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Unsolved Mysteries Research Project Middle School ELA | Teaching Research Skills
The Unsolved Mysteries Research Project is an inquiry-based, research-skills focused project for middle school ELA and high school English students. Teaching research skills has never been easier using the Big6 Model with a step-by-step approach!How often do we, as teachers, assign research projects with an assumption that our students know how to conduct research? Unfortunately, many don't, and they copy and paste text from the first site they access. Students thrive when the research process
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6th - 9th
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Activity: Primary Source Analysis and Questions
The Declaration of Independence can be a daunting document for teachers to explain to students, but this primary source lesson will help students understand the major themes and concepts within the document itself. Though Thomas Jefferson's Declaration was written in the 18th century, this worksheet has proven to be a fantastic, big-picture way for today's students to study such an important writing without becoming overwhelmed. The Declaration is really just a big "break-up letter" from the co
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7th - 12th
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50 States and Capitals: Maps, Tests, Activities, Google Classroom & Google Forms
Help your students know all 50 states and capitals of the United States with this huge, MEGA-Pack of resources! This product is available in printable PDF, Google Classroom, and Google Forms. A crossword puzzle, word search, test blanks, word banks, and so many more options are also included in this MEGA-Pack! You will even get a mini-research project template for students to research their favorite state, as well as a creative writing template. Whether it be for a civics unit, history class, cl
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4th - 12th
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Growth Mindset Research Projects - 3D Projects and Activities for Growth Mindset
During this project, students will first learn about growth mindset by reading an informational article about Carol Dweck’s work. Then, they’ll select a famous person in history with a growth mindset. They’ll choose from 14 famous leaders and pioneers in their fields for the basis of their research. Students will research their famous person as they respond to targeted research questions. While researching, they’ll be on the lookout for ways that the famous person had a growth mindset. Next
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4th - 8th
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Effective Online Research Skills Research Graphic Organizers Source Evaluation
Revolutionize students’ online research skills with the Research 101: Effective Internet Research bundle! Empower students by teaching strategic keyword searching strategies, evaluating websites for source credibility, and identifying bias or slanted information in digital resources. Research note taking templates and research graphic organizers will help provide structure to any research project or paper. The materials and activities in this bundle take the guesswork out of teaching research! Y
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7th - 10th
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Magazine Project: Creative Writing Templates | Main Idea Summary For All Subject
Your students will love becoming journalists with these fantastic creative writing templates designed to look like magazines and newspapers! Fully editable, and completely customizable, students will get to summarize any content matter all through the creative ease of Google Drive! Keep your students engaged while creating content-rich material with these visually stunning and academically challenging journalism templates! These templates are perfect for distance learning, a trip to the lab, 1:
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Expository Writing: Informational Historical News Story (Google Classroom)
Expository / Informative Writing: In this 10-day, Common Core - aligned Expository Writing Unit, students will demonstrate a deep understanding of the features, critical elements, and purpose of expository or informative writing. During the unit, students will write an expository news story about a historic event. Through instruction on the news story structure and investigations of sample news stories, students will understand the critical components of a news story so that they can write th
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: October Unit Plans Bundle - 4 ELA Units to Teach All October Long!
Arthurian Legends Unit - King Arthur Projects - Knights and Chivalry Activities
A fully integrated English, Social Studies, and Art unit on King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. This King Arthur unit or Arthurian Legend unit includes reading passages, questions, and activities on Lancelot, King Arthur, the Sword in the Stone, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the code of chivalry, and more! These make great additions to an Arthurian Legend Interactive Notebook. This unit can be done on its own as an English unit on Legends, but also makes an excellent complement to
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4th - 8th
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Ancient Egypt Gods - Egypt Mythology Unit - Ancient Egypt Projects - Religion
This 80 page Ancient Egypt Mythology unit contains engaging Ancient Egypt projects for your upcoming unit on the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt. These engaging Ancient Egyptian gods activities contain informational text, graphic organizers, foldable activities, and templates, and make perfect additions to your Ancient Egypt Interactive Notebook. A variety of Ancient Egypt projects and activities are included. Very little teacher prep is required – simply print and teach!While all of the res
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4th - 7th
Ugly Sweater Christmas Project | December Reading Activity 6th, 7th, 8th
This 6th-8th grade Holiday project based learning activity is the best Christmas season activity! In this fun project-based learning (PBL) activity for 6th-8th grades, your students will use key standards in a real-life scenario! These standards include reading comprehension, collaboration, revision, and design. Differentiation is included!Driving Question: How can I design an ugly sweater that has a winter or holiday theme and use related symbolism for advertising in a class catalog? Students a
Prove It! Teach Students to use Evidence to Support Argument Claims
Teaching students to meet the Common Core’s expectations for argumentative writing can be a challenge. Teenagers seem very skilled at making claims (perhaps due to their natural inclination to having very strong opinions!?), but seem to struggle to find and use effective evidence to support those claims. This 3-day lesson is designed to ease students into using evidence to support claims. Students first learn to identify and evaluate the six main types of evidence before being asked to find evid
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7th - 12th
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In-Text Citations Worksheets and Activities - MLA 9 - How to Write Citations
Updated for MLA 9th Edition! Teach students how to write in-text citations using MLA 9 with these scaffolding worksheets and activities. Includes anchor charts with in-text citation examples! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.Included with these In-Text Citations Worksheets for MLA 9:✏️ “Skeleton of a Citation” Reference Poster with MLA Citation Examples✏️ Anchor charts for Parenthetical and Narrative In-Text Citations✏️ Multiple-Choice Questions: For
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7th - 12th
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Any Book & Movie Comparison Reader's Notebook Activities CCSS RL.7
Movie and Book Comparison Activities with Interactive Reader's Notebook Foldables - Use with ANY Novel or Story
Aligned to the Common Core State Standards for grades 7-12, Reading Literature RL.7 and Writing Standards W.4, W.7, W.9, W.10
Contains 37 printable pages with numerous prompts, evaluations, and comparison charts. Students will analyze the movie's scenes, direction, cinematography, acting, props, dialogue, and setting, comparing each to the novel. Differentiated for multiple levels.
