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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (3 - 5), or English Language Arts (3 - 5)
Title: Don't get lost in story writing: Follow the map!
Description: In this lesson, teachers will guide the students, as a group, through the process of writing a meaningful story using a story map. First the teacher will review the parts that make up a successful story. Then, the students will be guided through the planning process in which they will make selections for each part of the story. At the end of the exercise, the students will experience how each selection they made as a group, combines to make one cohesive story. Once the group activity is complete, students will have the opportunity to plan and write stories individually using the same story map.
Subject: English Language Arts (5), or English Language Arts (5), or Science (5), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Those Cells Look Good Enough to Eat.
Description: This is a student led activity utilizing visualization and association to memorize the parts of animal and plant cells. Students will work cooperatively to develop drawings to connect the parts of cells to one of their favorite things…food. In addition, art, written expression, oral communication, and technology will be used for completion of this activity.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.
Subject: English Language Arts (3 - 5), or English Language Arts (3 - 5), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: What Are Idioms?
Description: After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.
Subject: English Language Arts (5), or English Language Arts (5), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Let's Eat: An Expository Slideshow Presentation
Description: Students will write a three-paragraph essay explaining the steps necessary to follow a recipe, and then present and serve the recipe to their classmates.
Subject: English Language Arts (4 - 5), or English Language Arts (4 - 5), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Better Living Through Science
Description: This lesson involves research on scientists whose accomplishments have impacted areas of nutrition, sanitation, or health care. Students will research an area of their choice, record information on a graphic organizer, and use the information to write a five-paragraph narrative essay to present to the class.
Subject: English Language Arts (3), or English Language Arts (3 - 5)
Title: Synonym/Antonym Bingo
Description: Students will learn to identify synonyms and antonyms by playing a bingo game.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Learning to Learn with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
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Description: Modeled on the activities in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
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Description: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about nonsense poetry as well as the various poetic techniques and devices that poets use. Students study The Owl and the Pussy Cat, by the British poet Edward Lear, and play educational games to identify poetic techniques in Lear's poems. They then try creating poems of their own.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Walt Disney was born in 1901.
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Description: Students describe female characters in Disney films, discuss their characteristics, and write a thesis statement about them.
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Grade Span: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Powerful Writing: Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
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Description: Students create their own monster trading cards using '' powerful,'' vivid language to describe their creatures.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
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Description: Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
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Grade Span: 4,5,6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Dancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
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Description: Students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes and then brainstorm nouns and verbs to create personification in their own poems.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Acquiring New Vocabulary Through Book Discussion Groups
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Description: This lesson employs direct instruction and small-group discussion to help students learn new vocabulary skills while reading Patricia Polacco's Pink and Say.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Figurative Language Awards Ceremony
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Description: Students will be as happy as clams when they have the chance to nominate their favorite examples of similes, metaphors, and personification for a figurative language award.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Alliteration All Around
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Description: Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Veterans Day is celebrated in the United States today.
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Description: Students write biographical poems about a soldier.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Poet William Blake was born in 1757.
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Description: As a class, students brainstorm abstract concepts and personify that concept through a drawing or story told about the character who personifies that concept.
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Grade Span: 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: My World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists
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Description: Working in small groups, students select vocabulary words and research their meanings. In a culminating activity that uses text and illustration, each student creates a '' My World of Words Journal.''
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Find favorite book picks in the Children's Choices.
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Description: Students create lists of their favorite books and then the class creates a '' Top Picks'' class booklist. Students can use the Book Cover Creator to create a book jacket for their favorite book.
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Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6
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