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Middle school writing-expository internet activities under $5
RACES Paragraph Writing Strategy Introduction Lesson GRADES 6-8 Google Apps
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL LESSON: Engage students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades with this interactive lesson as an introduction to the RACES paragraph writing strategy. Students will highlight text, drag and drop text, and type in their own responses to prompts as they learn to cite text evidence. This strategy works well for informative writing, explanatory writing, and opinion writing. Students can also use this format to write the body paragraphs of an essay!**DESIGNED FOR GRADES 6-8**►Except for the a
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 15 Interactive Google Apps LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
Thanksgiving WebQuest (Printable Booklet)
This is a printable booklet about the First Thanksgiving. Your students will need to access the internet. If you want a digital version, click here!This is a wonderful resource. I have used it for years. The children love being able to navigate it on their own, but aren't so crazy about just doing a regular old worksheet so, I created a booklet that corresponds to this website. It is fun and educational. The students will have to reread, listen to text, and comprehend nonfiction text in order to
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3rd - 6th
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Also included in: Holiday Activities Bundle
Informative Writing Unit Research-Based Essay | A Step-by-Step Writing Guide
★★★★★ This interactive, editable writing resource walks students through EVERY STEP of the research-based informative writing process with the end goal being a 3-5 paragraph informative essay based on reliable research. 100% NO-PREP!Multi-paragraph essay writing made easy! ⭐ Help your students build confidence in their writing ability by using this step-by-step guide.WHAT'S INSIDE:10 Google SlidesStudent directions clear on every slide for every stepResearch gathering page (digital organizer)Dir
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4th - 7th
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Digital Writing Journal - 120 Prompts - Google Slides
This digital writing journal is meant to be used in Google Slides. It includes 120 prompts that students can work through at their own pace or as bell-ringers. It is perfect for distance learning or a classroom that has one-to-one with devices! The prompts are divided into 6 categories. This is meant to help students practice different forms of writing. They will naturally write in a narrative fashion with some prompts and will write to explain or describe in others.Journal Prompt CategoriesThis
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2nd - 7th
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Objective vs Subjective Tone Lesson and Practice GRADES 6-8 Google Apps
⭐ NO PREP DIGITAL LESSON: Engage students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades with this interactive lesson as you introduce or review the difference between objective and subjective tone. Students will highlight text, drag and drop text, and type in their own responses to prompts. It's time to replace those boring worksheets!Students will:learn why it is important to keep an objective tone in informative and explanatory writingexplain the difference between objective and subjective in their own wordsde
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: BUNDLE 12 Google Apps and Print LANGUAGE ARTS Lessons and Activities
To Kill A Mockingbird Newspaper Project - PRINT & DIGITAL
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD NEWSPAPER PROJECT - Your students will have fun creating a newspaper about the events of Maycomb, Alabama, in Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. This is a unique and engaging way for students to wrap up a novel study and demonstrate their understanding of the book's characters, plot, and details.Includes both PRINT and DIGITAL VERSIONS - easy to share on Google™ and other digital platforms.Includes:Creative and unique handout with clear instructions / expectation
Grades:
8th - 12th
The Pearl Harbor Attack: Multiple Accounts of the Same Event Webquest
CCSS.RI.5.6, CCSS.W.5.2.A-E*FULLY UPDATED DECEMBER 2022*This is a webquest activity that has students analyze six different accounts of the attack at Pearl Harbor and find similarities and differences among the accounts. The accounts of this event are in a variety of formats, from multiple sources (a video recording of a radio address, survivor journals and video accounts, a timeline, and photographs of a Japanese account). Students will determine whether each document is a firsthand or secondha
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5th - 8th
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Digital Hamburger Paragraph Sort - Sandwich Paragraph - Hamburger Writing
Use the hamburger paragraph (sandwich paragraph) model to help your students learn how to organize their paragraphs! This interactive hamburger writing game strengthens students organization and writing skills in a fun and engaging way. Hamburger writing is fun & engaging, but also a really effective tool!Slides include instruction on how the hamburger paragraph (sandwich paragraph) model with topic and concluding sentences help hold all the juicy details together! Activity includes 8 pr
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2nd - 6th
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A Person I Admire Guided Planning for Essay or Talk Preparation
This pack guides students in a focused study of a person a student admires or looks up to. Quick print, low-prep!Includes...Materials for starting discussion around the concept of admirationPlanning and research sheets in questionnaire formatBody biography diagram and guided promptsAccompanying PowerPoint...plus a previous version with editable Word documents and Google forms.You might also like...Six Word Memoir | Icebreaker | Differentiated | Middle and High SchoolPeer Assessment Carousel | Es
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5th - 8th
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Internet Activities - Rockets, Space Shuttles, Satellites and Rovers
28 printable or digital internet investigations on space exploration. Students use a laptop, tablet or smart phone to search online for information about... NASA, space suits, accidents in space, animals in space (dog, monkey, rabbits, mice, spiders, flies…), people in space, rockets, the Apollo space program, space shuttles, SpaceX, going to the Moon, going to Mars, Luna 1, Sputnik 1, Explorer 1, Voyager 1, Messenger, the lunar rover, Sojourner, Chang’e 4, Hubble telescope, Chandra, satellites
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3rd - 10th
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Also included in: Space BUNDLE
Journalism: Analyzing Newspaper Leads & Articles Activities
Journalism: Analyzing Newspaper Leads and Articles This is a packet of templates for students to analyze various types of leads and articles studied in Journalism 1 (J1), the introductory course that supports the publication of a school newspaper.Teachers may also use them with any advanced Journalism classes to review and reinforce the standards for leads and types of journalistic writing. After they complete the handouts, each student writes a piece on any topic they choose for each genre. Th
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Journalism Activities & Lessons Bundle: Beginning & Advanced Students
Citations and Cite Sources for Research Essays
Updated to Edition 8 citations!
An 18 page, easy-to-follow, illustrated, quick-start guide on how-to build a BIbliography/Works Cited page using Easy Bib, an online citation builder website. Are you tired of repeating directions for how-to build a Bibiography/Works Cited page and how to properly cite research resources? Then, this is just what you need to help students visualize and work through the process! Includes:
How-to build citations using any online citation site
Differences between B
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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RACE Strategy Constructed Writing Practice - Common Core Aligned
Constructed responses have become a vital part of writing standards and can be tedious to practice with students. This Google Classroom Ready writing practice will have your students mastering constructed responses in no time. Restate - Answer - Cite Evidence - ProveThis writing strategy helps students form their answers in a way that prepares them for future writing tasks and for the state assessment.Product Includes:ALL Google Classroom Ready ResourcesALL Editable FilesRACE Writing SampleRACE
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6th - 8th
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Digital Research Paper Note Cards
Fight the research paper overwhelm by helping students stay organized! It makes sense for 21st century students to be able to keep digital research notes. Having a digital research paper note cards template can take the place of physical note cards or serve as a differentiation option.Use again and again for any research paper, analysis essay, debate activity, podcast or blog assessment...if research is involved, this resource can help!There is a place on each card for evidence, title, citation
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7th - 10th
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Informational Writing Choice Board (Distance Learning)
Looking for a way to make informational writing engaging for your students? This Informational Writing Choice Board is sure to keep their interest! This Google Slides resource provides students with a review of informational writing, nine writing tasks, and graphic organizers. It would work best for middle school students, but it is EDITABLE to fit the needs of other grade levels! The following informational writing tasks are included: Historical figures Career fieldsEnvironmental issuesEndanger
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Grades:
5th - 8th
MLA Format and Citation Practice Activity
This Google Slides Workshop for MLA Format 8th Edition teaches students to format their papers, cite sources, use in-text citations, and avoid plagiarism. Best of all, they can keep it on hand for quick reference by saving it to their drive, and never lose it! This workshop allows students to practice these skills and has easy templates, so students can plug in their information and put their citations together. Great for distance learning, in-class learning, hybrid model, and social distancing.
