Beacon Lesson Plan Library
Lesson Plans - Learner Level 3: Language Arts
- 100 Years...100 Movies (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
- 2004 Summer Olympics Internet Scavenger Hunt (Authored by Elana Collins.)
- A Geopoem about Alaska (Authored by Joyce Honeychurch.)
- A Graphic Scene (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
- A Moment in Time (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
- A Short, Short Story (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Acrostic Poetry (Authored by Farica King.)
- Actions Speak Louder than Words (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Alike, Different, or Both? (Authored by Christy Simms.)
- All's Well That Ends Well (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Analogies (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
- And Your Point Is . . .? Part I (Authored by Lois Christensen.)
- And Your Point Is . . .? Part II (Authored by Lois Christensen.)
- Animals in Research - Right or Wrong? (Authored by Carol Houck.)
- Are They the Same or Different? (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
- Are You Moody? (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Attracting an Audience with Purpose (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Attractive Adjectives (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
- Bag It (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Batty Facts (Authored by Carol Cline.)
- Become a Detective (Authored by Shannon Flynn.)
- Better to Tell the Truth (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Big on Biography (Authored by Lorinda Luther.)
- Bio-Poem (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Biographical Research Paper (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Book Jeopardy (Authored by Megan Siska.)
- Book Selling Project (Authored by Megan Siska.)
- Book Share (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- Brainstorm This! (Authored by Jena Lewis.)
- Break It Down (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
- Broadcasting World War II (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
- C is for Cookie-A MEAN-ingful Graphing Activity (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- Can You Figure Language? (Authored by Robin Ziel.)
- Can You Hear Me Now? (Authored by Miriam Buchanan.)
- Cartoon Vocabulary (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Character and Choices: Dickens' A Christmas Carol (Authored by Jeff Gillard.)
- Character and Plot Development Through Comics (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Character Traits and People in Black History (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)
- Chris' Culture Club Cruise (Authored by Christine Broyles.)
- Cinderella Around the World (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Class Act (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Classified Clues (Authored by Deborah Shaw.)
- Clean Air (Authored by Mary LaLane.)
- Collaborative Compositions (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Common Commas (Authored by April Smith.)
- Common Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots (Authored by Deborah Jackson.)
- Conservation Critters Anonymous, Etcetera (Authored by Wilma Horton.)
- Coping with Verbs (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
- Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic (Authored by Andrea Farage.)
- Crazy Critters Creative Writing Assignment (Authored by Andrea Farage.)
- Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech (Authored by Andrea Farage.)
- Create Your Island Paradise (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Creating My Personal Animal ABC Book. (Authored by Louise Kent.)
- Critic’s Choice (Authored by Jill Blonder.)
- Design a Character (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- Diagramming Annabelle Lee (Authored by Susan Taylor.)
- Disect a Toon (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
- Do-deca-he-dron-It’s Greek to Me! (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Does Word Choice Affect the Quality of a Piece of Writing? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- Dog Gone Good Note Cards (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- Don't Eat Your Words (Authored by Farica King.)
- Dream Killers (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Dreams, Stars, and Beaches (Authored by Bobbi Shapiro.)
- Easy Essays Step 1 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Easy Essays Step 2 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Easy Essays Step 3 (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Eating More or Less? (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
- Electromagnetic Spectrum (Authored by Carol Houck.)
- Email Buddies (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Environmentally Friendly (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)
- Escape to Freedom (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
- Espresso Your Feelings in Poetry (Authored by Dee Camp-White.)
- Euro English (Authored by Peggy Craig.)
- Everybody Else Has One! (Authored by Farica King.)
- Exposing Expository Text Structure in a Rainforest Setting (Authored by Laura Hobbs.)
- Fable Writing (Authored by Farica King.)
- Fabulously Famous ABC’S (Authored by Christine Broyles.)
- Fact or Fiction - What Is Expository Writing? (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Figuring Solutions (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
- Filling in the [Holes] (Authored by Donald Hines.)
- Film Historian (Authored by Jill Blonder.)
- First Class Mail (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- Florida: A Paradise for the Written Word (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Florida’s Prize-Winning Authors (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- For Sale-Ageless Water (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- Forget Us Not (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Formal or Informal? (Authored by Tresha Layne.)
- Fragments Wanted (Not) (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
- Free Reading Chart (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- From Different Angles (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Get the Joke! (Authored by Carole Bennett.)
- Getting to Know You Through Peer Editing (Authored by Linda Sheffield.)
- Getting to Know You Through Questioning (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- Getting Your Students Started (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Give Me the Seven Digits (Authored by Farica King.)
- Give Me Your Vital Statistics (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
- Good and Bad Grammar (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- Hands On Essays (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Happy Birthday to Them! (Authored by Gwen Hafford.)
- Happy Holidays (Authored by Farica King.)
- Hello... I'd Like You to Meet..... (Authored by Dixie Wheelock.)
- Help Me Learn About the Holocaust (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Hero Spontaneous Lecture (Authored by Christine Schuyler.)
- Hey Mom, Are We There Yet? (Authored by Farica King.)
- Hey, I Don't Have Enough Stuff! (Authored by Nina Treadway.)
- Hide and Seek Vocabulary! (Authored by Linda Gobran.)
- Holey Story (Authored by Michelle Gordon.)
- Home Sweet Home (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- Honest Abe's Economy of Words (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- Honk If You Love Writing (... and Bumper Stickers!) (Authored by Jeannie Overby.)
- Household Products - Past to Future (Authored by Judy Marburger.)
- How Can We Organize Study of a Given Place? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- How Do I Get There From Here? (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- How Logical Is Garfield? (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- How Long Is Forever? (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- How to Create a PowerPoint Presentation (Authored by Sheila Sexton.)
- Human Impact on the Everglades Environment (Authored by Cheryl Darbyshire.)
- Human Sentences (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- I Am a Book (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- I Hate My Sibling? (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- I Highly Recommend It (Authored by Carmel Monaghan.)
- I Just Want to Say (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- I Love Navarre (Authored by Regan Lee.)
- I Think Mom Loves You Best (Authored by Margaret Graham.)
- I'm A Poet and Now I Know It (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- I’m a Little Crab Pot (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- I’m Convinced! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Illustrated Quotes of Julius Caesar (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Improving the Quality of Life (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
- In the Presence of Oxygen (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- Incredible Inventions That Make A Difference (Authored by Beverly Simpkins.)
- Information Sensation! (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Information Shuffle (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Introducing World War II (Authored by Richard Johnson.)
- Invertebrates, No Backbone, No Problem (Authored by Cheryl Darbyshire.)
- Investigating Langston Hughes (Authored by Joan Phillips.)
- It Is a Job (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- It's Raining Idioms! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Langston Hughes (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Language for Sale (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Lead Me On - Writing Lively Leads for Book Reviews (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- Leading into Good Writing (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Legends Old and New (Authored by Martha Grant.)
- Life Box (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Life Is Like (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Little Mysteries Solved in a Poem (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Living Biographies (Multimedia Project) (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Look It Up! (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- Look Who's Talking to Me (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Mad About Parts of Speech (Authored by Stefanie Bozeman.)
