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- A lesson called Party Talk that involves pre-writing and writing
- An idea to create a Story by multiple students (Chain Writing)
- Here's an idea to encourage Writing Compositions
- This 5 Step Writing Program is aimed at Building Confidence
- This is an interesting lesson on essay writing involving a Beach Umbrella
- Another kinesthetic approach lesson, this one for writing essay conclusions
- In this lesson, students write a comparative essay from the perspective of a food critic
- Here's a large and in-depth unit on Writing About The Holocaust:
- Students create a Newspaper on Computers in this lesson on Typing, Writing, and Reporting
- An idea for Writing a News Story and taking on the role of Reporters
- This lesson uses OREOs to teach response writing
- Here's a lesson for Writing Personal Narratives and using Concept Maps
- Students Research about others and Write Biography Poems in this lesson idea
- A Writing idea for Designing a Magazine
- Here is a good beginning-of-the-year lesson for introducing essay structure
- Take a fashion-forward approach to outlining with this engaging lesson
- Click here if you're tired of hearing the excuse, "But I didn't know I was plagiarizing!"
- Students write and follow directions to assemble simple puzzles in this lesson
- Here is an end-of-year bulletin board autograph idea
- This lesson uses quarters to inspire response writing
- This is a great modeling lesson for writing expository intros and conclusions
- Here is an excellent expository writing plan that models body paragraphs
- This problem solving writing prompt was inspired by an Action Maze website
- In this Writer's Workshop lesson, students keep fictional journals on the discovery of King Tut's tomb
- Writing Greeting Card quotes for fun or profit is a motivating creative writing activity
- This conflict resolution lesson teaches Mediate, Don't Instigate
- In this newspaper lesson, students learn how to use photographs and visual design to convey messages
- In this interview idea, students learn about classmates while working on writing and oral presentation skills
- This kinesthetic activity is great for introducing expository and process writing
- After reviewing You are Special, students create and write about a "just like me" marionette
- The question "Does background music affect your writing?" is answered here
- Tinker Toys and digital cameras are used in this direction writing exercise
- Writing every related word that comes to mind is what this activity is all about
- Here The Three Little Pigs teach personification
- You can create "Proofreading Pandemonium" with this fun kinesthetic activity
- In this lesson, students write a mock television interview from a pet's perspective
- This beginning-of-the-year "ME Box" idea helps students focus their writing
- In "Writer's Puzzle," the student composes an essay with a beginning, middle, and end piece.
- In this lesson, students will use word referents to enhance word choice and enrich vocabulary
- Here students add a sentence to the character development paragraph in front of them, and then switch chairs
- This lesson contains the requirements, procedures, and rubrics for creating a book or a magazine
- This personal narrative prelude lesson is on voice and topic selection
- This is a lesson on summarizing
- This lesson stresses support and elaboration in writing well-developed character trait paragraphs
- This lesson teaches self-editing techniques
- Here students learn to recognize the writing trait of "voice" in books, music and art
- In this writing exercise, students create a Memory-A-Day box as a gift for someone special
- When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant is used here to model descriptive writing
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- A good Halloween idea called Monsters, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go BOO
- An interesting Sculpture lesson on Silence - Expressing Without Words
- An Art History lesson on Byzantine Art and Architecture
- This is an idea for a lesson on the Art of Bookmaking
- Here's a lesson on Mythology Dioramas and Set Design as a career
- Make a class puzzle
- These "Me" collages are great for getting to know classmates
- This outstanding 3-week multi-discipline fresco art unit features lessons on painters, symmetry, pigment, color wheel, primary colors, Italian Renaissance, solutions, chromatography, molecules, and atoms; plus a good museum education bibliography.
- Students study masters of surrealism and create surrealist computer art cubes in this two-week lesson
- In this get-to-know-you idea, students create a self-portrait collage with their favorite things
- This self-reflection art and writing project creates a stunning classroom display
- In this "Write Like An Egyptian" idea, students draw a short story using their own hieroglyphics
- This is an integrated Aboriginal Dot Painting lesson plan
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- This lesson is on Black History Month
- An interesting unit on the Colonization of Australia (invasion or settlement?):
- This idea involves Research, Writing and creating a Time Capsule covering the 20th Century
- Here are some Worksheet ideas to be used before beginning a lesson
- This lesson plan is on Pioneer Life
- Here is a lesson plan on Navajo Pottery and Culture
- This lesson is for creating a PowerPoint Presentation on the Revolutionary War
- Here's a lesson on Decoding Braille
- This lesson on Tribes and Colonists involves a lot of student Research and develops Reading and Writing Skills
- Chief Seattle's Letter and Ecosystems are the topics in this great lesson
- Titled "This Is Your Life," this lesson involves a Family Tree, Interviewing, Childhood Treasures, and Writing
- In this lesson students create model Native American Homes
- Students create a "Tribal Fact Book" in this Native American lesson plan
- Students develop Indian Chief Biographies and Presentations in this lesson
- A Native American lesson on Indian Chiefs that uses Venn Diagrams
- In this lesson on Cesar Chavez students make a (paper) Quilt to express their knowledge
- This lesson looks at how a Bill Becomes Law
- Here are some Instructional Ideas using "Super Pop-Up Reports for American History"
- Below you will find Selected Lessons from a Unit on the Civil War:
- This lesson looks at Black History in Western Expansion in America
- "Role Playing for Empathy" teaches about other Cultures and Writing Plays as well
- Here are several good ideas for a unit on the Trail of Tears
- Here's a great Community Thematic Unit:
- A great unit on Johnstown
- Here's an idea that will help get students excited about geography
- In this lesson, students learn about Columbus Day from two perspectives
- Teach about different countries and cultures with this must-have compilation of creative ideas
- Posing as 1788 journalists, students create a newpaper front page to share their viewpoints on the ratification of the constitution
- This multidisciplinary lesson has students discover the geography and cultural history of an area while creating a travel journal on a budget
- After reading the book "Lyddie", "Coalition Groups" will create a journal and petition for reforming current fabric mill working conditions
- In this lesson, students write a researched animal abuse stance paragraph after reading 'Shiloh Season'
- This is an outstanding differentiated learning project about Ancient Egypt
- To demonstrate their Civil War knowledge, students write a diary entry or letter from the period in this lesson
- Here's an election year idea: students watch and critique televised candidate debates and then hold their own
- If you are looking for multi-disciplinary project ideas for an 1850s Westward Expansion/Oregon Trail unit, click here
- Students report on one of the five U.S. land regions in this well-developed lesson
- An immigrant group's "culture capsule" is created in this multidisciplinary lesson
- Here student "Sports Illustrated" reporters tour the U.S. and its National Parks following their team
- This Rosa Parks history lesson incorporates reading comprehension as well
- Students will create a picture book biography in this thorough 7-day unit
- The Greek creation myth and its timeline is presented here
- This three-generation history of travel lesson includes multidisciplinary enrichment activities
- This is an African-American history research scavenger hunt
- This lesson teaches students the value of getting along with people they do not know
- This is a lesson on the modern effects of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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