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- Comparing and contrasting careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.9
- This lesson for grade six will help students understand comparing and contrasting. Students will conduct career surveys with adults and will use the results to create Venn diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood stories
- This lesson will introduce the Venn diagram to students. They will read two versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood" and list details from each in separate diagrams.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Amber Miller.
- Comparing/contrasting characters: A Taste of Blackberries
- This lesson is designed to use with Chapter 1 of the novel A Taste of Blackberries. Students will use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the two main characters and then relate the material to their own lives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By Denise Caudle.
- Getting to know spiders
- This lesson is useful for helping students understand the differences between spiders and insects. They will also learn about a spider's particular body parts. Live spiders will be observed over the course of a few days to see how sound, light, and movement affect the spiders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Science)
- By Bree Welmaker.
- Going batty
- In this lesson students will hear the story Stellaluna by Janell Cannon and then create a Venn Diagram comparing bats to birds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Information Skills and Science)
- By DPI Integration Strategies.
- Is it a duck? Is it a chick?
- Students will compare and contrast the characteristics of a chick and a duckling by using a Venn Diagram.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Debbie Beeson.
- Is it living?
- Students will identify living and nonliving things.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Genita Powell.
- Pigs and wolf on a map!
- The students will construct a Double Bubble Map to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 English Language Arts)
- By Cherry Randall.
- Story tellers and poets
- Students will examine the style, purpose, and organization of folktales and poetry in order to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of both genres. With this knowledge, students will use the word choice and repetition of traditional folktales to transform them into modern poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–10 English Language Arts)
- By Heather Bower and Michele Hicks.
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Doyle.
- Using a Venn diagram to illustrate that bears and humans are both mammals.
- Students use their collected information on bears to compare them to humans through a Venn diagram, as preparation for an introduction to mammals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics and Science)
- By Susan Lovett.
- Weaving picture books into narrative writing
- Children's picture books are the perfect medium for mini-lessons in narrative writing. Teachers provide books which demonstrate the qualities the students need to develop in their own writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Jan Caldwell.

