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| MaryEllen Kivitt
| Chaleise Burley
| Crystal O'Mara
| Sharon Demorest
| Becky Quigley
| Jennifer Carson
| Lisa LaChance
| Garth Tolley

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| Brittany Jones
| Melissa Dotson
| Noel Hill
| Ally Coe
| Karen Connor
| Claire Brown
| Sierra Welch
| Tripp Reade
| Val Watson
| Grant LeFoe
| Elizabeth Ballard
| Brittany Lewis
| Chezley Royster
| Vickie Heaney

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Name: Mary Ellen Kivett
Level: 6th Grade
Topic: Argumentative Writing and Research
Link to Unit Plan

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Chaleise Burley
7th Grade
Real-World DNA Uses
Lesson Plan

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Crystal O'Mara
2nd Grade Life Cycles Unit (6 Weeks)
Link to full plan under the title

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Sharon Demorest
4th Grade Unit Plan
Figurative Language

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A three-lesson inquiry unit for fourth grade

The Hook

How do authors use figurative language to capture readers' attention and connect them to the story? Is your favorite author using figurative language on you? What if you exclusively read graphic novels? Where do idioms even come from?

The Students

This unit was designed with fourth grade students in mind who mirror their school characteristics: culturally and educationally diverse, Title I identified at nearly 70%, and still showing the effects of Pandemic interruptions. This teacher has three blocks of students, with a diverse mix of learning characteristics, including ELL, EC and AIG, and modifications are available throughout this unit to provide access and support for all students. Table 1 contains the complete class demographics, but the main thing to know about these students is that they love one-on-one attention and an opportunity to tell you what they think!

Our Process

Using a Backward Design framework, this unit guides students through a process that includes the full range of the Stripling Model of Inquiry. References below.

Figurative Language: What it is and how to recognize it

In this first lesson, students begin by connecting to classroom learning about figurative language. Beginning in a whole-class discussion, students then move to the small working groups they will maintain throughout this unit. They will then exercise their skills by identifying and tallying examples of figurative language they find in the sample texts and by contributing to their small group graphic organizer. We end the unit with a Quizizz Quiz and students are asked to bring an example of figurative language for the next class period's opening discussion.

Figurative Language: Using what we've learned

For this lesson, we will open with a brief opportunity for students to share from the passage (book) or images (graphic novel) they have selected. The final project will be re-introduced by providing students with a Choice Board to use in selecting whether they will base their project on a passages in a book, images in a graphic novel, or research into the origins of idioms. They will also be provided with the Rubrics for the project and an Organization Tool to help them get started. Students choosing the Researching Idioms project will be provided with applicable Idiom Resources.

The rest of this lesson will be spent getting started on the project in order to provide students with access to both teachers. Final projects will be due in two weeks and submitted to the class padlet as either an uploaded written document or short (less than 10 minutes) recorded video.

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A three-lesson inquiry unit for fourth grade How do authors use figurative language to capture readers' attention and connect them to the story? Is your favorite author using figurative language on you? What if you exclusively read graphic novels? Where do idioms even come from?

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Name: Becky Quigley
Level: 4th Grade
Topic: CKLA Geology Unit
Link to the unit plan is on the infographic.

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Jennifer Carson
5th Grade
Sustainable Cities Inquiry Unit Plan

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Copy of Green Cities (Carson - Sustainability Project)

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Name: Lisa LaChamce
Level: 7th grade ELA
Topic: Analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics

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Inquiry Unit: Fact, Fiction, & Perspective in The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

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Analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics - 7th Grade Inquiry Unit The following lessons supplement a ELA 7th grade in-class reading of The Watsons go to Birmingham–1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Name: Garth Tolley
Level: 1st Grade
Topic: Little Researchers
Lesson plans are linked in the project

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Name: Brittany Jones
Level: 1st Grade
Topic: Habitats
Lesson plan links on the last slide of presentation

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Melissa Dotson
6th Grade - Social Studies
Historical Figures
Unit Plan
Tournament Bracket

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Noel Hill
8th Grade ELA
Dystopian Literature

Unit Plan

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Name: Ally Coe
Level: 7th Grade Science
Topic: Kinetic and Potential Energy

Link to Unit Plan is on the Last Page of the Presentation

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Name:  Karen Connor
Level:  2nd Grade
Topic: Compare and Contrast Folktales
Lesson Plan Link

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Class Overview

I planned this unit in collaboration with Ms. Lee, a second grade teacher at College Lakes Elementary in Fayetteville, North Carolina. There are 16 students in Ms. Lee's class. They are evenly divided by reading levels, which made planning for group work easy. 8 students read at or above grade level, 4 read slightly below grade level, and Ms. Less classified 4 of her students as non-readers. She has two students with significant behavior issues and one whose behavior is usually good but can be unpredictable at times. Two students have been diagnosed with ADHD and she suspects several other students have undiagnosed ADHD. I planned this unit to take advantage of the strengths of her high performing learners ae well as her class's love of movement.
Link to Collaborative Interview

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I planned this unit in collaboration with Ms. Lee, a second grade teacher at College Lakes Elementary in Fayetteville, North Carolina. There are 16 students in Ms. Lee's class. They are evenly divided by reading levels, which made planning for group work easy.

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Claire Brown
2nd Grade Schools Unit Lessons
(Reading focus) and creating a Makerspace

Lesson Plan

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Name: Sierra Welch
Level: 7th Grade
Topic: Historical Fiction and Research
Lesson Plan Link: Unit Plan

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Name: Tripp Reade
Level: 11th grade
Topic: Dystopian Literature (1984)
Lesson plan link

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Val Watson
Third Grade Language Arts
Lesson plan linked here
Canva presentation linked here

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Name: Grant LeFoe
Level: 5th Grade
Topic: Service Learning
Lesson Plan Link

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LIS 654 Unit Plan Presentation - Grant LeFoe

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Name: Elizabeth Ballard
Level: 8th grade
Topic Asian Internment Camps
Lesson plan link

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2nd Grade
Topic:Plants
Lesson Plan Link

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Name: Chezley Royster
Level: 8th Grade
Topic: 'Zines for Social Justice-An Inquiry Unit for Social Studies & ELA
Lesson Plan Link: bit.ly/3ALP3VS

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Check out this Spiral Notebook designed by cgroyster.

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Name: Vikki Heaney
Level: 6th grade science
Topic: Solar System
Links are in each document. 6th grade students will create a 3D or paper planet in MakeSpace. They will learn parts and characteristics of 9 planets.

Link to Lesson Plan - https://docs.google.com/document/d/11g-a_zhA2Pkw6zCWMU3zJjE3zXoDOJzszhKhQZ6kr34/edit?usp=sharing

Link to Canva - https://www.canva.com/design/DAFhJYJcEoM/u7HplM0D56y8vCNm0QkT2A/edit?utm_content=DAFhJYJcEoM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

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Check out this Presentation designed by vcheaney.

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Annika Driessen

1st Grade

Nonfiction Unit

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Rochelle Stanley

Grade 4

Wild Defenders: Exploring Animal Defense Mechanisms

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9th Grade Social Studies

Digital Citizenship

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1st Grade ELA Comparing Two Ideas (Minecraft and Ancient Civilization)

Link to Unit Plan Lessons on Slides