ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Alienation in Raymond Carver & Art
Using short fiction by Raymond Carver and the art of Edward Hopper, this short unit plan explores the theme of alienation. This site includes questions, a list of suggested works, a reflection sheet, and an interactive exhibit of...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: How to Appreciate a Painting
Christine A. Elmore's curriculum unit designed "to facilitate her third-graders' enjoyment of and response to fine art." This unit can be applied to all age groups and provides an extensive background on art in general.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
The goal of this lesson plan is for young scholars to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson plan will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Primary Sources
This is an interdisciplinary inquiry-based activity that focuses on critical thinking. Students are introduced to the true story of the first Thanksgiving with the reading of a NCSS Notable Trade Book Thanksgiving: The True Story....
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Alex: Pretty Cool Penguins
This lesson plan is part of an interdisciplinary primary life science unit addressing adaptation and habitats by focusing on penguins. This lesson plan is primarily technology based and should take place near the end of the unit, after...
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Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Where Did You Get Those "Jeans"?
This lesson can be interdisciplinary involving science, mathematics, and language arts. The primary nature of the lesson is inquiry, project, and technology-based. In science this project is a culminating activity in the heredity unit.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing a Persuasive Essay
In this lesson plan students research opposing viewpoints on controversial issues and develop their own position papers. Though primarily for English classes, this lesson plan could be easily adapted for an interdisciplinary unit with...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geology of the Credit River at Hidden Valley Park
In this earth science instructional activity, middle schoolers investigate the characteristics of the Credit River in an interdisciplinary inquiry based investigation. They will determine the speed the water moves, identify rocks and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Penny for Your Thoughts
This is an outline for a week-long lesson usually taught in the month of February around President's Day. It is an interdisciplinary study combining coin identification with a literature-based study of the Presidents represented on the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Inch by Inch Learning Is a Cinch
This lesson uses an interdisciplinary approach involving literature, math, and writing. Using the book, Inch by Inch, by Leo Lionni students will explore the world of measurement. They will have the opportunity to practice measuring...
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Literature Learning Ladders: A Long Way From Chicago
Check out this informative site about "A Long Way From Chicago" by Richard Peck and learn about small-town life during the Depression in seven short stories for the years 1929 through 1942.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Theodore Taylor
What do you know about the life and work of Theodore Taylor? Use this online resource to discover information about this famous author.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: So, You Want to Be a Citizen?
Students work in groups to create a slide presentation aimed at informing immigrants of the qualifications and steps in naturalization as well as the rights, responsibilities, and duties of citizens.This lesson is an interdisciplinary...