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This Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction lesson plan also includes:
- Invention Birthdays: A Think-Pair-Share Activity (.pdf)
- Background Information About Inventions (.pdf)
- Timeline Answer Key (.pdf)
- Previewing the Website: The Great Idea Finder (.pdf)
- Possible Responses and Points of Discussion for Previewing the Website: The Great Idea Finder (.pdf)
- RubiStar (.html)
- The Great Idea Finder—Chronological Innovation Timeline (.html)
- About.com—Famous Inventions: A to Z (.html)
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Students predict, using their own prior knowledge and historical timelines, when specific inventions were produced. They pair up and compare timelines. Then, using the Web, they check their timelines for accuracy, considering the connections to history.
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