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Elevate classroom discussions with this comprehensive Habits of Discourse Lesson Plan and Graphic Organizer! Designed for middle school humanities teachers, this resource provides everything you need to foster meaningful, respectful, and structured conversations in your classroom. Whether you're working on developing your students' verbal communication skills or introducing them to nonverbal signals, this resource is your go-to tool for teaching effective discourse habits.

Why This Resource is Essential:

• Promotes Structured Communication: Teach students how to engage in Turn and Talk, Table Talk, and Whole Class Talk with clear expectations for what each form of discourse "Looks like," "Sounds like," and "Feels like."
• Develops Critical Thinking: Encourages students to express their ideas, listen actively, and respond thoughtfully, building a strong foundation for analytical thinking and collaborative learning.
• Incorporates Nonverbal Communication: Introduce your students to nonverbal signals like "agree," "disagree," and "connect" to enhance their ability to communicate without interrupting others.
• Fosters a Positive Classroom Culture: By establishing norms for respectful and inclusive discussions, you help create a classroom environment where every student feels valued and heard.

What’s Included:

• Detailed 60-Minute Lesson Plan: Step-by-step instructions for guiding students through the habits of discourse, including Do Now prompts, discussion activities, and reflection exercises.
• Engaging Discussion Topics: Ten thought-provoking prompts tailored for middle school students, ensuring relevance and engagement in each discourse format.
• Graphic Organizer: A user-friendly tool for students to visualize and document their understanding of effective communication during Turn and Talk, Table Talk, and Whole Class Talk activities.

Perfect For:

• Middle School Humanities Teachers: Ideal for those teaching language arts, social studies, or any subject where discussion is key.
• Back to School: Establish classroom norms early in the school year with this essential resource.
• Ongoing Use: Revisit throughout the year to reinforce and expand your students' discourse skills.

Benefits:

• Improves Student Engagement: Students actively participate in discussions, leading to deeper understanding and retention of material.
• Builds Confidence: Helps shy or hesitant students find their voice in a safe and structured environment.
• Supports SEL Goals: Aligns with social-emotional learning objectives by teaching students how to communicate respectfully and empathically.

How to Use:

• Start the School Year Strong: Implement this lesson during the first weeks of school to set a positive tone for the year.
• Enhance Group Projects: Use the discourse habits as guidelines during collaborative work to ensure productive and respectful teamwork.
• Reflect and Revise: Encourage students to reflect on their communication skills regularly, using the graphic organizer as a tool for self-assessment and growth.

This lesson gives a great overview of the South America's physical, economic, cultural and political characteristics. Students will create a class top ten list of What I Want to Know About South America and will explore the four aspects of South America. To add some fun, the students can use an Cootie Catcher review game with instructor developed questions or they have the option to create their own Cootie Catcher game —instructor's desecration.

This 11-page lesson Includes:

•Detailed teacher instructions

•A Cootie Catcher reproducible with instructor-developed questions

•A Cootie Catcher reproducible (bland for student to develop their own questions)

•Reproducible on how to make and play the game.

•What I Want To Know South American Comparison Chart.

Requires:

Computers with Internet access

Scissors & writing utensil

Textbook and library resources

75-minute class period, but could be shortened & modified for a 60 minute class period.

This lesson will give student autonomy in their learning as they develop the questions they would like answered regarding South America.

Answer sheet cannot be provided since questions will be developed by students and undetermined prior to lesson.

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This lesson is easy enough for 5th graders to understand yet works well with students up to grade 12. Modifications can be made as needed.

Need a creative way to introduce South America to your students? Tired of the same old intro procedures? Here is a great way to not only introduce South America to students but encourage the use of map skills such as a compass rose, map scale, etc.

Students will explore South America by taking a trip through South America visiting 5 main cities and major landforms along the way. Students will exhibit the ability to identify regions as well as South American exports. This takes learning to a whole new level with higher-level thinking skills.

Take your students on the experience of a lifetime. Give them autonomy within their learning experience and encourage them to explore!

This lesson can be modified by the instruction to meet a wide range of learning abilities.

