Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

Back to School 2021 Lesson Plan: Identify skills to support transition back to school

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Back-to-School 2021, and supports students' in identifying and practicing skills to effectively transition back to school after a year of remote and hybrid ...

Density Lesson Plan: Matter and its Interactions

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*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Density Lesson Plan.  This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Density, and addresses standards about identifying properties of matter and under...

Self-Esteem Lesson Plan: Social-Emotional Learning

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*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Self-Esteem Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Self-Esteem, and supports students as they develop and maintain positive self-...

Getting Help Lesson Plan: Social and Emotional Learning

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*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Getting Help Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Getting Help, and addresses self-awareness standards related to knowing how ...

Amelia Earhart Lesson Plan: Build goal-setting and resiliency skills

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Amelia Earhart, and addresses the concepts of setting goals and persevering through challenges.  Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Prompt students to t...

Figurative Language Lesson Plan: Craft and Structure

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*Click to open and customize your own copy of the Figurative Language Lesson Plan. This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Figurative Language, and addresses the standard of interpreting the me...

Research Lesson Plan

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This lesson plan accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Research, and can be completed over several class periods. See suggested times for each section.   OBJECTIVES Students will: Activate prio...

Cancer Lesson Plan

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This lesson plan accompanies the BrainPOP topic, Cancer, and can be completed over several class periods. See suggested times for each section.   OBJECTIVES Students will: Activate prio...

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...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Lesson Plan: Make a Newsreel

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 6-12, students explore BrainPOP features and resources about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including the events that led up to it and the aftereffect...