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Download full textBykova, Svetlana S.; Kuvaldina, Elena A.; Mashkovtseva, Larisa M.; Malova, Tatyana V. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
Foreign language lessons at school are designed to form key competences, with communicative competence being an important one, implying students' ability and readiness to communicate in a foreign language. However, there are difficulties in mastering the foreign language. As before, the main ones are: the lack of active oral practice, the absence…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Projects, Student Research
Gill, Jo Anne M. – 2000
In this interdisciplinary curriculum unit, students work in groups to examine, role play, and report on how the United States should have responded to England in the War of 1812. Students take on the roles of news reporters to explain and evaluate U.S. policy and are provided with background information, detailed instructions, on-line resources,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, European History, Grade 8, Interdisciplinary Approach
Moore, Darla – 2000
This eighth grade lesson plan asks students to research and analyze primary source documents about early factory labor (mill workers during the period between 1840-1860) showing their hours of labor, ages of laborers, reasons for working, and working conditions. The lesson plan asks students to read a historical novel about the time,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Child Labor, Grade 8, Information Literacy
Peer reviewedGlasser, Susan – Art Education, 1989
Introduces students in grades seven-nine to the sometimes ambiguous differences between abstract and realistic art. Explores ways in which the same idea can be expressed in both formats, using Cy Twombly's "Synopsis of a Battle" as an example. Students research a war and create both abstract and realistic pictures of the battlefield…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Class Activities, Grade 7
Renger, Marilyn – 1999
In this lesson, students role-play supporting members of the original Lewis and Clark expedition of the Louisiana Territory. Students research the expedition and create journals of their journey. The journals are meant to be historically accurate, and students will include items such as maps, personal written entries, illustrations, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cooperative Learning, Geography, Grade 8
Peer reviewedMueller, Henry E. – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1991
Describes a skills development program based on research and writing subskills. Includes analyzing questions, devising a form to record information, researching and reporting findings, and supporting a point of view in persuasive essay. Explains that the program through three years of middle school, adding and refining skills each year. Suggests…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Grade 7
