Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second lesson in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign, class members...
National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
American Psychological Association
Teaching Is Fundamental
It's important for teachers to have a strong support system—especially in the first few years of their career. Help teachers' partners, spouses, and friends understand the most compassionate ways to provide emotional support with a...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
Other
Proud to Be Primary: Goal Setting for Kids Made Simple!
Goal setting is a lesson that should be revisited and worked on throughout life. Having something to focus on and work towards helps us to be productive human beings. It is our responsibility to teach these skills to children. This blog...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Goals
As a response to 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey, students will select and write down personal learning goals that relate to their work based learning experiences. Several reproducible sheets related to goal setting are...
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour Extra: Millennium Development Goals
Examine slum conditions around the world and analyze how the UN Millennium Development Goals are working with help from this excellent lesson plan.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Themes: Education & Knowledge: What Is the Goal of Education?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What is the goal of education?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: How Can We Supercharge Our Goals?
This Khan Academy resource is an activity about how can students supercharge their goals?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Write Your Own Smart Goal
This SMART resource is an activity about helping students write their own SMART goal.
REMC Association of Michigan
Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 3. My Digital Life
This tutorial will help you build an understanding of your different learning preferences and some strategies that support them. You will learn how to reflect on your learning goals and strategies to continually monitor and improve them...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Life After High School
Life After High School is a career research assignment that gives students an opportunity to plan their career path after high school. Even if students deviate from their plan, they need to have a tentative idea that allows them to set...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Oh, the Places You'll Go!
After listening to Van Morrison's "Days Like This" and Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance " and reading Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go! learners will consider their choices in life. After asking students, "Who decides your lives are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Road to Representation Creating the Crunchy Life Kid's Series
This blog focuses on a teacher's need to fill in the gaps for reading strategies and the priority to improve comprehension and overall reading development. She explains the strategies to meet the above goals.
Google
Google for Education: Life on Minimum Wage
A game where students try to reach financial goals by working and budgeting their money. Site includes rules for games as well as playing pieces.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Keys to Success
Examines the lives of famous people who have achieved their life's goals by highlighting seven core principles that helped them to succeed. These include passion, vision, preparation, courage, perseverance, integrity, and pursuit of an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Independent Lens: What's Your Calling?: Educator Guide
This educator guide is designed for young adults on the verge of making important life decisions, defining who they are, and determining how to achieve their hopes and dreams. Short film modules and highly customizable lesson plans allow...
Other
Islam101: The Islamic Concept of Life
This essay explains that Islamic beliefs and traditions are not limited to religion and spirituality, but that the goal of Islam is to "shape both individual lives as well as society as a whole." Discusses the basic rules, principles,...
PBS
Pbs Kids: It's My Life Managing Money: Spending and Saving
It is important for kids to learn how to manage their own money. This section of It's My Life-Managing Money focuses on spending and saving. Additional topics including money goals, expenses, savings, budgeting, and money tips are listed...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Secondary Literacy: Life Changing Results
This 2007 brief provides an orientation to the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) model a replicable district-level model of instruction to meet the differentiated needs of struggling adolescents. CLC is a five-level model that is aligned...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Ocean Research Project
Research paper writing is a lofty goal for kindergarten students, but this lesson will expose them to the process without being overwhelming. Students will divide into teams to learn about ocean creatures and then write a research paper...
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Physical Fitness Activity
Exercise must be performed regularly throughout life to achieve the benefits of physical fitness, wellness, and disease prevention. In this self-guided unit, you will be introduced to the components of fitness, principles of exercise,...
Practical Action
Practical Action: Wind Power Challenge
In this unit, students explore how life for people in the rural mountainous regions of Peru is different as they live without access to electricity. They learn how small-scale wind turbines have changed people's lives, as with a supply...