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Note Dying to be Thin: Supporting Friends with Eating Disorders
In this lesson, students role-play scenarios in which they encounter a friend or acquaintance who may have an eating disorder. Students brainstorm ways to help the friend. Students then create informational brochures with useful information about eating disorder prevention.
Note You, Too, Can Be an Inventor!
How have inventions changed the world? This unit focuses on the importance, the process and the creativity involved in inventing. Through the study of inventions and inventors, students learn how inventions are created and the characteristics that inventors share. They will create a slideshow presentation on an invention/inventor of their choice. ...
Note Authentic Persuasive Writing to Promote Summer Reading
Devote time during your last weeks of school to promote summer reading by inviting students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books and genres to explore during the summer months. This lesson can be customized to focus on another time of year or specific focus.
Note Endangered Species
Students research and create a brochure project on an endangered species of their choice integrating aspects of math, science, social studies, art, reading and writing. This project allows the students to make connections across the curriculum. Students present their ideas to a group of peers persuading the group to help save or become interested ...
Note Parent Brochures for English Language Learners
In this lesson English Language Learners will design and publish a brochure that introduces the school to their parents. The brochure includes English and native language translations, pictures, and explanations of school function. The lesson can be adjusted for any grade level.
Note Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
Using this lesson plan, students create informative brochures that combine visual and verbal texts effectively, improving their ability to interpret other texts they encounter that combine graphics with writing. Additionally, students learn strategies for addressing audience and purpose that transfer into writing for other purposes and audiences.
Note Appealing to Your Target Market
Working in teams, students take on the role of marketers, identify a target market, and persuade that market to move to or visit an assigned state by creating an informative and enticing brochure from researched information.
Note Community Brochures
Students research facets of their community in order to create an informational brochure.
Note Mountains Matter
Mountains cover one-fifth of the earth's terrestrial surface and are home to at least ten percent of the earth's population. They are globally significant landforms that function as storehouses for irreplaceable resources such as clean air and water, biological and cultural diversity, and timber and mineral resources. In this lesson, students are ...
Note All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
In this lesson, students in grades 24 practice information gathering by exploring their town or city through interviews, photographs, and websites. They then write and revise paragraphs about their town and collaborate to create a visitor's brochure aimed at students who are new to the area.
Note Narrative Writing: "A Day in the Life of ..."
In this lesson, students will use what they have learned about narrative writing in an authentic situation. This is part of a welcome packet for students who are new to the school. Students will work in groups to conduct research and compose narrative essays telling about a typical day in the life of a kindergartner, first grader, etc. The project ...
Note Our African American Heroes
Students will create a short digital slideshow presentation and brochure on a famous black American.
Note Just (Don't) Do It: Creating Brochures Explaining Health Issues Relating to Sex
In this lesson, students learn about federally funded abstinence-only sex education. Then, in groups, students create age-appropriate, informational brochures examining health topics relating to sex.
Note I Love Navarre
The Navarre Beach area (or your area) is growing rapidly. The Chamber of Commerce wants help in creating a brochure for families with middle-school students who may be moving to the area. Students engage in a project-based lesson to provide the needed information. This lesson can be adapted to serve any community.
Note Beyond What I Did on Vacation: Exploring the Genre of Travel Writing
This lesson introduces the genre of travel writing. Students read and then write travel articles as a way of going beyond simple personal narrative.
Note Learning Disabilities Resources
The Educator's Reference Desk has compiled resources on learning disabilities. These include Internet sites, educational organizations, and/or electronic discussion groups.
Note Ramp for Handicap Accessibility - Part 2
Working in groups of 4-5, students will use the information, pictures, diagrams, and narratives created in Part 1 to develop a brochure. The brochure will consist of guidelines for handicap accessible ramps, sample calculations and contact information. It must be suitable for distribution at city hall.
Note Alabama Brochure
In this lesson students will learn about the state in which they live by using child-friendly Web sites to collect facts and pictures about Alabama.
Note Are You Prepared?
Natural disasters come in many different forms. In order to be better prepared, students have to know the different types of disasters. In this lesson students will research natural disasters in order to create a brochure highlighting an event and featuring ways to protect themselves.
Note Creating State Brochures
Students will work in pairs to research online and/or in print a chosen state and create a travel brochure incorporating the information gathered.
Note Explore!
The Manifest Destiny of the 1800's began with Thomas Jefferson's dramatic political foresight of arranging the Louisiana Purchase. The stories of courage and determination from these lands began with the Lewis and Clark expedition. In this lesson students will explore the fascinating people, places, and struggles of the expedition. Students will ...
Note Researching the Oceans of the Earth
This unit is a result of collaboration between the librarian and the 5th grade Science teacher. The Ocean Unit developed by the librarian is hands-on research in various areas of the library utilizing print, software and Internet access. During research students will collect information to complete a folder, brochure, PowerPoint presentation and a ...
Note Our Country, Our Constitution
The importance of understanding the basis of our government is important to every citizen of the United States. This unit provides a condensed and understandable interpretation of the Constitution using terms that young people can comprehend. It provides a task for creating a brochure on the government, graphic organizers to record data, web ...
Note Medical Spin-offs
The objective of this lesson is to create a brochure promoting a medical spin-off from NASA.
Note Hold Fast To Your Dreams: The Sound and Sense of Langston Hughes
Students investigate poetry form as they research the life of Langston Hughes. They perform the lyrics of his poetry, participate in a distance learning program from Cleveland Institute of Music, and produce computer-generated brochures and booklets as they execute this lesson plan.
Note Lois Lowry's "The Giver": Using a WebQuest to Create a Persuasive Brochure
After reading Lois Lowry's "The Giver", students use a WebQuest to research ideas and themes from the novel. Students use their research and persuasive writing skills to create a brochure designed to sell a way of thinking or way of life addressed in the novel.
Note Pack Your Suitcase
In this lesson, students will collect information about a state using print and electronic resources, including information on climate, places of interest, geography, and state symbols. Students will use a desktop publishing program to make a travel brochure for their state, which includes student created graphics. They will also present their ...
Note Education in Translation: Creating Brochures about Language Learning Technology
In this lesson, students reflect on their own language learning experience and interests. They then work in small groups to do research on language learning and brainstorm ideas in preparation for individually creating brochures on language learning technology.
Note A Guided Tour of Paris
Students will play the role of a Paris tour guide. Traveling on the Paris Metro System, students will guide tourists through the city to point out the location and important facts of major historical landmarks.
Note My Most Memorable Experience
In this lesson, each student will write a narrative story about his/her most memorable experience. Students will develop the narrative writing mode and create a brochure using desktop publishing software.
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