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Middle school informational text thematic unit plans for Microsoft PowerPoint
3rd Grade Louisiana History Explorers Unit 3 Topics 1 2 | Social Studies
Introduce students to Louisiana's early years. Discover what contributed to Louisiana's unique features. This PowerPoint also covers the changes that occurred during and how those changes shaped the unique development of Louisiana. Versions: PowerPoint, Google Slides, Printable PDFsNO PREP NEEDED! Louisiana Scope and Sequence is translated into a memorable experience that is source-based and includes several activities, a slide show companion study guide, and an assessment aligned to the st
Grades:
3rd - 8th
Also included in: 3rd Grade Louisiana History Unit 3 Topics 1 2 3 Social Studies
Anzac Day Unit - 10 WWI History Lessons
Anzac Day is a public holiday in Australia where we commemorate those that fought for us at war, primarily in WWI. This unit includes 10 lessons and is primarily ICT based, where students will develop their research, summarising and writing skills as they learn about some of the key events and conditions of being involved in WWI.This unit includes:*Unit planner (2wks or 10 lessons)*An Immersion or Introductory Lesson*Mapping Task*Timeline Task*Exploring Soldiers’ Profiles*WWI Book Profile page t
Grades:
6th - 10th
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Story of Chocolate Unit: SPANISH Readings, History, Maps, Hispanic Culture
Learn about chocolate with this complete SPANISH-language lesson plan from the history and origins in Latin American pre-Columbian cultures to the contemporary candy bars we love! Students learn about the process of growing cacao trees, drying and roasting the beans, mixing it with sugar and ending in the chocolate we know today. Student and teachers enjoy this very thorough unit, with a stunning power point of different photos (with teacher script), differentiated readings (3 levels!) and compr
Grades:
2nd - 8th
4th Grade Integrated Social Studies and Language Arts Curriculum Map
This resource provides you with a comprehensive outline, month by month, of how I have set up my integrated social studies and language arts 4th grade curriculum! It includes the topics pulled from Ohio’s new standards in 4th grade Social Studies, the new learning standards for 4th grade Language Arts, and provides lists of rich literature, mentor texts, reader’s theaters, and novels used to drive instruction in a connected, meaningful manner for each integrated unit. In addition, suggested re
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Also included in: 4th Grade Ohio Social Studies ESSENTIAL RESOURCE bundle!
Ancient Greece Part 1 (Powerpoint)
You will have everything you need to begin your unit on Ancient Greek Civilization. This product is specifically designed to meet the Canadian Environmental (Social) Studies curriculum for 5th grade. This unit is suitable for use in 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade. This unit was developed as a powerpoint to be used to foster dialogue about Ancient Greek culture. This powerpoint will be one of several on describing what life was like in Greece 1300 years ago.
This 1st powerpoint highlights:
*The ge
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Introductory Activity for The Hate U Give
This lesson provides important context to the book The Hate U Give. It uses texts and photos for students to analyze and to complete a graphic organizer.
Grades:
8th - 12th
Nonfiction Book Study: What Is Climate Change?
If you are looking for something to encourage your students to read nonfiction, this product is for you. This book study, completely editable, focuses on Gail Herman's What Is Climate Change? and includes before, during, and after reading activities. Also included:Turn the PPT into an interactive Google Slides for your studentsOne Pager samples and RubricChapter Questions
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Non-Fiction Text Structure Brochure - Refugee by Alan Gratz Companion Activity
My class was reading Refugee by Alan Gratz while concurrently studying Non-Fiction. I pulled several articles related to the three main countries discussed in the novel for students to study throughout the unit. When we got to Non-Fiction Text Structures, I created these brochures for students to practice composing in the different text structures.It ties in so well with Refugee and really made Text Structures come alive for students. I hope yours will enjoy as much as mine did!Included:Broch
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Vietnam War: Musical Reactions of the 60s and 70s
In this Unit, students examine how Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young’s “Ohio,” Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee” and Edwin Starr’s “War” articulated the divisive feelings Americans had about the war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. To supplement these songs, students will also watch clips from CNN Soundtracks and analyze polling data, news articles, and photographs from the era. By the end of the unit, students will know seminal events during the Vietnam War, including the Gulf of Tonkin Reso
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: Vietnam War Unit
Land Clearing Lesson and Worksheets
This lesson on Land Clearing aims to introduce students to the causes and effects of Land Clearing on our Earth.It includes:* viewing and responding to a video clip* reading and completing comprehension activities on a worksheetThis lesson is just a part of my 5wk / 25 lesson unit called "Human Impact on the Earth" that includes activities on: * Air pollution * Water pollution * Waste * Poetry styles - Haiku, Acrostic, Quatrain and Cinquains * Spelling and vocabulary strategies and activities *
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Grades:
3rd - 10th, Staff
Dinosaur Power Point
This Power Point gives brief and introductory explanations and visuals of the Triassic, Jurrassic, and Cretaceous periods. For each period the slide show includes the years of each pre-historic period, how the land areas were created through the supercontinent stages of Pangaea, what the climate was like during each pre-historic period, the types of plants that were evident during each period, the dinosaurs that leived in each age, and other animals that roamed the Earth.
