Volcanoes: A Comprehensive Hands-On Science Unit
Provide a comprehensive hands-on unit teaching the science of volcanoes - their types, eruption mechanics, and hazards - for grades 4-8, going beyond a basic baking-soda-and-vinegar model.
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Provide a comprehensive hands-on unit teaching the science of volcanoes - their types, eruption mechanics, and hazards - for grades 4-8, going beyond a basic baking-soda-and-vinegar model.
This lesson plan is aligned with the Fifth Grade Common Core standards and helps students write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. It includes effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
This lesson is designed to help students conduct short research projects using multiple sources. This is a great way for students to build knowledge and investigate different aspects of a topic.
This lesson plan is great for helping fifth grade students learn to gather relevant information from print and digital sources and summarize it in their own work. By using this lesson plan, teachers can help their students become better at finding and using information from a variety of sources.
A research-report packet that guides elementary students (grades 2-5) through researching and writing a report on water, aligned to Common Core writing standards.
Teaches the meaning of the idiom 'water under the bridge' through a video, an audio-supported reading passage, and comprehension/writing activities.
A comprehensive nonfiction "CLOSE Reading" literacy unit on weather (topics: what weather is, the water cycle, clouds, types of weather, meteorology/forecasting) with supporting vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities.
90-minute elementary lesson plan to ease students back into learning on the first day after winter/Christmas break, reviewing reading, writing, and math skills.
A guided research-report packet that walks students through researching and writing a report on wind energy.
Guide a full novel study of the tenth Wings of Fire book, Darkness of Dragons, through a 5-week/27-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-analysis practice.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 4) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: Darkness of Dragons (book 10), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-response practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
Guide a full novel study of the eighth Wings of Fire book, Escaping Peril, through a 4-week/20-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-response practice.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 5) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: Escaping Peril (book 8), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-response practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
Guide a full novel study of the sixth Wings of Fire book, Moon Rising, through a 4-week/22-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-analysis practice.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 3) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: Moon Rising (book 6), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and point-of-view analysis practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
Guide a full novel study of the ninth Wings of Fire book, Talons of Power, through a 5-week/24-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-analysis practice.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 4) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: Talons of Power (book 9), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-response practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
Guide a full novel study of the fourteenth Wings of Fire book, The Dangerous Gift, through a 5-week/27-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-analysis practice.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 5) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift (book 14), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and character-analysis practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
Guide a full novel study of the fourth Wings of Fire book, The Dark Secret, through a 5-week/25-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension, setting analysis, and literary-response practice, plus optional weekly digital Google Slides activities.
Guide a full novel study of the third Wings of Fire book, The Hidden Kingdom, through a 5-week/25-day pacing plan combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-analysis practice.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 5, roughly) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom (book 3), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and creative-response practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
A full novel-study packet for The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire series) guiding students day-by-day through reading the novel with vocabulary, comprehension, and response activities.
A free 'Week 1' sample of a full novel-study packet for The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire series), covering the prologue/opening chapters with vocabulary, comprehension, and response activities.