- Map the Mystery! (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- Mass Manipulation (Authored by Heather Burnett.)
- Mass, Volume and Density (Authored by Carol Houck.)
- Mathematical Contributions by Women (Authored by Diane Bates.)
- Mathematicians Through Time (Authored by Kim Douberley.)
- Meet Me at My House (Authored by Cheryl Weaver.)
- Memory of a Kiss (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
- Millennium Santa! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Millennium Scrapbook (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Mix and Match Poetry (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- More or Less (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- Mouthwatering Adjectives! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Mr./Ms.Scientist, This Is Your Life (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- My Reading Words in My Social Studies Book? (Authored by Michelle Gordon.)
- Nature Walk Poem (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Neat Nouns (Authored by Amanda Yates.)
- Neb -u- la (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
- News Anchor (Authored by Mary LaLane.)
- News Poetry (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Newspaper Knowledge (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Newsworthy Fairy Tales (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- No Plagiarism, Please! (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- Novel Tee (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Observing Sensory Details (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Off to a Great Start (Authored by Cecilia Harbin.)
- Oh Man, History in Language Arts (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Oh My Darling (Authored by Rebecca Hobbs.)
- Oh, Say Can You Said? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- On Becoming a Grammar Guru (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- On Top of the World (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- One Pager (Authored by Shelly Clark.)
- Out of the Dust 1 (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Out of the Dust 2 (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Out of the Dust 3 (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Out of the Dust 4 (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Outline and Shine (Authored by Candace Culberson.)
- Painless Poetry (Authored by summer zephyr.)
- Palindromes to WOW Student Minds (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- Paw-er up for PowerPoint (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- Perky Prefixes (Authored by Eva Kilpatrick.)
- Personality Plus (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- Personally Speaking (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- Personify This (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Picture Me with Words (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Playing Detective (Authored by Bethany Cookman.)
- Please Tell Me a Story (Authored by Sabrina Allen.)
- Plot the Oysters’ Peril! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Poetry Book (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Poetry in Motion (Authored by Darnita McDaniel.)
- Poetry Pot (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Point of You (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- Ponyboy, What’s a Theme? (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Portfolio Autobiographies (Authored by Louise Kent.)
- Post-It Poetry (Authored by Kathryn Bonelli.)
- Practice Makes it Better (Authored by Cheryl Weaver.)
- Predictions, Predictions, and More Predictions (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Preposition Pizazz (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
- Presentations Come Alive! (Authored by Monica McManus.)
- Prewriting Strategies (Authored by Evelyn Rivera.)
- Properties of Waves (Authored by Carol Houck.)
- Read All About It (Authored by Farica King.)
- Reader's Review (Authored by Patricia Wachholz.)
- Reading for Righties and Lefties. (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Reading Restaurant (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- Rest in Peace, Maniac Magee (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- Riddles and Words (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Rights in the Holocaust: Imagine and Remember (Authored by Christine Sermons.)
- Ring, Ring . . . Please Get That Phone (Authored by Athena Gill.)
- Rip, You're Sleepin' Your Life Away (Authored by Cheree Brown.)
- Roll With the Punches: Can't We All Get Along? (Authored by Shirley Baker.)
- Roll With the Punches: It's Not in Black and White (Authored by Shirley Baker.)
- Roll With the Punches: Oprah's On! (Authored by Shirley Baker.)
- Roll With the Punches: What Do You Know? (Authored by Martha Simmons.)
- Sail on the Vocabulary Ship (Authored by Patricia McAdams.)
- Say What You Mean (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)
- Scavenger Search (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- School Daze--Remembering First, Best, Worst (Authored by Glenda Fillingim.)
- Scrambled Stories (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- Scrambled Stories II (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- See How They Run (Authored by Ramona Guth.)
- Seeking Super Cities (Authored by Louise Jones.)
- Self-Portrait Poem (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Selling, Spending, or Saving (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
- Sidewalks to Success in Middle School (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- Slang Ain't the Thang! (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Slithering into Revision (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- Sneetches by Dr. Seuss (Authored by Jill Blonder.)
- So You Want to Be a TV Reporter! (Authored by Sue Orth.)
- Sold! Ageless Water (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- Solving Science Mysteries (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Song Analysis (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Southern Fried Sentences (Authored by Traci Damron.)
- Space: The Final Frontier (Authored by Cynthia Lott.)
- Speeches to Introduce (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Story Mapping: The Hundred Dresses (Authored by Mary Coyle.)
- Studying Anchor Papers (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Subject and Verb Agreement: Using Literature (Authored by david gingold.)
- Symbolic Poem (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- Take My Word for It (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Take the Challenge (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- Teacher of the Year (Authored by Kenny McCay.)
- Tell Me That You Love Me 5-7-5 (Authored by Dixie Wheelock.)
- Telling Tales (Authored by Lucille Andreu.)
- That Was Alpha Smart of You (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- The 3 R's of Common Denominators (Language) (Authored by Michael Newton.)
- The 3 R's of Common Denominators (Reading) (Authored by Kathleen Long.)
- The Assassin’s Hand (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- The Days of Jane Eyre's Life (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- The Grass is Always Greener (Authored by Judy Marburger.)
- The House that Dies Drear Built (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- The Inside Story (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- The Land and the Water (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- The Language of Shakespeare (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- The Multimedia Heart (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- The Mysteries of Twins (Authored by Melinda Dukes.)
- The Problem with Prejudice (Authored by Zerelda Hammer.)
- The Rest of the Story (Authored by Farica King.)
- The Story of My Life (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- The Timeline of a Lifetime (Authored by Haley Caraway.)
- The True Story (Authored by Deloris Morris.)
- There's a Writer Waiting Inside Me (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- This is Straight From The Horse's Mouth (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- This Lesson is Totally Trippy Man (Authored by Debbie Hartley.)
- Those Baffling Bibliographies! (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- To Read or Not to Read ? That Is the Question (Authored by Nancy Montague.)
- Toontime (Authored by Millard Nixon.)
- Training for the Big Show (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- Traveling Through Europe with Brochures (Authored by Sheila Sexton.)
- Tree Brains (Authored by Linda Doty.)
- Uniforms vs. Fashion: Want to Take a Side? (Authored by Constance Light.)
- Up and Down (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- Vocabulary Bingo (Authored by Leslie Dobbs.)
- Vocabulary Drawing (Authored by Jeannie Overby.)
- Wanted New Authors! (Authored by Gloria Smith.)
- Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 (Authored by Patricia Wachholz.)
- Web It! (Authored by Gloria Smith.)
- What a Difference a Year Makes: Billy's Letter (Authored by Thomasine Kennedy.)
- What Do You Think? (Authored by Janice Jowers.)
- What Goes in Must Come Out (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- What Goes Up Must Come Down (Authored by Karin Friend.)
- What Is the Language of Television? (Authored by Lisa Meltzer.)
- What Kind of Student Do You Want to Be? (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- What Makes a Good Speaker? (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- What's for Dinner? (Authored by Farica King.)
- What's in a Name? (Middle School) (Authored by Cynthia Youngblood.)
