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TED Talk: Persuasive Writing Unit & Assignment
Our most popular item, now with an updated TED Talks To View list!This TED Talk presentation assignment begins with viewing and analyzing TED Talks based on different Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking techniques. Students then create their own. Perfect for either in-class or independent work! This Package Includes: Overview of TED Talks Assignment Sheet Persuasive Techniques HandoutRecommended TED Talks to study Note Taking Template for active viewing Research Notes Template Ideas Templ
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: THE PERSUASIVE WRITING MULTI UNIT BUNDLE
Immigration and Urbanization Unit BUNDLE
Increase student growth and engagement while saving time, energy and money! This bundle has everything you need and more! It is perfect for textbook free classrooms. Just print and go!Please see preview for Bundle detailsBundle includes several products that aren't available in my store. For those available in my store, specific descriptions can be found below:Immigration and Urbanization Reading Passage with Response WorksheetImmigration and Urbanization Stations ActivityImmigration and Urbaniz
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5th - 10th
The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- 100+ Page Unit and Teacher's Guide GATE
Yes, we can teach reading, writing, speaking and listening, and critical thinking skills using this amazing graphic novel which has no “words!” It’s a journey about who we are, where we have come from, and the humanity we share. It’s about hope and love and understanding. At times powerful, at times breathtakingly beautiful . . . Shaun Tan’s The Arrival should be on every bookshelf in every classroom.This 100+ page teaching guide and unit has been developed over the past three years in my adv
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5th - 12th
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Population Math for AP Environmental Science, Biology and more-Distance Learning
Help your students solve population math problems with a formula sheet, 5 pages of practice with keys and an assessment. Students in AP Environmental Science, Environmental Science, Biology and Human Geography can benefit from this practice.These problems are created from many "real" statistics to give students practice solving using a calculator. This product contains the following:Population Math FormulasPractice Worksheet #1Practice Worksheet #2Practice Worksheet #3Practice Quiz8 Multiple Cho
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: AP Environmental Science Unit 3 Bundle
"Lamb to the Slaughter" Mock Trial Directions
My students read "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl every fall and this mock trial is always a lesson they remember and ask to do over and over. Unfortunately it doesn't fit with every piece of literature. The lesson requires close reading, critical thinking, argument writing, oral communication, as well as comprehension of the story.
This product includes a one-page directions sheet for the teacher, as well as directions to be printed and handed to each of the following: prosecution, defe
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6th - 10th
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A Play, The Coercive Acts and the First Continental Congress
I love using this when we are in our Road to Revolution unit. It is a fun way to learn about the punishments of the Coercive Acts and the emergency meeting of the Continental Congress. I organize a table in the middle of the room with a Union Jack flag sitting somewhere on it. I make the table look official with some other props, too. Off to the side I put a chair for my "throne". The King and Baines stay in that area. The Members of Parliament sit around the table first. They change places wit
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5th - 12th
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Stock Market Unit Plan
Two week unit!
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Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading.
Day 2- 3
Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions.
Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will
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3rd - 10th
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U.S. History STAAR/EOC Era Review One Pagers
Help your students review by using these resources to create a one page study guide for each Era studied throughout the year that will be covered in the the STAAR/EOC test. Each page will help students review Important People, New Amendments/Laws, Important Court Cases, Events, and Key Terms for each Era.List of Era included are: -Foundations of the Republic -Gilded Age/Westward Expansion-Progressive Era-Imperialism & Expansion-World War I-Roaring '20s/Jazz Age-Great Depression/New Deal-Worl
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Not Grade Specific
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Just Mercy Test
“Mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.” Bryan StevensonOne of the most inspiring, impactful, and empowering books of the last several years, Just Mercy recounts the story of lawyer and civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson, his non-profit organization, The Equ
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9th - 12th
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Media Literacy: Logical Fallacies as Propaganda in Current Events
This engaging lesson takes a comical approach to examining the common use of logical fallacies as propagandistic techniques in product advertising, popular press news coverage, and political campaigns. Rest assured, your students will become much more savvy information consumers after they have purposefully used fallacies to mislead others in this active assignment. The lesson begins with a fictional news article that uses logical fallacies to prove that a visit to the doctor is deadly and to
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7th - 12th
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Cold War Simulation U.S. History Interactive Group Activity High-level Learning
This Simulation will have students talking about the Cold War for the rest of the semester. My students love this simulation! It is complex and detailed to the point that students get an authentic, hands-on experience as to what it was like to make some of the tough decisions as govt. leaders during the Cold War, yet it is simple enough to explain and execute with no high tech computer software required and very minimal prep work involved (only word docs). Students get to collaborate in groups a
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9th - 12th
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Reading Unit: Daniel's Story by Carol Matas
Unit for the book DANIEL'S STORY by Carol Matas. Includes activities, vocabulary, questions, research, and project ideas, and an answer key. Keep as it is or add to the unit to meet the needs of your students.
