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7th grade critical thinking other (ELA) unit plans
Listening Comprehension Unit - Upper Elementary to Middle School - Note Taking
Listening comprehension is an essential element of ELA instruction. That’s because students do not intuitively know how to take notes, discern what is important in a listening passage, or even know how to reference their notes when answering questions. This unit develops all of those skills through fun active listening anticipatory sets, instruction on listening and note taking, five original listening passage practice tests, multiple choice and short answer questions, and a final assessment t
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5th - 8th
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Remembrance Day Unit
Are you a Canadian middle school teacher looking to foster a profound connection to Remembrance Day in your students? This comprehensive Remembrance Day Unit is designed just for you. Over the course of two engaging weeks, use these 10 engaging and detailed lessons, with multimedia elements, to help your students explore and grasp the core concepts behind this occasion.Lesson OverviewWhat is Remembrance Day?Music Lyric AnalysisPoem & Song Comparison and AnalysisVideo Analysis How Does the Po
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6th - 8th
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Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the
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4th - 10th
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Also included in: Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Mega Bundle
Classroom Debate Unit for Grades 4-7
This Let's Debate Mini-Unit is intended to support 4th - 7th grade teachers and students as they prepare to participate in class debates, both as actual debaters and as stakeholder audience members. This engaging activity can be used in many subject areas, and is a great culminating task for any unit. Perfect for that upcoming teacher evaluation you may have coming up!This four day unit includes:► Detailed lesson plans spanning four days► List of suggested topics► Schedules and templates► Deba
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4th - 7th
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Media Literacy Unit - Analyzing Public Service Announcements and Commercials
Use this Media Literacy Unit to empower your middle school students! Are you looking to equip your students with essential media literacy skills in an engaging and dynamic way? This Media Literacy Unit is designed specifically for middle school students, offering a comprehensive 10-lesson program that will deepen their understanding of media and critical thinking.By utilizing this Media Literacy Unit, you'll be equipping your students with essential skills that are not only relevant to their aca
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6th - 8th
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Debate Unit: 2+ Weeks of Speaking, Nonfiction, & Writing for ELA (with Google!)
Do you want to assess speaking skills in a low-stress manner? Need to assess argumentative writing without another essay? This debate unit is a “no stage fright” method to build student confidence, stretch critical and logical thinking skills, and engage students in spirited, friendly competition that is authentic to real world situations.This unit scaffolds students through the basics of...• defining debate,• reading and evaluating the strength of sample arguments,• drafting an opening stateme
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7th - 10th
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Mars Patel Mega Bundle Seasons 1 - 3
Use this engaging Mars Patel Podcast Mega Bundle to keep students engaged while learning about literary elements, and literary devices and practicing their listening comprehension skills. This fictional podcast follows a group of friends as they investigate the disappearance of their classmates. This Mega Bundle contains resources for Season 1, Season 2 and Season 3 of the Mars Patel podcast, as well as a Mars Patel Digital Escape Room. Note: This resource is about the narrative podcast Mars Pat
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6th - 8th
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Mars Patel Podcast Season 2 Unit Bundle
This Mars Patel Podcast Season 2 Unit Bundle was designed specifically for middle school students. This comprehensive bundle offers an exciting way to enhance comprehension skills while captivating students with an engaging podcast.This exciting unit is for educators aiming to foster an engaging learning environment. With PDF and digital formats using Google Slides and Forms, the Mars Patel Podcast Season 2 Unit Bundle is a must-have for any classroom.What's Included:✅ Detailed Lesson Plans for
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Mars Patel Mega Bundle Seasons 1 - 3
Poetry Unit for Secondary ELA
Make poetry fun! Engage your students with a fun and hands-on poetry unit with this bundled resource of my favorite poetry lessons. This bundle includes:2 editable PowerPoint presentationsPoetry organizers and assignmentsVocabularyPoetry Mini Flip BookRECENTLY ADDED: Poetry Analysis Task Cards
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7th - 11th
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A Wrinkle in Time: Novel Study Unit Plan
This 4 ½ - 6 week novel study will guide students through an imaginative exploration and critical analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newberry Award Winning book, A Wrinkle in Time. Students will be challenged to think deeply about the book’s themes and respond thoughtfully through written work and oral discussions. Their imaginations will be stretched and their critical thinking skills will be developed on a daily basis. The study is divided into three segments: Chapters 1-4, Chapters 5-8, and Cha
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5th - 9th
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Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library - a complete novel study
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation required by the teacher. It contains several interactive activities that engage students in critical thinking. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts, and it aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, decoding new words, predicting, critical thinking, analyzing, understan
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5th - 8th
Media Literacy 10-Lesson Unit - Distance Learning Compatible
BEST SELLER!!In this 10-lesson unit, students will learn about advertising and the media to become more Media Literate. The unit includes 10 ready-to-use lessons, including an advertising techniques vocabulary quiz (with an answer key). It is designed for students in grades 5-8Lessons include:1. What is Media? – students will brainstorm different types of media on their own and with a partner to create a mind map/brainstorm web.2. Mass Media Diet – students will examine their own media consump
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5th - 8th
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Inquiry and Research - A Student-Choice Guided Unit | Project-Based Learning
Inquiry-Based Learning: A thorough, guided system to help teach your students how to inquire, tune in, find out, reflect and present their findings. FOR ANY TOPIC.
What Is Inquiry-Based Learning?