- What's So Nice About Fairy Tales? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- What's the Big Idea? (Middle School) (Authored by Abby Hill.)
- What's the Scoop on Casey? (Authored by Farica King.)
- What's the Scoop on Slang? (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- What's the Story? (Authored by Janice Wilkins.)
- What's Up, Doc? (Authored by Kathy Kelly.)
- What's Your Opinion? (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)
- When Old Meets New (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
- Where Is Your Story Set? (Authored by Kathryn Clark.)
- Where No Student Has Gone Before (Authored by Leslie Briggs.)
- Which Car Will Mom Approve? (Authored by Dawn Kaunike.)
- Who Is That Ghostly Character? (Authored by Megan Siska.)
- Who Me? A Writer? (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Who Needs a Dress Code? (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- Who's Confused? Not Me! (Authored by Megan Siska.)
- Who's Speaking? (Authored by Vicky Nichols.)
- Whodunit? Creating Mysterious Plays (Authored by Dawn Capes.)
- Why Do Authors Write? (Authored by Delshuana Jackson.)
- Working Hard or Hardly Working (Authored by Jennifer Hall.)
- Write or You’re History! (Authored by Jill Blonder.)
- Yes, No, Maybe So! (Authored by Kerry McMillen.)
- You Are What You Read (Authored by Joan Jackson.)
- You Can Judge a Book by Its Cover (Authored by Kimberly Marlow.)
- You Do Judge a Book by Its Cover (Authored by Patricia Morres.)
- You G.O.T. It! (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)
- Zoom In with Internet Keyword Searches (Authored by Linda Robertson.)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After students choose one of the top 100 movies to view, they research critical reviews and then write their own reviews.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Have you ever been on a scavenger hunt? Have you ever been on one using the Internet? In this activity, students will participate in an Internet scavenger hunt as they search for the answers to questions about the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gather information on the physical and human characteristics of Alaska (geographic theme PLACE).They organize this information on a concept map to be transformed into a geopoem about Alaska.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using collected information, students compare and contrast characters from various texts within a Venn Diagram.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A moment in time before shooting a foul shot or the moment right before a runner steals a base can make for a fascinating poem. Students study poems to see how punctuation, line length, rhythm and word choice can be used to create a memorable moment.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast characters from various texts and compile the collected information into several graphic organizers.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students must write an original short story that cannot contain over 100 words.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using newspapers or magazines, students create an acrostic poem where words are divided into parts of speech.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: No matter how good a written speech is, the delivery is what the audience remembers. Learning about and practicing volume, stress, pacing, and pronunciation helps students to deliver an oral presentation effectively.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast two characters from the play [The Diary of Anne Frank] on a Venn diagram and write a paragraph showing similarities and differences.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Beginning and ending are two of the most important parts of a speech! The middle is rather important also. Students check out the importance of organizing a speech.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn about relationships between words and then are expected to figure out the missing word for a list of analogies. This lesson is a good lesson to use with ESOL students or students who are having difficulty with word relationships.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is Part I of a two-part series. Part I introduces students to point of view through a structured WebQuest. Part II (See Weblinks) extends understanding through student engagement in a variety of debate activities.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is Part II of a two-part series. Part I introduced students to point of view through a structured WebQuest. (See WebLinks.) Part II extends understanding through student engagement in a variety of debate activities.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research and discuss a sensitive or controversial issue and attempt to make a decision based on group findings.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a graphic organizer, students synthesize and separate collected information.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Are you moody? Is a novel? Students continue their study of the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved] and their examination of literary techniques the author uses to grab their attention.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Making sure that the purpose of an oral presentation or speech, and the intended audience are compatible will help students become good speakers.
Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This ESOL lesson, that is part 3 of a unit, reviews nouns and verbs, then introduces adjectives. Students learn to identify and use adjectives in sentences, identify them in listening activities, and review all three in a commercial.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a paper bag or a gift bag, students create a book report providing information on the elements of the book.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Go batty! Students use a KWL chart as a prereading strategy to organize and display their knowledge of bats, nocturnal animals.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Everyone loves a mystery and now your students can be the detectives! In this lesson, students read a mystery story while searching for clues to help predict the outcome. They record the outcome then finish the story to see how well they predicted.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to teach students to distinguish between emotional and logical arguments in advertising.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students select a person to research for biographical information. Utilizing resources in the Media Center, students record information on note cards; students then interpret and categorize information for appropriate placement on a graphic organizer.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a biographical poem about themselves using an easy formula.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using resource materials, students write a biographical research paper.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students participate in a fun, educational game of -Book Jeopardy- which can be used to review material before a comprehensive test on any novel.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create an oral presentation that uses a visual aid to sell their books to their classmates with the goal of trying to get their classmates interested in reading the book.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students meet in small groups to reflect on and share their thoughts after reading a short story, poem, chapter in a novel, etc.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn about brainstorming, and how to effectively use this prewriting tool for four different writing tasks - persuasive writing, expository writing, character development, and the development of vivid and precise details for any subject.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This engaging game may be used as a group activity for the reinforcement of identifying word parts. It could be modified to be used as individual assessment of the same skill.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create and perform radio broadcasts relating to events and situations that affected American society in World War II. They test their listening skills during these broadcasts. They practice by responding to tasks like those found on the FCAT.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work in groups to dissect a variety of brands of chocolate chip cookies and calculate the mean for each brand. Students create their own bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs to represent information
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Everyone always compares themselves to someone else, however, can they understand figurative language or compare two dissimilar objects? This lesson teaches similes and metaphors and how to understand and create them.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will explain steps to guide another student to reproduce a drawing. Students will also do peer evaluations critiquing articulation abilities.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A student’s comprehension of a vocabulary word is tested by having the student draw a picture to illustrate the meaning of the word.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this three week lesson, the teacher provides instruction in the basic elements of literature. By reading Dickens' novel students are provided the opportunity to understand how their choices can change their attitudes and behavior.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are introduced to character, plot development, point of view, and tone through the use of comic strips. Students identify these four attributes in the comic strip and present their findings to the class.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read a one-page biographical essay and write in paragraph form how an African American has demonstrated a certain character trait.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Ride the virtual highway on a field trip to museums, cultural centers, and exhibition spaces to discover exciting roles of public and private facilities. Follow various links on a cultural cruise of new knowledge and make local connections.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast two versions of the same fairy tale. Students use a Venn diagram to graphically illustrate the similarities and differences in the two stories.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Theater (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students in small groups prepare a short videotaped presentation dramatizing a poem.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using classified advertisements, students work in groups to draw conclusions and make inferences about the writer of the ad and to whom the ad may appeal.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a graphic organizer to clarify information for a presentation.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the final lesson in an expository writing unit. Students are set loose to develop, draft, and elucidate information for a research topic. Students work collaboratively to write a paper as practice for the final task of writing their own papers.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students identify where to place commas in a word series sentence and is appropriate for ESOL students.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is a fun way for students to identify word parts, such as prefixes, suffixes, and root words by cutting and pasting.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students access one of the designated Everglades National Park Websites to understand the intricacies of conservation and relationship balance of flora to fauna.
Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This ESOL lesson that is week 2 of a unit, gives a review of nouns, introduces verbs, helps students understand how verbs function in sentences, explains verb tenses, and gives visual/verbal/written practice with verbs.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The -Crazy Critters are Figuratively Fantastic- lesson uses creatures created from student’s imaginations to teach hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and alliteration in association with creative writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: During the Crazy Critters creative writing assignment, students develop characters that take part in a narrative involving creatures that reside in a student’s imagination.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: During -Crazy Critters Teach Parts of Speech,- students examine a paragraph they have written to determine the individual strengths and weaknesses of their writing. Included is a specific study of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, nouns, and verbs.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Create a descriptive essay and map describing your island paradise.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create an Animal ABC book to present to a young child. Along the way they research specific information about animals.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read three to five genres and choose one as his or her favorite. Students write an essay persuading the class to read the genre.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Upon completion of the novel, [The Witch of Blackbird Pond], students write a character sketch about one of the two main characters, Kit or Hannah Tupper.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a Story Diagram Chart and a K-W-L Chart, students examine the parts of the Edgar Allan Poe poem, “Annabelle Lee.”
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson is an engaging way to introduce students to the literary elements of setting, plot, and character development.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is great for reinforcing and demonstrating knowledge of the elements of a short story. Students create a “visual” report of the literary elements with a short story. The report is a 12-sided ball called a dodecahedron.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will work in groups to rank a list of words from one extreme to the other, such as cold-hot, love-hate, etc. Groups will share their results with the class. After discussion and upon reviewing model descriptive writing, students will apply their knowledge by making more specific word choices to complete a descriptive writing assignment.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research a dog breed and create at least three note cards detailing information obtained about the dog breed. This is the first of three lessons that are part of a unit called, "Dog Gone Paw-erful Writing and Presenting with PowerPoint."
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using different shapes of macaroni dyed various colors, students work in pairs to apply knowledge of punctuation rules to sentences.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: What is a dream killer? A person? An idea? Students continue their exploration of figurative language and point of view in the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved].
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this lesson, students compare their own lives with that of a girl in a tenement building in New York City. Through reading -Tar Beach,- a story by Faith Ringgold, students better understand the hopes and dreams of the less fortunate.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the first lesson of a three-step Unit Plan: Easy Essays in Three Steps, designed to guide teachers through teaching the five-paragraph essay to students.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson is the second step in the UnitPlan: Easy Essays in Three Steps. Students participate in mini- lessons which will encourage better essay writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the third step in a three-step Unit Plan: Easy Essays in Three Steps, which has been designed to guide teachers through teaching the five-paragraph essay format to students.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students investigate by using the Internet to research the types of eating disorders and summarize their effects on the body by creating a PowerPoint presentation or poster presentation.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students investigate the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Teachers set up an e-mail system whereby students in different classes or schools can communicate research-based questions and answers on a given topic. (NETS for Students: 4.1)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The focus of this lesson is to practice researching a project and write a formal letter. Students research using computers to gather information on wildlife management and use the information to write a letter to an agency.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read “They Called Her Moses,” create a “Wanted Poster” for Tubman, compose a journal entry imagining they are William Still, and work in groups to create a newspaper depicting the incident of the runaway slaves and events from the time period.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students discover that using descriptive, figurative, and vivid language to write “free verse” can be a fun form of self-expression. Students create poems using online resources and share their creations in a “coffeehouse” setting.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read a short essay and cull out the directions. Then the students rewrite the essay using standard English spellings.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Commercials have an amazing impact on buyers of all ages. By creating a commercial, students become more aware of the propaganda techniques used to impact the buying power of the consumer.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson represents the first two days lessons of an expository text structure unit. In this unit students explore expository text structure through the creation of a thematic booklet containing examples of different types of expository text structures. Students use graphic organizers that correspond to a particular text structure and aid in clarifying meaning. Students locate, record, and apply their knowledge of signal words in both teacher-selected expository text and their own writing of expository text. This project culminates in the student’s reflection of their knowledge of the different types of expository text structure.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using fables, students determine the moral or -central theme- of a piece of writing. Students create their own personal fables, editing for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Surf the Internet, library or even a textbook to find famous individual for a talk show at your school. Write script for an imaginary two-minute radio interview with this famous (past/present) individual.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the first lesson in a unit on expository writing called Info Expo. Students take a pre-test, compare and contrast various forms of writing with a Venn diagram, and explore the various formats for expository writing.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Sometimes students express their resistance to learning academic concepts. This lesson avails students opportunities to discuss their attitudes and feelings so they discover possible ways to constructively respond to them.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use graphic organizers and note taking to help gain understanding and clarify meaning from the novel [Holes] and write daily inferences and generalizations about what they have read in that day’s assignment.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students determine main concept, details, stereotypes, and bias through movies. After viewing the movie, students write an essay explaining the film's influence on issues presented in the film.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Upon completion of the novel, THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND students write a Friendly Letter to Elizabeth George Speare, the author, discussing their points of interest in the novel with her.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using the pamphlet, FLORIDA LITERARY HISTORY, students read the article -Paradise for the Written Word: 400 Years of Literary History in Florida- by Kevin McCarthy and then answer FCAT-like questions to assess comprehension of the reading material.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After students study a gazetteer of Florida’s prize-winning authors in a pamphlet entitled Florida Literary Map, they select one of the mentioned authors, research his or her life, take notes, and prepare a brief biographical report.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a two-part lesson in which students research bottled water advertisements on the Internet and printed ads and then create their own magazine advertisement (second lesson) for the spring water in the novel [Tuck Everlasting] by Natalie Babbitt.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are reminded of the Holocaust and its terrible cost by examining literary selections that deal with the conflict of the Holocaust. They respond in writing using a word processing program.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: With this entertaining activity students practice formal and informal English by using teacher-created scenarios. Peers evaluate each other based on a questionnaire and discussion.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a newspaper employment ad, students work together in pairs or groups of three to rewrite the ad using complete sentences. Then, each student will choose an ad to rewrite.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will read library book daily for ten to fifteen minutes and then log in information on a Free Reading Chart, giving a brief summary of what they just read and then writing a brief reactionary response to the reading.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students will participate in a Socratic seminar discussing a person's right to refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Middle schoolers love jokes! Capitalize on this by using jokes to help them understand how word context and inference are used in everyday language to create humor.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn to formulate effective questioning techniques and understand the characteristics of the interviewing process.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students have opportunities to get to know their classmates through 'personalized' sentences that feature one student each day, and offer practice in proofreading and peer-editing related to capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and/or grammar rules.