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Back to School research for Microsoft Word
30 Minute Library Lessons: What Should I Read Grades 2-5
Students often do not know what they want to look for during library visits. These 10 questions will help them see that life interests are a good place to start. Afterwards, you can collect the information to determine future book purchases for your library, or use the information to create pie charts to analyze with students in future classes.
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2nd - 5th
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Name Origins WEBQUEST
Students use the "Behind the Name" website and the student-friendly handout to research the origin, meaning, and history of their first and middle names. This is a TERRIFIC first week of school activity-- students can make name tags that display the information learned through the webquest. Students can then share this information in a quick "introductory" speech.
The handout can also be used to research the meanings behind CHARACTER names in students favorite novels OR as inspiration for nam
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Grades:
5th - 12th
Travel Project
Fun, independent travel project integrating math and geography allowing students to use math skills learned throughout the year to plan a week long vacation out of the country. Students will use addition, multiplication, division, solve for elapsed time, number forms and more.
This project could also be used as a beginning of the year project for 5th graders or end of the year math project for 4th graders..
Students will enjoy researching locations, hotels, and sharing their presentations.
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4th - 5th
Country Research Project: Olympic Designers - Opening Ceremony
A great beginning or end of the year project! Students will design the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games for a country that has not hosted the Olympics yet. Students will research major cities, climate, cultural attire, dance, music, and key events of their assigned country. This research project is a creative spin on the typical "Country Research Project"
Grades:
4th - 12th
Biography Writing - 3 Parts Practicing Point of View
Students choose an eminent person to research and write a 3-part biography about. The biography includes a PROLOGUE, which is written in 3rd person about the person's life and accomplishments. In the MONOLOGUE, students pretend to be their eminent person and write in first person about a major accomplishment. In the EPILOGUE, students sum up the accomplishments of the eminent person and have a conversation/interview with that person.
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4th - 10th
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Family Heritage Project
This is a project in which students examine their family and where they came from. It is a fantastic way for students, and teacher, to learn lots more about one another, and build empathy and community! This project could be used during a unit about immigration, or simply as a way to get to know one another and see similarities and differences among students' family backgrounds. This download includes one page that describes the project for students, a rubric to use to assess students' final pro
Grades:
4th - 12th
Alphabiography
This mini-research unit makes a great beginning of the year activity to get to know students as they research information directly related to their interests and their lives. This information is then assembled into an ABC book. I have included instructions, a rubric, an alphabet chart to assist with organization, and citation and notes pages to assist with research and organization of research notes.
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Grades:
7th
Reading Interview
Get to know your students with this simple, yet informative reading questionnaire. I used this in my 4th and 6th grade classrooms during the "get to know you" first few days of school.
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4th - 6th
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Event Planning Project - Great for back to school or summer school!
This can be a group or individual project that is fun, engaging, and effective in building research, organization, and presentation skills. The project entails planning an event and researching locations, services, and costs while organizing timing and preparing a speech. Students keep track of their sources to create a works cited page. The packet includes four rubrics for: PowerPoint presentationRationales for decisionsSpeechWorks cited page
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Grades:
7th - 11th, Adult Education
Independent Enrichment Activities
Students who need extra research activities to keep their brain active will find these independent challenges fun and engaging! Parent helpers can be used to check student work, promoting parent involvement in the classroom in a very supportive way. These can be used during a specific writing time or during down time when students are waiting to move on to the next activity.
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3rd - 5th
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Library Poster – Catalogue
Engaging and visually appealing poster to put up in your library to encourage students/patrons to use your catalogue to search the database!
Print the poster and place it by your catalogue computer!
(Canadian spelling)
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Not Grade Specific
Student Interest Survey
Speed up the process of learning a whole new class. Get to know about your students` hobbies, personalities, and learning styles faster. An added advantage of this survey is that the information obtained makes grouping students way easier for lessons and projects.
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Grades:
4th - 12th
What is Social Studies, and Why Should We Care About It?
Students often come to social studies and find no purpose in learning it. Why do we need to learn about the past? How will this help in life? These are some phrases I commonly hear.
