Text Highlight ELL Modifications and More

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To make the Text Highlight Challenge comprehensible and accessible to all students, pre-teach relevant vocabulary. Make sure your students understand the key language in both the question and the pass...

Text Highlight Implementation Strategies

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The Text Highlight Challenge task asks students to highlight specific information in a text, such as a main idea or supporting evidence. Here are some ideas for making the most of this activity: ...

Text Highlight Learning Objectives

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What is Text Highlighting and Why is it Important?   Objective: Students will demonstrate understanding by highlighting specific text, such as main idea or supporting evidence, from a longer text. ...

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 ...

Corn Plant Lesson Plan: Build-A-Plant Interactive

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 4-12, students use the drag-and-drop game Build-A-Plant: Corn to explore the structures and substructures of a corn plant. Working in pairs or small groups, s...

Wright Brothers Lesson Plan: Write and Deliver a Speech Honoring the Wright Brothers

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the Wright brothers and their invention of the first flying machine. Using what they learn, students w...

Community in Crisis: SnapThought Prompts

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Do your students have individual accounts?  If you have a school-wide subscription to BrainPOP, students will be able to use our SnapThought ® tool to play Community in Crisis. The SnapThought tool...

Lure of the Labyrinth: Cafeteria Math Game

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Visit the Lesson Ideas page to find resources for Lure of the Labyrinth: Cafeteria, a free online math game....

Dividing Decimals Lesson Plan

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the strategies for dividing decimals.   ...

Zika Virus Lesson Plan: Create Fact Sheets

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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-12, students watch the BrainPOP movie Zika Virus and explore the other features in this topic to learn about the Zika virus: what it is, where it started, s...