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Custom Bundle for Jen W.
Community Interview Project and Rubric - How to Conduct an Interview Assignment
This community interview project is perfect for practicing interviewing skills and teaching students how to conduct an interview! Includes a slideshow lesson, interview graphic organizers, and an editable rubric. Based on the "Humans of New York" project, students will write articles after conducting interviews with partners within the school community! Suitable for online learning with digital worksheets for Google Classroom®.✨ Updated in 2024 to cater to a wider range of educational environmen
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5th - 12th
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
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7th - 10th
Starter Kit for Middle School Newspaper, Part 1 (editable version included!)
Starting a middle school newspaper was a daunting task; I wasn’t quite sure where to begin! As with anything in teaching, I started by determining my goals, establishing what our writing/publishing procedure would look like, and choosing daily and weekly rhythms to move my journalism group in the right direction.This template I came up with was essential for creating structure while giving students ownership over the process. I also created a Starter Kit for Middle School Newspaper, Part 2, whic
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6th - 9th
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Argumentative Essays - Complete Unit
Argumentative Essays - Complete Unit. Writing an argumentative essay is an essential skill for secondary students. This unit is CCSS aligned, with grading rubrics for each grade level 7 - 12 that reflect the standards. This unit has everything you need, in a logical order, with teacher notes, handouts, assignments, instruction, grading rubrics, and supplemental material to support more advanced instruction. There are examples for each concept, and a full sample student essay. Includes updated ML
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Essay Writing Mega Bundle
Speech Unit - Reading, Analyzing, Researching, Presenting (Google Classroom)
Meet Common Core State Standards in reading, writing, listening, and speaking with this 10 day Speech Unit. In this unit, students learn about the nonfiction genre of speeches, analyze four historic speeches, develop skills in writing short answer responses, conduct mini-research projects, write a persuasive speech based on their research, and present their speeches to the class. This is a highly rigorous, yet engaging, unit where students work as a group, with partners, and independently to d
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5th - 8th
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SBAC Aligned Rubrics: Informative, Narrative, Opinion Writing (student-friendly)
These multi-use rubrics use student-friendly language, helping you to clearly communicate expectations and scores to students. They can be used for students to self-assess or for you to quickly grade informative, narrative, and opinion writing assignments.This resource is based on performance task rubrics developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). E-Rubrics can be filled out on your computer or printed and completed by hand. Both full color and black & white options are
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3rd - 8th
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Avoiding Plagiarism Bundle - Types of Plagiarism Worksheets, Lessons, Activities
This bundle of lessons and activities will support your students in avoiding plagiarism in their writing. Explore different types of plagiarism and develop a classroom plagiarism policy using these informational handouts, worksheets, and activities! Suitable for online learning and Google Classroom®. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Save with the bundled discount! ⚡️⚡️⚡️Included with this Avoiding Plagiarism Bundle:✏️ Types of Plagiarism Task Card Activity - Digital & Print✏️ Different Types of Plagiarism Informa
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6th - 12th
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Mini-Research Project, Speech Analysis, Writing and Presentation
In this ten-day, Common Core aligned unit, students will develop a deep understanding of the speech genre by investigating two famous speeches. After instruction on speech characteristics and purposes of speeches, students will closely read and analyze two speeches about incredible journeys. They’ll also develop skills in responding to analysis questions. Then, students will conduct mini-research projects on people who have also completed incredible journeys. Using a research guide, citation
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Incredible Journeys Bundle - Short Story, Research, Poetry, Nonfiction
Note Taking Templates | Note Taking Graphic Organizers
This note taking activity collection contains 24 No Prep, open ended booklets that can be used with any note taking assignment. These flip flap books are created with Common Core standards in mind, requiring critical thinking and elaboration of ideas. Students are required to respond in a variety of creative ways, including writing, doodling, analyzing, and more! The activities are ideal for individual and collaborative work.Each Flip Flap book contains an entire page of space for student wor
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3rd - 12th
Also included in: Reading Response Bundle | Reading Flip Flap Books
Research Q & A: Short Inquiry-Based Research Project – Informative Writing 6 - 9
Here’s a short, motivating research project where students engage in inquiry to pursue a topic of interest. Students think critically to create two questions about their topic to research. The final product is an informative Q & A page designed on an editable template complete with visuals and Works Cited. A colorful instructional slide presentation will assist students with the process of narrowing down topics and writing open-ended questions. Students interact using organizer handouts and
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6th - 9th
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The Fun They Had Short Story Analysis, Reading, and Research Activities
Looking for a relevant short story to share with your students? Isaac Asimov's "The Fun They Had" is perfect for our students grappling with distance learning! Your students will read the story, participate in a mini research project, analyze photos, and write a reflection.This is a great reading and research project for students to learn about education in the past, present, and what is imagined for the future.What teachers are saying about my distance learning resources:"Super easy to use (
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6th - 8th
Also included in: Back to School Planning Bundle Reading, Writing, Research Activities
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