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8th - 11th
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Artificial Intelligence Podcast Listening and Writing Activities
We can't seem to get away from the "chatter" about AI these days. Capitalize on your students' fascination with artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT with this no-prep, interactive podcast activity. It's the perfect way to get them thinking about and discussing artificial intelligence on a deeper level. The podcast features two middle school students discussing the pros and cons of AI, as well as the possibilities and responsibilities of those who use it. Listen, Learn, Write: Artificial In
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: Podcast Listening Skills & Writing No Prep Activities BUNDLE
"Fears and Phobias" Digital Activities for Collections Grade 6
This is not intended to be a printable resource. It is designed specifically with digital learning in mind. If you want a printable resource, please refer to this resource instead: "Fears and Phobias" Printable Interactive Notebook ELA Collections Grade 6Save tons of time with Fears and Phobias Digital Activities for Google AppsTM. The Fears and Phobias Digital Activities engage students in Collection 1 of the HMH CollectionsTM Grade 6 textbook Facing Fear. Fun illustrations and interactive movi
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6th
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Email Etiquette for Kids
Help your students learn about the dos and don'ts of sending emails by using this lesson plan and corresponding graphic organizers. Students will take notes to learn about email etiquette and then apply what they've learned to write purposeful emails. These activities will last about 3 class periods and will help set the stage for your students to become responsible digital users. This is a great activity to integrate expository/informational writing with technology.Students will also compare an
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in: Custom Bundle for Viet
History Ancient Rome Projects Roman Diorama & Research Project Roman History
EDITABLE! NO PREP! You can print this project and have students start it today!This fun project has students research and create an diorama/3-D model of an Ancient Roman structure! Rubric included. At the bottom of the instruction page I include a student and parent contract so that there is no excuse about due dates and expectations! The file is editable so you can adjust it to fit your classroom needs (remove the contract etc.). Projects can be done individually, with a partner, or in a group.
Grades:
6th - 12th
Jamaica - Internet Research
24 printable or digital pages to engage your students in Internet Research on Jamaica. Students use a phone, tablet or laptop to search online about the people of Jamaica: language,customs,flag,coat of arms,coins and stamps,mountains,rivers,wild animals,leadership and politics,national anthem,history,sports,famous people,and more...PRINT: I created a PDF version that you can download on your computer and print for students to use in class or at home. Click on "Add one to cart" and download you
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Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: The Caribbean Internet Research BUNDLE
Journalism Movie: "good night, and good luck" Notes and Activity
This product offers students a chance to research and discuss some of the people and events from the McCarthy Era for study prior to the viewing of the movie, "good night, and good luck". It also includes eight open-ended questions for post-viewing discussions. Twentieth Century United States History and United States Government teachers could augment a study of the 1950's with this movie.However teachers choose to use this product, it raises some interesting comparing and contrasting the middle
Grades:
6th - 12th
Also included in: Journalism Activities & Lessons Bundle: Beginning & Advanced Students
Research Report- Future Careers and Goal Setting
This is a short, 5-6 paragraph report that students will write after researching a career that they are interested in pursuing after high school. I use the report with my 8th graders to help them set goals as we being the year. It is also a great introduction to using the Internet to conduct research, using topic sentences, and complete paragraph writing.
Download includes: Assignment descritption, useful website handout for students, and grading rubric
I did not assign point values on the rub
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6th - 12th
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Journalism Graphic Organizers Growing Bundle Google Drive Edition
This is a "growing bundle," which means that I will continue to add resources to it, so you will get a great value if you purchase it now with the initial price!
I am a Journalism teacher and Newspaper adviser. I am currently piloting a 1:1 Chromebook program, so I am in the process of converting my resources to Google format. As I convert, I will add to this bundle.
Currently, this product contains the following:
-The Inverted Pyramid (great for outlining a news story)
-The Essential Info (gr
Grades:
6th - 12th
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