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Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty
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Theme: |
Women’s History
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Grades: |
6 - 8
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Subject: |
Reading and Language Arts, Science
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Duration: |
One class session
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Standards
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Virginia State Learning Standards.
The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of informational selections.
- Identify questions to be answered.
- Make, confirm or revise predictions.
- Use context to determine meanings of unfamiliar words and technical vocabulary.
- Draw conclusions and make inferences based on explicit and implied information.
- Organize the main idea and details to form a summary.
- Compare and contrast information about one topic contained in different selections.
- Select informational sources appropriate for a given purpose.
The student will write narratives, descriptions and explanations.
- Use a variety of planning strategies to generate and organize ideas.
- Establish central idea, organization, elaboration and unity.
- Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone and voice.
- Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination and subordinations.
- Revise writing for clarity.
Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.
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Objectives: |
Students will:
- Listen to portions of Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty using Victor Reader.
- Learn about the contributions of Marie Curie.
- Research three different aspects of our world based on the contributions of Marie Curie’s discoveries.
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