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Useful for encouraging student speaking and keeping them accountable. Can also use as a formative assessment to see who needs more opportunities for speaking and interacting.

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Bitmoji Chrome Extension to personalize your Google Classroom Headers or Google Forms

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Bitmoji Chrome Extension to personalize your Google Classroom Headers or Google Forms

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Copy of Google Classroom Header Template (2)

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Send Academy photos to standale meijer and receive awesome prints for your classroom and Academy boards

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Send Academy photos to standale meijer and receive awesome prints for your classroom and Academy boards

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Weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly

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Student-created class goals that connect to social contract

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Student-created class goals that connect to social contract

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Lesson preparation, comprehensible input, review and application

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Use interactive slideshows to elicit student responses in multiple formats!

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Interest Inventory

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READING IS FUDAMENTAl
From Erika curtiss

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Use this to reduce the language load for demanding text. Especially useful for ELLs. Just be sure to check the text that is compacted to verify the salient points are included.

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Text Compactor: Free Online Automatic Text Summarization Tool

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15 minute video  showcasing a "Keep it or Junk it" strategy.  The Keep it or Junk it strategy is a great way to allow students to grab main points from a text. Often, students will focus on areas that might not be as important and this is a great way to allow students to analyze what's most important about a concept. This also allows them to think critically about why they think each idea is important or not.

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ELA.SL.5.1

Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

SL: Speaking and Listening

5: 5th Grade

1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled)
with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and
texts, building on others'\x80\x99 ideas and expressing
their own clearly.

a. Come to discussions prepared, having read
or studied required material; explicitly draw
on that preparation and other information
known about the topic to explore ideas under
discussion.

b. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and
carry out assigned roles.

c. Pose and respond to specific questions by
making comments that contribute to the
discussion and elaborate on the remarks of
others.

d. Review the key ideas expressed and draw
conclusions in light of information and
knowledge gained from the discussions.

Download Common Core State Standards (PDF 1.2 MB)

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ELA.RI.5.2

Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

RI: Reading Standards for Informational Text K-\x80\x935

5: 5th Grade

2:
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and
explain how they are supported by key details;
summarize the text.

Download Common Core State Standards (PDF 1.2 MB)

Thought starters

1. Try the strategy "Keep it or Junk it," a method that helps students identify key words and concepts in a text.How does Ms. Brouhard address uncompleted work with the "Jump In and Read" strategy?

2. How are students taught to revise their thinking?

School Details

Glenview Elementary School
4215 La Cresta Avenue
Oakland CA 94602

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Jennifer Brouhard understands that her fifth graders often struggle in knowing which parts of a text are essential ideas and which parts are merely supporting details. She teaches students a process that helps them know how to work with a text in order to pull out the key information.

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12 Fresh Ideas for Social Studies (Blog)

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12 Fresh Ideas for Social Studies (Blog)

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It can be a challenge to make information feel fresh and exciting (for both teachers and students). In an effort to mix things up,here are some novel approaches to teaching social studies.

You probably won't be able to incorporate all of these resources into your classroom, but hopefully they’ll spark your creativity and inspire you to think about your curriculum in a different way.

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Editor's Note: In this new series of blogs that we're calling "Fresh Ideas," we'll be sharing a variety of resources for different subject areas, and we hope some or all of these will be new to you. If there are topics you'd like to see covered, or if you have suggestions for resources that should be included, send a note to: eweiland@teachingchannel.org.
When it comes to lesson planning, it can be a challenge to make information feel fresh and exciting (for both teachers and students). In an effort to mix things up, we're taking a look at some novel approaches to teaching a variety of subjects. In this blog, we're looking at resources for social studies.

You probably won't be able to incorporate all of these resources into your classroom, but hopefully they'll spark your creativity and inspire you to think about your curriculum in a different way.
Have more fresh ideas? We'd love to hear about them! Share your own classroom successes in the comments section below.
Best for Elementary School

1. The Sport of Life and Death: This site won a slew of awards for its thorough and interactive examination of life in ancient Mesoamerica. The website provides a history of the region, as well as suggestions for in-class projects, and a game that assesses what students have learned.

2. Mummify a Chicken: Yes, you read that correctly. With a few inexpensive ingredients, you can demonstrate firsthand how the ancient Egyptians prepared and mummified human remains. This is a somewhat long-term project (and not for the squeamish), but certainly memorable. It's also an effective way to pair social studies with science.

3. Dictator for a Day: This exercise allows younger students to explore the pros and cons of a dictatorship. The lesson plan provides various ways to configure this activity so that it is inclusive and instructional.

4. Well-Behaved Women [and Men] Seldom Make History: Students read grade-appropriate texts about historical figures, and then use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast these individuals' stories and the effect they had. This is a great way to teach historical context, and can be adapted to any period of history.

Best for Middle and High School

1. Crash Course: Crash courses with dynamic brothers John and Hank Green. This YouTube channel offers hundreds of colorful, fast-paced, insightful videos organized into the following courses: literature, psychology, chemistry, ecology, world history, US history, and biology.

Check out this video on the colonization of the United States:

2. Studio C: A light-hearted take on how history and culture can shape the relationships between countries. It could be fun to have students research certain countries and create similar skits, incorporating what they've learned.

3. Making the Declaration of Independence Come Alive: Study the Declaration of Independence -- with a twist. High school students in particular will enjoy this fresh look at the purpose of the Declaration.

4. Mystery Skype: An educational game invented by teachers and played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other classroom by asking each other questions.

It's suitable for all age groups and can be used to teach subjects like geography, history, languages, mathematics, and science.

5. iCivics: Founded by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics is a seriously cool site that offers lesson plans, curricula, supporting materials, and games to teach students about how government works.

Another excellent site related to civics is Generation Citizen, which encourages students to participate in the democratic process. Generation Citizen provides teachers with a Common Core-aligned, action-based civics curriculum, a trained college co-facilitator, and supplementary resources to help create meaningful, hands-on experiences for their classes.

6. The Smithsonian's IdeaLabs on Artifacts and Analysis: This site presents a strategy for incorporating historical artifacts and documents into the teaching of US history. Designed as a companion to the Advanced Placement Program US History course, it is also effective in any instructional setting that emphasizes analytical thinking and writing.

7. Teaching History with Political Cartoons: This is a very visual way to have students grasp historical events. While most of these examples from the Library of Congress are from the 18th to 20th centuries, students could also compare and contrast political cartoons from the present day -- and perhaps draw their own cartoons.

8. Simulations and Role-Playing: One way to bring history to life is to assign students the roles of historical figures and have them debate a unique issue from the time period. For ideas on specific scenarios, as well as an online tool to help develop arguments for the debate, check out the SCAN tool.
Share your own fresh ideas in the comments section below. Elizabeth Weiland is Teaching Channel's Advertising and Licensing Account Manager. Follow her on Twitter, @ElizabetWeiland.

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Editor's Note: In this new series of blogs that we're calling "Fresh Ideas," we'll be sharing a variety of resources for different subject areas, and we hope some or all of these will be new to you. If there are topics you'd like to see covered, or if you have suggestions for resources that should be included, send a note to: eweiland@teachingchannel.org.