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Abraham Lincoln: A Good Man? or A Good Man! In this lesson, students use video from American Masters: Bill T. Jones: A Good Man along with primary sources to investigate the life of Lincoln and write a one page argument essay on whether Lincoln was "a good man."	9-12	Lesson Plan
Analogies - The Baka of Cameroon, West Africa Students complete analogies and connect them to information about the Baka of Cameroon, West Africa.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Analyzing and Comparing Perspectives on Issues - Gorillas Students compare and contrast their perspectives on raising gorillas in captivity with their peers and with scientists. They summarize their perspectives and the perspectives of others.	5-12	Lesson Plan
Analyzing an Issue From Three Perspectives - Smoking in Public Places Students note various perspectives on the debate about smoking in public places in NYC and create an interview to research the perspectives of peers and community members. They write a report to present their findings and opinion on the issue.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Analyzing Information - Can Pigs be Pets? Students identify a main idea as well as analyze, evaluate and interpret new information, personal experiences and prior knowledge to form an opinion which they then write about.	3-5	Lesson Plan
Artistic Interpretation of a Classic: The Author’s Role This lesson uses video segments from Great Performances: The Little Mermaid from San Francisco Ballet to help students explore the role of the author in relation to his/her work.	9-12	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Determining Important Ideas In this WPSU lesson Determining Important Ideas, elementary students explore how to become better readers through the identification of main ideas, supporting details, and author’s message. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Drawing Inferences In this WPSU lesson Drawing Inferences, elementary students will practice drawing inferences or making predictions before, during and after reading, and then validating them. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Making Connections In this WPSU lesson Making Connections,elementary students will move toward understanding and comprehending text more effectively by making connections with their own background knowledge. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Monitoring and Repairing In this WPSU lesson Monitoring and Repairing,elementary students will identify words that are not known to them and decode or replace them in a variety of contexts. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Questioning In this WPSU lesson Questioning, elementary students explore how to become better readers through questioning before, during and after reading stories. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Synthesis In this WPSU lesson Synthesis, elementary students will explore how to become better readers by using contextual clues to predict an outcome, putting stories in order and assembling sentences. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Blue Ribbon Readers: Visualizing In this WPSU lesson Visualizing,elementary students will practice creating vivid sensory images, a critical key to reading comprehension. The lesson is part of the Blue Ribbon Readers collection.	K-5	Lesson Plan
The Buzz about Fact and Opinion Students differentiate between fact and opinion on a handout with statements about bees.	3-5	Lesson Plan
Cause and Effect Relationships - Silence of the Bees Students write an essay that synthesizes the cause and effect relationship the disappearance of bees will cause.	6-8	Lesson Plan
A Character's Perspective - Colonial House Students watch a video segment that shows the reactions of colonists and native people when they encounter one another for the first time during a colony settlement reenactment. Students then select a character and write a letter from that character’s point of view that describes the meeting.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Character Development - Nanavi, A Girl from Benin, West Africa Students use a chart to track character development and write a statement to express the ways in which a particular character from West Africa has changed.	5-8	Lesson Plan
Character Development: Cancer - A New Treatment Students will answer questions about what motivated chemical engineer Mark Davis to search for a better treatment for his wife's cancer. They then complete a journal entry in which they compare his motivations and goals to those they’ve established for themselves.	6-12	Lesson Plan
Character Development - Flora Students create and present a timeline of important events and changes in a character’s development over time.	6-12	Lesson Plan
Character Motivation - Sapelo Island Culture Students write a poem (using simile and flashback) about the culture of Sapelo Island. They read their poems for an audience.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Collecting and Organizing Facts From Multiple Sources - Flowering Plants Students take notes on two videos about flowering plants and organize the information to write a cohesive essay about the topic.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Compare and Contrast - City Pigeons and City Parrots Students take notes on similarities and differences between two types of city birds using a T-chart and then construct a Venn diagram to compare and contrast them.	4-8	Lesson Plan
Compare and Contrast Information from Multiple Sources - Wolong's Pandas Students compare and contrast information from three sources to determine the reasons that contributed to panda population decline. They draw conclusions from these sources by writing their own paragraphs.	5-7	Lesson Plan
