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Hooked on Inferring

Resource ID: txlsr5008
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students use text evidence and schema to create an inference. Students read informational text and practice inferring with varying levels of support.

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Creating Connections Across Literary Texts

Resource ID: txlsr14098a
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will explore organizational patterns in short passages and use signal words/phrases as evidence to support the main idea and their understanding.

Teacher Introducing the Lesson

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Courts of Measure

Resource ID: txlsr08007
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Math

Students will use measurement tools to measure the dimensions of the basketball court and calculate the area of the court.

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Circuit Designers

Resource ID: txlsr12007
Grade Range: 5
Subject: Science

Students will work in small groups of two to three on a structured challenge around circuits which includes requirements such as including using a switch or a conductor. They will then use that knowledge to work on a collaborative challenge to solve a relevant problem related to elephant poaching. Students will create a containment system that will have an alarm system, a lighting system, and a way to pass through. Finally, they will review the other projects and discuss similarities and differences in the design.

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Quality Questioning

Resource ID: txlsr11019
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

In this lesson, students analyze, rate, and revise questions generated in response to their reading of a short story. They use the questions in student-led conversations and activities, helping them understand the connection between strong questioning, inferring, and communicating during reading.

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Analyzing the Text for Summary and Connections

Resource ID: txlsr20009
Grade Range: 5
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will critically think and communicate; they will summarize a text to understand and make connections to other texts, themselves, and the world.

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Solving Equations and Inequalities

Resource ID: txlsr08005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Math

Students will be divided into four groups and work on their assigned task to become an expert. They will match vocabulary terms with definitions and examples, use the “Pass the Pen” strategy to create and solve equations or inequalities, or write a real-world problem for an equation given. The experts will then teach these concepts to their peers.

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Human Paragraphs

Resource ID: txlsr13014
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students assume roles of paragraph parts, including the main idea and supporting details, in order to reassemble a text that has been divided into pieces based on textual purpose.

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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

Resource ID: txlsr14049
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will categorize cells as prokaryotic or eukaryotic by identifying the presence or lack of a nucleus.

Teacher Summing Up Lesson

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Resource ID: txlsr7004
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy by creating a real-world model through a movie.

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Crime Scene Investigations through Text Structures

Resource ID: txlsr7001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students participate in an activity where they must solve a crime. Students visit different stations that include surveillance tape, tips, eyewitness statements, and a crime scene. Each station is formatted as a different organizational pattern allowing students to practice creating summaries reflecting the structure used.

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Organized Authors: Name That Structure

Resource ID: txlsr14008
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will read a text passage, looking for and highlighting key words that indicate the appropriate organizational pattern of the text.

Students working

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Conversations in Art

Resource ID: txlsr5001
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Fine Arts

In this lesson, students will learn the critique process using description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation. Students will create an evaluation of artwork using the critique process and communicate their understanding through written responses and discourse.

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Connecting Author’s Purpose and Organizational Patterns

Resource ID: txlsr4006
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students explore and analyze how the author can achieve a specific purpose by using a variety of organizational patterns.

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Does it have Potential?

Resource ID: txlsr13048
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will work with partners to investigate how mass, potential energy, and kinetic energy act on objects dropped from varying heights.

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Critiquing and Creating Compound and Complex Sentences

Resource ID: txlsr14005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will create compound and complex sentences with proper comma usage and present their explanations to the class. 

Student work

 

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Effects of Colonization

Resource ID: txlsr7010
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Social Studies

Students analyze an interactive map and discuss whether those that colonized Latin America made a positive or a negative impact.

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Layers to Understanding Poetry

Resource ID: txlsr14017
Grade Range: 6
Subject: ELA & Reading

Students will apply their analytical skills to different types of poems by reviewing the devices used in poetry, reading and analyzing two poems, and creating a poster to demonstrate their learning. 

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Perfectly Proportional Percents

Resource ID: txlsr10018
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Math

Students will collaborate to explain verbally how to solve percent proportions and scaling while showing their thinking.

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Keep Your Balance!

Resource ID: txlsr08012
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Math

Students are introduced to solving one-variable, one-step equations using addition and subtraction through models and hands-on activities. The students will learn the substitution method of checking answers.

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