Who has the final say in matters dealing with the rules under the United States Constitution? The case Marbury v. Madison brings to light the issue of judicial review. Learners investigate the Supreme Court's opinion in the case with a...

You walk each day over 20 blocks to school as a 9-year old because the color of your skin does not allow you to attend a school in your own neighborhood. Scholars use the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education to investigate...

What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...

Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.

An activity focused on tolerance encourages class members to consider how they might respond when they or someone else is the target of oppression and discrimination. After researching how some key figures responded to the...

Tables are useful for more than just eating. Learners use tables to organize data and calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities. 

(vegetable)^(1/2) = root vegetable? The fourth installment of a 35-part module has scholars extend properties of exponents to rational exponents to solve problems. Individuals use these properties to rewrite radical expressions in...

What, where, how? Readers hone their analysis skills as they determine the narrator's point of view in Eight Days. They complete a literary analysis chart and essay to describe what and where events take place. Individuals then discuss...

Third graders complete activities for the book The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, by Tomie dePaola. In this literature instructional activity, the students read the story and summarize the main events. They look for story elements...

Students use a six step process to write a summary of a provided paragraph. The steps include: delete unimportant information, delete repeated information, substitute easy terms for a list of items, add a series of events with an easy...

In this universe and change worksheet, students read about the demotion of Pluto as one of the 9 planets as well as other changes in science. Students summarize their reading and identify unfamiliar words in the article....

Students create podcasts of Measure for Measure. In this Measure for Measure instructional activity, students decide which lines are the most important and edit scenes to create a shorter version of the play that includes the...

Learners study pictures and artifacts of the one-room schoolhouse. For this compare and contrast lesson,students list similarities and differences in schools of today and one-room schoolhouses. Then learners use this analysis to...

In this reading comprehension worksheet, young scholars read a biographical story about Rosa Parks. Students answer 4 questions and then summarize the story.

Second graders explore the Puerto Rican culture. In this cultural exploration lesson plan, 2nd graders discover the culture of Puerto Rico. Students read Puerto Rican folktales and make food. After reading the folktales, students...

Middle schoolers read short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and write summaries. In this summary writing lesson, learners discuss how to write a summary. Middle schoolers then select a topic and practice writing using skills...