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literature circles: Classroom organizational strategy designed to facilitate in-depth conversations about literature among students. Literature circles are characterized by student-centered responses to literature, collaborative exploration of a text's themes, and higher-order thinking as students pursue and explore questions and insights about literature.

Sorting again and again!: Students will discover that beans have many attributes and they will sort them accordingly.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Melanie Kush.

Creating and understanding circles and their parts: This lesson will offer a hands-on opportunity to explore and construct circles. Students will develop a definition for identifying the parts of a circle such as the center, radius, diameter, chord, and circumference. Students will use compasses and rulers in constructing these parts of a circle.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Patricia Tingen.

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 3 English Language Arts); By Amber Miller.

Flying saucers: Circles: Students will apply what they have learned about circles and finding averages with this lesson. This lesson should be broken up into 3 class periods of an hour for each class.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Amy Romagnuolo.

Ceiling of beehive house: The ceiling of a beehive house. The bricks form concentric circles around a larger, black square. The center of the circles is on the right side of the photo.; Format: image/photograph

Hanuman tries to stop the sun: In The Ramayana, page 5.3; A two-faced and eight-armed Hanuman is flying out of the clouds to grab the outer rings of a gold, red, and green sun. The sun is shown here as a nested set of colored concentric circles. A mountain and forest scene is visible below.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Understanding first jobs: In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.4; In this lesson plan, students conduct interviews with two people about their first jobs, and then use the interview responses to have a focused group discussion.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.

Super shape shifter: Students learn shapes and put them together to make other shapes.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Becky Woolard.

Inside-outside circle: During inside-outside circle, students either sit or stand facing each other in two concentric circles. Students respond to teacher questions or note-card prompted questions and then rotate to the next partner. In the end of this type of structure, students...; Format: article; By Heather Coffey.

Greece: Part 1: This lesson is one of three created as an interdisciplinary unit on the connection between the art and artifacts of a culture and the values and beliefs of the members of that culture. This unit begins with a class-wide investigation of Ancient Greece and concludes with a visit to the Ackland Art Museum. During the visit, students will have the opportunity to assess their predictions about the Ancient Greeks. In addition, students will look at works of art from other cultures and compare and contrast the visual information provided about those cultures with visual information provided about Greek culture.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Social Studies); By Winn Wheeler.

Colorful fruit bowl: Students learn color theory by exploring color mixing. Students will use overlapping to show simple perspective in their picture.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Visual Arts Education); By Marilyn Carter.

Introduction to Venn diagrams: Students will learn how to use a Venn diagram to categorize data. This activity is done as an introduction to Venn diagrams.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Melissa Bancroft.

Seasons change: This lesson introduces students to the characteristics of the changing seasons and allows students to see how plants, animals, and people adapt to the changes.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts); By Beth Herron.

Whose habitat is that? (Lesson 3): This lesson is designed to help students explore the surroundings animals find in each of the five habitats. This plan is written for the desert habitat but the same plan should be used for the exploration of all five habitat settings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Information Skills); By Kelly Stewart.

More or less: This lesson contains a series of activities on more or less. These activities can be used over several days or combined into a one-day lesson.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Sarah Owens.

Hula hoop sorting: Students will use two large hula hoops to form a Venn Diagram. Then, using various colored paper shapes, they will recognize, and identify circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, trapezoids, and parallelograms.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Diane Jackson.

Discovering Pi: This lesson introduces students to Pi through the discovery method of instruction. Students practice simple measuring skills to discover the relationship between the circumference and diameter of circular objects (Pi).They will be able to use this concept to find the circumference of any circle when the diameter is given.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Betty Shell.

Cuing systems: Analyzing reading behaviors: In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.6; Cuing systems are the self-extending systems students use to act upon text in order to make sense of it. These systems may be used independently or in conjunction with one another. When you administer running records, you can analyze cuing systems...; By Jeanne Gunther.

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 English Language Arts); By Sandra Doyle.

Socratic method: This article explains the history and theory of the Socratic method of teaching, which emphasizes teacher-student dialogue. The article offers suggestions for creating Socratic circles and Socratic seminars and provides resources for further reading.; Format: article; By Heather Coffey.

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