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Poetry and Lyrics

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How can poetry be fun for all 8th grade learners?  Students have previously learned about poetic elements and figurative language.  Using those skills, students apply the knowledge to demonstrate the poetic elements and figurative language in a favorite song.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Sandi Rankin

PBS Kids Bullying Interactive Comic Book

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This is a great resource by PBS Kids. It is an interactive comic book of "So Funny I Forgot to Laugh" about Arthur and his friends. Arthur teases a friend about a new sweater, but goes to far. She asks him to stop and he doesn't, so she tells the teacher. The teacher tells him to write an apology and he writes a terrible apology that makes his friends even more upset with him. The story has multiple endings so students can try out different decisions. Goes well with the definition of bullying and what to do if you are being bullied...or if someone accuses you of bullying. Could also be used with understanding that people might exhibit bullying behavior but that doesn't define who they are "A Bully" for life.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Grouping Dinosaurs

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In this classroom activity, young students are introduced to sets and subsets. The activity opens with background information for teachers about cladistics. After brainstorming different ways to group the class itself, students work in small groups to identify subsets of coins. The groups then complete a worksheet that challenges them to group dinosaurs into sets and subsets and share their results with the class.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Dream House Million Dollar Project Unit

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This project is meant to be cross-curricular, requiring students to utilize many instructional skills to complete each step. Such skills will include number sense to one million, addition and subtraction to one million, area/perimeter/scaling, 3-D design, and writing/advertising. The project could be completed in sequential order, completed as isolated projects or hand selected for which components are used in your classroom.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Lesson, Module

Author: Matthew Rogers

Anne Frank: Writer

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This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Mystery Planet

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This activity is about the study of planetary samples. Learners will use samples of crustal material to sort, classify, and make observations about an unknown planet. From their observations, students will interpret the geologic history of their mystery planet and make inferences about past life or the potential for life on the "Mystery" planet. The lesson models scientific inquiry using the 5E instructional model and includes teacher notes and vocabulary.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Student Guide

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