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This product was made for students to learn the following: that different people come to America, the first Americans - Indigenous Peoples, review of directions when going from one place to another in the world, what the first Americans ate, where they lived, what was used to build houses, how they found food, how they made tools and clothes, the first explorers, who the Vikings were, where the Vikings traveled, what colonies, a colony, and colonists are, how colonists and Indigenous Peoples lived on the same land, slaves, brief discussion of the Civil War, and immigrants coming to America to start a new life.

Adapted notes are provided along with an independent review after each slide. Students will be required to fill in the blanks using a key, answer short answer questions without a key, complete multiple choice questions, and look at a graph and answer short answer questions.

Students can complete the review independently, with support, or it can be used as an assessment as well.

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This lesson is easy enough for 5th graders to understand yet works well with students up to grade 12. Modifications can be made as needed.

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Who doesn't like a scavenger hunt? Students will find this North America Scavenger Hunt motivating, and it will encourage students to examine the physical, political, economic, and cultural characteristics of North America, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. This is the perfect activity to introduce to begin your North America unit or as a follow-up activity at the end of the unit.

For this activity, provide each student with a student activity sheet. Students will work in collaborative groups of two to four, depending on their class ability and experience working in cooperative groups using the Internet, books, and other resources that are available to them.

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• 1 student activity sheet, North America chart, and map for each student—although they are working in groups, each student needs to have questions and answers for their notes.
• World population density map (attached)
• Physical world map
• Atlases
• Computer stations
• Reference books from the library
• Geography books

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This lesson is easy enough for 5th graders to understand yet works well with students up to grade 12. Modifications can be made as needed.

Need a great introductory activity and a way to help students visualize landforms rather than implement the simple "write the word and definition" intro activity?

Give students the opportunity to acquire a mental picture of what each landform looks like by having them illustrate each landform based on the definition provided. This is a great way to assess their understanding of the description of each landform.

In addition, have students explore the world identifying examples of each landform and their locations by using maps, internet and other resources.

This is also a great tool for student evaluation at the end of the unit.

A fun, exciting, and effective Christmas holiday geography activity to engage students in learning about Christmas traditions around the world! To keep your students motivated and learning prior to the holiday break, allow your students to have a great time competing against each other and learn about Christmas traditions and customs around the world. Make every moment a teaching moment!

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Need a new, creative, and fun way to teach landforms? This lesson, which includes a Faces of Earth Landforms Speed Game and will allow your students to grasp the concept of each landform, both contextually and visually

Includes:

Introduction Activity

Speed Time Contract

Faces of Earth Portrait activity

Grading rubric and in-depth teacher instructions

Answer sheets

All game pieces are included. May require minimal amount of teacher prep.

Your kids will have fun while learning!

Note: This lesson is written for individual student instruction, but can be easily modified for group collaboration. Suggestions are included in teacher instructions.

Use the 5 Geography Themes of geography to captivate your students to explore today's, world — from North America to Africa to Asia and beyond. Take a journey into the world's current political, social, and cultural situations. Students will learn about current situations and issues going on in our world today while exploring and or reviewing the 5 Geographical Themes through this geography lesson. Students will be provided a choice board, which has been shown to improve remote learning in our virtual classrooms, increasing student engagement and ownership, and even making our students more eager to dig into their assessments and homework.

This a higher-level thinking skill assignment for grades 6-12 and can be modified by the instructor for various learning levels. Incorporates students**' creative side and provides hands-on learning** to reach all different types of learners.

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This product was made for students to learn the following:

In this product, students will learn about the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and North and South Notes and Review. Vocabulary covered: raw materials, free states and slave states as of 1820, trains, factories, Eli Whitney, cotton, and slaves. A vocabulary review is included as well as a fill in the blank vocabulary review that includes a key.

Students will learn about the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and North and South Notes and Review. The United States government will be initially reviewed to review who Congress and the Senate is, but the House of Representatives and the three branches of government. The North and South are reviewed in this product that includes the years between 1820 - 1860.

The North: What was used at this time to run machines, who owned machines, how machines were powered, how and why cities started to develop, how raw materials and factories relate with one another, the use of the railroad brought factory products to people, working conditions in factories, and changes in cities that took place

The South: Cotton was growing on plantations and farms in the South, who worked on these plantations, how plantations grew and who worked on these farms, who invented the cotton gin, what the cotton gin did and how it was different from removing seeds by hand and how much time was saved, what cotton was known for in the South, who worked on plantations and how they were treated, and the kind of work slaves were required to do in the South.