Teach your students the true meaning of social studies in this personalized research project! Students explore resources to investigate the essential questions: What is social studies? Why is it important to learn?
Once they feel they can answer the questions, they create a product in any format they choose to dem
Grades:
5th - 12th
Student Technology Access Survey: Use for Research Projects or Back to School!
Before starting a new school year, a research project, or unit which requires the use of technology, check in with students and their families regarding what they have access to at home. Simple survey allows teachers to determine what technology students have access to so that you can better prepare for research or projects. Useful for all grade levels in which we might conduct research activities! Editable .doc format
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Name Research Homework Project!
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This project is a really fun way to build community in the classroom as well as to boost morale for students! I have done this project with students ranging from PreK to Graduate school. I even included a "favorite song" so that we can build classroom music playlists.
My students had so much fun getting to know the history behind their names (by interviewing their elders) and then sharing them with their classmates!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â What do we want? Restorative Justice! When do we want it? NOW!
IPC Brainwave (Entry Point) - Learning Detectives
This is a recording sheet for the entry point activity for Milepost 2 IPC unit Brain Wave.In this task, students become learning detectives who look for evidence of good learning as they visit other classrooms / lessons. (Refer to IPC unit guide from Fieldworks education for more info)**EDITABLE
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in:Â IPC "Brainwave" Bundle
Citizenship test
Bank of questions from the U.S. Citizenship exam. Great intro to Civics or Problems of Democracy.
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9th - 12th
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Words of Wisdom for New Teachers or Experienced Teachers that Need Help!
Words of Wisdom for New Teachers or Experienced Teachers that Need Help - This short document will help you cope with the stressors of teaching and work-life balance.
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PreK - 12th, Adult Education
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Most Dangerous Ways to School (fact finder) Report Template
This is an accompaniment to the series "Most Dangerous Ways to School." Students can research and write a 10 fact report on the country and what life is like for students who travel through danger to get their educations. It's a wonderful way to introduce a global perspective in the classroom.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Co-Lab
This is the student packet for an IBL unit aimed at fourth grade to teach students about collaboration, teamwork, and inquiry. In the unit, students will work in groups and read articles about collaboration, interview other classes and administration about flexible seating and budgeting, create their own budget, sketch a blueprint for their learning lab, and finally build and share a model of their dream learning lab. For a full breakdown of the unit, see my blog post about it! http://theevery
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3rd - 7th
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Guinea Pig/Class Pet Research - Independent Work
This is a short worksheet that students can complete on guinea pigs. I use this worksheet as an introduction to our class pet. While they are independently researching is usually when I will circulate the room with the class pet so everyone can get a chance to meet/pet her, without over crowding since they are working independently.
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Not Grade Specific
Tolerance & Sportsmanship PebbleGo Webquest
**You must have access to PebbleGo.com to use this webquest.**I created this webquest to help learn about tolerance and sportsmanship. The log-in directions are at the top of the page (please make sure your students have the username and password to pebblego.com). Students read the information and answer the questions from the webquest.There are 2 webquests- one for tolerance and one for sportsmanship. In my experience, these can take 30-45 minutes, especially at the beginning of the school year
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K - 3rd
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Using Computer Keyboards as Visual Teaching Tools
"Don't look at your hands," we were told in business typing classes. "Keep your eyes on copy." That was fine in high school and junior high, but now we see core curriculum requiring that third grade students being introduced to computer keyboards. How age appropriate is touch typing based on Piaget's developmental theory? It's not.Teaching Language Arts with Eyes on KeyboardsFor too many years computer keyboarding has been taught with cardboard boxes cut up to cover the fingers on letter keys in
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Not Grade Specific
Student Survey
Editable survey posters which allow students to respond anonymously and presents very visual results. Fantastic for students to reflect and an effective tool to inform future teaching.Sized for A3 paper as a editable document. Students will need stickers for responding, one sticker per poster per student. Thank you for downloading! Feel free to tag @incursiveshewrote on Instagram when sharing your posters!
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4th - 12th
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