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Literary circles and group discussions are the best way to get students understanding sequence of events and main idea. The class discusses the Tumblebook Wait and See together and then breaks into groups to read and discuss 50 Below Zero, The Fire Station, The Paper Bag Princess, and Pigs. They then work together and use Kidspiration to create a concept map.
If you have Inspiration software, utilize technology with this lesson. While reading The Tree of Life, readers brainstorm about different trees and find various pictures to go along with them. Learners keep track of symbols and descriptions related to trees and write down thoughts in a journal.
Using the story The Farm Concert, by Joy Cowley, young learners will explore the farm! Make predictions with your young readers, and have them locate high frequency words. Make sure you read several farm-related stories so learners become familiar with animal names and sounds.
Students prepare for a visit to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In this lesson plan students create a concept map of money. They discuss the goals of the IMF. Students research countries currently changing into market economies. After visiting the IMF, students write research reports to the board of directors.
For this postulates and theorems worksheet, students explore a concept map containing information about angles and sides, alternate interior angles, and diagonals of a parallelogram. They use the concept map to prove theorems dealing angles, diagonals and their relationship with parallelograms. This five-page worksheet contains 9 multi-step problems.
Sixth graders reduce fractions. In this equivalent fraction lesson, 6th graders watch a PowerPoint presentation and a Unitedstreaming video. Students reduce fractions as a guided practice activity. Students get into groups and create a concept map showing equivalent fractions and fractions in lowest terms.