Comparing and Contrasting - Explorers of Yesterday and Today Students write essays that compare and contrast two explorers of Yellowstone National Park, Tom Murphy, a modern day explorer and photographer and John Colter, an explorer who traveled across the same area almost 200 years ago.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Comparing and Contrasting - Grassland, Desert, and Forest Elephants Students use a T-chart to take notes on the similarities and differences among elephants. With partners, they organize their notes and construct a Venn diagram with illustrations.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Comparing and Contrasting Information and Forming an Opinion - Santiago and Morris Students use a T-Chart to take notes and then write a compare/contrast paragraph about a therapy dog.	5-7	Lesson Plan
Comparing Education Around the World Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding two boys’ experiences at schools in different countries.	3-5	Lesson Plan
Condense, Combine or Categorize New Information - Your Brain and Moral Decision-Making Students watch a video showing an experiment on how the brain responds when making moral decisions. They then synthesize information to create a summary paragraph that describes the experiment and the conclusions presented.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Connections Between Texts - Maya Lin and Jane Jacobs Students write and perform a Readers’ Theater script in which two characters, Maya Lin and Jane Jacobs, talk to each other about their ideas about architecture and life.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Connections to Personal Experiences - Bees? Yikes! Students make connections between a video about bees and their own personal experiences through a poem written for two voices.	5-7	Lesson Plan
Creating a Hypothesis - The Intelligent Robot Students watch a video segment that discusses developing intelligent robots, and then write paragraphs that provide detailed hypotheses of results that could come from this endeavor.	6-12	Lesson Plan
Creating Literary Texts - Finding Homes for Pets Students write and illustrate a persuasive book to convince readers to adopt a pet.	5-7	Lesson Plan
Describing Characters - Cloud Grows Students learn about characterization by studying and taking notes on the growth of a white stallion.	5-12	Lesson Plan
Designing a Poster to Communicate Information: Yellowstone National Park While watching a short video segment about Yellowstone National Park, students take notes they later use to create an interesting and infomative poster.	3-6	Lesson Plan
Determining Main Idea and Supporting Details - Wild in the City Students use a graphic organizer to record important details and determine the main idea of a video segment. They use the organizer to write an informational paragraph about parakeets in the city.	4-7	Lesson Plan
Determining Solutions to a Problem - Fire Cloud Students identify a problem and what measures are taken to solve it as well as identify solutions to the problem.	4-12	Lesson Plan
Developing Supporting Ideas - A Garden Grows in Brooklyn Students design and draw a garden and give reasons to support why their garden is important to the neighborhood.	3-6	Lesson Plan
Drawing Conclusions - Polka Town, U.S.A. Students draw conclusions from basic premises they identify while watching a video. They test each other’s conclusions based on the explicit and implicit information that is available to the reader.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Drawing Conclusions - Is This a Map of the Underground Railroad? After watching a video segment, students complete a graphic organizer to establish evidence regarding the authenticity of a map and whether it is or is not a map of the Underground Railroad.	6-12	Lesson Plan
Drawing Conclusions - Miss Navajo Students watch a video documenting the Navajo language portion of the Miss Navajo Nation beauty contest, determine the main responsibilities of the winner of Miss Navajo Nation and complete graphic organizers to write paragraphs that highlight these details and explain their inferences.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Drawing Conclusions and Comparing/Contrasting - The Everglades Students take notes to determine the most important information given in a video segment and written text. They compare the information and draw written conclusions about the importance of studying the pig frog and the Everglades.	4-8	Lesson Plan
Evaluating the Validity of Information - Did the Chinese Discover America in 1421? Students evaluate evidence regarding the Chinese building a massive fleet for naval exploration then determine whether the evidence presented is valid.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Explicit and Implicit Language – Interpreting the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment Students watch two video segments about the Fourteenth Amendment and then write an essay addressing where the amendment is explicit or implicit in meaning.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Exploring Contrasts in "The Lanyard," by Billy Collins In "The Lanyard," by Billy Collins, the speaker remembers a gift he made for his mother. This media-rich lesson helps students explore how contrasting images in a poem can create meaning.	7-12	Lesson Plan
Exploring Selected Haiku by Issa Discover the haiku of Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa. This media-rich lesson examines the format, humor, and nature of haiku by Issa. Students analyze various haiku and write their own.	7-12	Lesson Plan
Fact or Opinion - Manatees Students differentiate between facts and opinions about manatees.	5-7	Lesson Plan
Facts or Opinions - Wonderful Worms Students differentiate between facts and opinions using a two-column chart.	3-6	Lesson Plan
Following Directions - Ndakinna Wilderness Project Students create a diagram with captions and a drawing to communicate information about camouflaging.	5-8	Lesson Plan
Form an Opinion - Cats Students develop an informed opinion about whether cats or dogs make better pets.	4-12	Lesson Plan
Forming an Opinion with Organizational Elements - Cats, Yesterday and Today Students use a graphic organizer to list facts about the role of cats throughout history. They then write a paragraph stating an informed opinion about cats' most important role.	5-12	Lesson Plan

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