Grade 6
-
Language
-
Reading: Informational
-
Reading: Literature
-
Speaking & Listening
-
Writing
CCSS ELA Standard: 6.SL.4
Present claims and findings, sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of misnomers
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Spain vs Germany.
Who will win the tournament of mythological creatures!?
Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?
Students will determine which river is not like the others.
Students will determine which cephalopod is not like the others.
Students will determine which flower is not like the others.
Students will determine which US President from the 19th century is not like the others.
Students will determine which of these US Presidents is not like the others.
Students will determine which of these US Presidents is not like the others.
We're looking at regular vs irregular polygons.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of capital cities.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Countries vs Smaller Regions.
Let's look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.
Let's look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Kinetic vs Potential Energy.
Is it a reptile or an amphibian?
Students will be working with examples and non-examples to deduce the topic of Arctic vs Antarctic.
Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?
Which type of energy will win the tournament!?
Who will win the tournament of Countries in Oceania!?
Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which country in Africa is not like the others.
Is it an island or an archipelago?
Students will determine which US National Park is not like the others.
Some of these examples are conductors and some are insulators!
Let's look at living vs non-living things.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which of these types of diseases is not like the others.
Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.
Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.
Students will determine which of these tiny countries is not like the others.
Students will determine which of these microorganisms is not like the others.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.
Who will win the tournament of European countries!?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Which of these eight wonders deserves to become the Eighth Wonder of the World!?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Who will win the tournament of African Countries!?
Who will win the tournament of North American countries!?
Which of these pieces of exploration technology is most important? Most underrated? Most long-lasting?
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.
Which of these inventions of the ancient world is most influential? Least useful today? Most taken-for-granted?
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Which object in the solar system is most habitable?
Which part of speech is most useful? Interesting? Strange?
Which of these types of volcanoes is not like the others?
Which of these rocks is not like the others?
Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.
Which of these deserts is not like the others?
How is each of these stars not like the others?
How is each of these states not like the others?
Which of these mountains is not like the others?
Which of these four birds is not like the others?
How is each part of the United States Government not like the other parts?
So who was the strangest of these eight presidents?
Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.
Can your students tell the difference between cubism and abstract art?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which type of natural disaster is not like the others.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
How is each of the states of matter not like the others?
How is each of these four countries not like the others?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
The word "may" can be used for possibility or permission. It's a modal auxiliary verb!
Which are trapezoids and which are not?
Students will determine which of the characters is not like the others.
Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.
Students will determine which founding US president is not like the others.
Which of these planets is not like others? Well, it sure looks simple at first. But quickly, you start to realize… there's more to it than you thought. Each option could be the one that doesn't fit in.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a 👑 Champion Biome!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students infer the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
Can students spot similes vs metaphors?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let's have a tournament!
Some of these clauses are dependent and some are independent.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Can your students spot simple sentences vs compound sentences?
Can your students spot the run-on sentences?
Can your class spot the complex sentences vs compound sentences?
Will your students notice progressive tense vs simple tense?
We're looking at the past progressive tense and the simple past tense.
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.
How do you mentally (and emotionally) prepare yourself for the big day?
It's time to turn that outline into a storyboard and then some actual slides.