Leaders of Colonial America Essay Research Guide
A scaffolded research-essay guide that walks students through selecting, researching, and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay about an important figure from Colonial America.
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A scaffolded research-essay guide that walks students through selecting, researching, and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay about an important figure from Colonial America.
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A textbook-style curriculum ('Power Skills: The Architecture of Collaboration and Problem-Solving') that teaches collaboration and problem-solving as rigorous, teachable disciplines through theoretical frameworks, real-world case studies, and embedded reflection prompts.
A 7-step personal research project guiding students to choose a real-world topic, form a math question about it, learn/practice needed skills, research, calculate an answer, and present their findings.
A multi-part social studies unit teaching students to read a legislative-process flowchart and understand how a bill becomes a law, including a companion real-world research project.
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A teacher-facing activity guide for organizing small-group student-led review presentations on a chosen subject (math, science, or social studies) for the last week of school.
Guide students through a multi-week project comparing a novel to its film adaptation, culminating in a Common Core-aligned compare-and-contrast essay.
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