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Holidays writing-expository projects for Microsoft Word
Valentines Day Box Project Letter to Parents
This is a perfect letter to use to send home to students families to encourage them to work together to create a Valentines Day mailbox for your students Valentine's goodies. This letter can be edited to meet your project needs. This is a Microsoft word document.Recently added a second format with different color hearts.
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Halloween Short Research Project: Myths, Ghosts, & Legends Media Presentation
With this standards-based short research task AND a digital media presentation project, your middle and high school students will be 100% engaged on Halloween. Student Experience: Students will be assigned a myth from their state or from a state in the US. They will research and create a media presentation to share their findings. This type of assignment is very flexible and is 100% editable. It could be used to teach MLA and research, review MLA, conclude a unit on Dark Romantic or Gothic lit
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
Start Your Own School Newspaper and Newspaper Club
Starting your own school newspaper isn't difficult. I've run (and created) our school newspaper for three years. This document has most of the materials you'll need for set-up. The newspaper club in my school was open to fifth grade students and printed copies were distributed in the school to faulty, staff, classroom libraries, school common areas, and to the newspaper club members. Our newspaper is usually 12 pages long and we use Microsoft Publisher to create it.
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3rd - 6th, Staff
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Create a Reptile/Amphibian
I use this activity as an introduction activity for our Reptile chapter in my high school Zoology Class. We are are one-year general level science elective, with a mixture of students from all sorts of backgrounds. I like this activity because it allows the students to bring their background knowledge to the activity, and combine it with a creative flair. Plus, it gets my students working together in small groups. The activity itself can be made as simple or complex as needed, so is probably ver
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7th - 12th
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Cereal Box Biography Project - Black History Month or any biography
This is a Black History Biography project which required my students to create a new cereal based on the life on a famous African American. The students had to design a cereal box to tell the story of the person they chose. They had to include things like a cereal name that relates to the person, a picture of the person, a timeline of the person's life, character traits of the person, and a written report of the biography they read about the person. My own students had a blast with this project.
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3rd - 8th
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Spanish Food truck project
Your students will love this amazing and fun project. Food trucks and street foods are part of the Latin culture and this project will help them learn as well as inspire the entrepreneur in them!The documents include:A grading rubric, full instructions and tips on how to use Canva.com and the recorded options. NOTE: although the food truck sides are included, you must copy paste each side into another word document and change the paper size depending on what paper sizes your school provides for
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Short Research Project: Symbols of the Season for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa
This short research task for December allows your middle and high school students to investigate and share various symbols of the holiday season. This low prep assignment is very flexible: It could be used to teach MLA and research, review MLA, or in a non English class looking to incorporate research in a fun way. Student Experience: Students will research an important symbol from the Christmas season, design a media presentation, and then present their findings to the class. With this stu
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Research Writing Unit, Curriculum BUNDLE+
Writing Assignment: Write a Movie Review. Film Critique Handout w/ Rubric
This is a handout for a fun and creative writing assignment, in which students will write their own film review. Page one explains the function of a film review, and the kind of content that should be included in one. The content should be focused on evaluating the film, rather than summarizing. A couple website links are also included so that students can go read some current reviews and get a better understanding of what a good review is before they create their own.Formatting requirements are
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8th - 12th
The Nutcracker: A Craft-ivity
Students love the story of the Nutcracker. Included in this document is a re-telling of the story and a fun project! Students color and cut out a nutcracker doll, then glue him to an empty paper towel roll for a 3D nutcracker of their very own. This can easily be done in a 20 to 30-minute time period in school, but it is fun to give this as a take-home project so that students can use additional materials (sequins, beads, feathers, etc.) and bring back for a colorful display at school!
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1st - 5th
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Family Tree Research Project - Independent Assessment
The Family Tree Research Project includes instructions for each activity, 20 family history interview research questions, individual Family Member Fact Cards, and a student reflection paper assignment. The project includes plan sheets for the visual display projects and reflection paper featuring guiding questions for student success.The Family Tree Research Project features informational writing, speaking and listening, and active research in order for students to apply their skills and invest
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7th - 12th
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Ghosts in Adobe Photoshop Lessons for High School Art or Photography
The perfect haunted project for October. I do this project with my graphics and photography classes as well as my advanced art classes, because all artists should learn at some Photoshop. This creative high school level project has screen shots showing how to turn a person into a ghost, but students come up with their own ideas, take their own photos and staged scenes. It comes with teacher notes and links to the original royalty-free photos to use if you want to demo the exact steps with the ex
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Adobe Photoshop Bundle for High School Art and Graphic Design
Satire: Writing a Satirical Argument Like Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Following examination of the persuasive satire Jonathan Swift perfected in "A Modest Proposal," your students will create their own satirical arguments to address controversial issues of today, whether at the local or global level. This complete unit contains nine pages of materials for the instruction of persuasive satire, including a 2-page overview of the assignment itself, including the writing prompt, steps for organization of ideas, tips regarding tone and style, discussion of possible top
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10th - 12th
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Thanksgiving Math: Linear Equation Thanksgiving Dinner Project for Algebra 1
Harnessing the energy my students come in with right before break, I have created a one-period project in which they are going to create a linear equation related to a Thanksgiving meal. It is sometimes hard for students to create their own equations, but I am hoping that this scaffolded project will be something we can reference for the rest of our linear equations unit!The assignment sheet takes students through some quick new vocab related to economics (definitions included) and provides a ba
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7th - 10th
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News report and Newscast Project
In this project, students select local news, world news, sports or weather as their focus. They they self direct their research with teacher support and graphic organizers to help guide them. They then write a news story and participate in a newscast. I had the students use iMovie to create their finished newscast, but it is not required. Students can perform their newscast in front of the class. My students loved this activity and I loved that it hit individual interests, but also had the
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4th - 8th
4th Grade Autobiography Project
This packet includes step-by-step directions for fourth graders to compose an autobiography while studying narrative writing. Specific directions are given to students so that they are able to author ten pieces of writing.
