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Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto ClementeIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore how a culture changes as new groups of people enter it, focusing on the experiences of baseball player Roberto Clemente and the influence of Latino culture in the United States. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Character Conflict: Language ImmersionIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore conflict as a plot device through the story of Moises, a fictional young immigrant to the United States. |
5-8 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Conflict Over Western LandsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore how the differing worldviews of white settlers and Native Americans led to conflicts over land when Americans surged westward in the 1860s. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Fact and Opinion: Parents, Teens, and TextingIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the debate between parents and teens over texting and interpret facts to form and support their opinions. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
The Facts About ConcussionsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Florida's Everglades: The River of GrassIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Forces of Gravity and Air ResistanceIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the forces of gravity and air resistance affect the motion of falling objects. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Newton's Third Law: Action–ReactionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, an early astronaut's experiences teach students that Newton's third law of motion—for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction—applies both on Earth and in outer space. |
7-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Personification: CowbirdsIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore personification as a literary device through the story of the cowbird, which is portrayed as "evil" in a documentary video. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Reproduction: One Goal, Two MethodsIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the two basic forms of reproduction for the living things that practice them. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Slavery and the U.S. ConstitutionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore how delegates to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 addressed slavery in the Constitution as they debated the idea of fair representation in the government. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Snake Jaws: Connecting Structure and FunctionIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how animals' physical characteristics, such as jaw structure, are directly related to the function they perform when the animal interacts with its environment. |
5-12 |
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 |
Symbolism: Keely's MountainIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students learn about the use of symbolism in literature and examine how places can have symbolic meaning for people. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Who Owns a Sound?In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the debate over electronic sampling in music and gather information to form their own opinion about the issue. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Writings of the Ancient MayaIn this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore what we can learn about the ancient Maya civilization from their writings. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
