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Common Core RI.11-12.7 research
Using the CRAAP Test to Determine Source Credibility! Customizable Google Slides
Do your students tend to hit "share" "like" or "retweet" before checking a source is legitimate? Can your students determine the difference between a credible source and fake news? Do they know what to look for when analyzing articles, online material, tweets, and images for credibility? Do they understand which sources are acceptable to utilize as evidence in a writing assignment? In a world where misinformation can be spread like wildfire via social media and the internet, it is vital that stu
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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American Literature Time Period Introductions : American Literature Activities
Never worry about how to start an American Literature unit again! These succinct American literature time period introductions are designed to help you deliver simple context before diving into your American literature unit of study. Each time period includes a paragraph about the history, context of literature, and culture of the time. Anyone who knows history knows that it's impossible to cover everything before beginning a unit, but these summaries provide an essential overview.You will get:⭐
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9th - 12th
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National History Day Projects From Start to Finish 2023-2024
NOTE: Enjoy the NEWLY UPDATED 2023-2024 version (Turning Points in History Theme)! It has brand new materials related to this year's theme, and I also updated lessons to include a more comprehensive and integrated approach to using both primary and secondary sources.This is your one stop shop for all National History Day lessons and resources!National History Day is a contest in which student choose a topic, conduct in depth research, and create a project (5-6 project categories to choose from!)
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6th - 12th
Infamous Criminals: A High-Interest Nonfiction Research Project
In this project, students will research the life of a famous criminal and compile a bibliographic research project to share with the class. The criminals included in this project range from fraudsters to gangsters and from pirates to drug lords. There are plenty of options here to captivate the interest of secondary students. After selecting a criminal, students will compile an annotated bibliography as they go through the research process while preparing to create their final projects. Stud
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9th - 12th
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College, Military, and Career Portfolio Project
This amazing project allows students to research, explore, learn, and prepare for life after high school. The project gives students three pathways to choose from (college, career, or military) and requires them to research their chosen path and complete activities to prepare for it. Students bound for college apply for school, find and complete scholarships, sign up for testing, and prepare for financial obligations, academics, and student life. Students bound for the military research their ch
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11th - 12th
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The Crucible Engaging Activities - 12 Pre-Reading & Post-Reading Tasks
Looking for some fun, unique, and engaging activities to supplement The Crucible? These activities are perfect for learning background information before reading the play and assessing students' understanding after studying the play.Pre-reading activities include:❶ A history video viewing guide that corresponds with Salem Witch Trials documentary from the History Channel with answer key.❷ a handout where students determine which information is true, false, or simply opinionated about the history
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9th - 12th
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The Elizabethan Era, Shakespeare's World, and British Literature Activities
This introduction to Shakespeare explores the Elizabethan Era, Tudor monarchy, impact of the Black Plague, and the history of the famous playwright! Provide students with a deeper understanding of the historical references in Shakespeare's plays. The multimedia and digital resources will present William Shakespeare, the Tudor period, and Elizabethan society in an engaging way! Your students will have access to over 50 bookmarked sites on Elizabethan England, the Tudor monarchy, medieval mental
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9th - 12th
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ESSAYS: How to Write Informational Essays ~ It Begins Here...
A HOW-TO for writing strong essays for students in grades 5–10.Students research using two paired, high-interest, leveled articles."The Life in Antarctica""The Marvelous Manta"This is your definitive guide for teaching how to research and write essays and paragraphs;using a step-by-step process; building strong, independent writers.Do your students need a little more work on stand-alone paragraphs? This guide also explains how to write strong paragraphs.This writing resource has:125 pages of pro
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5th - 11th, Adult Education
Energy Sources Environmental Science Sustainability Research Project
This research project involves proposing the best and worst energy source that can be chosen for a new power plant in an imaginary city. Students are given information on the city, such as geographical and climate data. This project suggests students choose from the following energy sources: biomass (municipal solid waste), biomass (wood residue/waste), coal, geothermal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, oil, solar, or wind. Here is the introduction to the scenario - "The imaginary city of In
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9th - 12th
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HS-LS2-7
, HS-ESS3-2
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
Synthesis Bundle for AP Lang
The most important skill AP English Language teachers can impart is how to read, assess, and manipulate resources to synthesize information. The College Board's AP English exam counts a synthesis essay task as a third of its free response score. College-bound students benefit from learning how to research, retrieve and evaluate sources to form an original thesis to support their argument. The skills of annotation, directly quoting a source, paraphrasing, and summarizing are covered as well as cr
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11th - 12th
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Dystopian Novel Current Events Project
This is a great alternative summative assessment to use at the close of a dystopian novel unit. This project requires students to make connections between events/social issues present in the dystopian novel and those within your local area, country, and world. This project has a research component and a presentation component.Assignment and rubric included!Editable Microsoft Word and Google Docs versions included.
