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A life-skills activity booklet teaching independent-living and personal-finance basics (housing, budgeting for daily needs, saving, planning for emergencies, and charitable giving), aligned to a Girl Scouts Ambassador 'On My Own' badge.
Real-world financial literacy/consumer math project in which students research and plan a hypothetical wedding budget.
Teach Civil Rights Movement history and analysis of biographical film/leadership using excerpted viewing of the 1978 NBC mini-series 'King' (about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), for Grades 8-12 ELA/Social Studies.
A real-world financial literacy budgeting project where students research and compare the three ways to pay for a car (saving, loan, lease) and calculate the full monthly cost of car ownership.
Teaches high school students about investing and the stock market through a multi-day project simulating a $1,000 stock investment, covering shares, gains/losses, volatility, and comparison to the S&P 500.
A senior chemistry lesson teaching stoichiometry in aqueous solutions: ionic compound dissociation, total/net ionic equations, and using molar concentration to solve solution stoichiometry problems.
A 7-week Physical Education scheme of work (unit plan) for teaching Grade 10 basketball, covering tactical awareness, skills, and full-game play.
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 10, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
A vocabulary-building lesson helping middle/high school students learn 12 essential election-related terms so they can engage more deeply with the electoral process.
A 120-minute lesson plan teaching the historical, religious, and cultural origins of Mardi Gras and comparing Carnival traditions across regions of the world.
Guide students through activities on women's health and healthy living, culminating in creating a personal magazine.
Read a two-page passage about High School Musical’s history, plot and legacy, then answer 23 comprehension and vocabulary questions, including two true-or-false items. Three writing prompts ask for a personal film opinion, a comparison with another teen film or series, and a week of diary entries imagining life at East High. Provide extra paper for extended writing.
Teach senior physics students about relative motion and frames of reference, including how to calculate relative velocity between multiple frames of reference
A senior chemistry lesson introducing stoichiometry: using the mole concept and balanced chemical equations to calculate quantitative relationships between reactants and products.
A multi-week high-school research-paper workshop covering topic selection, source evaluation, structured research using assigned team roles, and MLA-style academic writing, delivered through daily lesson plans plus supporting worksheets, presentations, and a Google Forms/Sheets workflow.
A set of motivational growth-mindset quote posters with an accompanying lesson plan for high school and adult learners.
Teach older students (high school or advanced ESL) about Diwali through a reading-comprehension passage, vocabulary-in-context, true/false comprehension check, discussion questions, and an optional listening/gap-fill activity, supported by a full lesson plan for the teacher.
An interactive PowerPoint hangman-style game ('Let's Hang the Teacher') that reviews construction-industry vocabulary (tools, machinery, safety gear, materials) as part of a CTE (career/technical education) curriculum.
Graphic organizer presenting a factual overview/timeline of the September 11, 2001 attacks for reading and recall practice.
A high-school history activity, modeled on a Holocaust Museum strategy, that personalizes the September 11, 2001 attacks by having students learn the biographies and outcomes of real individuals affected by the attacks.
Give students a clear layout for organizing six events along a horizontal timeline. Boxes alternate above and below the line, leaving room for a date and a short description of each event. Replace the sample years and placeholder text with the sequence you want students to study. For a different level of writing support, the differentiated timeline templates provide other layouts.
Provides 50 quote-based writing prompts (one per slide) for high-school students to practice quick/timed journal or essay-style writing and build writing stamina.
Teach students about collage art through instructional activities on types, composition, and use of collage.
A companion to the Four Square Writing Method focused on writing across the curriculum for middle/upper grades: structured lesson plans to help students organize and develop content-area writing.