Interactive Reading Notebook Fiction and Nonfiction Mega Bundle (Grades 5-12)
A YEAR'S WORTH: 220 Common-Core aligned interactive reading foldable activities for secondary students.
You do not have to use the Common Core State Standards to utilize this bundle!
You can use this set of 75 common core science task cards with ANY Science Informational Text Readings. Simply choose the cards you want to use with any article, reading, or passage from the text.
These task cards are aligned with the common core science and technical standards, and will help yo
Don't fear, get your emergency secondary science sub plans right here. This bundle contains 50 SCIENCE ARTICLES plus two bonus free articles (see below for summaries of each article) with questions and full answer keys! A whole year's worth of science literacy activities and sub pl
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Move away from the traditional multiple question worksheets and engage students in learning and/or reviewing by using the Atoms and Atomic Structure Task Cards.
This Task Cards
Science literacy reading strategies can be hard to teach and this lesson is designed to help students learn how to read scientific literature at their grade level. It can also be used as a sub plan! Students will read about zombie ants and learn specifically about the concepts of correlation and ca
When we teach science, the important scientific figures behind the science are only mentioned in a cursory way. My Great Minds in Science Series of 18 ARTICLES plus a Bonus Article functions to enliven and deepen the understanding of the people behind the discoveries. These articles
40 Covalent Bonding and VSEPR Task Cards to help you switch up your lessons from traditional worksheets. All-in-One: Engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate!
Ionic Bonding and Ionic Compound Task Cards: Move away from the traditional multiple question worksheets and engage students in learning and/or reviewing by using the Ionic Bonding and Ionic Compound Task Cards . Suggestions for using the Task Cards are included.
This lesson is designed to help students with science literacy reading strategies and can be used as a sub plan! Students will analyze real data from a case study of patients who caught H1N1 virus on an airplane flight, the first H1N1 cases to arrive in Great Britain.
Good science reading at the h
Scientific Revolution Discovery Centers
This activity allows students to either work in table groups or to visit placard centers set up around the room on 7 different advancements during the Scientific Revolution.
The content covered focuses on the contributions of significant, groundbreaking sci
This free DNA Informational Text reading is based on Watson and Crick's famous one-page article from 1953, announcing their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. It comes with graphic organizers to help your students read and understand a classic scientific paper.
Matter: Task Cards. Engage students in learning and/or reviewing chemistry by using the Matter Task Cards. Students may work individually or in groups.
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Use this lesson to help teach science literacy reading strategies to high school students at their level! It can be also used as a sub plan. Students will analyze data from a study in Europe that examined the driving habits of people infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma.
Good science rea
Free Graphic Organizers for Use with the Common Core Science and Technical Standards
This free download contains 2 graphic organizers. Both are included in color and in black and white format.
These graphic organizers can be used with ANY science informational text for students in
Students will be actively engaged reading about the controversial topic of genetic testing. Paired with a science unit about genetics, this activity will work to bring literacy into your science classroom. It could also be used independently in your language arts classroom.
Students will be tasked
Can be used as a sub plan! Good science reading at the high school level is difficult to find! Science teachers struggle to find lessons a substitute could help students do and here is a lesson they can!
An Atomic Assault
A father is accused of assault with a radioactive substance. To go forward with a criminal case, investigators need to know what substance was used. Students will study radiation, radioactive decay, and half-life to determine what radioactive substance was used.
This is a complete packet to fully invite students to not only learn about the historical perspectives and theories on dreaming, but to record their own dreams and synthesize that knowledge and application by writing a critical thinking response to their dream(s). This 12-page PDF includes dream theo
An Aquatic Apocalypse
Millions of fish are dead along a stretch of the White River that passes through Indiana. So what happened? This problem-based unit asks students to complete a series of experiments to determine the possible cause of the fish kill.
This problem-based un
True Story Articles: A "Must-Have" if You Work With Teens,
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This resource has 100 true story articles on relevant teen issues.
This is a polished, newly updated 2013 PDF of a 5-page article originally published in the March 2006 edition of Psychology Today, followed by original, critical-thinking and text-based informational reading questions for students: you may use the questions to stimulate dialogue and further problem-s
This is a polished, graphic, new, single page 2013 PDF for critical thinking analysis of a 1998 article in Scientific American on the arguments and science behind left vs. right brain or brain lateralization. The question set could be addressed individually by students, in small collaborative groups,
This Common Core Literacy lesson guides students through an article about research in Down syndrome gene therapy.
