Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: See Our Progress [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"See Our Progress" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about students who turned a vacant lot into a prairie garden and then were interviewed and shown on the television news. It is followed by questions which require students to...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak: Imagination and Art

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This PBS site contains two lesson plans. In grades K-2, read books written/illustrated by Maurice Sendak, find out what elementary school was like for Mr. Sendak, and write a class book based on one of his stories. In grades 6-8, learn...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who's to Blame Stories

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars read the book Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! By Rosetta Stone (aka Dr. Seuss) to learn how a little thing can turn into a big story. Then students practice by writing stories of their own where a little cause has a big...