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Some Called Me SuperStar

The following activities can be adapted to a whole class, small literature group, or small guided reading group. Choose one or more activities from each section to support comprehension before, during, and after reading the book. In addition, the author has also included numerous writing activities in Chapter 9 – “You Be the Sportscaster,” and

Creative Way to Teach the Writing Process

Goals:
• To motivate students to want to write – building self-esteem and pride
• To integrate the Studentreasures® Classbook Publishing Project with the five step writing process
• To align the publishing process with your curriculum by incorporating your Language Arts Writing Standards, various teaching units, subjects, theme topics and genres
Objective: The students will create a full-color

Environment Part 1: Climate Change

The science of climate change.
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Objectives:
• Distinguish scientific, ethical, and political claims, and identify examples of each that are related to the issue of climate change.
• Understand the difference between opposing particular political responses to climate change and arguing that climate change either does not exist or is not caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
• Recall and

Environment Part 2: A Macro Response to Climate Change

Objectives:
• Identify and explain realistic target reductions in carbon emissions set by climate scientists for avoiding disastrous effects from climate change by mid-century.
• Identify and explain options that could be implemented in order to achieve these target reductions.
• Explain what role government could play in stimulating innovations that could allow us to achieve these target

Environment Part 3: A Personal Plan for Climate Change

Personal solutions to climate change.
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Objectives:
Students will develop a personal and family plan for reducing their carbon footprint.
Approximately __1__ Instructional Hour
Skills Addressed: gathering information through online research
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Assessment:
Students will create posters explaining how personal consumer choices can reduce one’s carbon footprint.
Students will complete a carbon reduction plan for reducing their family carbon footprint.
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Resources:
Access to in-class computers for