Grade 6
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Communication & Collaboration
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Reading: Comprehension
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Writing
Indiana ELA Standard: 6.W.2.b
Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples from various sources and texts.
Create A Civilization: Currency
What type of currency will your civilization use? What symbols will be on it? Why are they significant?
Analyze Paragraphs: Empire State Building
Three paragraphs about the Empire State Building. They all cover the same topic — so what makes each one different? Now combine them into one super-paragraph.
Investigating Christmas Trees
Start with facts about Christmas trees. Group them. Label them. Can you boil it all down to one big idea?
Upgrading Compare and Contrast Writing
Upgrade compare and contrast writing with just a couple of key words.
Building Creative Analogies
We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.
Create A Civilization: Calendars
Why 12 months? Why 30ish days? Why 7 days in a week? Your civilization could organize a year in any way you want!
Intellectual Intensity
Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?
Add Layers To Direct Instruction
For TeachersTake direction instruction beyond a monotonous practice of the same skill over and over.