The National Museum of the American Latino has created this resource as a guide to learn more about the Day of the Dead. Use this Learning Lab as a starting off point to celebrate with your community, family, and/or students. Our on-line learning kit includes general information and the history of the tradition. Smithsonian collections, video resources, music, and hands-on activities for in-school or at-home learning are also included.

In this debates and mock election lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3 through 5, students use BrainPOP resources to explore the differences between the Democratic and Republican political parties. Students then create a presidential race within their school and perform the parts of a formal debate.

In this Google Applied Digital Skills lesson, students will learn how to use Google tools to create and deliver a presentation to an audience

Estándar de preparación para la universidad y la carrera profesional abordado: K3a. Demostrar conocimientos básicos de correspondencias de sonidos de letras individuales mediante la producción del sonido más frecuente para cada vocal y consonante.

Get to know your students by having them make a poster about themselves in Google Drawings.

This lesson plan is a cumulative activity for SEED 4.1.1Construct an explanation from evidence that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.Students create and write about a unique creature with a focus on structures leading to its survival. Cover Image: Personal photo taken by lesson plan creator 

This article describes the reading strategy of determining importance and provides templates and guidance for teaching this content area strategy to elementary students.

This article highlights lesson plans and activities that help elementary students develop map skills as they learn earth science concepts.

This article provides an overview of differentiated instruction and resources for teachers looking to differentiate science and literacy content in the elementary classroom.

This article includes a menu of post-reading activities for use with any nonfiction text. Students spend $50 on their choice of activities.

In this lesson on Digital Citizenship, students will learn about Digital Identity and the permanence of student's digital tracks online.Cover image is from https://www.picpedia.org/chalkboard/i/identity.htmlAttribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

In this lesson, students will be asked to read a grade level appropriate story and make a digital storyboard that includes the basic elements of the story. These elements are: characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  They will illustrate the key elements of the story and use Apple Keynote to create and present a digital slideshow retelling of the story. 

This expository article for elementary students describes the dinosaurs that lived in polar regions as well as the adaptations that helped them survive in the dark and cold environment. Modified versions for younger grades are available.

Artifical intelligence is becoming a larger part of daily life; this lesson helps users to explore it and its place in daily life.

This article describes how to use art projects to help students learn science concepts and how this integration helps students with language-based learning disabilities.

The focus of the Division with Arrays intervention is using arrays to solve division problems with a known number of rows or a known number of objects in each row.

The National Archives provides primary source sets, educator resources and articles, and printable primary sources analysis sheets. This page on the site outlines how to analyze primary source documents. Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments.

Inquiry based lesson plan allows kids to explore governments around the world: who is in charge, how they are chosen, and what happens when leaders make unfavorable choices. Includes supporting questions, articles, and activities.