Grades:
6
7
8
Students will consider obstacles to persevering and write creative "one-liners" to help them face obstacles with creativity, determination and humor....
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
Unit: Telling Our Stories of Giving
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn about the characteristics of an effective personal narrative and compare those to a news article. They do prewriting activities and practice writing details to show rather than tell about an experience.
Grades:
6
7
8
Students learn effective techniques and complete prewriting activities for writing a persuasive essay. As a culmination of the unit, students choose one of the three styles of writing--news article, personal narrative, or persuasive essay--to write, edit, and publish about their experience with...
Unit: Voting and the Common Good (10th Grade)
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Learners examine the statistics of voter turnout in the Federal Elections and from these statistics the learners draw some comparative conclusions.
Unit: Writers as Activists
Unit:
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students identify causes they care about and related nonprofits or community resources. They use writing as a tool to make a difference, using persuasive writing techniques....
Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students explore ways to be honest in communication, writing with clear purpose and honest intent.
Unit:
Grades:
3
4
5
The classroom is matched up with another classroom (or any group of people) in the country or the world. The students communicate by letter or e-mail and compare characteristics of place such as methods of transportation, weather, resources, and culture. Students will eventually work with their...
Unit: Refugees and Human Rights
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students identify the message communicated in the visual image of a poster. Then student groups create a skit with a small group that communicates the same message in a different format. The groups write, practice and perform their skits. Then the class comments on the...
Unit: What's All the Commotion in the Ocean?
Grades:
K
1
2
The purpose of this lesson is to gather information about sea animals and share it with other classes or other groups of children.
Unit: Be the Change: Core Values
Grades:
9
10
11
12
Students explore and demonstrate leadership and service qualities, reflect on the qualities of a leader and create and donate a children's book.