The activity consist of three parts:
1. Close Reading with annotation symbol guide and vocabulary identification
2. Discussion where students compare what they thought was most importa
The Baby and the Bottle
A child is brought to the emergency room unconscious. The doctor is concerned that the child has been poisoned, possibly by the contents of his bottle. This problem-based unit asks students to complete a series of experiments to determine whether the boy’s bottle c
This is a newly revised, polished and graphic MS 2013 11-slide presentation for students to further understand how motivation works in psychological terms. Here, you'll present information in detail about human emotions -- cross-culturally, too, and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, which shifted Psycholo
Introductory PowerPoint for a Personality unit in Psychology course. Highly detailed, graphic and accurate 49-slide 2013 presentation and introduction to the following seven theories on personality development: Freudian Psychoanalytic theory; Behaviorism; Humanism; Trait Theory; BioPsychological theo
Reluctant reader? No problem! Intriguing topic and engaging standards-based activities and resources will ignite your students' interest and motivation to learn! Differentiated assignments: nonfiction reading and analysis, video, discussion, writing, art-based key word summary, and more. All student
This is a detailed, updated and graphic MS 2013 PowerPoint to be utilized in a unit on Learning in Psych I/II or AP Psych, focused on the distinctions between two powerful learning theories: classical and operant conditioning.
With this newly revised 12-slide PPT, you're purchasing:
a.) detailed in
This is a 2013 MS PowerPoint slide presentation, which could easily be reproducible as handouts, on the fight or flight response. You may use thisin a Psych I or II unit on the physiological response of fight vs. flight, and include the final slide activity I have written and presented here, OR count
This resource includes 1 Common Core body systems Document Based Question (DBQs) file that contains over 10 questions that reference primary and secondary sources such as graphs, tables, political cartoons, and excerpts of informational texts. These resources are aligned to science textbooks and the
Objective: Students will form hypotheses and create an experiment based on the evidence provided relating to the Tunguska Explosion in 1908. The students will submit their background information, theory about what occurred in Tunguska, examples to support their theory, and outlined experiment to be
Using Chemistry to Solve the Crime:
Practice chemistry skills and critical thinking in these two highly-engaging activities.
Case I: (Spectral Analysis) A man has been found dead outside a cabin in the woods. Students will analyze the emission spectra of chemical elements to help identify unknow
Are you teaching an objective that reads something like: Identify some of the main causes, effects and sources of air pollution? This activity will introduce the complex topic of air pollution in STEM, Environmental Science or Biology.
Each student receives a handout. While I take attendance, each
This is an introductory MS 2013 PowerPoint to be utilized in a unit on Cognition/Learning in Psych I/II or AP Psych. Here you will present students with learning theories in detail, including:
b.) custom animations
c.) slide transitions
d.) definitions on learning and cognition
This is an incredibly effective, polished and research-driven method of assessing your students' understanding and higher level application + analysis of their reading -- particularly with informational texts. This reading rubric can be utilized in any secondary classroom regardless of subject matter
This is a detailed, graphic, brand new 2013 PDF document to be utilized in any Psychology course in which you present a unit on Psychoanalytic theory, and wish to hone in on Freudian ego defense mechanisms (Psych I, II, or AP Psychology). The activity could take a full class period, depending on how
It's the beginning of a new school year -- time to review the Scientific Method!
Your students might be able to rattle off all the steps in order, but can they analyze what makes a good study, or what needs a touch extra tweaking and help to be scientifically-sound?
This set includes eight half-pag
This is a package deal -- two reading strategies, detailed, step-by-step with examples -- for use not only in any secondary ELA course, but in any subject area to help engage students with what they're reading! With this newly revised, 10-slide MS 2013 PPT presentation, you're purchasing the followin
This zip file contains two articles on antibiotic resistance. Both articles loosely discuss natural selection while primarily focusing on bacterial resistance to antibiotics; one is a more challenging read than the other. In addition, the zip file contains critical thinking questions designed for e
What are ET Notes?
Engage the Text or ET Notes are note taking resources that can be used any and every time your students read a literary or non-fiction text.
Where did ET Notes come from?
ET Notes are my number one resource when reading literary or non-fiction texts with my students. I develope
In this research activity students will become experts on a specific bacteria or virus of their choosing while working cooperatively. They will also have a chance to sharpen their presentation and 21st century skills.
This is a short and engaging non-fiction story. The half-page article includes 3 reading comprehension questions. A key is provided.
Article summary: The Nazis had invaded Denmark. Chemist Georgy de Hevesy needed to "disappear" the gold medals of two German Nobel Prize winners. The solution to his
This educational resource pack includes:
• A reader called “Earth’s Climate Change.”
• Fill in the Blanks Tests with Answers Key;
• Handy Links about Climate Change (Articles, Books, Videos);
• Climate Change Word Searches (5 of them);
• Common Core: ELAS.R.IT.1-10 Re: Climate Change! Etc.;