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9th - 12th
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AP Research - Bridge the Gap from AP Seminar - Capstone Program
"Spot the Differences" Great intro to the AP Research course!Students investigate the obvious and subtle differences between AP Seminar and AP Research. As they "level up" to this yearlong propriety research course - they need to know what skills they can take with them from their last year of learning in AP Research, and what skills they will acquire and use in AP Research.This "no prep" activity contains:AP Research standards-based lesson11-slide Google Slides presentation that takes students
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Language Synthesis Bundle - research project, essay organizer, slides, unit
This bundle contains everything you need to launch and keep the momentum going in your AP Language Synthesis unit. Each resource helps your students visualize their thinking, organize writing, and understand the process to producing a solid synthesis essay. Multiple scaffolds include writing organizers, writing stems, and visual cue cards to understand the essay writing process. This bundle contains two project-based learning experiences, each of 5-10 class periods, that combine skills for both
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Justice and the Death Penalty PBL Project; Frankenstein or Just Mercy Project
If you are looking for a new PBL project that has students investigate issues with the justice system and the death penalty, this is it! This project can easily connect with the novels Frankenstein or Just Mercy but can also stand alone! With this project, students will begin by reading a modernized article on Justine Moritz's (from Frankenstein) trial and then a follow up article long after her execution that shows she was innocent. This lays the foundation for their project! First, students wi
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10th - 12th
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Dystopia to Utopia: Problem-Based Learning Game
This is a problem-based learning game where students will not only learn about dystopias and utopias, but also conduct brief research and collaborate with each other.Problem-based learning activities are meant to be student-led and quite hands off for the teacher.Included in this product are the following:~ Brief pacing guide~ Member overview and application~ Dystopia journal and Utopia creation~ Individual member end-goals (with multiple graphic organizers for each)~ Four different problems~ Fi
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7th - 12th
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Dystopia to Utopia: Problem-Based Learning Game
This is a problem-based learning game where students will not only learn about dystopias and utopias, but they will also conduct brief research and collaborate in teams. Problem-based learning games are meant to be student-led and quite hands off for teachers.I did not use this game for a grade (though you could easily do so), so this game does NOT include a rubric.This game includes the following:~ A brief pacing guide~ Member descriptions and applications~ Dystopia and Utopia guidelines~ Indiv
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7th - 12th
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Charles Dickens: Social Activist
This lesson uses four videos and a Google doc to analyze how Charles Dickens was a social activist during his life. This pairs well with any movie version of his stories and can be useful around Christmas time if you are reading or showing "A Christmas Carol".
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8th - 11th
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The Crucible Researched Speech Activity Comparing to McCarthyism
This research and formal speech activity is a great way to introduce your high school ELA students to Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible. The activity has your students investigate why the playwright chose the analogy comparing two historical crises in America. Students make connections between the Second Red Scare orchestrated by Joseph McCarthy in 1950s America and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1600s in New England. This researched formal speech activity requires students to research The Sec
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9th - 12th
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J.K. Rowling Pre-Reading Webquest
Thinking about teaching a Harry Potter novel but feel that your students need some insight on the author before diving into the magic? Me too! I created this webquest for students to explore J.K. Rowling as an author and who she is as a person. Perfect pre-unit activity to engage students in research and help them to appreciate the writer behind the famous wizard, Harry Potter!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Evaluating Credible Sources, Website Evaluation Activity, Research Skills, ELA
Do you want to improve your middle and/or high school students' research skills? This digital activity will teach your students how to evaluate and identify credible sources so that they have the skills necessary to be successful when researching on their own. Hand out thisCredible Sources Reference Sheet before students begin working on this activity. This sheet will act as a cheat sheet for students to use as they work through each portion of the activity. During this activity, students are as
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6th - 12th
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Valentine's Day Business & Marketing Research Project for Grades 8-12 - No Prep
Business & Marketing Research Project for Grades 8-12Do you want a no prep, engaging, educational and stress-free business and marketing project for Valentine's Day? Engage your students with an exciting and insightful Valentine's Day project that combines business, marketing, and holiday spirit! This comprehensive resource provides everything you need to facilitate an enriching research project for grades 8-12. What's Included:Suggested Timelines: Easy-to-follow timelines to help teachers p
World Cup Economic Impact Assignment Economics | Sports Marketing | Business
The World Cup captures millions of people's attention across the world including our STUDENTS. Using this 2 page graphic organizer with 15 questions, students investigate this amazing gloabl sporting event and how it relates to business. After reading 2 online articles, students go on a webquest to learn about the sports marketing of the FIFA's big event at the World Cup. By performing online research, students dive into economics, sports marketing, and business in a meaningful way. INSTRUCT
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9th - 12th
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High School Research Project Decision Making Inquiry Print & Digital Bundle
This unit will introduce students to basic research skills, evaluating online information, and documenting sources. Students will research two sides of a particular issue, consider the pros and cons of each, and make a decision about that issue based on their research. This unit includes the following: · Unit plan · Possible topics list · Decision-making project assignment package with identifying personal knowledge section (example included) · Evaluating online information notes· Web evalua
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9th - 11th
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