This is a list of potential ideas based off a specific technology. None of these ideas are fully developed lessons. Please make changes and adaptations as necessary for the students in your class.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them.

This activity introduces students to the idea that science writing is organized in identifiable patterns called text structures. Understanding and using these different text structures help refine students' abilities to both read and write in science.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve.

This Text Structure Cheat Sheet includes the following:
*The Five Text Structures: Description, Sequence, Compare & Contrast. Problem & Solution, and Cause & Effect.
*The purpose for each text structure
*A brainstorming map for each text structure
*Key words that are used for each text structure
*Examples of each text structure
Students can use this cheat sheet to help them identify text structures in nonfiction or use them in their writing.

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.