Show others that you are a good listener by looking at him or her, listening and not interrupting, asking questions, nodding to show you understand, and repeating what you heard. This website will not only help you become a better...

In order to make it through the dark days in the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews leaned on each other for support and guidance. Using the Warsaw Ghetto as an example, this lesson plan will highlight those who put their lives on the line to help...

Help young students move from drawing pictures into writing simple stories. Good plan for having students put pictures in sequential order and teaching them about sequential order.

Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help students break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] The internet is filled with all kinds of interesting people, but sometimes, some of them can be mean to each other. With this role play, help your students understand why it's often easier to be mean...

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...

Social media can be a place to connect, learn, and, most of all, share. But how much do kids know about what they're sharing - and not just about themselves but each other? Help learners think critically about their digital footprints on...

Our digital footprints can impact our future. What others find about us online shapes how they see us or feel about us. Help your students learn about their digital footprint and the steps they can take to shape what others find and see...

For teaching the work of Tim O'Brien, this site features lesson plans, overviews, notes, and other resources to help students reading The Things They Carried, Ambush, Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone, and so on.

Anyone who is teaching Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well will find this collection of resources useful. Included in the pack are sections on putting the play in the context of its time, other background material about the play, and...

In addition to providing a task that relates to other disciplines (history, civics, current events, etc.), this task is intended to demonstrate that a graph can summarize a distribution as well as provide useful information about...

Middle schoolers will participate in an activity that will help them obtain a feeling of how numbers are related to each other. They will determine whether a number is rational or irrational. Students will also be able to order rational...

In this lesson, SuperHero ABC, a book written by Bob McLeod, and Meanwhile, a book by Jules Feiffer, are used as mentor texts. Young scholars will work in groups and create lists of unique superhero powers that start with different...

Each student will make his/her own mini-garden and will observe the growth and development of radishes. To help young scholars learn about requirements for plant growth, the teacher will make four experimental gardens and place them in...

Students conduct Internet research on 529 plans and create a digital slide presentation to inform others about how these plans can help people save for future education costs.

The lesson will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson begins with a...

This lesson is designed to help students understand the importance of character development when writing stories of their own. It also helps them understand the process authors use when writing novels and other stories. During this...

A lesson that helps student understand how exchange rates are determined and how the value of a nation's currency is connected to its international trade. Students use an article from a time when the U.S. dollar was declining in relation...

A lesson activity that has students investigating media coverage of presidential debates and discussing how viewers are influenced by things other than the issues being debated. Students will also explore techniques that can help viewers...