An informational video with a series of writing prompts and supports.
In this video from Cyberchase, Harry must score a total of 50 points in various events to qualify for the Northern Hemisphere games in New Orleans.
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how to read and interpret a distance–time graph.
Fake news is making news, and it’s a problem. This lesson gives students media literacy skills they need to navigate the media, including how to spot fake news.
An interactive game that helps students explore how a historian works with supporting teaching materials.
A video with downloadable leveled books and activity guide
In this interactive activity adapted from Annenberg Learner’s Teaching Math Grades 6–8, students interpret two line graphs to identify possible locations where the data might have been gathered.
A video with related downloadable leveled biographies.
Bingo card to prompt observation outdoors
Observe what happens to an image when the scale changes. This interactive exercise focuses on visually comparing multiplicative and additive relationships.
Since 1885 the Shoshone people have been without buffalo on their land. After decades of effort beginning in the 1990’s a coalition of individuals and organizations have taken the first step in returning the North American Bison to their native lands. In the accompanying lesson plan (found in the Support Materials) students will understand that nowhere is this action more culturally and ecologically significant than on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Students will explore the significance of the buffalo to the Shoshone people living on the Wind River Reservation.
Students will learn that through traditional concepts of understanding, the Shoshone people, as well as many other Plains tribes, were able to survive using the buffalo.
Students will research the controversial issue surrounding the return of the buffalo to the Wind River Reservation and understand how arguments against returning them almost derailed efforts by the Shoshone tribe.
An interactive lesson with videos, text, and activities that talks about the characteristics that contributed to Thomas Edison's success.
A short video clip with a fictional story about George Washington with the theme of leadership and a nonfiction text and writing activity.
A short video clip and a related nonfiction selection with writing activities about Zora Neale Hurston.