website to answer the questions. I have included an answer key. Please message me if you have any questions. *Great lesson plan! *The document can be uploaded to your website or Google Drive; however, please make sure it is password protected. Topics/Key Vocabulary:Chavez’s accomplishments The National Farm Workers Association Union strik
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4th - 8th
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Alcatraz WebQuest- Can tie in with Al Capone Does My Shirts
Before reading the novel Al Capone Does My Shirts, the students learn information through websites and videos regarding Al Capone and other notorious gangsters.
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4th - 8th
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Civil Rights Movement Timeline with activities and links - Web Quest/Virtual
~9 days worth of activities depending on how you split it upThis assignment goes through the Civil Rights Movement timeline, focusing in on the following events/individuals:-Emmett Till-Rosa Parks-Little Rock Nine-Ruby Bridges-Martin Luther King Jr. -Malcolm XThe Word document includes links and spots for students to record their answers. The resource works well for online learning or Web Quests. It is an editable Word document, so you can add and delete resources based on your needs. The first
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
Ancient Egypt Journal Activity
This activity is designed to allow students to write a five paragraph essay about the Ancients Egyptians in a fun and creative way. Students will use the following website to gather information about the Ancient Egyptians.http://egypt.mrdonn.org/This website is very student friendly. The student handout will guide students through the five paragraph essay format. Each paragraph will focus on a different topic such as:GeographyBuildings in Ancient EgyptGovernment and WritingDaily LifeReligionTh
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5th - 10th
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Vacation Destination City Project
*Updated*
Activities Included:
Trip planning and website research
Trip budgeting
Creating your itinerary
Journal/reflection
2 Extension activities
Trip Presentation with rubric
Car Rental agreement and bonus coupons
I created this project to help keep the students engaged after we completed state testing. We take the test in April and have about 5 weeks of school left when we're done.
This project asks the students to choose a destination city and plan a road trip. They are required to do r
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5th - 12th
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Multicultural Lesson Hispanic Countries
This is a multicultural lesson covering Hispanic countries. The lesson focuses on traditions of the culture, holidays, art, music, literature, and similarities among the Hispanic countries and the United States.
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4th - 6th
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Fever, 1793 Novel Unit
This unit guide provides all necessary resources for teaching the novel Fever, 1793. The unit is divided into eight weeks.
Prior reading webquests, during reading questions, quizzes, and after reading assignments provided. Assignments included independent and group work.
All after reading assignments are analysis and evaluation level activities.
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5th - 8th
Digital Resource: Immigration Through Ellis Island WebQuest
Take your students on an interactive tour of Ellis Island with the help of Scholastic!This wonderful webquest resource can be explored with the help of this handout. 13 comprehension questions provide a good note-taking outline. Questions are typed in Word, making this a digital resource you can use and assign your way!How to use it:I used this web quest to build background knowledge at the beginning of my Uprising novel study.It could also be used with any social studies or U.S. history lesson
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3rd - 8th
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Also included in:Â Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Middle School ELA Starter Pack Bundle
WWII American Home Front Web Quest
Through this web quest, students will look through a variety of primary sources, including letters, photos, and propaganda posters to answer text dependent questions. Students will be immersed in American life during the 1940's. Students will discover what it was like on the home front during the war and how Americans rallied together to support the war effort. This web quest helps to paint a picture as to why Americans changed from the viewpoint of isolationists and joined the war effort after
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5th - 12th
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Oregon Trail Narrative Writing Project Lesson Plan and Webquest
This packet includes the directions, a sample page, and a webquest activity. Narrative essay writing relates to the idea of telling a story from a certain perspective. Students must first research the lives of settlers who traveled along the Oregon Trail, how they lived, what struggles they faced, and realize the importance of these events using a Webquest. They will then get the opportunity to reenact the Oregon Trail experience by playing the 1992 version of the educational game found here. ht
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4th - 9th
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