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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
   Are your students easily fooled? You'll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.
2. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Activity & Project
   It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Make a Children's Book about the Weather
   Kids learn about weather sayings throughout history while writing and illustrating a book for younger children.
3. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
   Nonfiction Roundup
   With each annual crop of new nonfiction, teens have the opportunity to discover and explore new disciplinary worlds. Tune in to hear about an array of recently-published nonfiction titles that will engage teens in learning about history, science, economics, and medicine. You'll hear about junk food and advertising, the atomic bomb and civil rights, bird watching and volcanoes – books written in a variety of formats for a variety of teen readers.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Paying Attention to Technology: Exploring a Fictional Technology
   Students complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology. They compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984 or Fahrenheit 451).
5. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Socratic Seminars
   This strategy guide explains Socratic seminars and offers practical methods for applying the approach in your classroom to help students investigate multiple perspectives in a text.
6. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide
   Using Word Walls to Develop and Maintain Academic Vocabulary
   In this guide, you will learn how to use Word Walls to support vocabulary development and retention.