Students put objects and materials into groups based on their observable properties, test materials for strength and absorbency, and use their results to make a boat that can hold the most pennies ...

This lesson has two objectives. The first is to review some of the major concepts in academic writing (thesis, motive, structuring an argument). The second related goal is to critique each other’s ...

For an electronic copy of this lesson, or to view other lesson plans, visit Judges in the Classroom on the ... the first pair may be assigned to answer a. and b., the second pair to answer c. and d., ...

To set up the research unit as a seminar-style discussion in which students exchange feedback on one another’s topics and learn from their peers’ descriptions of their arguments and writing processes ...

Students from Showell Elementary School published a book, titled ‘Keep Our Beaches Clean, what if everybody did that? At the ...

NGSS 2-PS1-1: Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. Students have looked at the properties of solids and in this ...

The brains of kids who are teaching peers go into overdrive—boosting retention and understanding. Here’s how to leverage this ...

Elmo Kelley, a second-grade teacher at Fontana’s Cypress Elementary School, has published two poetry collections and last ...

Hudson Primary School second-grade teacher Shaunna Lubecki started her students’ day on a late August morning like most ...

For some, it takes a long time to figure out what they want to do for a career but for 2nd grade teacher Cecelia Haase the ...

The proposed state-created textbooks, worksheets and lesson plans have drawn controversy ... cueing content in the kindergarten through third grade reading curriculum. Three-cueing is a method ...

For an electronic copy of this lesson, or to view other lesson plans, visit Judges in the Classroom on the ... Use of manifest injustice must be justified in writing and is subject to appeal to a ...