This two page document provides a high level summary of the research that informed the Language Arts curriculum design (e.g., content-based literacy, phonics, supports for ELLs) and our professional development (e.g., focus on leadership, coaching, common implementation challenges).

Student groups will design and complete the building of a tower- discovering the importance of writing a procedure to help solve agriculture challenges through research and innovation. They will also explore different areas of agriculture and continue to build their knowledge through brainstorming and class discussions.

This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. This course specifically focuses on the ways that scientists use various methods of persuasion in the construction of scientific knowledge.

This seminar is intended to help students in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Joint Program develop a broader perspective on their thesis research by considering some aspects of science in the large. The first part of the course challenges students to develop a thoughtful view towards major questions in science that can be incorporated in their own research process, and that will help them articulate research findings. The second part of the course emphasizes science as a social process and the important roles of written and oral communication.

Students love to do Color by Number, and this activity is an engaging way to cover many facts about the government of the United States. A passage, color by number activity, and answer key are included.

Grade Levels: 3rd to 5th Overview: Many students have little knowledge of their own state. This lesson will help students better understand his or her own state and the variety of places to visit close to home.. Performance Objectives: Knowledge: • • The students will make a directed choice to choose a city to promote.

Skills:

• The students will correctly write formal letters.

• The students will look up zip codes of their chosen cities.

• The students will make a poster promoting their city using the materials they’ve received.

• The students will present the poster to classmates showing positive aspects of their chosen city.

Materials:

• Poster board

• Pencils/pens

• Markers

• Envelopes

• Stamps

Grade Levels: 3rd to 5th Overview: Many students have little knowledge of their own state. This lesson will help students better understand his or her own state and the variety of places to visit close to home.. Performance Objectives: Knowledge: • The students will make a directed choice to choos...

This project is modeled after a book called The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller. After reading the book students will create their own state and make it come to life. Students will research a state of their choice. They will collect basic facts about their state including what region it is a part of. Then they will evaluate their facts to decide which should be shared. They will use an app called ChatterPix (iOS) to share their work.

Explore a list of resources that support students building skills with collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and research -- while learning curriculum.

Tenth-grade students in Eric Levine's biology class at the Springfield Renaissance School in Springfield, Massachusetts, engage in a Science Talk Protocol. This protocol allows students to do exactly what scientists do: think about, wonder about, and talk about how things work, based on evidence from reading and their own empirical research.

Why Writing Works: Disciplinary Approaches to Composing Texts is an open-access, online textbook resource for college writing. It is written for an audience of second-year college students with a focus on writing in the disciplines.

During this three week unit, students practice and apply research skills while completing a project on a woman of their choice. Ideally, this project is taught around March, which is Women's History Month. Summative assessments for this unit include the completed project and an annotated bibliography.

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Writing Activities, a page of activities to address important writing skills and strategies.