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3rd - 5th
Animal Diorama Project with Rubric
This is a complete animal diorama project, in which the students choose an animal and create an animal and habitat diorama in a shoebox along with a four paragraph report about the animal. The students will write about the animal's characteristics, habitat, diet, and what they learned. The report can be adjusted down to a fill-in-the-blank type of activity if paragraph writing is too difficult for the students; there is a planning sheet included to make this possible.
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2nd - 4th
Essay of Definition: 14-page Expository Writing Unit; Models; Rubrics
This is a complete, 2-week unit for instruction of an essay of definition in an honors or mainstreamed English course. These 14 pages of materials include a 2-page handout providing an overview of the writing task and prompt with requirements, guidelines, possible topics, and evaluative scoring details; 1-page scoring evaluation form; two model essays (a 2-page mid-range response and 4-page high response); 2-page supplementary speech guidelines for using note cards; 1-page practice prompt regard
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8th - 12th
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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.
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6th - 12th
Día de los Muertos Ofrenda Project | Day of the Dead Altar Project
Everything you need to help your students set up their own ofrenda and Day of the Dead celebration!Ofrenda Project Includes:Project DescriptionFestival Option IdeasEvery item that should go in a traditional ofrendaList to make sure each student knows what he/she is respondible for.ChecklistsVoting Ballot (Vote for best classroom ofrenda with the rest of the school or Spanish classes)Auto Evaluation Rubric (Students Self Grade themselves) in English & SpanishNumbers for each altar and moreEl
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
EXPOSITORY RESEARCH PAPER: THE AP NOVEL AND LITERARY CRITICISM
This is an intensive project. I do this with my AP English Literature students. I have also done this paper/ project with past honors senior classes and honor junior classes. Other teachers who have used this project have had students work cooperatively on the same novel—either completing individual papers as part of group discussion or a collaborative paper. To scaffold this you can decrease the requirements as you see fit for your students.
This is the most challenging project I do with my s
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9th - 12th
Planning A Thanksgiving Meal (Adding and Subtracting Decimals)
This project is designed for 4th-6th graders who need practice adding and subtracting decimals.
Students will create a menu their Thanksgiving meal. The menu needs to include a turkey, 2 side dishes, 2 vegetables, a dessert, and a beverage.
Once the menu for the meal is created, students will need to look through local grocery ads to shop for the food items they will need. Assume that utensils, basic spices, condiments, etc. are already purchased.
Students will have fun creating a menu and
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4th - 6th
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Writing a Research Paper--Step-by-Step Guide
This 15-page booklet is a step-by-step guide to writing a research paper. It takes the student through each paragraph (5 paragraph essay), with clear brainstorming, rough draft pages, and final copy pages. It explains how to write the paper in an easy-to-understand manner.
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3rd - 5th
Teen Issues: Multigenre Research Project
This unit is designed to appeal to adolescents' inquiry into the social issues amongst them. Students select a relevant teen issue and create a five-piece research-based multigenre project. I include a structures unit plan with objectives; project requirements, ideas, and rubrics; handouts to guide them through the process of Internet-based research; and a post-assignment self-assessment for students to complete at the end of the unit. This was one of the most successful units at my diverse,
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8th - 12th
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A Cinderella Christmas: Script for a Dramatic Production-Reader's Theater
This Play Includes:A List of Characters (M/F, # Lines for each Character)A List of PropsScript 1: Teacher Copy (suggestions for scene changes, physical movements and expressions of characters)Script 2: Teacher or Student Copy (depending on teacher's preference (Lines only) May be used for Reader's TheaterA Cinderella Christmas can be performed as a dramatic production or as a Reader's Theater. There are speaking lines for 14 people as well as additional roles for Chri
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5th - 12th
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