Leadership Challenge
Inspire Students Today to Make a Difference in the Future
Your search for a year's worth of leadership lessons is over! A lesson in a character education series provides a full two semesters of inspiring leadership activities. The resource includes individual and group challenges to ensure a...
Teaching Ideas
The Victorians Fact Cards
Want to learn some quick facts about Victorian England? Check out a series of fact cards that include information about class structure, education rights, public health, and Queen Victoria herself.
Penguin Books
Using Thirteen Reasons Why in the Classroom
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher helps bring difficult, but important, topics such as suicide and bullying into the classroom. An educator's guide for the novel provides activities and discussion questions to help teens explore the...
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Core Curriculum Lesson Plans for The Lions of Little Rock
Schools in the 1950s and 60s looked very different from the schools we know today. An educator's guide explores the civil rights movement and, specifically, the process of integrating schools. Questions cover key themes in the novel and...
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Folklore and Fairytales: A Guide to Using Traditional Tales and Reimagined Classics
Every culture has its own stories to tell. An interesting educator's guide shares a large collection of fairytales and folktales, some from different cultures and some re-creations of classics. A summary and brief teaching ideas...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Fluency, Connected Text, Computer-Based Reading
Scholars take to computers or devices to boost reading skills using educational software or websites.
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Toolkit
A nine-slide presentation provides educators with practical ways they can help young people develop a growth mindset, a key competency in social-emotional learning.
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Government Failure: Tuition Fees for Higher Education
Students examine the concept of government failure. They analyze data to provide support for tuition fees. They write a report using their analytical and evaluative skills.
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Re-Examining Brown
Students identify, research, and report on the people, legal cases and conditions that led to the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education. They role-play various people from the era preceding 1954.
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Documents Related to
Students use the National Archives to research the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown V. Board of Education.
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Guidelines for Sexual Health Information and Disease Prevention
Students describe effective sex education and its outcomes. They provide a tool for educators, policy-makers and others to evaluate existing or new programs, curricula or policies. Students comprehend that sex education refers both to...
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Bean Bag Challenge
Students explore the human body by participating in a physical education activity. In this bean bag instructional activity, students identify the hand eye coordination skills necessary to throw and catch a bean bag with a partner....
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Lessons in Learning
Students share their opinions about public education by responding to one-question interviews. After reading an article, they discover new recommendations for the No Child Left Behind Act. They prepare a three-part reader response to...
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Do We Have to Do This?
Learners conduct Internet research, and read articles about education to determine why particular educational practices are used, and why they are important in terms of No Child Left Behind. Students create PowerPoint presentations...
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PE on Parade
Students showcase what they are doing in physical education classes. They volunteer to participate in this activity and perform activities that they do every day in their PE classes. They demonstrate their skills in a one minute...
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Employment Growth in America
High schoolers examine the incomes that various jobs offer. In this economics lesson plan, students determine how education, training, market value, and productivity determine the income levels of professions as they listen to a lecture...
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Class of 2000 - Student Loans
Students determine how they will finance their postsecondary education. In this student loan lesson, students create spreadsheets that help them budget their first year of college. Students identify methods to fund the budgets and...
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Rhythmic Movement Skills
Students practice using their physical skills while performing physical activities. In this physical education lesson, students participate in musical orchestrated dances with their classmates. Students utilize a jump rope and musical...
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Elective P.E.
Learners choose a group to work with and sign up. They then choose which physical education activities, and the length of time in each activity to increase the level of responsibility, participation and ownership in the middle school...
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Is the Tassle Worth the Hassle?
Students analyze the costs of college education. In this economics lesson, students discuss the concept of opportunity cost as it relates to obtaining a college degree to secure a job.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Students participate in a running/concentration game on teams and learn the expectations of physical education class. This is a great first day of the year physical education lesson.
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NEPANTLA BETWEEN WORLDS : A Story and Lesson Plan Addressing the Mexican-American Experience
High schoolers read excerpts of "Neplanta" and discuss themes in the literature. For this bi-cultural education lesson, students analyze topics of race and Mexican American culture in the U.S. High schoolers write a pledge to honor...
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Does my career fit me?
Young scholars create a venn diagram about the job they currently have and if they think it is what they should be doing. In this job lesson plan, students list education and job duties in a venn diagram and analyze if it is the correct...
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Teaching Tolerance: That's Not Fair!
Students study unequal resources and their effects on education. In this educational disparities lesson, students participate in a coloring activity with quality and low-quality resources. Students then discuss the disparity in the...
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