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- Survival! A Lesson for Language Arts and Novice ESL Students
- Students brainstorm to orally identify and agree upon ten elements necessary for survival. Students will create a categorized chart of the items necessary for survival. Using the chart and working within groups, students will use the chart to create a Survival board game.
This lesson serves well as an introductory activity for students who will read a novel with a setting in another country or culture, or as the basis of comparing two different time periods or cultures.
It is modified for the Novice High English Language Learner. - Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Cynthia Moretz.
- To market we will go
- In a market simulation, students will experience the roles of producers and consumers. The crafts in this market may be easily tied in with winter multicultural holidays (Christmas, Kwaanza, Hanukkah, Hmong New Year, Las Posadas, etc.) Students can purchase gifts for their family members at the market.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 and 4 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Ellen Douglas and Melissa Park.
- Topography of North Carolina and its influence on settlement
- This lesson explores where North Carolina is in relation to the United States and North America. Also, we will explore the different regions of North Carolina and how the topography of the region affected settlement.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Jessica Wilson and Tabitha Horton.
- Tracking a potato killer: Using latitude and longitude to map the spread of P. infestans
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 1
- Students use latitude and longitude to follow the transmission of the plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of the Irish Potato Famine.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
- Traveling on the Mayflower
- Students will participate in a role-play to understand the experiences of Pilgrims on the Mayflower.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Development, Social Studies, and Theater Arts Education)
- By Ellen Douglas and Melissa Park.
- Truth or care? Saving Shiloh
- The students will be able to explain the importance of responsible citizenship and identify ways they can participate in civic affairs after reading the novel Shiloh and completing research of their own on animal abuse. Through this research, they will be responsible for gathering facts to support their stances on the dilemma Marty faces when deciding whether to return Shiloh to his owner or secretly keep him in order for him to be safe. Students will have real-world experience when they create and are reponsible for caring for their own pet.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, English Language Development, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Leah Shomaker and Mary Shomaker.
- Types of chemical reactions
- This lesson is intended for use in a first year Chemistry class and has modifications aligned with the North Carolina Novice High English Language Development objectives. It provides an overview of various types of chemical reactions by allowing students to visually observe examples of synthesis, decomposition, single displacement, and double displacement reactions and to identify certain products by the use of litmus and splint tests.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Harriett Tillett.
- Water cycle word study
- Students will look at the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Students will group words by meaning and label a blank water cycle chart based on the categories for the groupings they create. This lesson is designed in conjunction with “More than just a rainy day—the water cycle.”
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Kelly This and Leigh Thrower.
- Week 1: Invention boggle
- In Invention convention, page 2
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will learn to think like scientists and see technological possibilities in common objects around them. Invention Boggle paves the way for students to become inventors and develop their own inventions.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 1: Logging like an inventor
- In Invention convention, page 3
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will learn how to log their work on the invention they are designing. They will make detailed observations, ask questions, evaluate efforts, and propose future work in their science notebooks or logs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 2: Selecting an invention
- In Invention convention, page 6
- In this Invention Convention lesson, the teacher will conference with each student to select the best invention to build. Students will consider the advantages and disadvantages of each of their invention ideas.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 3: Designing the invention on paper
- In Invention convention, page 7
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will complete a rough draft drawing of their invention.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Development)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 3: Estimating material cost
- In Invention convention, page 8
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will compile a list of needed materials to create their inventions. They will also calculate the cost to build their invention using mental estimation, computation, and calculators.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 4: Writing “how-to” instructions
- In Invention convention, page 11
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students write instructions explaining how to use their inventions.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 5: Conclusion paragraphs
- In Invention convention, page 15
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will write convincing conclusions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 5: Constructing the invention
- In Invention convention, page 12
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will construct their inventions using the designs from their invention logs.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 5: Developing informative paragraphs
- In Invention convention, page 14
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will consider writing elements that will make detailed paragraphs interesting and draft three informative paragraphs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 5: Writing an engaging opening
- In Invention convention, page 13
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students will analyze slogans from famous inventions and identify a sound, ability, or description that is unique to their invention. They will use this information to write an engaging opening for their expository writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- Week 6: Completing the invention
- In Invention convention, page 16
- In this Invention Convention lesson, students finish constructing their inventions.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Briana Corke Pelton.
- What do you see?
- This lesson is designed to teach color vocabulary and some basic animal names to novice level ESL students in grades 1-2 using Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Young.
