Students use critical literacy skills to understand the concept of perspective and to then create a diary for an animal they research with a partner.

This is a unit using the Garageband app to teach melody, harmony, phrasing, form, chord progressions, texture, and music compostion.  Students will learn musical elements and learn how to create their musical ideas using Garageband.This resource's preview image: "headphones-4595492_1920" by Sam Williams from pixabay free for comercial use no attribution required.

Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.

After analyzing "Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia" by Carmen Lomas Garza, students create a class book with artwork and information about their ancestry, traditions, and recipes, followed by a potluck lunch.

This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.

In this unit of study, students will research topics in nanotechnology and attempt to identify a mystery mixture of different powders using a scanning-electron microscope. This unit integrates nine STEM attributes and was developed as part of the South Metro-Salem STEM Partnership's Teacher Leadership Team. Any instructional materials are included within this unit of study.

In this unit plan, students use genius hour to learn about different landforms from Utah's nations parks that were created through weathering and erosion. Students will also research explorers to learn how to use Utah's Online Library and cite ources.Thumbnail image taken by David Woodhead

Students whose first language is not English reflect on nature through readings, a visit to a green area, and bookmaking using the writing process and peer feedback.

The Supreme Court decided that the search did not violate the Constitution and established more lenient standards for reasonableness in school searches. This resource includes teacher materials, guides, and activities for teaching about this Supreme Court case.

This a Genius Hour lesson for younger elementary age students. The students will be thinking of an occupation they want to study, research it , and  then share their project with the class. Picture taken by Angela Bullock.

These lessons on the Bill of Rights are part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core–based units. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. Students will demonstrate this knowledge by writing summaries of selections from the original document and, by the end of the unit, articulating their understanding of the complete document by answering questions in an argumentative writing style to fulfill the Common Core Standards. Through this step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.

This lesson on the Bill of Rights is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core–based units. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. Students will demonstrate this knowledge by writing summaries of selections from the original document and, by the end of the unit, demonstrating their understanding through visual and oral presentations. Through this step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.

These lessons on the Bill of Rights are part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core–based units. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. Students will demonstrate this knowledge by writing summaries of selections from the original document and, by the end of the unit, articulating their understanding of the complete document by answering questions in an argumentative writing style to fulfill the Common Core Standards. Through this step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.

Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.

Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).

Students apply think-aloud strategies to reading and to composition of artwork and poetry. They research symbols of peace as they prewrite, compose, and publish their poetry.

Students move from modeled to independent comprehension of fiction stories by using texts by Jan Brett and interactive tools that demonstrate their comprehension.

Place Value and Decimals for 5th-grade resource/Special Education Students will fill in the gaps that exist with place value and number sense. We will access content from previous grades to vertically align with content knowledge at a 5th-grade level. This will cover the first 20 days of school and will align with the general education curriculum map.

After losing twice in the lower courts, Plessy took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the previous decisions that racial segregation is constitutional under the "separate but equal" doctrine. This resource includes teacher materials, guides, and activities for teaching about this Supreme Court case.

Students really get into character in this lesson as they act out the parts of a script and analyze character motivations and dialogue.