Middle schoolers play a game involving chips, dice, and a number line to explore the outcomes of events. Printable lesson.

An innovative lesson plan of enhancing students' critical thinking skills by reading and watching current events.

Creating composite pictures students learn how to use a graphics program such as Photoshop Elements to composite many pictures into an Event Collage. This is a Commerce and Information Technology Lesson Plan.

This thorough lesson plan has students learning about the events related to Tiananmen Square. The students have options for how their research can be completed.

This activity from NOAA Ocean Service is about using aerial photographs to assess the impact of extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina. The activity features aerial views of Biloxi, MS post-Katrina and enables learners to see...

A lesson for exploring the ways in which Kofi Annan has spoken for the weak, poor, and voiceless. Learners analyze a world event and then express a dream or a vision of how the situation could be improved.

This lesson unit has young scholars research a local, state, national, or international issue of personal interest and create and share a two-minute persuasive podcast presenting their research-based opinions on the topic. It includes...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site provides a series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence and retell the story accordingly. Lessons are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This website provides a series of two lesson plans designed to teach students to create a graphic organizer showing the sequence of events in a fiction text. The lessons include ideas for direct...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan helps students identify the sequence of events in a story with flashback. The instructional activity includes ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to retell and summarize a fiction story told in chronological order and a story told with flashback. Lessons are based on the books First Day...

Included here are 12 videos and lesson plans exploring the science, technology, engineering and math found in current events. Check back regularly for additional videos that help connect fundamental STEM topics to real-world news stories.

This site provides links to lesson plans, example problems, and software sites for probability and statistics.

A lesson plan relating to Hamlet whose objective is to able to "analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text". Lesson includes a hook, direct instruction, guided practice, and...

This landing page provides different lesson plan choices on teaching RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings,

This unit appeals to multiple intelligences, encourages interdisciplinary learning, reinforces self-confidence, and stimulates creativity, co-operation and critical thinking. Using songs with a strong narrative, learners are asked to...

Students engage in writing workshop, using a timeline to focus in on and write about a specific event.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach learners to use pictures and word clues to determine the setting of fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down by Paul...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to recognize the beginning and ending of a story and use word clues to put story events into the correct sequence. Lessons are based on the...

This site features an interdisciplinary lesson plan for the book "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse. Discover how this twelve year old girl's struggle to get to America from Russia.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which young scholars learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on David McPhail's Lost!, in which students are introduced to literary characters and explore the various clues, such as descriptions and illustrations, that communicate a...

In this lesson students will find probability of events presented in a geometric context. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.

In Maybe, Maybe Not middle schoolers will explore and investigate components of probability. This lesson will enable students to develop understanding of a likelihood line and apply events to the line. This lesson plan was created by...