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RESOURCE	GRADE LEVEL	MEDIA TYPE
American Stories: Teens and Immigration In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore the experience of four teen immigrants to the United States.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Baseball and Social Change: The Story of Roberto Clemente In 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
Building the Erie Canal In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students look at how the construction of the Erie Canal brought about major changes within United States, particularly in New York City, upstate New York, and the Midwest.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Building the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the pyramids' role in Egyptian society, and historians' theories about how the Egyptians were able to build these massive structures.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Bullying In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students think about the impact of bullying on individuals' rights in a democratic society.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students examine how Anne Frank's character changed while she was in hiding from the Nazis in World War II.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Character Conflict: Language Immersion In 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
The Columbian Exchange In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore the movement of plants, animals, and diseases that characterized the Columbian Exchange and learn how it changed the world.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Conflict Over Western Lands In 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
Continental Drift: What's the Big Idea? In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Energy Transfer in a Roller Coaster In 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
Fact and Opinion: Parents, Teens, and Texting In 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 Concussions In 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 Grass In 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 Resistance In 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
From Slavery to Freedom in Colonial Times In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the life of Venture Smith, an African man enslaved in America, to learn about the experiences of enslaved and free African Americans in the New England colonies.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Graphing Distance and Time: Travel In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how to read and interpret a distance–time graph.	5-8	Self-paced Lesson
Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers: Recipes In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine how to multiply fractions by whole numbers in the context of a recipe.	5-8	Self-paced Lesson
Newton's Third Law: Action–Reaction In 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
Nutrition: What Your Body Needs In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Personification: Cowbirds In 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
Population Sampling: Fish In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about population sampling by watching how a Native American tribe measures the number of fish in their lake.	5-8	Self-paced Lesson
Powering Your Body with Exercise In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and some activities they can do to improve their health.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
The Powers of Government In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how power is divided and shared among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Ratio and Proportional Reasoning: Food Labels In 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
Reproduction: One Goal, Two Methods In 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. Constitution In 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 Function In 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
Solving a Public Health Problem In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
The Story of Pocahontas In 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 Winter In 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
Symbolism: Keely's Mountain In 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
Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of Water In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Trail of Tears: The Cherokee Fight Against Removal In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students examine the struggles of the Cherokees to remain on their land in the early 1800s.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Unit Conversion: Water Use In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine how to use fractions to measure and help conserve freshwater resources.	5-8	Self-paced Lesson
Using the 3Rs to Help the Environment In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.	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
Who Was Alexander Hamilton? In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore the key role that Alexander Hamilton played in shaping the U.S. government and how his early experiences helped him achieve this success.	5-12	Self-paced Lesson
Writings of the Ancient Maya In 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

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