Many students spend countless hours participating in afterschool sports teams. During this lesson, the students will bring their love for sports to life through their writing. This lesson requires the students to write an explanatory essay explaining how to play their favorite sport.

Learning Objectives

• (ELA-Literacy.W.5.2) Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• (ELA-Literacy.W.5.2.b) Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.

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Much of the third grade year is spent memorizing multiplication facts. However, it is critically important for students to understand the process behind those multiplication facts. This lesson involves fun, hands-on, group activities to solidify understanding of the multiplication process.

Learning Objectives

(MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.1) Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7.

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There is a bird, decayed plants, a worm, and a fox. How does that food chain work? Study different types of predators and prey, consumers, producers, and decomposers and determine what food chains, and even more complex food webs, look like in the real world!

Learning Objectives

(5-LS2) Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.

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Why are our rights important? What are our rights? Students will discover the important rights that are granted to American citizens and determine why they are important.

Learning Objectives

Students will discover the important rights of the citizens of the United States. (NSS-C.K-4.5 Roles of the Citizen)

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Having the ability to cope with life’s challenges and persist in the face of adversity can be challenging, but learning to develop resilience can help. In this lesson, students will learn about resilience through a variety of activities.

Learning Objectives

(ELA-LITERACY.SL.4.1) Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

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The fight for freedom is at the heart of American history. In the book Henry’s Freedom Box, we witness Henry fight for his freedom. It is through the help of “friends” that Henry is able to make it to freedom. The students will write an opinion piece taking a stance on if they think that the “friends” should have risked their freedom to ensure that Henry was free.

Learning Objectives

• (ELA-Literacy.W.4.1.a) Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
• (ELA-Literacy.W.4.1.b) Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details.

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Adding and subtracting time intervals can be tricky! In this lesson, students will review what it means to add and subtract time intervals. They will then practice writing their own story problems that involve time intervals, and place their story problems in a large bucket. Finally, they will draw from the bucket to answer their classmates story problems.

Learning Objectives

(Math.Content.3.MD.A.1) Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.

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This is the first lesson in a fourth-grade novel study on James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. This unit could continue over several days until the novel is completed.

Learning Objectives

• (ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1) Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• (ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2) Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
• (ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3) Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).

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The telephone has become an important part of everyday life. In this writing prompt, students will write about how the telephone has changed American life as well as identify the different ways their family uses it.

Learning Objectives

(ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1) Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

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How’s the weather up there? Students will track the weather over the course of one month in order to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season. Here’s the catch… they will use tables and graphs to do so!

Learning Objectives

(3-ESS2-1) Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

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