Examine how the media informs the way your class thinks about racial and ethnic differences. Additionally, middle and high schoolers discuss whether "objectionable material" in mass media from the past should be preserved.

What kinds of skills and attitudes are valued in a work environment? Using this set of worksheets and collaborative activities, your pupils will develop important life skills and consider what is necessary for getting and keeping a job.

"It's not what you know, it's who you know." Learners discuss and analyze this age-old adage by completing life skills worksheets, collaborative activities, and discussions regarding the nature of networking and how it may improve future...

Genocide. Scapegoat. Propaganda. Words are powerful. Words carry the weight of history. To prepare for a visit to The Museum of Tolerance, class members consider the weight of meaning in words related to intolerance.

Ninth graders examine the lifestyle and culture of First Nations people. They investigate and analyze primary and secondary source documents.

Students participate in the storytelling process. For this language arts lesson, students listen to a story and retell the story using pictures. Students draw pictures of a carnival costume.

Learners practice counting using a website "Let's Count". They point to each object and count and pull down a tab to check their answers.

What's it like out today, and what do you plan to wear? These are the two main topics for this Italian lesson. By the end of the plan, pupils should have a grasp of basic weather and clothing terms as well as a general understanding of...

Learners write interrogative and declarative sentences in a short message. After seeing many examples of these types of sentences, students write sentences of their ownl.

Students explore the definition and derivation of the popular usage of abbreviations in the English language. Using worksheets and lecture materials, students provide meanings for the abbreviation "prenup" when used as an word. They...

Students discuss reasons why early europeans immigrated to North America. Working in groups, they complete Internet activities on the PBS Website. They take a simulated voyage to the new world and rercord their actions on worksheets. ...

Students inspire communication skills thru the lyrics of a song. Students watch and correlate the production of a fantasy film with speaking and listening skills. Students quote the themes from the video.

Middle schoolers create a storyboard for an advertisement. In this advertisement lesson, students view different advertisement techniques and how to storyboard before they create an advertisement storyboard for a product.

Learners examine fabric. For this Applied Science lesson, students look at the fibers of fabric through a microscope. Learners compare and contrast a variety of fibers.

Fifth graders study the national archives through both images AND visiting the site. This is meant to provide them with an understanding of what documents are important to the U.S. and why (i.e. Declaration of Independence, etc...).

Fifth graders compare and contrast the Russian fairytale, Wee Little Havroshechka" with the Anglo-Saxon "Cinderella." In groups the discuss and then write their own versions of the Cinderella story. Students write about the differences...

Students investigate the health hazards of modern agriculture and how we can choose better food options.  In this healthy eating lesson, students identify different indigenous people in photographs and discuss what they might eat....

Eighth graders research the connection between the convection currents within the mantle of the earth and the moving of Earth's plates. A connection to lessons at previous grade levels on the rock cycle and important background...

Students examine the implications of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. In this oil spill lesson, students research details regarding the BP oil leak and then participate in a simulation that requires them to role play those whose...

Learners improved pronunciation by focusing on the stress-time nature of spoken English.

Students examine George Washington's belief in etiquette and respect for others, which he achieved by following 110 rules of civility, and create their own rule of civility.

Students practice their pronunciation of words. They also practice stressing certain words and when to stress words in speech.

Learners explore happiness and well-being. In this personal health instructional activity, students determine whether governments can or should cultivate happiness as they participate in a discussion activity.

Students introduce and converse with classmates as they review basic tense structures.