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41. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Developing Inferential Comprehension Through DL-TA and Discussion Webs
    Students will love unwrapping this lesson about before, during, and after reading activities based on Margaree King Mitchell's book, Grandaddy's Gift.
42. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue
    "That's my position and I'm sticking to it!" After reading about the Korean War, students will take a position in response to an open-ended question, support their position, and evaluate that support.
43. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 23
    Diarist Samuel Pepys was born.
    Students write diary entries and revisit the entries as if it were a hundred years from now. Students then brainstorm and write paragraphs about life in the 21st century.
44. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Calendar Activity  |  December 3
    Dr. Christian Barnard performed the first human heart transplant.
    Students talk about the causes of heart disease and the role that diet and exercise play. Then, students find healthy dessert recipes and vote on one dessert to make in class.
45. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Printout  |  Assessment Tool
    Editing Checklist for Self- and Peer Editing
    This helpful tool will give your students the opportunity to edit their own writing and then observe as their peers edit the same work.
46. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 23
    Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the US to earn a MD degree in 1849.
    "Famous Firsts" are researched by students, followed by small group research and multimedia presentations to report research results.
47. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
    In small groups, students closely examine one sentence from the Gettysburg Address and create a multigenre project communicating what they have discovered about the meaning and significance of the text.
48. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 14
    Ernest Thayer, author of the famous poem "Casey at the Bat," was born in 1863.
    In small groups or individually, students make baseball cards for the players in the poem "Casey at the Bat." Students can use a word processor or the Character Trading Cards interactive to create their cards.
49. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exchanging Ideas by Sharing Journals: Interactive Response in the Classroom
    Pairs of students respond to literature alternately in shared journals. Mini-lessons are presented on responding to prompts, creating dialogue, adding drawings, and asking and answering questions.
50. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts
    Students build their understanding of the terms compare and contrast by participating in class discussions, using Internet resources, working collaboratively, and by visually representing information in a Venn diagram.

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