In this activity, you and your students will explore Elizabethan stage practices as the rustic yet enthusiastic amateur actors from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. While it's not necessary to teach Shakespeare's biography while studying his plays, sometimes opportunities to explore his world through his own eyes present themselves in his text. Students' new insights into the text will provide them with a deeper appreciation for Shakespeare’s world. This activity will take one or two class periods.

A lesson plan for teaching students how to create powerful and impactful documentary style short films.Image

Examination, discussion questions, and perspective defense resources about if the Electoral College is fair or not fair.

Showing appreciation for a person or organization with your students has never been easier with Google Slides.

Amy Smith is an engineer who designs simple and inexpensive solutions to real-world problems. This video produced for Teachers' Domain features her innovative design for testing the safety of drinking water in the developing world.

Students take part in a simulated election in which they role-play poll workers at a polling site and vote in a simulated election. Students become familiar with polling site procedures and the mechanics of voting in their state. When the election simulation coincides with a general election or a state election, it provides for a more authentic experience.

This lesson plan encourages classroom discussions and reflections on cultural norms, mores, and folkways and uses the coloring sheet and poem: "S is for Shoes Off in the House" to propel critical thinking about students' own cultures in relation to others and how we can show respect, tolerance, and acceptance.

Students will explore a Hyperdoc to understand the Six Basic Nutrients.  Each Nutrient has an article for students to explore, and an EdPuzzle.  Teachers need to be aware they will need to update the EdPuzzle links (these are currently shared links).  From their EdPuzzle account, teachers should get the assigned links to assign the EdPuzzles to their students, and update these in the hyperdoc.  

This is a 5 day unit about validating sources on the internet and social media.  It is taught so that students understand and respect the obligations of using social media wisely before sharing and the importance of giving credit to creators through citing sources.  It is a blended unit with a final project to be done in Apple's Keynote where students will show what they have learned in a slide show to other students in the class. They will be able to practice what they learn in class and become better at research, validating sources, and spotting fake news. Image citation - “Say Thanks to Pxhere - Free Images & Free Stock Photos - Pxhere.” Pxhere.com, https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1361501.

Learn the basics of using Google Meet for you and your students in this brief lesson.

In this lesson, students will explore the First Amendment's freedom of the press as they examine sources related to government censorship of the press. They design and create their own poster promoting freedom of the press today. Access to this resource requires a free educator login.

This lesson is designed to get students acting as changemakers and contributing to the sustainable developments goals. Students will be tasked with creating a public service announcement to bring awareness to local or global challenges.

Smithsonian resource. Students learn about the experiences of incarcerated Japanese Americans during WW2 through reading a series of comics developed for this purpose. Can be used as an introduction to this topic. Blank comic template is also included for assessment opportunities.

Share some great Google Drawing practices with your students through this amazing post from Control Alt Achieve.

*This lesson plan is adaptable for various projects involving technology.  This is a general lesson plan used for our Tech Fun Fridays. Students who are caught up in all core classes and not missing any assignemnts are given time to do their own research on a topic that they are interested in. They must conduct research, create a presentation to compile their research, cite sources, create a project (3D printing, animation, etc.), carry about that project including taking and editing photos of their final project to include at the end of their presentation and then practice their public speaking by presenting to the class. (This covers many core standards depending on what grade you teach. Please reference the standards you are working with to determine which ones fit this lesson.)

​In this unit, you will meet all 3 generations as you hear Tiana’s story and learn about 5 Polynesian Islands through dance (Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, and New Zealand). Dance is a major cultural element across all of the islands (and tells stories of life– recounting genealogies, and narrating history. And though the island cultures have many similarities, each island has a unique history, traditions and dance.

Dancers explore different ways of dancing in and with the space through exercises in the center and across the floor

Develop good habits by keeping track of projects and due dates using time management tools in Gmail.

In this Google Applied Digital Skills lesson, students will learn to use Google tools to track their progress for finding a job.

This trial in colonial times helped define freedom of press in America. Access to this resource requires a free educator login.