Students examine children's rights and how laws can affect their education and daily life. Through the investigation of various cases, they assess how the best interests of children are either upheld or ignored and how the Constitution...

Engage in a class debate dealing with the allocation of organs to those waiting for a transplant. How do they decide who gets a transplant and who doesn't? Learners attempt to determine what is fair for the individual requiring an organ...

Students examine the role of the Supreme Court through an interactive program. They analyze the history of the Court and its members. They finally explore how the Supreme Court works.

The tragic story of Derek Boogard, a hockey star whose sports-related brain injuries eventually lead to his death, is told through a series of videos. There are also articles that can be read. This poignant lesson gets participants to...

Twelfth graders are introduced to the relationship between inflation and unemployment. They define the employment and unemployment rate and practice calculating the figures. Analyzing minimum wage laws, they model a process for...

Eighth graders explore the effects of the Civilian Conservation Corps. For this lesson, 8th graders use primary sources to examine how the CCC impacted North Carolina. Students will locate National Parks on a map, write a summary and...

Young scholars participate in a simulation activity where they must decide whether or not to preserve an untouched forest. During the role play, students attend public hearings, discuss the pros and cons of nature development, create...

Your class can participate in a writing program involving four building blocks. By exploring words, sentences, writing forms, and story organization, they improve their creative writing skills throughout this year-long unit. Early in the...

Young scholars review the notes they took for "The Little Prince". After identifying the instances of responsibility in the text, they discuss them with others in English. As a class, they watch parts of "Children of Heaven" and write...

Students discover the meaning of tier two vocabulary words. For this vocabulary lesson, students read How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? listening for 3 pre-selected, tier two vocabulary words. Words are defined by the teacher and...

Students see how music and theatre deals with contemporary problems and issues. The sight-read new music and examine the musical, 'RENT.'

First graders identify sight words. In this learning sight words activity, 1st graders view flash cards to practice the words and identify them in a poem. 

Students read the Nicaraguan folktale, "Uncle Cricket, the Soothsayer," prior to participating in various activities. Among the ideas presented here are completing story maps, analyzing characters, summarizing the plot, writing...

Students develop a constitution for a hypothetical country called Permistan by reviewing the constitutions from the other countries they have already studied.

Learners examine Gee's Bend Alabama. In this resettlement instructional activity, students view a series of photographs taken of Gee's Bend Alabama. Learners will write a series of newspaper articles based on the images, that exemplify...

Students explore the dispersal of animals.. Students take on the role of a specific animal. They simulate finding a new home due to overpopulation. Through hands-on activities performed during the simulation, students discover the area...

Students explore and classify organisms found in a Rocky Mountain Ecosystem. Through discussions, students examine the effects upon an ecosystem if a component was removed or a new component was added. As a class, they survey reasons...

Focusing on correct grammar usasge as well as the concept of language evolution, this conventions lesson prompts middle and high schoolers to examine the structure of sentences and word classes (parts of speech). Use the three activites...

Young scholars explore the C.D.C.'s efforts to become better equipped to battle bioterrorism; they then discuss surveillance, epidemiological, and communications issues related to their program.

Students examine the breadlines during the Great Depression. They view a short video about different country's responses to mass unemployment. They interview family members if possible who lived during the Depression.

Eleventh graders study the history of South Carolina during World War II.  In this American History lesson, 11th graders analyze the economic growth of this state through primary sources.  Students interpret many different...

Reading Mary Pope Osborne's Civil War on Sunday? Here's a packet crammed with activities, exercises, reading guides, and project suggestions. A must-have for your curriculum library.

Students identify with various programming texts; introduce material in different orders; and emphasize different concepts. Students read an introduction to LiveTexts; complete various activities; discover and apply its Global features...

Learners pretend they are a senior adult, around 75 years old. After observing pictures of older people, students write sentence, using future perfect and future continuous to answer questions. In pairs, they complete a worksheet and...