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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
    Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
12. Professional Development | Grades   K – 12  |  Strategy Guide Series
    Developing Academic Vocabulary
    In this Strategy Guide Series, you'll find creative and compatible ways to build, maintain, and extend students' vocabulary across academic disciplines.
13. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines
    Written with the Common Core State Standards firmly in mind, this book presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
    Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
    
15. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Discovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
    Students learn about memory by doing a memory-writing exercise, studying the brain to understand how it affects memory, reading Li-Young Lee's poem "Mnemonic," and creating projects to demonstrate their understanding.
16. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 28
    Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine, was born in 1914.
    After learning about Dr. Salk, students interview a family member or someone they know who remembers the polio epidemic.
17. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Dynamic Duo Text Talks: Examining the Content of Internet Sites
    An Observation and Inquiry Sheet guides students as they analyze and compare their reactions to the value, engagement, and credibility of three websites related to Anne Frank and the Holocaust.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
    Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
    Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Finding the Science Behind Science Fiction through Paired Readings
    Students read science fiction texts and then use nonfiction texts to extrapolate the scientific principles presented as they discuss the "what ifs" within the context of scientific principles.

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