CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.5.2
Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Alan Turing Lesson Plan: Crack a Secret Code
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about Alan Turing, an English mathematician who during World War II led a team in designing a computer that...
Touch Screens Lesson Plan: Make a Diagram
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students watch the BrainPOP movie Touch Screens to discover how the capacitive touch screens in our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and more work. Then ...
Applying the Law Lesson Plan: Your Bill of Rights Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, students play a game called Your Bill of Rights, in which they run a law firm specializing in cases pertaining to the Bill of Rights. They challenge is ...
Paths to Citizenship Lesson Plan: Immigration Nation Game
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, features a game called Immigration Nation. This game challenges students to use information they’re provided to determine whether newcomers to America are e...
Be an Informed Voter: Cast Your Vote Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students play Cast Your Vote, a game in which they experience the different ways to evaluate candidates running for office, such as political debates, re...
Legislator Role Play Lesson Plan: Represent Me!
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students play a game called Represent Me!, in which they take on the role of a legislator seeking re-election. They review and categorize legislation, ap...
3.3.1. Make-a-Map Ideas
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Make a map about the reasons why Ben thinks Moby has forgotten his birthday. Use present perfect sentences.
Make a map about the birthday cards Ben has received.
Make a map about the things ...
3.1.1 Make-a-Map Ideas
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Create a map that illustrates how to form the passive.
Make a map about one of the vocabulary words, such as “endangered,” “extinct,” “species,” or “habitat.”
Make a map about one or several...
Classical Conditioning Lesson Plan: Pavlov’s Dog Game
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, challenges students to use what they learn about classical conditioning to play a game in which they train a dog to drool on command. Students experiment un...
BirdSleuth Sound Lesson Plan: Bird Song Hero Game
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In this BirdSleuth lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 4-8, students learn about sound and how spectrograms reflect pitch and duration. Students then create their own spectrogram to represent so...