Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writer's Notebook: A Pentalogue: 5 Personal Beliefs

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson has students create an end-of-year reflective pentalogue (five personal beliefs). The list is to be about five different things each student has learned in the past year about what makes good, high-quality writing. A revised...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: "I Feel" Origami Boxes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Give your students writing prompts to help them with their writer's block by using these PDF templates of boxes with open-ended prompts written on them. Although targeting elementary students, the concept could be used for middle school...
Article
New York Times

New York Times: 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow

For Students 1st - 9th
If you don't know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it's easy to write off some modern energy innovations like solar panels because they haven't hit the big time fast enough. Worse, the fairy-tale view of...