Memory and Thinking
A psychology lesson package on how human memory works: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, encoding/storage/retrieval, the Clive Wearing case study, and memory distortion effects (primacy/recency, flashbulb memories).
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A psychology lesson package on how human memory works: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, encoding/storage/retrieval, the Clive Wearing case study, and memory distortion effects (primacy/recency, flashbulb memories).
A descriptive-writing project for older students: teaches historical background on 19th/20th-century patent 'health tonics' and elixirs, then has students design and describe their own fictional tonic advertisement using descriptive writing.
ESL discussion, listening, and writing activity built around the TED Talk "A 30-year history of the future (Nicholas Negroponte)", used to build vocabulary and speaking/writing skills through an authentic English listening source.
Engage middle school students in solving proportions with this self-checking digital math activity. The Proportions Word Problems Digital Self-Checking Digital Activity is a mystery picture reveal created using Google Sheets. As students correctly solve proportion word problems on a whiteboard or scratch paper, they type answers into…
A multi-puzzle escape-room activity reviewing atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, chemical symbols, formulae, and naming compounds, used to consolidate a unit or revise before exams.
Multi-station hands-on lab activity teaching ecological succession (primary and secondary) and the role of forest fires in ecosystems.
A single-topic 'chapter slice' workbook on Packaging, excerpted from the 'Waste Management: At the Source' series, providing a reading-comprehension passage plus hands-on activity, crossword, word search, and quiz on that one waste-management topic.
Introduce students to what an essay is (five-paragraph structure, the writing process steps: prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, publishing) and to using graphic organizers, via an interactive Google Slides activity accessed through a link in this PDF.
21st Century Skills curriculum resource teaching global-competency life skills (creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration) through a teacher guide, pre-assessment activities, student worksheets, and an answer key.
Use Sam Harris’s talk about AI control for listening, vocabulary, discussion, and writing practice. Students begin with background and warm-up questions, record unfamiliar words and key points while listening, then discuss the ideas. Three writing prompts offer a reflective response, a summary, or a creative follow-up speech.
Guided notes, practice, and a hands-on data collection mini-project introducing scatter plots to meet CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.SP.A.1.
A single-topic 'chapter slice' workbook on Post-Consumer Waste, excerpted from the 'Waste Management: At the Source' series, providing a reading-comprehension passage plus hands-on activity, crossword, word search, and quiz on that one waste-management topic.
Teach students what a narrative essay is and how to write one (sensory/action verbs, sequencing, five-paragraph outline structure) via an interactive Google Slides activity, plus a printable five-paragraph outline worksheet, accessed through this PDF.
History/social studies unit teaching the origins, meaning, and reasons for the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
ESL discussion, listening, and writing activity built around the TED Talk "10 ways to have a better conversation (Celeste Headlee)", used to build vocabulary and speaking/writing skills through an authentic English listening source.
A simple character-building/classroom-community activity encouraging students to notice and record acts of kindness by peers or adults.
Give ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about what students and teachers experience at fashion academies, paired with comprehension checks and essay writing prompts to build reading and writing skills.
A card-sort activity that has students calculate the constant of proportionality for 36 proportional-relationship representations (tables, graphs, and word problems) and group each set of 3 matching representations under its shared linear equation.
A hands-on STEM/history project in which students build a mud brick to experience ancient Sumerian brick-building techniques and reflect on the process in a journal.
ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "One second every day - Cesar Kuriyama", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Lead a sociology/social studies discussion-and-design activity in which students imagine and justify the structure of their own 'perfect' society.
A single-topic 'chapter slice' workbook on Toxic Waste, excerpted from the 'Waste Management: At the Source' series, providing a reading-comprehension passage plus hands-on activity, crossword, word search, and quiz on that one waste-management topic.
Self-paced, partner-based review activity reinforcing cell biology concepts (cell theory, animal/plant cells, diffusion/osmosis, unicellular/multicellular organisms, cell organization) via a speed-quizzing flashcard format
A direct-practice workbook (Math Practice Simplified L - Pre-Algebra) providing drill exercises on the stated topic, meant to reinforce concepts already taught rather than to introduce them.