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6th - 12th
"Shark Tank" Business Project and Presentation
Based off the hit TV Show “Shark Tank,” student’s innovation, teamwork, problem solving and critical thinking skills are put to the test by creating a new business in your local market and developing a business plan to sell to an adult panel (aka the shark tank or instructor). This project does it all! It serves as a great way to connect community and business partnerships into the classroom as they can serve as mentors or as a “shark.” The project starts with student choice and they work to
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Abolitionist Movement | Digital Learning Pack
The Abolitionist Movement NO PREP Distance Learning Pack. Do you need and in depth examination of the Abolitionist movement? Give your students the opportunity to look at original texts, analyze different members of movement, and express their feelings about the movement. This activity can be broken into different parts and service your class for multiple days with different discussion topics! Digital and Paper Copies Included!This "Abolition Now: The Anti-Slavery Movement" Distance Learning
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Full Year U.S. History Distance Learning Deluxe Bundle
The Book Thief Movie Study Guide - Active Learning Tasks Bundle
This bundle of resources is a set of ready-to-go worksheets/resources for use with The Book Thief movie. It is designed to reinforce and stimulate learning through activity. The bundle includes low and high order activities. The differentiated activities will help you teach the film to mixed ability classes.The resources included are• Viewing Questions with answers. Useful for classwork or homework. Designed to keep students focused while watching the film.• Plot Summary as Cloze Test(s). Use
Grades:
7th - 12th
Flour Sack Baby Project
This is a wonderful project that not only teaches students responsibility, but also the costs associated with a baby and the challenges it poses to anyone's lifestyle. This project has students research information as well as around a flour sack baby for a week and documenting their experience in their journal and family photo album.
Some of the things included in this project are:
1. a letter that can be sent home to parents a week prior to the start of the project givin
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9th - 12th
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The Croods: Using the cartoon to review early humans/hominds
Bringing Common Core to the movies!!!
Questions to go along with the movie "The Croods". Example questions include determining the kind of homids they were (and justifying it), describing their cave art, and relating it to a modern day quote from Barack Obama about change.
8 questions in all with answers included
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5th - 9th
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Africa's Great Civilizations Movie Guide Bundle Episodes 1 - 6
This film guide, will move students through episodes 1 - 6, of the PBS series Africa's Great Civilizations. In episodes one and two, students will learn about the African continent's history and impact on civilizations globally starting with Human existence and leading through the exploration of religions in Africa. In episodes three and four, students will learn about the African continent's history and impact on civilizations globally starting with the revolutionary transformation of North a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
The Boston Tea Party, A Play
If you teach about the Road to Revolution in your class, this is a great way to get your students involved and engaged when you reach the Tea Act of 1773 and the Boston Tea Party 1773.Having students reenact history is an excellent way for them to "experience" what events were like. This is a great example. This play was written using eyewitness accounts and other excellent sources including information from the Boston Tea Party museum. If ever in Boston it is a must do! You even get to throw th
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5th - 12th
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Business Shark Tank Project and Supplemental Activities/Worksheets
This project includes step by step, day by day, teacher instructions, supplemental activity worksheets, including a Shark Tank episode guide, a Shark Tank product analysis activity, a brainstorm worksheet for product development, and a project information sheet including directions and check list requirements for the business plan, shark tank pitch, and advertisement. I use this project with my high school economics students during the business unit. It is my absolute favorite project because
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8th - 12th
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Slavery: African Slave Trade and Slavery Primary Sources Worksheets Bundle
This lesson plan collection is a series of 7 internet-based primary source documents on the African slave trade and slavery in general.The following primary source worksheets are included in this collection:African Slave Trade Primary Source Worksheet: The African Connection, ca 1788African Slave Trade Primary Source Worksheet: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829Frederick Douglass Primary Source Worksheet: Escape From SlaverySlavery Primary Source Worksheet: A Slave's LifeSlavery Primary Source Worksheet:
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6th - 12th
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Labor Unions Simulation
This is a 40 minute activity where students engage in collective bargaining with their peers. Students negotiate a contract, and then the teacher can spend as much, or as little, time debriefing the activity. Teacher may have a class discussion, or fish bowl depending on time allotment. Activity itself gets students talking with one another, teacher facilitates the negotiation process.
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8th - 11th
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Trade and Barter: A Trading Simulation
Welcome to the world of economic exchange! Throughout history, people have traded, bartered, negotiated, and haggled in order to receive the greatest amount of goods for the lowest cost. From the direct trade of goods to the use of currency, people have found ways to satisfy their wants and needs. This trade simulation provides students with an opportunity to barter with imaginary resources and goods in order to obtain points. The premise for the simulation is the combination of resources. In th
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6th - 12th
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Lying Activity- AP Psychology
This activity is a great, fun introduction to a unit on Emotion, Stress, and Motivation for AP Psych and regular Psych. In this simulation, students pair up to try and see if each other is lying about a particular issue. Students then watch informational videos and have a discussion about how they could tell if their partners were being dishonest. A great fun activity...especially for a Monday! :)
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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