This informational research lesson utilizes an interactive timeline as a tool for students to organize their research in an appealing way.  Students will research bookmaking technology milestones from the Egyptian, Hittite, Chinese, and European cultures. Students will also learn about and practice citing and attributing websites and images, and create a bibliography. 

In this co-taught 80-minute face-to-face lesson (assessment is homework or given time in a second class session) students will rotate through stations to make personal connections with the book, A Long Walk to Water by  Linda Sue Park. (Stations can be removed or customized to allow for time, budget, or supervision constraints.) Please note, this lesson works best when you have several adult volunteers to run stations. This lesson is best co-taught with an ELA teacher who will be reading and discussing the book with their students. (It can be slightly adapted to fit similar stories.) It is also an effective way to deepen understanding and connections after the class has read the book. Thumbnail Image: Woodwayne, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

No Turning Back immerses young people in daily life under segregation and voter intimidation in the South during the 1960s. Playing as Verna Baker, a fictional teen from the Mississippi Delta, the player experiences and responds to racial restrictions and inequalities known as "Jim Crow," including limited access to education, health care, and voting rights. The TEACH page includes a wealth of materials to support the learning goals of the mission, including comprehension questions, writing prompts, vocabulary activities, and primary source analysis.

The Water Cycle
In this Lifeliqe lesson, students learn that Earth is a closed system and all the elements and molecules on Earth are recycled. Students explore the water cycle with engaging Lifeliqe libraries and interactive 3D models.