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| 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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Nutrition: What Your Body NeedsIn 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: 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 |
Powering Your Body with ExerciseIn 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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
