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Other (ELA) research for homeschool
How Penguins Achieve Flight April Fools Prank
This fun assignment goes along with the BBC video prank that penguins can fly. This full article includes context clues, vocab and some fun made up science to fool your kids. What is better than learning with a bit of fun! Be sure to show BBC's penguin video before using this sheet. It includes 4 pages of an article with reasoning as to why penguins can fly and reading comprehension questions. Enjoy! Be sure to check out our new Goat Poop Chocolate Prank as well that as a YouTube Video as well a
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2nd - 7th
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Dictionary, Index, Thesaurus, Atlas, Glossary, Encyclopedia, Almanac
Students will read about the different reference books and resources and what information they provide. There is a sample page from each type of reference. Students analyze the sample pages and answer questions. A quiz is included.
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3rd - 5th
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Groundhog Day WebQuest Activity | Research Reading Writing | February 2nd
Groundhog Day is on February 2nd. Teach your students about this holiday and groundhogs with this fun, interactive research and reading webquest activity. This Webquest is the perfect way to learn about this February holiday. In this activity, students will click through links and watch a video about groundhogs and Groundhog Day. Students will fill out the included graphic organizers and charts as they learn more about Groundhog Day. This NO PREP resource is ready to use in your classroom. Us
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4th - 6th
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Famous Scientists Webquest (research / science / distance learn / puzzle / Sub)
FAMOUS SCIENTISTS RESEARCH - INTERNET / WEBQUEST ASSIGNMENTGRADES: 6-10SUBJECT: SCIENCE, COMPUTERS, STEMSPECIFIC WEBSITE: NO (this is a search and "quest" research assignment)DISTANCE LEARNING: YES!*This assignment is great for either science or language arts classes. The webquest is also perfect for early finishers and distance learning opportunities!WEBQUEST: Students are provided a list of famous scientists and are tasked with doing basic research on these famous individuals. Items researc
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6th - 11th
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Also included in: SCIENCE WEBQUEST SUPER BUNDLE! (60+ Worksheets / STEM / Internet / SUB)
Three Week Research Writing Unit for Secondary ELA
Implement a research project that secondary ELA students can relate to! The Truth About Your Clothes Research Unit is a completely editable 129 page research writing unit that will not only teach your students essential responsible researching skills, it will also connect students to the world outside of your classroom, teaching them how the clothes they wear everyday are made in garment factories around the world, often in horrible conditions. Students will examine where their own clothes are m
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7th - 10th
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Speech Writing Template, Speech Outline, Biography Speech, 5 Paragraph Format
This editable outline helps students put together an organized speech. While it was created to write a biographical speech about the life of a famous person, it can easily be adapted to work with any speech topic. (Word .doc is editable!)
I have received many positive comments from parents about teaching students the proper speech format, and this template will guide your students through a 5 paragraph speech.
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Tree Octopus: Evaluating Internet Sources
Teaching our students to research is not enough. We have to make sure our students are savvy consumers of information. This lesson is one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITES to teach. It involves a completely unreal creature in a website that seems well-researched and documented. I present the new species of octopus to them as a research task before letting them in on the secret---it's completely make believe. This lesson includes the lesson plan, the research task (with a QR code link to the tree octo
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Disney Parks | Magic Kingdom Reading Pack
Add some extra magic to your classroom. This reading pack includes:1.Cover Page2.Magic Kingdom Reading Passage3.Magic Kingdom Questions4.Adventureland Reading Passage5.Adventureland Questions6.Fantasyland Reading Passage7.Fantasyland Questions8.Space Mountain Reading Passage9.Space Mountain Questions10.Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Reading Passage11.Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Questions12.Food, Food, and More Food Reading Passage13.Food, Food, and More Food Questions14.Postcard from Magic Kingdom & Fa
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Disney Parks | Reading Pack Bundle
William Shakespeare Background Elizabethan Era - Globe Theater - Sonnets
Students create a research-based interactive image on William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era in this unique introduction to Shakespeare and Elizabethan England. William Shakespeare’s plays will become ALIVE for your students with this high-interest research project and extension activity. This project is designed to be used as an introduction to any of Shakespeare’s plays or poems. In this teaching packet, you will be provided with all the resources that you need to offer an alternative r
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8th - 12th
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Community Helpers Research Report and Writing
This community helpers research report is a great asset to a community helper unit! My students love "researching" their favorite community helper! It also makes for a great bulletin board idea, family project, or homework!
This pack includes:
- Community Helper Report Cover Page (color and BW)
- Community Helper KWL chart
- Community Helper can-has-is organizer
- Community Helper research report
- Community Helper draw it and label
- Community Helper writing template
If you like this
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K - 2nd
Biography Research Frames: Paragraph and Speech Templates (Live or Distance Lng)
BIOGRAPHY RESEARCH FRAMES Help students realize how fascinating research can be by giving them nonthreatening paragraph frames that make research projects easy to do and enjoyable to present.“Research” has been identified by the CCSS as one of the essential reading/writing skills for succeeding in college and the workplace. So why not take a skill that has the potential to be uninteresting and have some fun with it instead?Biography Research Frames is a unit that contains 43 illustrated parag
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3rd - 6th, Staff
Differentiated Animal Research Report Writing | Research Project for Topics
This Beginning Research unit will help your students become stronger in informational writing. Differentiated graphic organizers, length of passages, and writing paper is included to best fit your students' needs.*Please click on the preview to see everything included.More details:Use this unit to introduce your students to writing a quality piece of informational writing. Use scaffolding techniques to help your students how to become a successful writing. Begin by completing as a whole group
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K - 3rd
MLA Cheat Sheet
Serves as a guide for students who are just learning how to write and cite papers in MLA style or as a reminder for others! This covers MLA paper format, internal citations, and the works cited page.From ELA & Spanish Resources.
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7th - 12th
Biography Cube Project
This Bio-cube project includes everything but the tissue box!
Students will enjoy putting together a Bio-cube based on:
*A Biography or Autobiography
*Somebody they know
*An “All About Me” project
Items included in project:
Planning Sheets
Templates:
Name of person
Personal Background
Significance
Obstacles
Quotation
Pictures/drawings
Blank templates for customization
I’ve also included a free BONUS activity for use with iPads!
As an added activity, your students can make an “explainer” vid
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4th - 11th
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Disney Parks | Animal Kingdom Reading Pack
Add some extra magic to your classroom. This reading pack includes:1.Cover Page2.Animal Kingdom Reading Passage3.Animal Kingdom Questions4.Pandora Reading Passage5.Pandora Questions6.Africa Reading Passage7.Africa Questions8.Avatar Flight of Passage Reading Passage9.Avatar Flight of Passage Questions10.Expedition Everest Reading Passage11.Expedition Everest Questions12.Food, Food, and More Food Reading Passage13.Food, Food, and More Food Questions14.Postcard from Animal Kingdom & Favorite At
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1st - 8th
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Also included in: Disney Parks | Reading Pack Bundle
Disney Parks | Disneyland Park Reading Pack
Add some extra magic to your classroom. This reading pack includes:1. Cover Page2. Disneyland Park Reading Passage3. Disneyland Park Questions4. Main Street, U.S.A. Reading Passage5. Main Street, U.S.A. Questions6. Tomorrowland Reading Passage7. Tomorrowland Questions8. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Passage9. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Questions10. Haunted Mansion Reading Passage11. Haunted Mansion Adventure Questions12. Food, Food, and More Food Reading Passage13. Food, Food, and More Food Q
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1st - 8th
Also included in: Disney Parks | Reading Pack Bundle
Interview a Veteran for Veterans Day, Memorial Day, DISTANCE LEARNING
Want your students to understand the importance of showing our veterans the appreciation and respect that they so greatly deserve? Interviewing a veteran about his/her experiences in military service is one of the best ways to cultivate within our students this sense of appreciation and respect for our veterans. Included in this interview form are twenty questions, as well as a page of helpful tips to consider when conducting an interview with a veteran.Your students may use this interview for
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3rd - 8th
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Disney Parks | Epcot Reading Pack