The Missouri Compromise:

In 1820, how many states were free states and how many states were slave states. The argument that the North and South had with each other about wanting Missouri to be on their side and why, what people wanted in the North and what people wanted in the South after the Missouri Compromise, why the North and South were divided, which states became free states and slaves states between 1820-1850, the Compromise of 1850 and what it entailed, and when slavery ended.

The notes are adapted to meet your student's individual learning needs. Throughout the product, after each page of notes is reviewed, students will answer short answer comprehension questions. At the end of the product, students are provided with a review that includes multiple choice questions and short answer questions.

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Learning to read maps can be challenging for many students, but students learn more when they develop, create, invent, etc. Have students create a map of their neighborhood using a map key, scale, and compass rose. Students will have a more

in-depth understanding of map tools and how to use them.

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Interactive PowerPoint

Need a fun, interactive Halloween geography and social studies activity, for ages 6th grade through high school? Study how different cultures celebrate and practice Halloween. This lesson is for you and can be adapted to both middle and high school classrooms. Your students will have a great time playing the Halloween Jeopardy Powerpoint game and learning about beliefs, values, practices, and customs around the world. Every moment is a teaching moment. Make each count!

Includes:

• Detailed teacher instructions
• Optional: Suggested introductory videos that you can easily view and find online (Please note that over the years it is common for links to be changed from the original. If the link no longer works, you can find these by putting the title in a search engine, searching on Youtube, and or searching the website given such as the History Channel for these.) Links Updated October 2020
• Cooperative reading assignment/activity
• Halloween Around The World Jeopardy PowerPoint Game

With your purchase, you will receive a zip file with the Halloween Around the World Lesson Plan PDF file, a PowerPoint file, and a PDF copy of the PowerPoint game.

Countries Included:

• Canada
• United States
• Hong Kong
• Cambodia
• Scotland
• England
• Brazil
• Philippines
• Wales
• Romania
• Singapore
• Greece
• Switzerland
• Japan

Your kids will have a blast while learning!

Please run through the PowerPoint to become familiar with how it works on your computer, and where to click to get to the answer. Make sure it is compatible with your PowerPoint program this is a 2004 PP, but we haven't had any compatibility issues.

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Students will have fun with this high-level, fun thinking activity. This lesson is a wonderful introduction activity. This will encourage students to explore the characteristics that define a nation: economics, culture, government, religion, etc.

This is best used as a beginning-of-the-year activity to understand the concept of what a nation is.

Students will work in groups to create a "Country Recipe" of a country/nation based upon its economic, political, and cultural characteristics.

The outcome? Students will understand what it means to be a "nation", whether a developed nation or a developing nation.

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In our global society, our students need to understand how **cultures are developed **and how they adapt to and adopt practices and beliefs from others through cultural diffusion. As students understand cultures vs subcultures, it will help them navigate and appreciate the diverse world we live in. In this lesson, students will look at "the American culture" vs its subcultures.

Students will enjoy working in **cooperative groups **to create a collage that illustrates various American subcultures. This activity will require them to use **higher-order thinking skills **as they analyze, compare, and evaluate American culture alongside its subcultures.

Additionally, students will complete a short preliminary assignment in which they will interpret a political cartoon. This approach caters to** visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners** in grades 5 through 12, ensuring that even older students will find it engaging!

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Take your students into today's world and its current environmental, human, and cultural situations.

Students will learn about current events in our world while exploring the 5 geographical themes — location, place, movement, human-environment interaction, and region. The five geography themes enable you to discuss and explain people, places, and environments of the past and present. This is a higher-level thinking skill assignment for grades 6-12 and can be modified by the instructor for various learning levels. Incorporates students' creative side and music, and provides hands-on learning to reach all different types of learners. All instructions and resources are included.

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**Get your students moving through the United States while learning geography and math skills. **Students will move through the United States as they travel through seven destinations of their choice. This activity integrates math and geography, featuring map reading and measurement using a map scale. It includes calculations for gas costs, driving times, mileage, and more.

This resource encourages students to **problem-solve **while accurately using a map scale to plan a round trip across the United States. As students calculate distances, mileage, driving times, and gas expenses, they will develop higher-order thinking skills with real-life application.

