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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 |
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 |
Building the Pyramids of Ancient EgyptIn 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 |
BullyingIn 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 FrankIn 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 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 |
The Columbian ExchangeIn 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 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 |
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 |
From Slavery to Freedom in Colonial TimesIn 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: TravelIn 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: RecipesIn 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 |
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 |
Population Sampling: FishIn 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 |
The Powers of GovernmentIn 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 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 |
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 |
Solving a Public Health ProblemIn 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 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 |
Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of WaterIn 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 RemovalIn 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 |
Understanding Character: The Life of Percy JulianIn this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students learn about the character of chemist Percy Julian through his struggles with racism in his education, work, and community. |
5-12 |
Self-paced Lesson |
Unit Conversion: Water UseIn 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 EnvironmentIn 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 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 |
