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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Living the Dream 100 Acts of Kindness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for mini-lessons that ask students to put the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in action by performing 100 acts of kindness. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: A Kindness Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Make a Kindness Tree with your children, and show them how to make it bloom. Explore acts of kindness, in this activity from Arthur.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Kind Acts Bingo

For Teachers K - 1st
For National Bullying Prevention Month, we're giving the words "friendly competition" a new meaning! How many of these kind acts can your students complete? This bingo card is available in English and in Spanish.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Pay It Forward

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Recalling an act of kindness helps students practice narration skills. The teacher will read "Because Brian Hugged His Mother" and discuss the idea of "paying it forward" as a class. Then students will write and draw about a time when...
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Lesson Plan
Other

The Critical Thinking Consortium: A Teacher's Guide to the Gardener [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart won the Caldecott Honor in 1998. It centres around a set of letters about a young girl who moved from the countryside to the city. In the lessons in this teaching guide, students must make inferences from...
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Lesson Plan
Broward Education Foundation

Broward Education Foundation: Peace Love Recycle Create Relate [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will learn the importance of acts of kindness. They will create a pot painted with acrylic paints, and or paint pens. They will place beautiful decorated tissue flowers in the pot. The music club will present a holiday...
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Elementary Algebra Subsection of the Act Test

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this video tutorial, you will understand what kinds of questions to expect when taking the elementary algebra subsection of the ACT test.
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Pre Algebra Subsection of the Act Test

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this video tutorial, you will understand what kinds of questions to expect when taking the pre-algebra subsection of the ACT test. You will also learn what topics are covered, some formulas to know, and some basic tips of...
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Intermediate Algebra Subsection of the Act Test

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, you will understand what kinds of questions to expect when taking the intermediate algebra subsection of the ACT test.
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Trigonometry Subsection of the Act Test

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this tutorial, you will understand what kinds of questions to expect when taking the trigonometry subsection of the ACT test.
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Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Coordinate Geometry Subsection of the Act Test

For Students 9th - 10th
At the end of this video tutorial, you will understand what kinds of questions to expect when taking the coordinate geometry subsection of the ACT test.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: A Kindness Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Create a "Kindness Tree" and make it bloom by adding flowers each time you perform an act of kindness and good will. Related episode: Meek for a Week
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Immigration Act of 1882

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about this comprehensive immigration law that was passed to limit immigration based on excluding certain kinds of people who were deemed "undesirable".
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Website
ACT360 Media

Act Den: Writing Den

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Need some extra help in spelling, grammar, and writing? Search no further. The writing den gives great tips for sentence structure and even on writing essays. A lot of great information for language arts students and teachers.
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eBook
Library of Congress

Loc: Country Study: India

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive site from the Library of Congress that covers all kinds of topics about India. Includes a very detailed history of British India under "Company Rule, 1757-1857," "The British Raj, 1858-1947," and "Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-59."...
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Activity
Other

Peace and Love for All

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This colorful site provides a series of lessons designed and submitted by teachers to help support the "Earth Pledge of Allegiance." These include random acts of kindness, cleaning up ones surroundings and appreciating an ecosystem in...
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Article
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Anthony Burns (Fugitive Slave) Trial of 1854

For Students 9th - 10th
The extradition of Anthony Burns as a fugitive slave was the most memorable case of the kind that has occurred since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. It was memorable for the place and for the time of its occurrence; the place...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Under Pressure: Sand Under Lateral Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a project that involves a different kind of sandbox than the ones you usually think of. This one has a moving wall inside, acting like a piston, to compress the sand. You can make layers using two different colors of sand, and...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Rocky Secrets: Where Does Oil Hide?

For Students 3rd - 5th
You may have heard the expression, "You can't get blood from a stone." But what about oil? Can you get petroleum oil from a stone? In this geology science fair project, you'll find out what kinds of stones make the best storage rocks for...
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Brain: Communication

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How does information from different parts of the body reach the brain? For this lesson students discover that their brains receive and act on information from inside and outside the body, and that the senses gather and process different...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Up, Up and Away! Airplanes

For Teachers 4th - 6th
The airplanes unit begins with a lesson on how airplanes create lift, which involves a discussion of air pressure and how wings use Bernoulli's Principle to change air pressure. Following the lessons on lift, students explore the other...
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Interactive
Other

Graphs, Stories, and Games: Games on Graphs

For Students 3rd - 5th
What a great way to make math fun for your elementary students! Learning happens almost by osmosis by using this interesting game that uses stories, a graph (the kind of graph defined in the branch of mathematics called Graph Theory),...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A 40 Year Plan for Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by business for profit. The key is integrating all four...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Huddled Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
Links to information about immigration from 1890-1920 include the Statue of Liberty, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Immigration, kinds of migrants, etc.

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