Using Background Knowledge
RESOURCE | GRADE LEVEL | MEDIA TYPE |
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American Stories: Teens and ImmigrationIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the experience of four teen immigrants to the United States. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Energy Transfer in a Roller CoasterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine energy forms in moving objects and discover how changes from one form to another move cars through a roller coaster ride. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Ratio and Proportional Reasoning: Food LabelsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how to use fractions to interpret the nutritional information contained on food labels. |
5-8 |
Self-paced Lesson |
The Story of PocahontasIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore what may have happened when Pocahontas and John Smith met by comparing popular and historical versions of the famous story. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Surviving WinterIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |