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Grade 6-8 9-12 Brief Description Students view photographs of migrant families during the Great Depression, try to interpret the photos to answer questions about the subject's life, and then write a cinquain poem based on their interpretations. Objectives Students willGain understanding of the personal struggles faced during the Great Depression Learn to interpret information from a visual medium (photograph) and express that knowledge in written form (poem).

This RSS feed has some great articles, ideas, tips, and links to websites to teaching ELL and ESL students. This RSS feed also has great lessons, activities, ideas, and information that could be used to teach all students.

This is a great article written by teachers for administrators.

One of the four parts of the TOEFL Test is the Reading section. This is the section that measures a candidate's ability to understand written university level academic text and passages.

The essay needs to be very descriptive and all the students need to understand the complete topic before initiating their college assignment on any topic given for the essays.

A project based learning method is a comprehensive approach to instruction. Your students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science, and technology. "The collaborative nature of the investigation enhances all of these valuable experiences ...

This site creates a rubric/checklist for a student project.

Be sure to see additional articles from the Responsive Classroom in our archive of columns written by Ruth Sidney Charney, co-founder of the Northeast Foundation for Children, which is home base for the Responsive Classroom appraoch. Click here to view that article archive.

I found humor and great resources in this website written by a now-retired educational technologist.

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This is a great resource from an organized site.