Helming the Ship, Climbing the Staircase: Poetry Research and Information Fluency – 7850
Summary Instead of giving students a poem and walking them through analyzing it and/or giving them a worksheet to complete in a whole class lesson, …
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Grammar Project Lessons – 7849
Summary This lesson allows the student to step into the teacher’s role, providing the ultimate ownership of comprehension and facilitation of meeting students’ needs. Students …
Gallery Walk: Getting Rid of Boring Presentations – 7845
Summary Have you ever been bored to tears watching as student groups endlessly present projects? Even the most exciting, most differentiated projects get boring …
Roaring Twenties – 7843
Summary The Roaring Twenties are covered in a number of different avenues where students will explore the decade through many different web based programs and …
Inspiration Investigation – 7841
Summary How long have you waited for the school bus? How could we fight a war with fewer casualties? Is there a cure for Parkinson …
Discovering Triangles – 7846
Summary This is a project spanning at least a month. Students are challenged to find triangles used extensively in some cohesive manner. Suggested general topics …
Spanish Film Festival – 7844
Summary Taking inspiration from the 48 Hour Film Festival held in Richmond each year, students in our Spanish classes worked together to write, film, and …
CSI: Body Systems
Summary The students will be learning about body systems and diseases that affect the body systems, through the investigation of 4 mock crime scenes. The …
Eradicating Differences
Summary The lesson was designed to have students use research and collaboration to connect themes and ideas from literature, history, and their present day experiences …
Prefix Project
Summary Students research the meaning of prefixes and create a presentation teaching the meaning of these prefixes to others. Students choose groups, choose from a …