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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
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
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
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
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
A Garden Grows in Brooklyn Visit a garden in Brooklyn and learn how it brings a community closer together in this WILD TV video segment.	1-4	QuickTime Video
Garden Spiders In this video segment from Garden Insects, learn about six varieties of spiders that live in one garden.	3-6	QuickTime Video
Identifying the Social and Cultural Context of a Period - The New Negro and the Harlem Renaissance Students write an essay summarizing the social and cultural changes in African American life and attitudes during the Harlem Renaissance.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, and Theme - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster Students will watch a video segment chronicling the tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Using a story elements graphic organizer, students will determine the various elements of the story and arrange them in the correct order on the organizer.	6-8	Lesson Plan
Jane Jacobs Learn about Jane Jacobs, an activist who worked to save the neighborhoods of New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Perspectives of the Gullah Geechee People - Sapelo Island Students use information they record on a Speaker Graphic Organizer to write a paragraph about the perspectives of the Gullah Geechee People.	5-8	Lesson Plan
Reading Charts and Tables – Garden Spiders Students read a chart that reflects information about garden spiders in the segment and then answer a series of questions using the chart.	3-5	Lesson Plan
Recording Information to Write a Report - Kids Who Volunteer in Their Communities Students write a report on kids’ volunteer activities.	3-6	Lesson Plan
Social and Historical Perspectives of Dogs Learn more about the theory that dogs evolved from wolves in this video from Nature.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Summarizing - Squirrel Rehabilitation Students use a graphic organizer to summarize important information from a video segment. They use their notes to write a summary of the video segment.	4-7	Lesson Plan
What Can You Do? In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about a woman who photographs dogs in an animal shelter in an effort to find new homes for the homeless pets.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Writing to Publicize an Event - The Cultural Day Festival on Sapelo Island Students create posters to publicize the Cultural Day Festival on Sapelo Island, Georgia.	4-8	Lesson Plan
Your Brain and Moral Decision Making In this segment from Curious, scientists conduct an experiment to learn how different areas of the brain are stimulated when making moral decisions.	6-12	QuickTime Video