Compare and contrast folktales, myths, and fables in an interactive eBook. The interactive is broken up into three topics: myths, fables, and folktales. Each section includes a reading passage and a guided lesson on the theme, topic, and...

Middle and high schoolers are walking into a world rife with strong political viewpoints and vocal opinions. Help to prepare them for controversial discussions with a lesson in which they choose, research, and learn more about a...

Reinforce reading comprehension strategies and contemplate an important life lesson with a worksheet featuring Aesop's fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. After reading a brief passage, scholars show what they know by way of...

What's the moral of this story? Units save lives! Teach measurement conversion through storytelling in a quick math-based lesson. Young scientists learn how one country's decision to swap from imperial to metric standard units caused an...

Bring Benjamin Franklin to life in the classroom with a set of five activities. Discover the type of person he was and his accomplishments through a study of his inventions and comments about life virtues. 

Behaviors are often based on assumptions. That's the big idea in the third lesson of a series of critical think resources. Through a series of worksheets, learners examine the conscious and heretofore unconscious assumptions that...

What do Mike Tyson, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paul McCartney have in common? They're all famous vegetarians. Using the resource, scholars learn about the pros and cons of eating a vegetarian diet. They read a fascinating history of...

The Story of a Wise Woman tells the tale of South Carolina's, Eliza Lucas Pinckney and how she persevered to plant and harvest indigo. With this short story and questions worksheet, your early readers test their comprehension with...

In many ways, Victorian Christmas is alive and well today! Class members read an informative passage to learn more about traditional Christmas gifts, decorations, crackers, and visits from Santa Claus in nineteenth-century England—as...

In this Hippocrates worksheet, students study and learn facts about the contribution of Hippocrates to medicine. After reading the one page text, students may answer 4 essay questions.

As part of a unit study of immigration, class members participate in a mock Immigration Court activity in which they argue four cases before an immigration judge.

For this elements of a short story worksheet, middle schoolers are given definitions and must choose the element being defined.  Students are also given a selection to read and answer questions about.

In this short story elements worksheet, students recognize the elements of short story by reading the sentences and selecting the correct story element. Students complete 10 online questions.

In this 6th grade English/Language Arts standardized test practice worksheet, students listen to a fictional story that as their instructor reads it aloud 2 times. No questions accompany the worksheet,

In this English worksheet, students read "Smacking Kids Lowers Their I.Q.," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.

In "A Lesson Learned", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in My Dog Ate My Homework! and If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will dramatize a poem about a skydiver...

This lesson focuses on Nathaniel Hawthorne and his short story "The Minister's Black Veil." It features background information about Hawthorne and the short story, reading questions, the five stages of grief, a link to the text, and a...

This lesson focuses on Act IV of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. It features a short synopsis, a study guide, and a self-assessment quiz over Act IV.

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life. [23:27]

In this lesson, students learn about ways to manage their privacy and reputation online by exploring their digital presence and to make good choices about sharing other people's content online. Students explore how they are portrayed...

This lesson provides and introduction to a short story unit. It focuses the lessons and morals taught by short stories and the use of literary elements in fiction. I provides a list of essential questions.

This is a PDF Fable Chart designed for students to complete as they read a fable; it includes the title and author, the animal character, human characteristics, the individual elements of a short story, and the moral or lesson.

This is a one-page PDF outling a Book of Wisdom project which requires students to write two 300-500 word original fables with all of the characteristics of a fable including a moral or lesson. The second part requires students to find...

This lesson focuses on Beowulf's fight with Grendel. It features links to the text in Old English or modern translation; audio, complete and abridged text; the article "Monsters and the Moral Imagination" by Stephen T. Asma; and a...