Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Connecting With Digital Audiences
Code-switching is the action of changing your language, behavior, or appearance based on who you're with or where you are. In this lesson, students will apply the idea of code-switching to how they use phones and other devices in and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Benjamin Franklin: Writer, Inventor, and Founding Father
Through two primary source activities and a short video, understand how Franklin embodied Enlightenment values and used his talent in writing and printing to have his opinions heard and help shape the world.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: What's in a Word? Lesson Plan
Help 5th through 7th graders explore the power of words and their capacity to influence our thinking with this instructional activity from the Media Awareness Network. An easy-to-print .pdf version is linked from the top of the page.
CommonLit
Common Lit: How the News Media Works
A learning module that begins with "How the News Media Works" by Jessica McBirney, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Reasons to Write
This video segment from Between the Lions features a motivating, kid-friendly song that celebrates the reasons to write in everyday life.
Other
Santa Rosa Library: How to Evaluate Information Resources
Tips and information about how to evaluate resources, both print and electronic. Includes information about source authority, purpose, objectivity, currency, completeness, and relevance. It includes a printable handout (top right)with...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Anti Social Networks? We're Just as Cliquey Online" by Laura Sydell
A learning module that begins with "Anti-social Networks? We're Just as Cliquey Online" by Laura Sydell, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Do Citizens Make Government Work?
This five-session unit will provide hands-on opportunities for students to explore local, state and national governments. In the process, students will use technology and print media to learn about the leaders of each level of government...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "First They Came" by Martin Niemoller
A learning module that begins with "First They Came" by Martin Niemoller, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
TES Global
Tes: Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Image Bank
[Free Registration/Login Required] This image bank provides a slide show of two prints from the Victoria and Albert Museum of costumes from 19th century Shakespeare productions and ideas for discussion and teaching activities concerning...
Other
How Technology Is Improving Productivity and Efficiency in Manufacturing Sector
The article describes how the use of different types of technology are improving manufacturing efficiencies, including 3-D printing, metrology (science of measurement), exoskeleton suits, and drones.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Scientists Reveal Three Keys to Happiness
A learning module that begins with "Scientists Reveal Three Keys to Happiness" by ABC News, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Easter 1916
A learning module that begins with William Butler Yeats' poem "Easter 1916" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From Spirit of Laws
A learning module that begins with Charles-Louis de Secondat Montesquieu's "Excerpt from Spirit of Laws" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Rape of Nanking and a Forgotten Genocide
A learning module that begins with Mike Kubic's news article "The Rape of Nanking and a Forgotten Genocide" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
A learning module that begins with a literary text called "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Quest for Change in the Middle East
A learning module that begins Mike Kubic's article "A Quest for Change in the Middle East" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Plea for Eight Hours
A learning module that begins with Terence Powderly's persuasive text "The Plea for Eight Hours" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech
A learning module that begins with "Richard Nixon's Resignation Speech" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Refugee Looks Back
A learning module that begins with "A Refugee Looks Back" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Excerpt From "Susan B. Anthony, the Woman"
A learning module that begins with "Excerpt from 'Susan B. Anthony, the Woman'" by Helen Dare, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Cold War Rivals: Cuba and the United States
A learning module that begins with Mike Kubic's article "Cold War Rivals: Cuba and the United States" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Marie Curie
A learning module that begins with a biography of "Marie Curie" by Barrett Smith, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Conservation as a National Duty
A learning module that begins with President Theodore Roosevelt's historical speech "Conservation as a National Duty" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...