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: On alternating days, students will begin class by either doing sentences for editing OR a gratitude journal. This is designed so students have a quiet activity which starts immediately at the beginning of class. The teacher is now free to take roll, etc.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using the telephone directory, city directory, and business directory, students practice locating specific information.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a great -first week of school- activity that allows students to get to know one another while giving them the opportunity to practice their logical thinking skills.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students collect bad grammar examples from business signs, magazines, and other printed material and then individually teach a mini-grammar lesson on at least one bad example.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students relate the concept of individuality of geometric shapes to the individuality of topic sentences. Students write and revise a persuasive argument essay using the Florida Writes Rubric.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use the Internet to "pop-in" on popular singers. (NETS for Students: 5.1)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After using Chris Van Allsburg's POLAR EXPRESS as a writing prompt, students create a holiday story while working in cooperative learning groups.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students interview and introduce each other to the class as an opening activity at the beginning of a new class, semester, or school year. This can be adapted to any group meeting for the first time.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work in groups using presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint to create a slide presentation highlighting the elements of literature contained in Holocaust novels. The slide presentation follows preset criteria.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students select and research a real-life hero. They then prepare short lectures for their classmates based upon the research they gain from a variety of primary and secondary sources.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students locate, organize and interpret information from a variety of sources to create a travel brochure for a selected destination of their choice.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students discover through this simulated activity that resources are unequally distributed throughout the world and that regions use resources differently.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity uses a unique strategy to build student word recognition. Student partners practice new words using their verbal, visual, and kinesthetic intelligences.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Holey Story!! Student groups create story sheets with missing vocabulary words. Students locate context clues, justify their work, and evaluate their responses.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create and implement a schedule of activities designed to help their parents improve their physical conditions.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write expository essays using the FCAT writing prompt format and the FCAT scoring method and rubric after reading ACROSS FIVE APRILS and a study of the Gettysburg Address
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this activity, students collect and create bumper stickers and examine how they influence people.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will research and explore the development of household inventions.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The Five Themes of Geography is an organized way to study any area of the world. It is the adopted method of the National Geographic Society. This is a beginning of the year cooperative group activity where students embark in discovery of basic facts about an assigned continent and are asked to organize their information into categories. The Five Themes model is taught and students reshuffle their information appropriately and make a display and class presentation of their findings.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use a school map to create a charted course and a corresponding written description of the directions for travel from class to class, beginning with an arrival location in the morning and ending with a departure location in the afternoon.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students analyze the comics found in the newspaper for samples of logical, emotional, and ethical appeal. They write a paragraph for each selected comic strip explaining how the comic strip represents the use of logic, emotions, or ethics.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use graphic organizers to predict events that may take place in the novel, [Tuck Everlasting] and make inferences about what is read.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is designed to help students become familiar with creating a PowerPoint presentation. After being given a demonstration of how PowerPoint works, students create a PowerPoint slide presention that can be used in another subject area. (NETS for Students: 3.1 and 3.2)
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research changes the Army Corps made in Everglades, focus on the human impact on the environment, design graphic organizers, summary statements, develop a Florida map of the Everglades region and give a presentation about what they learned.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson allows students a hands-on opportunity to learn grammar. The students will work in groups to create human sentences to demonstrate for the class how to correctly use commas when punctuating dates in sentences.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are encouraged to take advantage of their right to read books.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Can you truly hate your sibling? Students explore this controversial question and examine literary techniques used by the author as they begin to read the book [Jacob Have I Loved].
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis, students submit critical reviews via the Internet as a way to publish their personal responses to the novel.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: I just want to say- I love you, I hate you, things haven’t been easy for me, and much more. Through the use of poetry, people can relay a powerful message. Students study poetic devices included in conversation poems and explore their eloquent messages.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The Navarre Beach area (or your area) is growing rapidly. The Chamber of Commerce wants help in creating a brochure for families with middle-school students who may be moving to our area. Students engage in a project-based lesson to provide the needed information. Note: This lesson addresses only the part of LA.B.2.3.3 dealing with using appropriate formats, presenting the brochure as one type of persuasive format. This lesson only addresses the part of LA.B.1.3.3 that deals with producing final documents that have been edited for correct spelling and punctuation. Students should have had prior experience and instruction in editing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is an introductory lesson for teaching the literary element, point of view. Students apply understanding of information from a picture book story to write their own family position paragraphs.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the final phase of the poetry unit, I’m a Poet and Didn’t Know It! Using ideas generated from other poems and their own inspiration, students create original poetry. A celebration is included as students bind and submit poems for publication.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students delve more deeply into figurative language and conflict/resolution as they complete the novel, Jacob Have I Loved.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After learning about the various kinds of persuasive techniques used to sell products, students create and write an advertisement for peanut butter.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students make a booklet of twenty illustrated quotations from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson focuses on contributions made by individuals of diverse backgrounds in medicine, science and technology.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Working in groups, students design a poster depicting aerobic and anaerobic exercises or activities. Posters are set up at stations for students to examine and determine which activities are aerobic and which are anaerobic.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use reading and research skills to effectively retrieve and synthesize information about inventions that have made an impact in their lives. This is an introductory lesson on developing timelines.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the second lesson in a unit on expository writing. Students are brought up to speed on narrowing the topic, conducting research, and creating source cards. Students practice recording bibliographic information in a research scavenger hunt.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in an expository writing unit. Students are set loose to explore, examine, and evaluate information for a research topic. Ultimately, students shuffle and physically sort their note cards into an organizational pattern for writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students practice listening skills while getting an overview of the events of WWII. Emphasis is placed on events mentioned in the novel, [Jacob Have I Loved]. Writing an FCAT style short response on one of the focal events assesses writing skills.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students study characteristics of invertebrates, observe a micro-habitat for two weeks, research an invertebrate, create a profile poster, and present a report.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students will read and appreciate the writing of great American Authors. For example, Langston Hughes was the first African American author to be published and widely acclaimed in the literature world. An investigation into his life and times will give students an insight to his genius. Long term goal: The students will use technology to garner information about famous American authors. The students will have selected sites to explore. The students will learn to save that information from the internet to a disk. The disk will store the data and pictures that will be used later for a PowerPoint presentation. (See PowerPoint attachment.)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read a non-fiction book about a career and write a six-paragraph expository composition about the book.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Through illustrations and paraphrasing, students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Come and enjoy Langston Hughes' poetry and lyrics via the Internet. No books needed!
