CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.2
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Barack Obama Lesson Plan
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This lesson plan accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Barack Obama, and can be completed over several class periods. See suggested times for each section.
OBJECTIVES
Students will:
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Regions of the Thirteen Colonies Lesson Plan: Guess the Region Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the three regions that the original 13 colonies made up: New England, Middle, and Southern. Using wha...
Thanksgiving Lesson Plan: Conduct an Interview
Posted by Dana Burnell on
In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to discover the true story of Thanksgiving. After learning about the settlers’ dangerous trip to America and the str...
Mansa Musa Lesson Plan: Exclusive Interview with the Bling King
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about Musa, the 14th century emperor (or mansa) of the Mali Empire in West Africa. After learning about Musa...
Race to Ratify Lesson Plan: Race to Ratify Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, students play a game called Race to Ratify that brings them back in time to 1787 and into the heated national debate between the Federalists and Anti-Fe...
Parenthood Lesson Plan
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students watch the BrainPOP movie Parenthood. Then they use Make-a-Map feature (or a downloadable graphic organizer) to assess the cause and effects ass...
Mission US Lesson Plan: For Crown or Colony?
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, centers around Mission US: For Crown or Colony?, a game in which students take on the role of an apprentice to a newspaper printer in Boston in 1770--a tim...
Mummies Lesson Plan: Make a Tomato Mummy
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about Mummies and Ancient Egyptian mummification practices. Then they’ll make their own mummified Pharaoh’s ...
Map Projections Lesson Plan: Peel-a-Globe
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students watch the BrainPOP movie Map Projections and explore the other features in this topic to learn all about the difficulty of creating flat maps fr...
Make-a-Map Lesson Plan: Life Cycle
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Students use Make-a-Map to recreate the featured life cycle....
