How to Use the Explorers - 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 Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: - Reading for Information - Higher-Order Thinking - Writing Problems - Primary Source Analysis - Vocabulary - Graphic Organizers - Map Activities - & More!