This slide show provid
Grades:
2nd - 6th
Beatlemania, Mass Hysteria, and the Commercial Machine - Unit Bundle
We all love the Beatles, we can all sing along to their songs...but this lesson is much more than an excuse to listen to great music in the classroom. The timeline, video clips, article excerpts, analysis questions, photographs, magazine covers, writing tasks, and activities embedded throughout this slideshow, force students to think deeply about the causes of Beatlemania, of mass hysteria in general. Students will think about the intense power of the "Commercial Machine" that was responsible fo
Grades:
7th - 10th
Practicing Reading Closely:Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address part 1
Today we will begin a study about the Haudenosaunee Iroquois people and some of their traditions. 2
Learning Objectives/Targets:
*I can use details and examples from the Thanksgiving Address when explaining what specific passages say or mean.
*I can show what I know by contributing to discussions.
New York’s Common Core Standards:I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1) I can explain the main points in a historical text accurately. (RI.4.3) I can e
Grades:
3rd - 6th
“Birth of the Haudenosaunee”: The Creation of a Nation
Learning Objectives/Targets:*I can notice new ideas and wonder about how nations are created.*I can answer questions using specific details from a text. *I can demonstrate what I know by contributing to discussions.
New York’s Common Core Standards: *I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1) * I can engage effectively in a collaborative discussion. (SL.4.4)
Grades:
3rd - 6th
AIDS Epidemic of the 80s and 90s - Art, Music, and the LGBTQ Community
The Essential Question for students during this unit is: How did the LGBTQ community creatively respond to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, and protest government inaction in addressing the epidemic? First, students will share what they already know about AIDS - do a KWL chart if you are familiar. Review the Overview slide with students to provide background information and front load before beginning videos and activities. Students will watch a video clip and look at documents that expla
Grades:
8th - 11th
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
80s Heavy Metal and the Censorship Debate
In this lesson, students will investigate the connection between the popularity of Heavy Metal and the emergence of the parental advisory system. They will consider who should have the power to declare a song “offensive” and whether or not access to such material should be regulated. They will debate the merits of the labeling system, which is still in place, and consider whether or not labeling certain recordings is censorship.The Essential Question for students is: How was Heavy Metal involved
Grades:
8th - 10th
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Art Lesson: Georgia O'Keeffe
Welcome to the Smock Room and the first step towards developing your students' observational, descriptive and art making skills, through a rigorous and engaging curriculum. These complete art units are designed within a comprehensive instructional sequence, taking your students from simply looking at art to targeting specific characteristics of art works and artists by using visual thinking strategies, Venn diagrams, brainstorming, sketching and retelling. Students not only build their backgroun
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Visual Arts Lesson:Wayne Thiebaud with Integration of English Language Arts
Welcome to the SMocKroom and the first step towards developing your students' observational, descriptive and art making skills, through a rigorous and engaging curriculum. These complete art units are designed within a comprehensive instructional sequence, taking your students from simply looking at art to targeting specific characteristics of art works and artists by using visual thinking strategies, Venn diagrams, brainstorming, sketching and retelling. Students not only build their background
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Ray Bradbury's "The Pedestrian," powerpoint notes supplement
This PowerPoint supplement makes for a nice companion to teaching The Pedistrian by Ray BradburySlides address style, settings, main characters, irony, symbolism, and themes.
Grades:
4th - 12th
Radio Unit - Influence on American Culture
Before the Internet, and before television, there was radio. Building on the research and experiments of earlier scientists, the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was able to complete the first documented transmission of wireless radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean in 1902. Radio quickly came to have many cultural and industrial impacts, and played an important role in military communications during World War I.The slides in this presentation contain embedded links to video clips, questions
Grades:
6th - 8th
Human Body: Organ Systems
This package contains a lesson for student led research projects on the human body organ systems. It includes a full lesson plan with CCSS, rubrics for 5 of the 11 organ systems, a blank organ systems rubric (word doc), and a introduction Power Point that contains several fun links, and a pre/post assessment with answer key. I use this in 5th and 6th grade as an introduction to the human body organ systems.
This is lesson has been awesome to use with the students because they become extremely e
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Grades:
5th - 8th
The Giver Paired Passage Activity - Expository Connection (Aligned w/TEKS)
Generate rich and purposeful classroom discussions using an expository paired text with "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.
Pairing texts with novels is necessary to ensure that students are reading at a deeper level and making connections across texts. Newsela offers a great set of expository articles to connect with "The Giver." Newsela is a free resource for teachers - if you don't have it - you should definitely get it!
For this activity I used one of Newsela's articles to create a Think, Rethink
Grades:
6th - 12th
Reading Closely: Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address Part 2
Learning Objective/Target:
* I can use details and examples from the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address when explaining what specific passages say or mean.
New York’s Common Core Standards:I can explain what a text says using specific details from the text. (RI.4.1) I can explain the main points in a historical text accurately. (RI.4.3) I can engage effectively in a collaborative discussion. (SL.4.1)
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Beatlemania - Hysteria and the Commercial Machine
We all love the Beatles, we can all sing along to their songs...but this lesson is much more than an excuse to listen to great music in the classroom. The timeline, video clips, article excerpts, analysis questions, photographs, magazine covers, writing tasks, and activities embedded throughout this slideshow, force students to think deeply about the causes of Beatlemania, of mass hysteria in general. Students will think about the intense power of the "Commercial Machine" that was responsible fo
Grades:
7th - 10th
Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
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