Common Core Standards
Grade 8
Speaking and Listening SL.8.5
Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
It's funny that "add interest" only appears on this multimedia standard and not any of the ones before it, so for eighth grade, make sure that the multimedia stuff in presentations are extra interesting. Don't forget that they still have to, you know, actually be related to whatever's being talked about. We don't want to see any cat GIFs on a presentation on the muffins of Oscar Wilde!
Aligned Resources
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Famous Kids Traveling in Threes (or Fours)
- Teaching Maniac Magee: City Divided
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Pizza Problems—Too Many to Count
- Teaching Maniac Magee: Exploring Homelessness
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: Let's Do the Time Warp
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: "America the Beautiful": In Depth
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Integration In Our Nation
- Teaching The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Modern-Day Toms and Hucks
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Wanted: Dead or Wax Look-Alike!
- The Basics of Social Media: Communicating with One to One Million People: Blogs and Instant Messaging
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: Right Brain Versus Left Brain
- Teaching Number the Stars: Good to See You Again…
- Social Studies Online: Digital Literacy Connections to Civics and History: Civil War Uniforms
- Teaching The View from Saturday: Getting To Know a Turtle (Almost)
- Teaching The Westing Game: A Puzzle Mystery: Share the Wealth: Pair with an Heir
- Teaching The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Title
- Teaching Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: The Rules of Flag Flying (You Read That Right)
- Teaching The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963: The Byron Files
- Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird: Sketch It: Making a Maycomb Map
- Teaching A Wrinkle in Time: The Quotable Mrs. Who
- Teaching Because of Winn-Dixie: Planting Your Wait and See Tree
- Teaching Dead End in Norvelt: Learning from Our Past