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students rewrite a catalogue description of an item for sale. The new ad reflects a change in the voice of the writing, and the writing is edited for conventions.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using the concepts found in a PowerPoint presentation, students learn to write leads for book reviews that attract readers and stimulate book interest.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students identify and create “leads” for art work and essays.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this activity, student teams read Native American legends from books and Web sites, write an original legend with enriched word choice and elaboration, and practice volume, pacing, stress, and pronunciation through a suede/flannel board presentation.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will decorate the outside of a small box, using words and pictures to depict how they see themselves, and they will decorate the inside to show how others see them. Students will present an oral presentation, explaining the box’s decorations.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Is life really like a box of chocolates? Is it more like a bowl full of cherries? Students explore how to create their own metaphors for life.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson is designed to help students think abstractly and randomly about solving life's little problems and then taking that knowledge to create a life is... metaphor or simile poem.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a multimedia slide presentation containing facts, graphics, and sounds relating to a biographical figure based on their reading of a biography or an autobiography. Students present their slide presentations before the class. (NETS for Students: 3.1 and 3.2)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students improve their writing skills by finding, defining, and correctly using new and interesting vocabulary words.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are able to make a determination of effective speeches based on good speaking habits and then use the information to aid in improving their own presentations.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students review and use the different parts of speech using Mad Libs or Web Libs. They also utilize creative writing skills by providing the most interesting word(s) for the story line.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Upon completion of the novel, THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR students analyze the plot and recall events chronologically to create a story map.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson encourages students to discover, become aware of, think about, and record methods the media (news journalists and programs they produce) used to persuade the audience to think the way they want them to think.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast mass, volume, and density of various objects.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students explore the contributions of women to mathematics by writing a research paper, presenting a summary to their peers, and sharing an activity with their peers.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson offers students the opportunity to conduct research on the Internet about mathematicians and to synthesize that information into a timeline.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students improve their writing skills by writing directions from school to their houses to give to a friend. The directions must be sequential and include direction words (north, south, east, west), landmarks and specific street names.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read, discuss, and memorize the poem -Jenny Kissed Me- by Leigh Hunt. The students then write a letter to Jenny imagining that they are an elderly person reliving the memory of her kiss.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a paragraph using descriptive language to create a vivid image of their idea of a more modern, updated version of Santa Claus--the Millennium Santa!
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a millennium scrapbook, collecting stories about the past millennium and including photos of local, national, international events. They may also include information about personal lives.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create and use mixed up one-word poetry cards to write short, vivid poems.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a workout program that concentrates on aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercises. They demonstrate exercises to their peers and participate in their individualized fitness program for six weeks, tracking their progress in their journals.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use adjectives to write descriptions of food items in order to create a restaurant menu.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a timeline of ten events in chronological order about a scientist to include his/her accomplishments. Students practice by completing a personal timeline in which they follow verbal instructions.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Student groups, using subject area textbooks, locate words with specific word parts (prefixes, roots, suffixes) in order to better comprehend the word meaning.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write and share a poem after taking a -nature walk- for inspiration.
Subject(s): Foreign Language, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This week long lesson is part 1 of a unit that teaches ESOL students about grammar. Students construct sentences using nouns, recognize nouns in listening activities, identify nouns, and present nouns from a song to the class.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson will allow students to conduct research on the life cycle of stars using the Internet.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students understand the effect of volume, stress, pacing, and pronunciation on the deliverance of a mock newscast.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students choose a newspaper article and dramatize it in a well-constructed poem.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to acquaint students with a local newspaper and to teach them to interpret the written information for their own use.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reviewing several familiar fairy tales, students work in small groups to rewrite the familiar story as it might read as a news article in today’s newspaper.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the third lesson in a unit on expository writing. Instruction provides boundaries for taking notes by differentiating between paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. Students practice writing note cards.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students illustrate a fiction novel by painting a depiction of the book on a tee shirt and then share with the class.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In small groups, students choose two experiences or images from a given list and experience or directly observe each detail before they write about it, describing each one in several sentences.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are introduced to the school handbook which includes rules for student conduct. Class rules and expectations are also discussed.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: As an introduction to a video-literature unit on [Jane Eyre], students research aspects of the Victorian Era.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: What happened to Clementine? Students make generalizations/summations of each verse of ("Oh, My Darling") "Clementine" and infer what kind of person the narrator is.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students revise a document replacing the overused verb -said- with more elevated word choice.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students review and practice the basic parts of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, and possessives) by creating and entering their own stories on a Website or by sharing their stories with a friend. (NETS for Students: 3.1)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After the teacher reads excerpts from an autobiography and a magazine article about a blind’s man journey to climb farther than the eye can see, students write a bio-poem about him.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading the novel FREAK THE MIGHTY students will be able to describe and illustrate the setting of the novel, explain character development through production of a graphic organizer, and identify the elements of the plot.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After being introduced to the novel, OUT OF THE DUST, students create an autobiographical poem using figurative language.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading the novel OUT OF THE DUST students explore language from the past.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: While students are reading the novel, OUT OF THE DUST, they create charts, answer questions, and ultimately take an FCAT type assessment to demonstrate understanding of what they read.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading the novel, OUT OF THE DUST, students create a free-verse poem about a treasure.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Use the note taking strategy of outlining to reinforce an understanding of setting, character, plot, and theme.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Children learn how to write poetry in a painless way. They learn that it can be fun and that our language can be flexible. By putting together various forms of easy-to-write poems they will learn to write them independently.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create “Palindromes,” simple sentences and phrases which read exactly the same backwards as forwards, and identify each as a sentence or fragment.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn how to display research material in PowerPoint slide format. This is the second lesson in a unit called, "Dog gone Paw-erful Writing and Presenting with PowerPoint."
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson focuses on prefixes. The students create games of their choice to be played with the class to reinforce their knowledge of prefixes.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a -Personality Box- and present to classmates using specific speaking skills.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students reflect on the choices they have in society today and compare them to Kit's choices in the novel, THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND by writing expository essays in which they discuss these choices.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Can a tree’s fingers really stretch towards the setting sun? They can if the author is using personification! Students study personification in published works of poetry then create their own through the use of diamante or cinquain poetry.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students will produce an art and writing project that introduces them to the concept that words define who we are.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady,” students play detective to learn about foreshadowing and how it contributes to plot development in a text.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: To a sixth grader, what is a day to remember? During this activity the students write narrative essays, which demonstrate an organizational pattern having a beginning, middle, end and transitional devices.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading the narrative poem, “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll, students use a comic strip format to study the organization and presentation of ideas and supporting details in the plot sequence of the poem.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work in cooperative groups to find poems that exemplify the characteristics of word choice, dialect, invented words, concrete terms, abstract terms, sensory language, figurative language, sentence structure, line length, and rhythm.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is an excellent way to reinforce students’ knowledge of poetry and allow students the opportunity for self-expression through creative writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Student delivers oral, informative presentation on a favorite poem that the student has artistically illustrated with images, title, author's name, and words of poem on a clay flowerpot, effectively communicating ideas and feelings about the poem.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn about point of view by rewriting an existing narrative paragraph (using a different point-of-view). Students expand this knowledge by writing an expository paragraph, then rewriting it to reflect a different point-of-view.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students seek supporting proof of major conflicts and themes in the novel, [The Outsiders] by S.E. Hinton.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students create autobiographies. The final projects are published using word-processing and computer graphics. (NETS for Students 1.1, 3.1 and 3.2)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Are you tired of reading students' bland language? This lesson teaches students how to spice up their work using vivid words and images.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students produce a final document that becomes published on the World Wide Web.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students pose questions about the subject of a short story based on the title and cover illustration; then read the story and determine if their questions actually pertained to the story line, and, if so, how the story answered the questions.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a poem made up of prepositional phrases.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students deliver oral presentations about a book or short story using audiovisual aids.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Tired of listening to students saying they don’t know how to start writing? This lesson guides students in selecting appropriate prewriting activities to make writing a painless and fun experience.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students observe and investigate wave properties.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a variety of magazines, students work cooperatively to determine the main idea of a text and how details help support the main idea.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create their own booklets to provide information on the elements of a novel, including plot, setting, character, major and minor conflicts and theme.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a year-long project which appeals to students who are concrete-based learners as well as those who lean toward the abstract. This reading workshop program is an open reading forum in which students choose their own novels they would like to read.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Transform your classroom into a Reading Restaurant where students enjoy a variety of book titles through oral reading.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading the novel, MANIAC MAGEE, students use precise words to create an epitaph for each of the major characters reflecting the individual character¹s personality and nature.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: What color is a jaundiced pig? Hamber, of course! Using an exciting vocabulary game in which students create riddles and answers, this lesson explores word choice, paraphrasing, and summarizing.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This poetry writing activity is designed to introduce students to the Holocaust as a violation of personal, political, and economic rights. It is a component of a larger unit on American constitutional government.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a multimedia PowerPoint presentation using proper telephone procedures. Using the Internet, students produce a presentation containing proper telephone procedures. (NETS for Students: 3.2)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A Venn diagram is used to show how two things are alike and different. Think about Rip's life before and after he fell asleep for 20 years. Fill in the Venn diagram by writing how Rip's old life and his new life are alike and how they are different.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After participating in a segregation experiment, students reflect and explore their feelings and reactions to the experiment through poetry.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students evaluate the responsibilities of history textbooks in reporting events related to minorities.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading the novel [Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry] by Mildred D. Taylor, students participate in an Oprah Winfrey Show to review events in the novel and gain a more in depth understanding of them.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Through a cooperative group activity, students activate prior knowledge about life in the South during the Great Depression in preparation for reading the novel, [Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry].
