PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Supernatural Elements in Macbeth
In this self-paced lesson, students explore how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements in Macbeth. It begins with an exploration of beliefs about the supernatural and witchcraft in Shakespeare's time as presented in a segment from...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Color Changing Milk
Young scholars observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Tie Dye Paper
Learners characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Shakespeare's Universalism [Pdf]
In this lesson, students explore how Shakespeare was able to write in a way that his characters seemed to express real emotions and will look at the literary devices he used. An extension activity has them analyze what William Hazlitt...
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
The Trumpet Club: The Birchbark House
Come and check out this informative site featuring the book "Birchbark House," by Louise Erdrich. This site provides a plot summary, discussion of settings and characterizations, and a class project idea.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Faulkner's Sound and the Fury:narrating Compson Family Decline
In this curriculum unit, students will consider William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab....
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mystery Mollusc
Students become marine biologists, and their goal is to characterize the biological communities that live on or near the seamount in the Monterey Bay area. There, they must identify a mystery mollusk.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Surf's Up!
This lesson introduces the concepts of longitudinal and transverse waves. Students see several demonstrations of waves and characterize them by transverse and longitudinal behavior. This lesson also introduces the Sunken Treasure theme...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: N Rn Sums of Rational and Irrational Numbers
The goal of this task is to examine sums and products of rational and irrational numbers. One important property of rational numbers is that their decimals always terminate or repeat: using a slightly different formulation, a rational...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Defining Parabolas Geometrically
The purpose of this task is to show that the points on a parabola can be characterized by being equidistant from a point (the focus) and a line (the directrix). Aligns with HSG-GPE.A.2.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 4.g Defining Attributes of Rectangles & Parallelograms
At early stages of understanding of geometric shapes, 4th graders describe shapes, but do not yet characterize shapes by their properties. One example of a misconception students have at this stage is that a rectangle has two short sides...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 12: Canterbury Tales
Students learn how the stereotypes and characterization of Chaucer's pilgrims reflect his views of religious corruption and social boundaries in the medieval period. They will consider how the themes reflected in the general Prologue...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: A Look at Judith Leyster
Students will identify clues and adjectives to describe Judith Leyster's personality and then develop and refine her characterizations through poetry writing. Using Leyster's monogram as their inspiration, they will then shift the focus...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: A Death in the Family
Created in association with the Masterpiece Theatre film version of "A Death in the Family," this teacher's guide provides materials for the study of the film or the book. Learners will study the life and work of James Agee, determine...
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