Artifact – Text Features

Topic: Text Features CLI Strategy: Artifact Subject: ELA Grade: Lower/Upper Elementary Students will be able to: closely analyze parts of an expository article to identify and sort text features. Procedure: Cut up an expository article and highlight different text features Place pieces of article in an envelope marked "important." Show the class the envelope and make …

Art Talk and This Setting Needs – 5 Senses Grocery Store

Topic: 5 Senses, Community Helpers    CLI Strategy: Art Talk and This Setting Needs  Subject: Science and Social Studies  Grade: PK, K  Students will be able to: observe, name, and create visual and auditory elements of a grocery store setting. Procedure Tell students that you have a friend who is nervous about going to the grocery …

Artifact and Town Hall Meeting – Tarriff of Abominations

Topic: Tariff of Abominations  CLI Strategy: Artifact and Town Hall Meeting Subject: Social Studies  Grade: Middle/High Students will be able to: Make connections between their lives, worldview, and the Tarriff of Abominations. Procedure Artifact Ask Students: What do you think is the actual cost for a t-shirt from "raw materials" to you? What steps are involved …

Artifact – Deconstructing an Expository Essay

Topic: Deconstructing an Expository Essay CLI Strategy: Artifact Subject: ELA - Expository Writing/Reading  Grade: Middle/High Students will be able to: Analyze and interpret the parts and order of an expository essay. Procedure Cut up short (1 page) expository essay into paragraphs. Put pieces in an envelope. (Example Essay about Volleyball) Explain to students that you need …