English Language Arts Lesson Plans

Re-conceptualizing the Research Paper [5]
Organize and write a research paper using a variety of sources.

Essays Made Easier
[6] Students will be better able to compose effective essays.

Visualizing the Writing Process
[7] Develop a better understanding of the writing process as students work with a diagram which will help them to complete a writing assignment.

Guiding Inquiry-based Research
[8] Locate a specific and viable focus for research and generate a working thesis statement for a research paper.

Visual Primary Source Analysis
[9] Students will be able to write a lab report effectively.

Organizing Persuasive Speeches and Essays
[10] Plan and compose persuasive speeches or essays.

Exploring a Place in History
[11] Researching a place in history students will create diagrams to help them better organize and retain the information.

Improving Study Skills with Visual Learning Techniques [12]
Use visual learning techniques to help students understand and remember important information.

Connecting Ideas with Concepts Maps
[13] Students will create a concept map to show how pieces of information or ideas are related.

Critical Thinking through Comparisons
[14] Students will use Webspiration™ to help them think critically about the similarities and differences between any two things.

Developing Decision Trees
[15] By learning to use a decision tree, students make a decision between two or more possible choices.

Issue Analysis
[16] Explore multiple perspectives on an issue and provide supporting arguments to support the student's own position.

Visual Project Plans
[17] Students will use Webspiration™ to help them plan and successfully complete a project.

Building Vocabulary Webs
[18] Students will be better able to comprehend and recall vocabulary words in a content area.

Project-based Learning Design [19]
Using authentic, project-based learning experiences, students learn and remember more.

Writing Focused Fiction
[20] Write focused, compelling and well-developed fiction.
   

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Social Studies Lesson Plans

Visual Primary Source Analysis [9]
Students will be able to write a lab report effectively.

Analyzing Causes and Effects
[22] Students will research the causes and effects of an event or situation.

Conflict Analysis
[23] Researching a significant conflict in history or the contemporary world students will use Webspiration™ to help them better organize and think critically about the information.

Explorer: Two Perspectives
[24] Students will research multiple perspectives on an explorer.

Government Policy or Event Analysis
[25] Researching a government policy or event students will create a diagram to better organize and retain the information.

Organizing Persuasive Speeches and Essays
[10] Plan and compose persuasive speeches or essays.

Writing Focused Fiction
[20] Write focused, compelling and well-developed fiction.

Re-conceptualizing the Research Paper [5]
Organize and write a research paper using a variety of sources.

Improving Study Skills with Visual Learning Techniques
[12] Use visual learning techniques to help students understand and remember important information.

Connecting Ideas with Concept Maps
[13] Students will create a concept map to show how pieces of information or ideas are related.

Critical Thinking through Comparisons
[14] Students will use Webspiration™ to help them think critically about the similarities and differences between any two things.

Developing Decision Trees [15]
By learning to use a decision tree, students make a decision between two or more possible choices.

Issue Analysis
[16] Explore multiple perspectives on an issue and provide supporting arguments to support the student's own position.

Visual Project Plans
[17] Students will use Webspiration™ to help them plan and successfully complete a project.

Project-based Learning Design
[19] Using authentic, project-based learning experiences, students learn and remember more.

Building Vocabulary Webs
[18] Students will be better able to comprehend and recall vocabulary words in a content area.

Exploring a Place in History [11]
Researching a place in history students will create diagrams to help them better organize and retain the information.

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Science Lesson Plans

Writing a Lab Report [26]
Write a lab report effectively.

The Cell as Factory
[27] Students will better understand that cells are complex structures with many organelles involved in specialized functions.

Cycles in Nature [28]
Better understand and construct a visual model of a natural cycle.

Pendulum Investigation [29]
Students will develop a better understanding of energy transfer, motion and momentum.

Guiding Inquiry-based Research [8]
Locate a specific and viable focus for research and generate a working thesis statement for a research paper.

Analyzing Causes and Effects [22]
Students will research the causes and effects of an event or situation.

Improving Study Skills with Visual Learning Techniques
[12] Use visual learning techniques to help students understand and remember important information.

Connecting Ideas with Concepts Maps
[13] Students will create a concept map to show how pieces of information or ideas are related.

Critical Thinking through Comparisons [14]
Students will use Webspiration™ to help them think critically about the similarities and differences between any two things.

Developing Decision Trees [15]
By learning to use a decision tree, students make a decision between two or more possible choices.

[16] Issue Analysis [16]
Explore multiple perspectives on an issue and provide supporting arguments to support the student's own position.

Visual Project Plans [17]
Students will use Webspiration™ to help them plan and successfully complete a project.

Building Vocabulary Webs
[18] Students will be better able to comprehend and recall vocabulary words in a content area.

Plate Tectonics Concept Maps [30]
To help them to better understand the concept of plate tectonics and the evidence that supports it students will create concept maps.

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Thinking and Planning Lesson Plans

Improving Study Skills with Visual Learning Techniques [12]
Use visual learning techniques to help students understand and remember important information.

Connecting Ideas with Concepts Maps
[13] Students will create a concept map to show how pieces of information or ideas are related.

Critical Thinking through Comparisons
[14] Students will use Webspiration™ to help them think critically about the similarities and differences between any two things.

Developing Decision Trees
[15] By learning to use a decision tree, students make a decision between two or more possible choices.

Issue Analysis
[16] Explore multiple perspectives on an issue and provide supporting arguments to support the student's own position.

Visual Project Plans [17]
Students will use Webspiration™ to help them plan and successfully complete a project.

Project-based Learning Design
[19] Using authentic, project-based learning experiences, students learn and remember more.

Guiding Inquiry-based Research
[8] Locate a specific and viable focus for research and generate a working thesis statement for a research paper.

Organizing Persuasive Speeches and Essays
[10] Plan and compose persuasive speeches or essays.

Visualizing the Writing Process
[7] Develop a better understanding of the writing process as students work with a diagram which will help them to complete a writing assignment.

Essays Made Easier
[6] Students will be better able to compose effective essays.

Analyzing Causes and Effects
[22] Students will research the causes and effects of an event or situation.

Re-conceptualizing the Research Paper
[5] Organize and write a research paper using a variety of sources.

Building Vocabulary Webs
[18] Students will be better able to comprehend and recall vocabulary words in a content area.
 

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