American Black History
A comprehensive informational text covering roughly 500 years of African American history, from African civilizations through slavery, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era.
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A comprehensive informational text covering roughly 500 years of African American history, from African civilizations through slavery, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era.
Guides students step-by-step through researching and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-formatted biography essay about a historical boxing figure.
Teaches workplace communication skills for interacting with coworkers and supervisors, as part of a practical life-skills series on employment and volunteering.
Teach the physics of friction (types, causes, applications, coefficient of friction) through a rotating multi-station lab activity.
A scaffolded packet guiding students through researching and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay on an Olympic athlete.
Molecular Compounds - Digital Exit Ticket and Review Activity Assess and enhance student comprehension of core concepts with this interactive exit ticket and review. This digital resource features a series of questions that gauge understanding of essential topics covered in class including; Ionic compounds review, Molecular compounds,…
This presentation moves from historical and cultural views of intelligence to theories associated with Spearman, Sternberg, Goleman and Gardner. Later slides introduce heredity and environment, test use, and the concepts of standardization, reliability and validity. Use the slides to guide a lecture and pause at the theory-review prompt for students to compare the models they have studied.
A vocabulary list, matching quiz, and answer key covering 10 words drawn from the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
A multi-file distance-learning/homeschool chemistry pack teaching mixtures, solutions, dissolving, suspensions, and saturated solutions via an animated PowerPoint, worksheets, and a photocopiable lesson.
A multi-station chemistry lab activity teaching chemical reactions, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, and balancing chemical equations through 7 rotating stations (plus 2 rest stations) covering hands-on equation balancing, research, explanation writing, reading comprehension, a knowledge-check quiz, a video lesson, and student-created questions.
An introductory country-study slide presentation on Mexico, giving students a single-source overview of its geography, government, history, economy, and culture for social studies/geography instruction.
An introductory country-study slide presentation on Libya, giving students a single-source overview of its geography, government, history, economy, and culture for social studies/geography instruction.
A vocabulary resource teaching key words drawn directly from the text of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, for both Book 1 and Book 2.
An introductory country-study slide presentation on Kenya, giving students a single-source overview of its geography, government, history, economy, and culture for social studies/geography instruction.
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 9-station rotation lab (7 activity stations + 2 rest stations) teaching single and double displacement reactions in chemistry through hands-on, research, reading, video and question-writing tasks.
The physical properties of a substance such as appearance, melting point, solubility in water, and conductivity of a dissolved solution tell us a lot about the type of particles in a compound. In this experiment, students will conduct tests on the physical properties of different compounds and compile data enabling them to classify the…
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 9-station chemistry lab-rotation activity teaching naming and writing formulas for molecular, ionic and polyatomic compounds for middle/high school chemistry.
An introductory country-study slide presentation on Liechtenstein, giving students a single-source overview of its geography, government, history, economy, and culture for social studies/geography instruction.
A literature study kit for teaching S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders, organized around comprehension, vocabulary, and critical-thinking activities keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy.
A middle/high school chemistry lab-station activity teaching pure substances vs. mixtures and the four physical separation techniques (filtration, evaporation, distillation, chromatography).
A 9-station chemistry lab rotation activity teaching solutions, mechanical mixtures, saturation states (unsaturated, saturated, supersaturated), solubility, and separation techniques through drawing, research, reading, video, and question-writing tasks, with a student 'passport' recording sheet.
An introductory country-study slide presentation on Mongolia, giving students a single-source overview of its geography, government, history, economy, and culture for social studies/geography instruction.