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: ESOL students make paper ships on which to identify and write root words, prefixes and suffixes.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are challenged to create what their partners are viewing, with only verbal communication. The reporter is not allowed to see what the receiver is drawing, which forces students to understand the importance of detailed instruction, clear communication, and following directions.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using library resource materials, reference books, electronic media, and the Internet, students search for answers to questions.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gather and record information in interviews with adults discovering their first, best, and worst school memories. Students transfer this interview information to a memory page containing the interview information. Students orally present one part of their memory page.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students brainstorm several examples of plots, settings, and characters and randomly select these elements to create their own short stories.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use different parts of other students' story outlines to write very unique short stories. This activity allows the students to use their imaginations as they try to put together a story using only the information they are given.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students view non-print campaign advertisements and analyze for factual and persuasive information. They determine which advertisement is the most persuasive and share reasons to support their decisions with a peer.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Did you ever want to move to another city in the United States? If so, come travel with us on a Super City Search. Researchers, start your engines!
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a self-portrait poem, giving the reader an indication what he or she is like on the inside, instead of picturing how he or she looks on the outside.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use commercials to discover emotional benefits and challenges associated with communications about finances.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a brochure that will be placed in the receiving area of the school to educate incoming students on how to succeed in middle school.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: By creating a visual image with words, the listeners are invited into the scene created by the speaker. Students look at a speaker's tools to learn how to use words and images to express a message.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using Aesop’s short fable, “The Dove and the Snake,” students will learn the importance of sensory language and sentence structure in creative writing while practicing the steps and procedures to good writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity provides the students with the opportunity to use persuasive writing to influence others regarding prejudicial issues.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gain information from an interview with each other in order to write a script for a video segment.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: With the popularity of bottled water today, students create a magazine advertisement for the spring water, which causes a person to live forever, in the novel [Tuck Everlasting] by Natalie Babbitt.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using resource materials, small groups investigate a science-related mystery, then write and deliver a persuasive speech that supports the theory of the mystery.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students pretend that they have just landed a job with a local music magazine, and their first assignment is to write a short article in which they interpret the lyrics of a popular song.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: You can’t deep-fry your students, but you can immerse them in the process of creating properly written sentences! Take a fun stab at extreme Southern dialects by having students read aloud and correct improper sentences. Get ready to laugh!
Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use electronic technology to find information on the solar system and then construct a graph to explain the information. They also demonstrate a solar or lunar eclipse by providing a written explanation with an illustration of the planet chosen.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create multimedia speeches of introduction which focus on women and Hispanics.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Note: This lesson is a follow up to lessons on story mapping and the book [The Hundred Dresses] by Eleanor Estes. Story Mapping is a creative tool for students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of a story. Within this assignment, students illustrate and paraphrase each chapter of [The Hundred Dresses], creating a graphic organizer through the use of story mapping.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: How can students best learn something? By doing it! By scoring Florida Writes/F-CAT essay anchor papers, students are provided an opportunity to better their own essays.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Given two excerpts from a classic literary novel, language arts students will identify and correct the discrepancies in subject and verb agreement.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write and share a symbolic poem about simple things that stand for deeper subjects.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students take a summative assessment, then begin researching and organizing information for an oral presentation on significant leaders in history.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create a program that will improve their overall fitness levels. They keep daily records in personal journals of all exercise and physical activities, as well as their personal thoughts and reflections on their progress toward their goals.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Each student selects a teacher who he or she feels should be named as Teacher of the Year. The student plans and drafts a paragraph to convince the class of his or her choice. After revising and editing, the student presents a clean copy of this paragraph to the selected teacher.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this lesson students compose Haiku poetry and visually enhance it with writing ink .
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students share personal versions of fairy tales from their memories with each other. They listen, analyze and paraphrase the tales’ differences and similarities in a Venn diagram while asking questions for clarification.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students utilize the Alpha Smart mini word processor units during a writing workshop to draft and edit a piece of writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After solving various word problems that deal with common denominators, students practice writing the mathematical explanation they used to obtain the solution.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is for the teacher to introduce common math terms that are relevant to determining the common denominator for two or more fractions. This is a lead in to Math Part 2 of this lesson.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After reading Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, students research the assassination of another historical figure.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students watch the video [Jane Eyre] by Charlotte Bronte and visually discover the elements of the novel.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will use common grass to observe and experiment with cellular division.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Virginia Hamilton is a master of descriptive language. Create a descriptive paragraph describing the landscape around your house.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: When is a door not a door? When it’s symbolic of something else! Students study the usage of symbolism in poetry and examine how symbolism can be used to explain their own lives and emotions.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students compare and contrast the tragic event that occurs in a work of fiction to a real-life tragic experience that occurs in a work of non-fiction.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In small groups, students write and dramatize a scene using Elizabethan language.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Working in groups, students research the different aspects of the human heart. Groups work through steps to create a multimedia slide presentation. The presentation must follow preset criteria.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: How can twins help us uncover important information about hereditary? Students are taught how to read science content through the modeling of proper summarization techniques using the article, "Mysteries of Twins." Then, they practice the same reading techniques using another section of the same article.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will read/discuss -The Hangman- by Maurice Ogden and answer questions about the poem. Students will list things they can do to combat prejudice using each of the letters in the word and create a small poster with a slogan against prejudice.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a short story as a writing prompt, students use background knowledge to predict ideas, give rationale for predictions, and confirm predictions as the story progresses. Students also complete a cooperative group writing assignment.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students respond to daily autobiographical assignments that will be published into a book.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The student will know what a timeline is, create a timeline with 4 important events of their life, to include 2 national events and 2 world events. The student will then write an essay about their life including the four events.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students rewrite their favorite fairy tale from another character’s perspective other than the one in which it is written. This lesson helps students become familiar with the the literary term -point of view.-
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Psst....Did you know there’s a writer waiting inside each of your students? In this introductory lesson, students are introduced to the concept, What Makes Good Poetry? and are asked to explore the writer within!