Inquiry-Based teaching is a response to our current ‘knowledge based’ society and allows for effective and engaging teaching. Inquiry-Based Learning not about finding facts. Rather, it is about researching and answering questions or solving issues. It is a method of learning where students explore the
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4th - 7th
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Among the Hidden - a complete novel study
Among the Hidden is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with minimal preparation from the teacher. This book is great for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, critical thinking, supporting a position, understanding point of view, recognizing imagery, creative writing, skimming and scanning for quotes, doing book reports, and solving puzzles.This resou
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5th - 8th
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Decision-Making Lessons: A TPT Best-Selling Unit on Dangerous Teen Decisions!
TPT's #1 Best-Selling High School Decision Unit!!If you work with 6th through 12th grade teens, these decision-making lessons are so powerful! I consider this one of my BEST Health units since it deals with the consequences of teen decisions! Your students will LOVE this-it's so relevant to their lives and the world we live in today!Articles are shocking, revealing, often heart-breaking, and very relatable for teens!>> Integrated Skills Based, Content Based / Knowledge Based. The best of b
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6th - 12th
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Full ELA Novel Study Unit Plan for Monster by Walter Dean Myers *Creative*
Updated October 2022! This is a full, ready-to-go resource jam-packed with creative and differentiated activities! Everything you need is included. This is tried and tested by me, in my own classroom. I have used every resource I include. This HUGE Bundle includes 80+ colorful slides laid out in chronological orderEditable unit pacing calendar with reading assignments by day (just added 10/22) Updated virtual field trip with student interactive components (just updated 10/22) Journal prompts fo
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7th - 12th
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Time Management Unit: Goal-Setting and Proactive Planning Skills at School
Do your students need serious help learning how to avoid procrastination, break down long assignments, study IN ADVANCE for a test, or start an essay BEFORE the night it’s due?Use this time management skills unit to help teens and tweens to build critical life skills! This unit can be used before or during your next assessment: essay, project, or test! Ready to print and use in a middle or high school classroom, this project was made with an English class in mind, but its EDITABLE pages can be m
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7th - 10th
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"Casey at the Bat" Unit - Poetry Lessons and Poetry Activities
This is an extremely detailed, CCSS-aligned unit. Student read and analyze the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. It is designed to help students analyze what the poem says explicitly as well draw inferences from the text. Students will determine the poem’s theme and analyze the theme development over the course of the text. In addition, students will investigate word choice, figurative language, and mood. Students will acquire a range of general academic and domain-specif
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5th - 8th
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Podcasting – Create Your Own Podcast - Project Based Learning Unit
This Podcast Unit is targeted for Middle School students and provides the background context and structure for teachers to implement a Podcast Project in their classroom. Why should I use podcasts in my classroom?-It gives students a potential audience (either thousands or just a classroom of students) depending on how you have students share these out. -It's great for developing literacy skills (writing scripts, organizing thoughts, maid idea and details, setting up interviews etc), allows ch
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5th - 8th
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Prosthetic Leg Engineering Design STEM Challenge
Prosthetic Design STEM ChallengeAfter learning the history and uses of prosthetic legs, students use the engineering design process to build a prosthetic leg that is interchangeable for multiple people. This design challenge is followed by a research extension to design a prosthetic leg for an animal. Lesson Sequence: Introduce real-world careers of biomedical engineers and show a video on fabricating a prosthetic legRead about the history of prostheticsLearn important concepts related to prosth
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5th - 9th, Higher Education
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 4-LS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Year-Round STEM Engineering Challenges Bundle (Middle School STEM)
Hatchet - a complete novel study
Hatchet is a complete novel study that’s ready to go with very little preparation by the teacher. This book is a great fit for middle school language arts. It aligns with many of the common core state standards.The activities included engage the students in many learning outcomes: reading comprehension, critical thinking, using context clues, understanding the five types of literary conflict, sequencing, prioritizing, defending a position, writing a paragraph, creating opening and closing senten
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5th - 8th
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Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit | 5th-7th Grades | Social Studies
The Thinking Like a Historian Lesson Plan Unit is PERFECT for 5th-7th grade students! This incredible unit focuses on the importance of primary and secondary sources of information and will help grow your students critical thinking skills and abilities, as well as how to examine sources of information for bias and cause and effect relationships, and MUCH more!! The amazing resources included with this unit have been used with GREAT SUCCESS by THOUSANDS of students, and can easily be used with an
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Bundle for Virginia
Listening to Podcasts and Creating a Podcast from Start to Finish
Have you noticed your students are LISTENING to information now more than ever before? Podcasting is a new genre of literacy students will need to learn how to navigate and understand. Digital Media Literacy is here to stay!This complete guide to podcasting begins by immersing students in the genre of podcasting by listening and noticing what makes a podcast effective and impactful. Students begin to notice sound effects and ways the authors work to entertain, evoke emotion, inform, or persuade.
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Podcasting with Kids Starter Pack
Year Long Theater Curriculum Lessons Units Plays Projects Grades 6 to 9 Drama
DISCOUNT 30%! Hey, new teacher! Are you looking for year-long theater education curriculum and help from an award winning, veteran drama teacher? These units are best taught to students in sixth grade through ninth grade, however some units work well with sixth grade. ++++NOTE: I discovered long ago that some students were enrolled in my class without their say so. Consequently, they were reluctant and disengaged from my lessons. So, I changed what I taught them and went in a different direc
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6th - 9th
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