This engaging activity empowers students to take ownership of their learning. Additionally, the instructions offer helpful tips on using yarn to teach how to measure distances on a road map. Students will learn how travel was done before GPS. Although we rely on GPS systems to get us from Point A to Point B, it is still important to know in today's digital age.

While GPS navigation systems and online mapping tools have made it easier to find our way around, having a good grasp of map scales can still come in handy. By using a map scale, students can accurately calculate distances on maps and understand the relationship between the physical size of the area being represented and its distance on the map. This skill can be useful for planning road trips, hiking excursions, or even understanding the layout of a city. Additionally, knowing how to read a map scale can help students develop spatial awareness and improve their overall geographical knowledge. So, while technology may make navigation more convenient, learning how to use a map scale is still a valuable skill that will never go out of style.

This activity incorporates math with geography:

• Measurement
• Gas Cost Calculations
• Driving Time Calculations
• Mileage Calculations &
• Map Reading

This lesson will require each team has a large laminated road map that can be purchased through or donated by your local stores, such as Walmart or Target.

If you have a way to make poster-sized maps, you can google the road maps of America and there are many that can be found.

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A neat way to encourage learning and review geography concepts and skills Thanksgiving week. This bingo game has a twist to it and will make learning fun and engage your students.The provided 88 questions range from basic locations of countries and landforms to problems solving questions.

But, if you don't want to use the set of questions provided, any set of trivia questions will work. Need to use this game as a review activity for term tests? Create your own list of questions based on the knowledge you wish for your students to gain. Or, have your students/class come up with their own set of review Geography questions.

Questions cover the following concepts:

• Absolute and relative location
• Government
• Culture
• Landforms
• Countries
• Continental Drift
• Religion
• Weather

and more!

This lesson includes 14 pages of:

• Teacher instructions
• Bingo Cards Reproducibles (2 for students with modifications)
• 88 Geography Trivia Questions. Answers Included.

Your students will have a blast!

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No two students enter a classroom with identical abilities, experiences, and needs. Learning style, language proficiency, background knowledge, readiness to learn, and other factors can vary widely within a single class group.

Need a lesson plan that motivates your students to** work cooperatively** while **self/peer teaching **through his/her own interests? Can't find time to spend hours creating a multiple intelligence's lesson? This lesson can be **used multiple times throughout the year **and is written to be versatile to almost any subject or topic being studied.

Differentiated instruction is based upon the belief that students learn best when they make connections between the curriculum and their diverse interests and experiences.

This Resource Includes:

• Teacher instructions
• Interest checklist
• Student instructions for each activity
• Graphic organizers
• Grading rubric
• Note-taking handout

Need an exciting and fun introductory lesson to introduce world government types & systems? This 60-minute lesson will get your students motivated and engaged in the learning process. They won't even realize they are learning with the fun Fortune Teller game.

This Resource Includes:

• An introductory video
• Review
• Discussion
• Memory/comprehension game
• Suggesting wrap-up writing assignment

Note: This lesson is a first-day introductory lesson that will allow students to begin to understand how world government systems and how they work. This lesson will not go in-depth into how the U.S. democracy or other governments work, including but not limited to Direct Democracy, Constitutional Democracy, Constitutional Monarchy, Absolute Monarchy, Communism, and more. In looking at the definitions of how various governments work around the world (along with a video to elaborate and a game to reinforce the definition of each government) students will decide whether the U.S. government system is a fair system.

This lesson is designed for middle school students but could be engaging for older students as well.

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A great Christmas holiday geography bingo activity to encourage learning and review basic geography concepts and skills Christmas week. This bingo game has a twist to it and will make learning fun and will engage your students. The provided 88 questions range from basic locations of countries and landforms to problem-solving questions.

But, if you don't want to use the set of questions provided, any set of trivia questions will work. Need to use this game as a review activity for term tests? Optional: Create your own list of questions based on the knowledge you wish for your students to gain. Or, have your students/class come up with their own set of review Geography questions.

Questions cover the following concepts:

• Absolute and relative location
• Government
• Culture
• Landforms
• Countries
• Continental Drift
• Religion
• Weather
• and more!

This lesson includes 14 pages of:

• Teacher instructions
• Bingo Cards Reproducibles (2 for students with modifications)
• 88 Geography Trivia Questions. Answers Included.

Your students will have a blast because everyone likes Bingo!

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