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use a PowerPoint presentation to learn about the history of some idioms, how they are used in our language today and practice using idioms themselves.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A fun way to link the past to the present is through the identification of slang terms. Small group work, interviewing of parents, relatives or neighbors helps students discover slang is not unique to their generation but has existed for a long time.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the fourth lesson in a unit on expository writing. Instruction guides students in using source cards to create a Works Cited list for a report.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn how to use the book jacket to predict what the book is about. This aids in the decision to read or not to read the book, and decreases the amount of time they spend trying to find a book for pleasure or research.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this lesson students write an essay about the govermental issues that surrounded Andrew Jackson's presidency. They discuss how editorial cartoons are made and create an editorial cartoon of their own about a president.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using PowerPoint as a visual aid, students orally present information from research to the class. This is the third and final lesson plan in the unit.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is designed to help students become familiar with the cultural aspects of their chosen country through creating a travel brochure and an expression booklet. (NETS for Students 1.2 and 5.1)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Do you want your students to have fun and learn at the same time? Why not try hanging their brains out on trees? This lesson will teach students to pre-write using graphic organizers, checklist, and a rubric.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a draft of a persuasive essay to the principal addressing the issue of whether or not Three Oaks Middle School should adopt uniforms.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students participate in a variety of aerobic exercises placed at different stations and calculate their recovery heart rate after each exercise.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students extend their vocabulary by participating in the Vocabulary Bingo activity. This activity can be used with other subjects to help improve vocabulary.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Vocabulary review by drawing pictures and writing sentences on index cards. Variations are found in CRISS strategies. This review can also be used with other subject area vocabulary studies.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students will learn to write a short autobiographical sketch and produce an author page to be used throughout the year with their writing. Students will learn how to take digital camera photos and produce a PowerPoint slide show with their photos and information.
Subject(s): Language Arts, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use graphic organizers and create timelines to make an historical connection to the 1960s as a prereading activity for The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn about using a web graphic organizer effectively as a prewriting tool for expository writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students complete a post reading activity for the novel [Where The Red Fern Grows]. They write a RAFT letter from the point-of-view of the character Billy to his grandpa reflecting about the death of his dogs and his adjustment to life in town.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The story, THE PAIN AND THE GREAT ONE, written from two different points-of-view, is read to the children. The students then read statements made by the characters in the book and identify from which character’s point-of-view the statement was made.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students devise a plan for modifying caloric intake and energy expenditure. Each week, they track information and record it in their journals. They use feedback to adjust their plans and then assess their progress.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity has students creating a story map identifying the complex elements of plot, after reading the novel [The Cay].
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this lesson, students explore the language of moving pictures. By creating and understanding the basic building blocks used to form a video sequence (wide shot, medium shot and close-up), the student will discover how communication is enhanced. (NETS for Students: 4.2)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write an essay which answers the question, “What kind of student do I want to be?”
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Improvement of public speaking skills doesn’t have to be difficult or boring. In the first lesson of the unit, -Speak for Yourself,- students respond to a diagnostic assessment to determine what they need to know in order to become good speakers.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this activity, students use adjectives to describe foods listed in restaurant menus. In cooperative groups, students create menus and identify the adjectives used in the menu created by their group.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a quote from Shakespeare’s [Romeo and Juliet], the student creates a flower that illustrates himself or herself using scraps of colored paper and markers. In an informal presentation, students share how their flowers represent them.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read fairy tales and then write a modernized version of the story. Students then compare their version to the original version and analyze whether or not the author's purpose is compromised.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn to identify the main idea in a reading passage by using a technique to eliminate unnecessary words that are not relevant to the main idea.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students read and then use details from Ernest L. Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" to create a newspaper article about Casey's infamous at-bat.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write a fictional news article about a sports event using slang (jargon) which is based on the special jargon (slang) that sportswriters have developed for writing and talking about sports.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using the novel [The Giver] by Lois Lowry, students write a continuation story based on Jonas’s and Gabriel’s journeys into Elsewhere.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create and then participate in a fitness program designed to improve their cardiovascular fitness. Students document the benefits of participation in the fitness program in their journals.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Through a Think-Share pre-reading activity, students formulate and negotiate opinions on issues that will be addressed in the literature to be studied in preparation for reading the novel, [Sing Down the Moon]. Students also make predictions based on the activity about what events might occur in the novel.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a T-chart, students synthesize and separate collected information. Students define comparison and contrast in literature for diagnostic assessment.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students develop an understanding of setting in literature by first examining where their own life stories are currently set and then imagining what their ideal settings would be.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: As a pre-reading activity for the novel, A WRINKLE IN TIME, cooperative writing groups create a story about an unknown planet suddenly invaded by humans.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Which car will Mom spend the money for? This lesson focuses on writing a comparison/contrast essay about two cars the student wants. The student’s purpose is to determine which one of the two cars should be purchased from the parents’ perspective.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students provide an additional scene to the radio play, "The Hitchhiker," by Lucille Fletcher. The conclusion explains the role of the hitchhiker and ends Adam's traumatic travel experience.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gain information from an interview and organize the information in order to create a three-part biography of the person they interviewed. This is a good lesson to do the first month of school.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using the Dress Code Guidelines from a Code of Student Conduct, students make notes and create a poster to present appropriate/inappropriate examples of students’ grooming/attire, and include comments regarding the need for each guideline.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students create flashcards that explain often confused words which enables them to understand correct usage in writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students prepare a short speech, record it on video tape, edit, then deliver the speech. (NETS for Students: 4.1 and 4.2)
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The activity is designed to have students study mystery plays and then write and perform their own plays.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this lesson students use short reading passages to identify, explain, and discuss the author’s purpose for writing.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is an individual research project during which students learn about a specific career. The project provides students the opportunity to gain new information, utilize electronic technology, and write a grade-level appropriate paper.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students write letters demonstrating their knowledge of how to use English in formal and informal settings.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After looking at various pictures, the students, as a class, identify the ones illustrating action verbs. Then, after looking at a picture individually, students write sentences using strong, active verbs summarizing the action in the picture.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students select a prose, poetry, or nonfiction excerpt from a book of their choice and share it by reading aloud to their classmates, who identify the genre and respond to related questions in their journals.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: As an introduction to teaching a new novel, students make predictions about the novel's story line. Students then form groups of three to come to a consensus prediction about the novel which is presented to the class.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: After viewing several magazine pictures of different types of people, students recognize how much we stereotype.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a graphic organizer, students synthesize and separate collected information. G.O.T. stands for Graphic Organization using a T-chart.
Subject(s): Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gain an understanding of appropriate search skills for locating information while using the Internet as a reference source. Students will search for answers for content-specific questions after identifying keywords and phrases to use as they access different search engines on the Internet.