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Graphic Organizer Lesson Plans

1. A Colony is Born- This lesson swiftly travels through time from 1492 to 1607. Significant events are marked on a timeline, note taking is modeled, and a focus on reasons for leaving England for the New World is clarified with the use of a graphic organizer.
2. A Goldfish is the Best Pet- A goldfish is the best pet. What facts support this thesis? What facts oppose it? Use graphic organizers to help students select facts which must be considered in order to persuade an audience to agree with a given point of view.
3. A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My!- Students identify parts of a plant using a graphic organizer.
4. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words- Students compare and contrast characters from various texts and compile the collected information into several graphic organizers.
5. A Tale of Two Barbara's- Students will take a close look at Barbara Jordan and Barbara Smith-Conrad, then compare the different contributions of the two important women in Texas.

1. Any Way You Slice It- Using real-world text, students learn about the history of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while using a graphic organizer to clarify meaning of text. Following the activity, students write directions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Students then exchange directions and follow their classmate's recipe to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
2. Appreciating Our Hispanic Culture- As Hispanics have been adding to America’s culture, they have also protected their own separate culture. It is this culture that you are to research. As you research and read, you are to create an ABC book of the Hispanic culture.
3. Are They the Same or Different?- Using a graphic organizer, students synthesize and separate collected information.
4. Are U.S. Presidents Leaders or Figureheads?- Students analyze three presidents. They create a graphic organizer explaining how three influences for each president affected the development of the New Nation.
5. Big on Biography - Students select a person to research for biographical information. Utilizing resources in the Media Center, students record information on note cards; students then interpret and categorize information for appropriate placement on a graphic organizer.
6. Branches of Government - Are the different parts of government confusing to you? Students will use graphic organizers to assist them in learning about the three branches of government.
7. Clean Air- Students create a graphic organizer to clarify information for a presentation.
8. Comparing Democracy and Republic- The republic of Rome and the democracy of Athens provide a good basis for comparison of these two government types which have influenced our own government.
9. Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art- These activities were designed to compare writing with Impressionism, a guide for viewing paintings in the context of communication with originality and imagery.
10. Critter Counting- In Critter Counting, students generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze data using a graphical presentation.
11. Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts- This lesson introduces second-grade students to different types of nonfiction writing. Students explore a variety of nonfiction books and compare them to fiction.
12. Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts- This lesson focuses on identifying and analyzing the compare and contrast text structure within expository texts. First, students are introduced to the terms compare and contrast and asked to find similarities and differences between two common items.
13. Filling in the Holes- Students use graphic organizers and note taking to help gain understanding and clarify meaning from the novel Holes and write daily inferences and generalizations about what they have read in that day's assignment.
14. Graphic Organizer- To practice outlining skills. Small group discussion, inquiry and critical thinking.
15. Graphically Organize a Biography- This lesson is a good ending to a unit on biographies. The students will work together in small groups to create a poster that displays the information from a biography in a graphic organizer.
16. How Long Is Forever? - Students use graphic organizers to predict events that may take place in the novel, Tuck Everlasting and make inferences about what is read.
17. How To Use Graphic Organizers To Enhance Learning- A good explanation.
18. I Can Write; I'm an Author!- This lesson provides students with concrete graphic organizers to help them develop a story, and it helps to keep writing from becoming "The Neglected ‘R’" as the committee so discouragingly suggests.
19. Invention Process Flowchart- Provide a visual image of the steps or processes taken during the invention process.
20. Less is More: How to Teach Students To Take Notes and To Understand What They Read- In the primary grades boys and girls learn decoding skills, but in the upper grades students are supposed to transfer their ability to sound out words into the comprehension of those words.
21. Letter Writing: The Lost Art- This unit will explore friendly letters and business letters with the hope that students will take the time to share, in writing, their lives and their times with others.
22. Let Me Tell You About My Favorite Animal - Did you ever want to be a published author? Here is your chance. Students use graphic organizers to begin creating a book about their favorite animals.
23. Let's Trade: Writing Across the Curriculum for Real Purposes- Trading and collecting baseball cards has been a tradition since the early 1900's. While boys and girls know much about the accomplishments of major league players like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, many do not know that some of the greatest players, Satchel Paige and "Cool Papa" Bell, among others, were never allowed to show their skills in the major leagues.
24. Map an Event- Want your students to have a strategy for obtaining pertinent information from print material? This lesson incorporates a graphic organizer to help students navigate a newspaper article. Students learn to use the organizer to document information.
25. Native Americans- Students select a Native American nation and research its culture. Students then complete a variety of on-line and off-line activities using the results of their research.
26. Negro League Museum- Learning about history through the people who lived during an era, makes the time become real to the students studying the era. Many of today’s students when asked who the most famous baseball players are would most certainly cite many African Americans, but most are unaware that those same players would not have been allowed to play in the first half of the 20th Century.
27. One Pager- After reading the novel Freak the Mighty students will be able to describe and illustrate the setting of the novel, explain character development through production of a graphic organizer, and identify the elements of the plot.
28. Our Country, Our Community, Our Jobs - Students will analyze jobs that are of interest to them. They will create graphic organizers explaining how jobs affect the world in which they live with at least five supporting details.
29. Our Country, Our Constitution- The importance of understanding the basis of our government is important to every citizen of the United States. This unit provides a condensed and understandable interpretation of the Constitution using terms that young people can comprehend.
30. Players the Majors Missed: Biographies of Negro Baseball Leagues Players- A biography is the story of a person's life written by someone else. A biographer deals with the facts instead of creating the stories and characters found in fictional writing.
31. Research Note Taking Made Easy- A graphic organizer helps students gather research notes for writing.
32. Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers- In this lesson, collaborative strategic reading (CSR) is initially presented to students through modeling and whole-class instruction. To facilitate comprehension during and after reading, students apply four reading strategies: preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up.
33. Scientific Method Flowchart- Provide a visual image of the steps or processes taken during a scientific investigation.
34. The ABC's of Black History: A Pop-up Book- America is a melting pot of many groups of citizens that have had great influence on our way of life. It is important that we know and understand the contributions to medicine, architecture, literature, the Arts, war efforts, and betterments of our society by African Americans, many of who first came to this country as slaves.
35. The Rock Cycle Graphically Organized- Science students use the prereading strategy of discussion and then use a graphic organizer to help guide reading on the topic of the rock cycle.
36. Tornado Safety- Studying tornadoes has great interest and practical application for students. Knowing how to ascertain when danger is approaching and how to protect oneself from the danger is very important.
37. Using Expository Text to Learn About Bears- This is a lesson that requires students to use various sources of expository texts in order to research different bear types.
38. Web It! - Students learn about using a web graphic organizer effectively as a prewriting tool for expository writing.
39. What is a Graphic Organizer & how are they helpful?
40. What's the Problem? - Students redefine the problem of Where's the Heart of Florida? and begin to formulate possible solutions using graphic organizers.
41. Working in the World- The learner will develop, defend, and evaluate positions on issues regarding the personal responsibilities of citizens in the American constitutional democracy.
42. You G.O.T. It!- Using a graphic organizer, students synthesize and separate collected information. G.O.T. stands for Graphic Organization using a T-chart.