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Inventors and Inventions: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Inventors and Inventions Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Inventors and Inventions - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Inventors and Inventions - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Inventors and Inventions - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Who Is an Inventor?: Reading Informational Text
Why Invent?: Problem-Solution-Results G
Agricultural Inventions: Comparison of Sources GO1
A Medical Breakthrough: Comparison of Sources
By Boat, By Rail: Cause & Effect
First Flight: Primary Source Analysis
Transportation & Progress: Ordering Events
Electricity Was the Spark!: Reading Informational Text
Why Invent?: Point of View
Inventors & Their Inventions: Graphic Organizer G
Ford and the Assembly Line: Cause & Effect G
Inventions in the West: Problem-Solutions-Results G
Inventor, Innovator, Entrepreneur: Research & Writing GO1
What Does It Take?: Applying Concepts G
Communication Inventions: Classifying Information GO4
A Historic Experiment: Primary Source Analysis
Radio & Television: Comparison of Sources
Computers & the Internet: Applying Concepts
Invent Something!: Concepts & Processes G
Inventing Process: Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)