Students explore the concepts of audience and purpose by focusing on an issue that divided Americans in 1925, the debate of evolution versus creationism raised by the Scopes Monkey Trial.

History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.

Doctors, astrophysicists, and daycare providers are only some of the careers that will be explored in this lesson in which students research careers and publish occupational summaries about them.

Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.

Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.

Students build their understanding of the terms "compare" and "contrast" by participating in class discussions, using Internet resources, working collaboratively, and by visually representing information in a Venn diagram.

This currculum builds upon the Exploring Computer Science Currculum develop by Joanna Goode and Gail Chapman. The currculum has student develop coding skills as they work on problem sovling skills and helps them build computational thinking.

Exploring Computer Science is a yearlong course developed around a framework of both computer science content and computational practice. Assignments and instruction are contextualized to be socially relevant and meaningful for diverse students. Units utilize a variety of tools/platforms and culminate with final projects around Human-Computer Interaction, Problem Solving, Web Design (HTML, CSS), Programming (Scratch, Edware), Computing & Data Analysis, and Robotics. ECS is recognized nationally as a preparatory course for AP Computer Science Principles. Watch this video and view this fact sheet for more information.

Students make sense of dollars and cents when they study the importance of saving and budgeting in this lesson.

Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Deserts cover about one-fifth of Earth's surface. Most deserts are located between about 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south latitude.

History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.

A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth is directly between the moon and sun. In a lunar eclipse the Earth casts a shadow on the moon, causing part or all of the moon to darken to an orange-red color.

It takes the moon approximately 28 days to revolve around the sun. The moon has four primary phases: new moon, first quarter phase, full moon, and 3rd quarter phase.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between Earth and then sun, causing the sun's light to be totally or partially blocked by the moon, casting a shadow on a portion of Earth.

As Earth rotates, the moon's strong gravitational force pulls toward it water on Earth's surface that is closest to the moon. The portion pulled toward the moon causes a high tide, which simultaneously occurs on the opposite side of Earth.

Without certain species, ecosystems would crumble. In this amazing tour, explore keystone species around the world and how they help to maintain ecosystems around the world.

This lesson plan guides educators through a filmmaking project that integrates scientific concepts. Students will work in groups to create documentaries that explain the scientific phenomena they have learned in the classroom. The lesson focuses on developing students' understanding of matter, properties of substances, changes in matter, and the conservation of mass. Students will conduct scientific experiments, collect data, research, write scripts, create storyboards, film experiments, and use multimedia tools to edit and enhance their documentaries. The lesson encourages student agency, provides customized support, and offers opportunities for reading, writing, speaking, and listening. By the end of the lesson, students will have produced their own educational films to showcase their understanding of scientific concepts.

Students will use a Scanning Electron Microscope to observe and classify lichen. Students will design a field-based investigation to determine the relationship between an abiotic factor and lichen.