In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about whales and cite evidence to support ideas and inferences. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about the Nobel Prize in Physics and identify the central idea by examining key details. (Lexile level: 950-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about ocean waves and identify the central idea and develop a summary of the article. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about mummies and learn strategies to determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific vocabulary. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about tsunamis and determine the author's purpose and analyze the effectiveness of the text structure. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students determine the author's purpose and analyze text structure for an article about what makes popcorn pop. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students analyze the author's purpose by evaluating text structure, word choice and the relationship between ideas in an article about dinosaurs. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read about an exotic bug and integrate qualitative and quantitative information through close reading and viewing of diagrams. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students learn how to distinguish between facts, reasoned judgment and speculation as they read an article about mass extinctions. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article, watch a video and examine date about sea turtles, and compare how the information is the same and different in the sources. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about California's water problem and explore how claims, evidence and reasoning are used to write an effective explanation. (Lexile level: 925-1050)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about plate boundaries and integrate qualitative and quantitative information with visual information. (Lexile level: 1050-1185)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students differentiate between facts, reasoned judgments and speculation in a scientific article about seismic research. (Lexile level: 1100)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article and view a NASA video about the dwarf planet Ceres, and then they compare and contrast the information in the sources. (Lexile level: 1050-1185)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, middle school students read an article about the Apollo mission and explore how claims, evidence and reasoning are used to write and effective explanation. (Lexile level: 1050-1125)
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to determine the central idea of a science text by examining and synthesizing evidence presented by the author. (Lexile level: 1050-1185)
Students use interactive media, data and online research to write an argument explaining the science behind one of the factors that weighs heavily on the future of Maryland's Smith Island.