Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Pregnancy Tests Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Over-the-counter pregnancy tests give potentially life-changing results with a pretty high rate of accuracy. But how do they work? Tien Nguyen explains how each test performs a scientifically rigorous, multi-stage experiment that goes...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit Test

For Teachers 6th Standards
What have students learned during this unit? What gaps do students have in their understanding? Students take the Unit 2 test.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pre Test

For Teachers 6th Standards
What do students already know about integers, rational numbers, and the coordinate plane? What gaps do students have in their understanding? Students take the Unit 3 pretest in order to inform instruction.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Lesson to Prepare for State Writing Test: Trait Rubics Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson focuses on teaching the vocabulary used in the rubrics for 4 of the 6 Traits of Writing. It requires students to learn the vocabulary used in the rubrics and to define the traits so they understand what is expected of them...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Take Off With Paper Airplanes

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This lesson introduces students to the art of designing an airplane through paper airplane constructions. The goal is that students will learn important aircraft design considerations and how engineers must iterate their designs to...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan:immigration 2004

For Teachers 9th - 10th
PBS presents a lesson plan for teachers to use to educate young scholars on immigration to the United States which is a major issue in the election of 2004. Students can take a practice citizenship test to see if they can pass.
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Necessary Assumptions Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to find an assumption required by the argument. This question asks you to identify the claim that must be true or is required in order for the argument to work. In other words, there is...