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EL Education
El Education: Faces of the Depression
This book was created by 5th graders in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on the Great Depression. Students learned about the Depression though several different sources: in addition to standard historical...
EL Education
El Education: It's All Greek to Me
This book was created by 7th grade students in Portland, Maine as part of a learning expedition on ancient civilizations, focusing on ancient Greece.The book includes collage-like portraits and background information on famous figures...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: To Kill a Mockingbird Character Interviews Podcast
Students will write and produce character interviews based on the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The interviews will be produced as a podcast based on characters from the novel and students' interpretation of the events in the novel, as...
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Let's Do Lunch! [Pdf]
The purpose of this project is to teach students the life skills they need when dining in public. The project begins with a discussion of eating out and the students are polled as to how often, if ever, they eat in a restaurant with...
Other
Mr coward.com: Dragonwings (Teacher Guide)
This teacher's guide to the Newbery Award-winning novel contains study questions, vocabulary words, projects, supplementary information, and much more.
Other
Caring for Cambodia: Children of the River
This website provides guidelines for a "Learning Quest on Cambodia." Read Linda Crew's novel, "Children of the River," and study Cambodia's history, culture, and environment, through Internet research, critical questions, and a magazine...
Virginia Tech
Literature in an Interdisciplinary Unit
A good resource for teachers, this website describes an interdisciplinary unit through which Linda Crew's novel, "Children of the River," is used as part of project on the study of rivers.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Animal Farm Worksheets
These E Reading Worksheets provide supplemental questions, quizzes, tests, and projects that will help assess students' comprehension of the book Animal Farm, a novel written by George Orwell.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Of Mice and Men
This is a technology-based group project. It requires students to use the Internet as well as various types of software to creatively display their knowledge of the novel, Of Mice and Men.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Dickens of a Party
Come to a party honoring Ebenezer Scrooge! This WebQuest is a complete "Party in a box," -- with a planning worksheet, specific tasks and roles, rubrics for evaluation and guidelines for presentation and party-going.
PBS
Pbs: Culture Shock: Huck Finn in Context
This site features information on themes from Huck Finn. You will find activities and discussion questions to accompany the different sections.
TES Global
Blendspace: The Scarlet Letter Choice Menu
A twenty-two part learning module on The Scarlet Letter. Lessons include links to information and directions to complete various projects in conjunction with reading Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "The Grapes of Wrath" [Pdf]
Chapter by chapter study questions, reflection and discussion questions, and ideas for further exploration are the heart of this 6 page .pdf teacher guide.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Judy Blume
Use this resource to learn about how Judy Blume's books have inspired the young author of this brief article. This website includes images and "related links" for further reading.
Curated OER
Mr coward.com: Dragonwings (Teacher Guide)
This teacher's guide to the Newbery Award-winning novel contains study questions, vocabulary words, projects, supplementary information, and much more.
Curated OER
Mr coward.com: Dragonwings (Teacher Guide)
This teacher's guide to the Newbery Award-winning novel contains study questions, vocabulary words, projects, supplementary information, and much more.
Curated OER
Unesco: Germany: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive...