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Physical education lesson plan for a team-based gym game using scooter boards, in which students build teams to throw balls at opposing teams' target cones while practicing core/lower-body strength, teamwork, and throwing accuracy.
An editable teacher resource and lesson plan to help middle school ELA teachers structure independent reading through student goal-setting, reading logs, and metacognitive reflection.
A comprehensive genre-study unit teaching narrative nonfiction through multiple lesson plans, a book report project, and related graphic organizers and rubrics.
A follow-up professional-development ebook of additional, more advanced tips for middle school teachers, continuing the author's Middle School 101 series.
Teach students how gerrymandering works and why it makes the political redistricting process imperfect, by having them draw district lines themselves.
A 4-5 day middle-school poetry mini-unit teaching students to analyze, write, revise, and present a rhyming poem using vivid verbs and imagery, modeled on Eve Merriam's 'Catch a Little Rhyme.'
A collection of 25 flying-disc/Frisbee PE games ('Take it for a Spin') for use as a throwing/catching or disc unit extension, recess activity, or field-day event.
A lesson and worksheet on the strategies and mistakes that led to Napoleon's defeat, focused on the Battle of Trafalgar and the Russian campaign.
A primary-source analysis lesson pack built around 'Tecumseh's Speech to the Osage', teaching students to read and analyze a historical primary-source document using a structured Four-Reads method, then assess their understanding.
A P.E. skill-assessment/game resource for teaching and assessing badminton striking (passing the birdie over the net) through a group game with rotating skill stations.
A 4-station introductory lesson activity to Edgar Allan Poe's life and writing style, used before reading his works, for middle/high-school English/Literature classes.
A PE lesson/game plan card teaching ball-rolling, dodging, and fleeing skills through a team target game ('Girls vs. Boys'), not grade-specific.
A teacher-guided classroom activity using the online game GeoGuessr to teach students to identify physical and human geographic characteristics of a location and infer where in the world it is.
A PE throwing-and-catching game (rescue-themed, 'Sonic Style') that also embeds a science cross-connection via animal fact learning cards about hedgehogs and porcupines, aligned to SHAPE America standards.
A primary-source analysis lesson pack built around 'Tecumseh- A Warrior's Speech', teaching students to read and analyze a historical primary-source document using a structured Four-Reads method, then assess their understanding.
A U.S. History lesson (aligned to Standard 11.2.5) on Gilded Age industrialists, teaching students key terms (Robber Barons, Captains of Industry, Sherman Antitrust Act) and having them evaluate whether John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were more beneficial or harmful to American society.
A lesson resource teaching the seven principles of the U.S. Constitution (popular sovereignty, republicanism, federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, individual rights) via text, a notetaker, discussion, and case studies.
Teach students the full U.S. presidential election process, from constitutional presidential qualifications through primaries/caucuses, national conventions, campaigns, the popular vote, and the Electoral College, updated to reference the 2020 election and the January 6th Capitol events.
Teach high school students the concepts of government, democracy, direct democracy, and republic (indirect democracy) through a lecture and a simulated classroom voting activity.
Free download Introduce students to careers in manufacturing through video-based research and reflection, in conjunction with Manufacturing Day.
A cooperative 'speed dating' style history activity teaching students about ten key Enlightenment thinkers (occupation, country, major work, and core belief) and their influence on democratic revolutions.
A detective/case-file-themed literary analysis unit built around Edgar Allan Poe's short story 'The Cask of Amontillado', teaching close reading, character analysis, and textual-evidence-based argument writing.
Help middle/high school students understand what a political viewpoint is, identify where they and a family member fall on a spectrum of viewpoints on current issues, and reflect on the discussion in writing.
A CrossFit-style team competition resource for PE class that measures and develops locomotor skills, strength, cardiovascular fitness, and teamwork through station-based exercises.