Add some extra magic to your classroom. This reading pack includes:1.Cover Page2.Epcot Reading Passage3.Ecpot Questions4.Future World Reading Passage5.Future World Questions6.World Showcase Reading Passage7.World Showcase Questions8.Mission: SPACE Reading Passage9.Mission: SPACE Questions10.Soarin' Around the World Reading Passage11.Soarin' Around the World Questions12.Food, Food, and More Food Reading Passage13.Food, Food, and More Food Questions14.Postcard from Epcot & Favorite Attraction1
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1st - 8th
Also included in: Disney Parks | Reading Pack Bundle
Tech Lesson - Hypertext - All About Me! | Back to School Technology Lesson Plan
Back to school technology lesson! Beginning of the semester or year? Want to build a strong relationship with your students and get to know them better? Hypertext - All About Me! will have your students excited to work on this research assignment because it's all about them! Perfect for using something familiar, (in this case, Google Docs) and doing something NEW with it!Follow us to see future lessons! Get the rest of this UNIT's Lessons here:Tech Lesson - Hypertext - All About Me! (Lesson 1)Te
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Tech Lessons - Hypertext Hyperlink UNIT BUNDLE
READ & RESEARCH PROJECT BUNDLE Choice Board Independent Project PBL Genius Hour
30% OFF WITH THE BUNDLE...This easy-to-follow, NO PREP, FULLY-EDITABLE resource gives you everything you need to provide your students with a READ & RESEARCH INDEPENDENT PROJECT CHOICE BOARD! Students can complete projects using the provided Choice Board, or you separate the activities so that you have 4 units with this resource! Simply print out or post the Student Directions, Student Answer Sheets, and Student Tracker and GO! Students will follow the Design Process/Creative Problem-Solving
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4th - 12th
Drama Theory Acting Styles Unit The Stella Adler Acting Method Emotional Memory
Got some Master Thespians in your class? This low prep unit teaches your students about Stella Adler actress and her acting method and is suitable for theater high school students. If you are teaching the various acting methods which actors use, this unit is a must to include! There is very little set up and lasts a week! Check out my Lee Strasberg acting unit, too! At the request of a teacher, I created this unit. You can request units, too! Just message me. The Teacher will need access to
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10th - 12th
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Also included in: Theater of Acting Stanislavski Strasberg Adler GROWING Bundle Drama
Travel Writing Research Projects for Google Slides™ Distance Learning 6-12 grade
*This is a digital resource! It is in Google Slides™ and is perfect for student research and writing! This is an engaging resource for all students!In this activity, students can conduct research using articles and links to websites about seven different countries. Students will use graphic organizers to keep their information. They will use the information to write essays. There are narrative, informational, and argumentative prompts. Students will finally create a fun brochure about one of the
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6th - 12th
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Oklahoma State Symbol Fact Cards
Use these cards to introduce the state symbols of Oklahoma! Each card has a picture of the state symbol as well as 2-5 facts about it. These cards are a part of my Oklahoma Nonfiction Unit which you can get by clicking the link below. The entire unit is geared more for early childhood grades, but these fact cards could be use for any grade level!Link to the unit:Oklahoma Nonfiction Unit for Primary GradesThe symbols included in this file are:--Milk-Buffalo-Frog-Bees-Strawberry-Scissor-tailed Fly
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PreK - 12th
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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Reading Pack
Add some extra magic to your classroom.This reading pack includes:1.Cover Page2.The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Reading Passage3.The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Questions4.Diagon Alley Reading Passage5.Diagon Alley Questions6.Hogsmeade Reading Passage7.Hogsmeade Questions8.Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts Reading Passage9.Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts Questions10.Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure Reading Passage11.Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike A
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1st - 8th
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